Gosh Darn It, Someone's Messing Up the Darned Library Books

http://www.foxnews.com/st...38,00.html

LAYTON, Utah (AP) — A self-appointed editor of library books has given new meaning to "purple prose." The do-it-yourself censor is turning swear words into "darns" and "hecks" — in purple ink.

"They believe it's within their right to deface public property and impose what they believe on others," library director Pete Giacoma said.
"It's a crime. It would be prosecuted if we were to find who did it, by luck or accident," he said.

Destroying or defacing library materials is a class B misdemeanor. It's punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, but Giacoma said the library usually will settle for restitution. "I think the worry of the public, every once in a while, is that we're doing it," he said. "We're not."

Giacoma said in cases like this, the vandals will usually tire of editing books and stop on their own.

but this is n utah.

Has Prince been N Utah lately?
know have.
[This message was edited Thu Jul 22 15:13:45 2004 by ThePurplePeopleEater]

ThePurplePeopleEater said:

Probably secretly trying to convert Mormons in between gigs?

what they were taught in elementary school about the proper care of library books obviously had no merit for that cat, eh?

It's pretty sick that someone would spend their time seeking out dirty words to cross-out in library books. "Let the dead bury their dead" people! We got Work to do!

Hell, blame it on the Osmonds.

This shit drives me nuts. All through college, there were dipshits who would go through the whole collection of photography books in our student library, and cut out all the nude pics.

The story probably isnt' true guys. I mean, this IS foxnews we're talking about here.

Probably some NUTTY PARENTS who DON"T want their CHILDREN reading SWEar Words....

AsianBomb777 said:

One-liners are gettin' to be real tired in this world today.

Anyway, it's an Associated Press newsfeed that FoxNews just happened to put up -- you can probably find the same thing in dozens of papers across the country. Big Brother government is bigger than one party, yes it is.

hmmm...maybe larry graham has been vacationing in utah