Apparently free internet porn at his local liberry got the better of him, and he took matters into his own hands.
I’m familiar with this as I’m not far away.
The snag is that it’s an unenforceable sentance.
When I first read about this the other day I wondered how they were going to spread the word.
Just one more reason for space tourism.
Heh. My local weekly newspaper prints all the sentences handed down in Magistrate Court. For a while when someone was found guilty of shoplifting at WalMart, the person was ususally fined, given a short jail sentence or probation and banned from WalMart. I always wondered if that would be all WalMarts or just the local one and also just how would that be enforced. I imagined someone having a chip implanted that would cause a shock whenever said person got within say one hundred yards of a WalMart.
I don’t suppose anyone has a non-video version of the story?
Always glad to be of help.
Maybe it wasn’t porn. Maybe he’s really into sexy librarians.
I was wondering how the hell it could be worldwide, but what happened is that he was given probation dependent on staying out of all libraries. It’s the court enforcing the ban, not every library system in the world.
Presumably, the county clerk is busily faxing this guy’s picture to every library on earth even as we speak. I should pop into the local branch to see if they’ve got him up on the wall behind the counter yet.
This was a condition of his bond. I don’t think that’s the same as a sentence after having been found guilty.
The enforcement boils down to “if you want to not wait for your court case in jail, then stay out of libraries”… so, if he gets caught in a library, then he sits in jail until his case comes up. Pretty simple concept.
Honor system?
How about porn libraries?
At the store I work at (which competes with Walmart), shoplifters get a trespass order banning them from all our locations for 99 years - the extent of its enforceability being that if they’re seen again at the same location or they come to the attention of LP at another store, we can press charges for trespassing on top of the charges for whatever else got our attention.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Walmart actually uses facial recognition software in its stores to ID blacklisted individuals when they walk through the door and the security camera spots them. I don’t believe we use anything of that nature, but I could be mistaken.
Poor bugger. Homeless and it would seem his elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor. Now he’s been publicly humiliated by having the article and his photo all over the internet.
Well at least he wasn’t banned from all libraries in the universe.
All libraries “on the face of the Earth” are off bounds to him, but what about all those subterranean libraries? What about the libraries on Earth’s ass (aka Utah)?
Achievements these days are too easy. You’d expect, to get this, you’d at least have to VISIT all libraries on Earth.