Stay-at-home Texas mom says there's a warrant out for her arrest over unreturned library book: 'I thought it was a joke'

The Blaze ^ | April 2, 2024 | Carlos Garcia

[Twotone]

3 minute video from a local news story on this at the link.

[AbolishCSEU]

Already done by Seinfeld

[marron]

Why wouldn’t they just bill her?

[Mark]

And Bookman

[frogjerk]

Violation of 8th Amendment

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Sounds like Patricia Heaton in an episode of The Middle.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Why wouldn’t they just bill her?

Because White Privilege.

[Joe Boucher]

Gosh.
I don’t quite know why i despise and do not trust gub mnt

[RoosterRedux]

She needs to temporarily identify as LGBTQ.

[NWFree]

I have some from the 1970’s

[lastchance]

Why am I not surprised the judge was a she?

[NWFree]

They would probably throw away the key on me and call the news which is why they’re still overdue

[ASOC]

Lessons learned.

1) Don’t mess with Texas. There are rules and they follow those rules.

2) Go Fund Me so I don’t have to pay for my mistakes. Good luck with that.

3) Get some cheese to go with that annoying whine.

[llevrok]

[SamAdams76]

I've been going to public libraries since the 1970s.

As you are getting the book to read for free, you have a responsibility to return it in the time you are allotted to have it. Or renew it if possible.

Otherwise, get it back to the library so that others can read it.

I do not have a lot of sympathy for unreturned library books.

I have never been late returning mine.

One time however, my dog, a border collie/shepherd mix, bit repeatedly on the corner of a Civil War book called "What This Cruel War Was Over".

I sheepishly returned the dog-bitten book to the library and accepted my fate. It cost me $20 so that the library could obtain a new copy. I was allowed to take the damaged book home and it now resides in my library, a reminder of the indiscretion of my border collie/shepherd mix (name of "Dixie").

[discostu]

Wait she was too pregnant to return the book, but could move? And couldn’t send a kid to return the book? For a year? And what’s the list price on this book? Some school books are really expensive. This might not be just an overdue book.

[BlueLancer]

One time however, my dog, a border collie/shepherd mix, bit repeatedly on the corner of a Civil War book called "What This Cruel War Was Over". I sheepishly returned the dog-bitten book to the library and accepted my fate. It cost me $20 so that the library could obtain a new copy. I was allowed to take the damaged book home and it now resides in my library, a reminder of the indiscretion of my border collie/shepherd mix (name of "Dixie").

When I was six years old (64 years ago), my parents took me to the library and I was allowed to check out a book ... it was a kid's book called "Marshmallow" (it was about a bunny). My two-year old brother thought it was a coloring book and proceeded to color in all of the bunnies in the book. I don't know how much it cost my parents to replace the book, but I still have the book in my library.

[TheDon]

That escalated quickly!

[frank ballenger]

Yes, the joke is the current US Government.
And the punchline is “Trust the system of justice.”

[frank ballenger]

I have never in my life watched one minute of Seinfeld. Leftover from my refusing to watch TV until a couple of years ago. Which episode, please?.