About 12 years ago I had checked out three books from the library and then moved. I packed the books away and never saw them again. I got a few notices in the mail and then nothing for a long time.
About two years later I got a letter from the CITY ATTORNEY saying that they were going to take legal action against me unless I ponied up my fine: $120. Forty bucks a book.
I paid. I just got a library card (from a different library) two weeks ago. My first card in years.
Re: s/o Library Thugs
Dude, that sucks.
Glad you have a new card, though! Don't move now.
I did this is 8th grade. We had to write a paper so I got books from the local library (no internet back then). I lost them somehow and they charged my mom like $60. Needless to say we never went back to that library.
And a friend of mine actually had to go to court for the same thing. She never paid so they sued her. I went with her and the judge was pretty pissed to be honest. I don't think she ever went back there agin either.
So I guess I hung out with "library thugs" lol.