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Government Bastardy #2,658

Government Thugs, Two-Minute Hate

Reader Mike L. points me at this sorry tale, in Texas no less:

About two weeks ago, Kaylee Morgan, a wife and stay-at-home mother of five, went to get her driver’s license renewed on her 30th birthday, and she was told there was a warrant out for her arrest.

“This was news to me. I haven’t been pulled over. I’ve never been in any sort of legal trouble,” Morgan said.

She called the courts and found out the warrant was related to a charge for theft of government property, a Class C misdemeanor. She also faces a $570 fine, which she said her family could not afford on their single income.

“It’s over a library book that I turned in late,” Morgan said.

WTF?  A late library book, and she’s got a warrant?  Read the whole story for the disgusting details.

I have to tell you, there is no one alive who loves books more than I do;  but if some angry soul were to burn this whole fucking library to the ground in reaction to this bullshit, I’d be the first to buy him a drink.

As for the arrogant asshole of a judge…

“Excessive”, you say?  No more excessive than the actions of the fucking government.

7 comments

  1. It’s not the library’s fault here. It’s automatic pretty much.
    Late return becomes a financial penalty (as per the library contract).
    That doesn’t get paid so it goes to collections.
    Collections can’t find the person to collect from (guess she must have moved house a few times) so goes to the police.
    Police can’t find her either so a warrant is issued.
    By the time, several years later, she is found the total has gone up to hundreds of dollars.
    The library probably wanted no more than $10 or so.

    1. Why would anyone with a brain turn a $10 fine over to a collection agency?
      How can the fine be more than the value of the books that were returned?

      Dumbassery at it’s finest

      1. it happens. Automatic result based on set policy. Seen it myself, stupid things like that are all over the place both in government as in business (and a public library is a bit of both).

        Sometimes it’s an oversight in the writing of the regulation, often it’s deliberate.
        And remember that the cost of collection is all on the person being collected from. The library would get their $10, the collections agency gets all the rest (which may well be thousands of dollars).

  2. something-something tar something something feathers something something rail something something bureaucrats and politicians and judges.

  4. she took the books out and it was her obligation to return them. She made her bed now she needs to lie in it.

    If you guys are expecting the government to use our taxpayer money to go after and prosecute real hardened and even violent criminals then you’re sadly mistaken about how government now works.

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