# Wisconsin Man Banned From All Libraries On Earth **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546 "2013-03-21T16:13:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/1 "2013-03-21T16:13:02Z")
Apparently free internet porn at his local liberry got the better of him, and he took matters into his own hands. https://video.foxnews.com/v/video-embed.html?video_id=2237669800001&ref=twitter.com ---
**Author:** ![HipGnosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/76d3ee/32.png) [@HipGnosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HipGnosis)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/2 "2013-03-21T16:14:53Z")
I’m familiar with this as I’m not far away. The snag is that it’s an unenforceable sentance. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/3 "2013-03-21T16:24:12Z")
> [@HipGnosis](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/4 "2013-03-21T16:24:16Z")
Just one more reason for space tourism. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/5 "2013-03-21T17:24:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/6 "2013-03-21T18:55:39Z")
I don’t suppose anyone has a non-video version of the story? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/7 "2013-03-21T19:07:06Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > I don’t suppose anyone has a non-video version of the story? Always glad to [be of help.](http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/198464271.html) ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/8 "2013-03-21T19:18:39Z")
Maybe it wasn’t porn. Maybe he’s _really into_ sexy librarians. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/9 "2013-03-21T19:22:15Z")
[More of the story.](http://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-forbidden-from-all-libraries-on-the-face-of-the/article_47bd9ac8-8ce5-11e2-9371-001a4bcf887a.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/10 "2013-03-21T19:26:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/11 "2013-03-21T19:31:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/12 "2013-03-21T19:35:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/13 "2013-03-21T19:48:17Z")
> [@HipGnosis](#): > > I’m familiar with this as I’m not far away. > The snag is that it’s an unenforceable sentance. Honor system? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/14 "2013-03-21T19:48:29Z")
[Kid in a candy store.](http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~jail/) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/15 "2013-03-21T19:57:30Z")
How about porn libraries? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/16 "2013-03-22T02:10:00Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/17 "2013-03-22T04:26:28Z")
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.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/18 "2013-03-22T05:01:37Z")
Well at least he wasn’t banned from all libraries in the universe. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/19 "2013-03-22T05:27:27Z")
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)? ---
**Author:** ![AaronX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7bcc69/32.png) [@AaronX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AaronX)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/20 "2013-03-22T08:00:04Z")
Achievements these days are too easy. You’d expect, to get this, you’d at least have to VISIT all libraries on Earth. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546.md?page=2)