http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070107/ap_on_fe_st/overdue_bookHANCOCK, Mich. - Robert Nuranen handed the local librarian a book he'd checked out for a ninth-grade assignment ? along with a check for 47 years' worth of late fees. Nuranen said his mother misplaced the copy of "Prince of Egypt" while cleaning the house. The family came across it every so often, only to set it aside again. He found it last week while looking through a box in the attic."I figured I'd better get it in before we waited another 10 years," he said after turning it in Friday with the $171.32 check. "Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing."The book, with its last due date stamped June 2, 1960, was part of the young Nuranen's fascination with Egypt. He went on to visit that country and 54 others, and all 50 states, he said, but he never did finish the book.Nuranen now lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches seventh-grade social studies and language arts.The library had long ago lost any record of the book, librarian Sue Zubiena said."I'm going to use it as an example," she said. "It's never too late to return your books."Why not just keep it? Or pay how much it was worth and buy it?
whoa I thought my long over due book was embarrasing but this dude overshadowed mine I only have had it for 6 years.
<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">LOL! What an idiot! He said:<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"Fifty-seven years would be embarrassing."</div>I suppose forty-seven years wasn't enough, huh?</span>
Man libraries need to be more enforceful in getting back returned backs. 47 years, that library is slacking. In fact, I might check out 20 books and see if they notice after 10 years.
haha this guy must've watched the library cop episode on seinfeld :HAHAHA: the most relatable show on television.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (nykfan4life @ Jan 7 2007, 02:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>haha this guy must've watched the library cop episode on seinfeld :HAHAHA: the most relatable show on television.</div>I was about to say that
Only 171?My friend had a 193 dollar late fee from a DVD over the summer. That's also from a video store and they're different, but oh well.
That's so stupid. If they were a fair library they'd just charge him the price of the book.Story time: I was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. When I was 1 year old, we moved. About 10 years later we came back to Lincoln. And they still had a late fee that my mom hadn't paid from when we'd last lived there.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pacers fan forever @ Jan 7 2007, 03:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>lol. nice find.I admire the guy for being honest. most people would've kept the book.</div><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">That's because most people have common sense. Why bring media attention to your stupidity when you can just keep the damn book or throw the sh*t away?</span>
The only reasoning I can find to this is that we have a 'My Name is Earl' scenario. Where this guy is just making a stupid list and re-doing his life
<span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS">I've "done" my life once before. It was quite entertaining. "Doing" my life again seems awkward... We don't feel the same as we did for one another the first time.</span>
