Damned cultural vandalism

[Clinton Huxley]

When the visigoths come to close my local library, they will find me, armed to the teeth in a redoubt made of Dan Brown books.

[Bella Fortuna]

Danielle Steel romance novels make great building blocks, just sayin'...

[Clinton Huxley]

This library IS England!

[Coito ergo sum]

When the visigoths come to close my local library, they will find me, armed to the teeth in a redoubt made of Dan Brown books.

Wouldn't it be the Vandals?

If it's the Visigoths, wouldn't it be cultural visigothism?

You can't properly prepare for the barbarian invasion, if you don't know which tribe is coming at you, now can you?

[Bella Fortuna]

No one goes to libraries to read books.
They use the free internet to surf porn / face book, or they drop their kids off there as a free baby sitting service.

http://www.leisuretown.com/library/lotd/index.html

[Coito ergo sum]

Masturbating KU student gets off twice ... won't face charges
Posted by Justin Kendall on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:00 AM
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Beating it may not be a big deal at KU.
Score a victory for public masturbators. Two women spotted a man watching porn and jerking off at a library on the campus of the University of Kansas on October 25, the University Daily Kansan. The guy may have gotten off once and may be getting off again.

The case has been sent to the University of Kansas' administration but reportedly didn't "meet the strict requirements of the statute on indecent exposure."

Two KU students -- Dylan Kingsley and Emily Preheim -- witnessed a guy looking at porn on a computer and beating it on the fourth floor of the Watson Library (although they never saw the guy's junk). The UDK has the grossest of details:

When the man got up to leave, there was a stain on his chair and his
pants. Kingsley said the police swabbed the stain on the chair for DNA.

Hopefully they burned the chair.

The two students picked the masturbator out of a photo lineup after police made a composite sketch of the whacker, which led to a lead and the guy was found. But it doesn't sound like there'll be legal action.

Preheim summed it up best: "I think it's bullshit."

A few years back, library masturbation was a persistent problem by one individual in particular at Tufts University. According to the Tufts Daily paper, “The Tufts police talked to the man and determined that he did not know that his behavior was offensive,” Deuerlein said. “They thought that he might have a medical condition. They asked him to leave the building and find another place because there had been a complaint.”

Just yesterday an Iowa City man was caught masturbating in the Children’s Section while sitting near two teenage girls. “Police said (49 year old) Rodriguez admitted to being in the children’s section and scratching his groin area, which caused him to become aroused. Rodriguez faces a single count of indecent exposure.”

[Pensioner]

Huxley hits the nail on the head again for me, a top chap, even if he is Lancashire hotpot and a posh git. Me like him.

[Clinton Huxley]

Hear hear, Pen. And further, Vandals, Visigoths and Vinlandians, they are all as bad as one another.

[Rum]

This library IS England!

In which case England is in bad shape. My library is full of people saving on their heating bills at home and talking too loudly.

[Coito ergo sum]

Hear hear, Pen. And further, Vandals, Visigoths and Vinlandians, they are all as bad as one another.

Vinlandians? You talkin' 'merkin Injuns?

I'd like to see the Visigoths go up against the Ostrogoths. Like a final barbarian showdown...

[Ronja]

No one goes to libraries to read books.
They use the free internet to surf porn / face book, or they drop their kids off there as a free baby sitting service.

Hello! My name is "no one" then...

I have been observed reading newspapers and magazines, too, at our local library. Paper ones, not online ones, to boot.

[JimC]

Ever go looking for a book in a library and see one right next to that's even more interesting, but one that you've never heard of? That's why I like libraries.

[MrJonno]

Go to the library to work on my degree, its quiet through its a pain it hasnt got wifi (I borrow the wetherspoons pub next door). Studying at home is just too distracting