Seriously?

The Headline: “Woman Arrested For Failing To Return Library Books ‘Angels and Demons’ and ‘White Oleander’ borrowed last year”

ABC/wisn.com
August 21, 2008
GRAFTON, Wis. — A woman has been arrested for failing to return two books to the Grafton Library…[read the full story here]

It may sound extreme, until you read that she ignored notices, including a court date, thinking, “What are they going to to, arrest me?” Uh, yeah, since what you did went from “borrow” to “theft”, arrest would be the right response… I just hope the books were worth it – I mean, do you think she even read them?