Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:49:54 -0500 (EST)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "Library offenders could go to jail "
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Madeleine Yeh wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:49:43 -0500
>   Colleen Cahill <ccah at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > It's time for the Library Police!  Standing for quiet,
> >literacy and the
> > Dewey Decimal way, able to leap over a card catalog, its
> >a book, its a
> > record, its Super Librarian!
> > Colleen
> > (who is considering a career move, if they let me have a
> >gun)
>
>    This is actually a great step forward toward civility
> and mercy.  Most librarians secretly desire to have those
> who steal books from libraries and/or desecrate books;
> hung, drawn, and quartered with their heads lining the
> sidewalks to deter future offenders.

IIRC, the part about quartering was dropped from the model legislation
because of complaints about defacing neighborhoods.

-- Dick Eney