The Library Police

 

They Do Notice

Heidi Dalibur (20) from Grafton, Wisconsin was recently arrested and charged with not paying her library fines. She ignored the library’s calls and letters of warning, as well as a notice to appear in court.

Deluded into thinking that those nice librarians don’t know how to take care of things? Yeah, so was Dalibur; imagine her surprise when Grafton police showed up with a warrant, cuffed her and read her her rights. It seems like a lousy reason to go to jail, but there you have it.

Dalibur ended up paying $30 in overdue fees; the books she had ‘forgotten’: paperback copies of White Oleander, and Angels and Demons. You could probably find either of those for a buck at the local used bookstore. Her mother also paid about $170 to bail her out. I wonder: did she ever get around to reading them?

It seems that Stephen King did not make it up: the library police exists after all.

 

When Inmates Get Bored

 

A tiny little panic

 

If you threaten to kill a Presidential candidate, you get in trouble. Here’s another nut job who apparently didn’t get the memo: Marc Harold Ramsey sent a letter to John McCain’s Manchester, N.H. office, accompanied by some white powder. Probably sugar, or some of that stuff you put in the dishwasher. Or maybe he saved some toothpaste, dried it, and scraped it into an envelope:

According to an FBI affidavit, the letter stated, “Senator McCain, If you are reading this then you are already DEAD! Unless of course you can’t or don’t breathe.” (source: CNN)

That’s a really well written letter. For a Kindergartener, that is. Ramsey is not a Kindergartener, he is in fact a 39-year-old inmate of an Arapahoe County jail, which is handy. At least they didn’t need to hunt him down. If convicted, Ramsey faces up to five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Right, and he’s going to be able to pay that how?

Just in case anybody else thinks this is a great idea, U.S. Atty. Troy Eid warned: “A death threat is not a legitimate form of political expression.”

 Just so we’re clear on that.

Stupid Obama Threats-Part Two

 

 

Hello, anybody home?

 

Remember Raymond Geisel? In early August he told classmates at a bondsmen training seminar that he would “kill, kidnap and cause bodily harm upon a major candidate for president of the United States, that is, Senator Barack Obama.” Geisel has since been held without bail, in spite of the fact that he claimed it was all a joke, especially when he told the Secret Service that if he “wanted to kill Obama, I’d just use a sniper rifle.” Guess he forgot the golden rule: don’t be a smart ass when you’re being questioned by the damn Secret Service; you’ll regret it. Got that, moron?

“A search of Geisel’s vehicle and a hotel room in Miami, where Geisel was attending a bail bondsman training class, found a 9 mm handgun, ammunition that included armor-piercing and rifle bullets, police-style emergency lights, body armor, a machete and two canisters of tear gas, among other military-style items, according to the document. A classmate said that, one day after class, she also heard Geisel say “that he hated George W. Bush and that he wanted to put a bullet in the president’s head.” (Source: AP)

Hm. I’m starting to get a picture in my head of this Dog-The-Bountry-Hunter wannabe.

This brainiac also defended himself by saying he has post-traumatic stress disorder, which affects his memory, and had once checked himself into a psychiatric institution for treatment.

The affidavit, signed by Special Agent Charles R. Adie, said Geisel “generally provided no excuse” for why he had the weapons and other items — claiming that he collects some of them, that the handgun was for target practice during the bail bondsman course and that he uses the machete and a hatchet for cutting through brush in Maine, where he lived most of his life before moving to Florida in January. Because, you know, everybody in Maine has a machete in their car.

I hope they give him a TV in his jail cell so he can watch Obama win the general election.