Harrison Library Fines Dead Woman For Overdue Book

[iambrutus]

Damn, guess they wont bend the rules for anyone!

(AP) HARRISON, N.Y. Even the dead apparently have to pay the fines on their overdue books at one Westchester County library.

Elizabeth Schaper said she was charged a 50-cent late fee while turning in a book that her late mother had checked out of a Harrison Public Library branch.

?I was in shock,? Schaper said. ?This has rocked me to my core.?

Schaper?s mother, Ethel Schaper, died at the age of 87 on Sept. 16 after suffering a massive stroke. A few days later, Schaper said she found a library book, ?The Price of Silence,? by Camilla Trinchieri, that her mother had checked out from the library.

?I told him that maybe he didn?t hear me right, that my mother had just died, otherwise I?m sure that she would have returned it on time,? Schaper said. ?His only reply was that, ?That will be 50 cents.??

Schaper said a couple days after the incident another library employee called to apologize and offered to return the fine she had paid.

stay classy public library

 

[Gatorubet]

Damn, guess they wont bend the rules for anyone!

stay classy public library

Nobody expects the Westchester County Librarian!!

 

[OCBuckWife]

Being dead ain't no excuse for bad behavior.

 

[BayBuck]

"You'd better not screw up again, Schaper, because if you do, I'll be all over you like a pitbull on a poodle."

 

[OCBucksFan]

/Approves.

 

[Gatorubet]

Being dead ain't no excuse for bad behavior.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkS29pIQ-A8 [/youtube]

 

[OCBuckWife]

[youtube]AkS29pIQ-A8[/youtube]

So, wait, in Wisconsin, a dead relative is property? I wonder if you can develop it. "I'd like to put a house on Aunt Vera, please!"

 

[MolGenBuckeye]

So, wait, in Wisconsin, a dead relative is property? I wonder if you can develop it. "I'd like to put a house on Aunt Vera, please!"

I think that's Kansas, not Wisconsin.

 

[AKAK]

So, wait, in Wisconsin, a dead relative is property? I wonder if you can develop it. "I'd like to put a house on Aunt Vera, please!"

Hmm.... can they use them for 3/5ths of a person for the purposes of electoral votes?

(Of course, Illinois has been known to use them as voters, I suppose... so...)

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

It was 50 fucking cents, lady. Get a grip.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

It was 50 fucking cents, lady. Get a grip.

Exactly. 50 cents "rocked her to her core"?

 

[Oneshot]

That's not the point; who the hell asks for .50 from the daughter of a recently passed mother.

That guy must feel like a douche.

 

[BB73]

(Of course, Illinois has been known to use them as voters, I suppose... so...)

Indeed, the cemeteries have been official polling places here for decades.

 

[PrincetonBuckeye]

Dang...that reminds me...I have 2 overdue books....

 

[Best Buckeye]

Dang...that reminds me...I have 2 overdue books....

You better take that Playboy and hustler back! the last person who owed them money turned up dead.