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Post by wildojinx on Dec 29, 2018 18:05:43 GMT -5
If so, any interesting stories? I myself volunteer at one but nothing really interesting or notable has happened to be honest.
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Post by prettynami on Dec 29, 2018 19:06:25 GMT -5
We had a person who peed all over the DVDs. We had a person return a live animal in the bookdrops (A hedgehog). We have also had people return crusty children's underwear in them too. We had a woman once claim that the head librarian raped her with a bowling pin. Every single desk clerk seems to have a stalker. Once a month the bathrooms are covered with feces. We also have a patron who loudly rants and raves in front of the new DVDs because we have the gall to put foreign movies up there (They go on and on about the foreign trash!), and they aren't even a member of our library... Etc etc etc.
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Post by LexExpress on Dec 30, 2018 8:31:34 GMT -5
I don't, but there is a public library on the ground floor of a building I am sometimes based at for work. One of the staff told me a great story about a guy getting his dick out and running around in a Mike Tenay style windmilling incident, until somebody bravely tackled him into a broom cupboard.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 30, 2018 10:45:08 GMT -5
We had a person who peed all over the DVDs. We had a person return a live animal in the bookdrops (A hedgehog). We have also had people return crusty children's underwear in them too. We had a woman once claim that the head librarian raped her with a bowling pin. Every single desk clerk seems to have a stalker. Once a month the bathrooms are covered with feces. We also have a patron who loudly rants and raves in front of the new DVDs because we have the gall to put foreign movies up there (They go on and on about the foreign trash!), and they aren't even a member of our library... Etc etc etc. Ah the racists. Had a woman corner me in our audio books section to talk about how foreign people were ruining the area like I'd agree with her. Better news was the time someone returned a book with £200 cash they'd been using as a bookmark.
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Post by The Ichi on Dec 30, 2018 12:13:11 GMT -5
Sort of. My Mum owned a library for a few years in the 90s and I'd help out during school holidays. Only weird incident I can recall was a girl about the same age I was and her Mum getting into a huge punch-up.
Also me daring myself to flick through Stephen King books.
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Post by prettynami on Dec 30, 2018 19:04:35 GMT -5
Also have these people (more than one which makes it extra odd to me) who are staying in extended stay hotels or whatever who call in all the time and ask for oddly specific information on random ass people or the occasional celebrity. Like they can tie a librarian up for 30+ minutes on diving for information. It often feels like they are trying to track some kind of victim who used to live in town and moved away or something crazy like that.
There is a woman who comes in and she has bugs crawling all over her all the time... Not like lice but like regular old bugs (?) like a scene from Watamote! She also gets banned every other month for swearing at workers or other patrons.
Book related we had this one guy who every day would take Clive Barker's "Book of Blood" off the shelves. And people who take massive stacks of books (from various parts of the library so its a nice mix) so they can lay them out on tables so people, thinking the tables are occupied, won't sit at the ones near them. Oh and one time I found a manga where a lady (I'm assuming) had gone through and kissed the pictures of the male protagonist leaving lipstick smudges over the whole thing!
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