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RE: Got An Overdue Book Or Movie? Go To Jail - Havoc - 03-06-2010
(03-06-2010, 11:28 AM)Twilla Wrote: You're all right, I apologize for trying to see how it's more cost effective for the county to issue warrants and have a cop tied up issuing the ticket etc for a $10 DVD... because that's about what the thing is actually worth... and then have the court involved with all the various clerks with the time spent on the necessary paperwork that was ultimately presented to a judge. Multiply that by all the other missing items from the library and you're looking at tens of thousands of dollars worth of man hours to recover a few hundred dollars worth of assets.
Silly me.
it goes much deeper than this single incident.
If the CD was laying in the seat of your car and it was stolen would you then think that the theif should be caught? would you call the police?
what if they broke into your house and stole a single DVD, would you think that the theft was to small to pursue?
Its easy to seperate public property from your own tangible goods, but in reality they are one and the same.
its a millions of dollars cost to the tax payers each year, with no prosecutions that number would sky rocket.
RE: Got An Overdue Book Or Movie? Go To Jail - Black Sun - 03-06-2010
Are we really talking about failing to take back a DVD borrowed from a library in the same breath as burglary now?
RE: Got An Overdue Book Or Movie? Go To Jail - Havoc - 03-06-2010
(03-06-2010, 12:08 PM)Black Sun Wrote: Are we really talking about failing to take back a DVD borrowed from a library in the same breath as burglary now?
were talking about theft.
If you think someone who steals from a library wouldn't steal from another location then you are sorely mistaken, they are called opportunity thefts.
you should take a look at the times article about the book thefts in the UK, it totals several millions of pounds a year.
like it or not you pay your share of those costs.
RE: Got An Overdue Book Or Movie? Go To Jail - Black Sun - 03-06-2010
(03-06-2010, 12:21 PM)Havoc Wrote: If you think someone who steals from a lirary
Is that library for people with dyslexia?
RE: Got An Overdue Book Or Movie? Go To Jail - Havoc - 03-06-2010
(03-06-2010, 12:24 PM)Black Sun Wrote:(03-06-2010, 12:21 PM)Havoc Wrote: If you think someone who steals from a lirary
Is that library for people with dyslexia?
good to see agree with the intent of my post.
spelling error corrected.