# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/21 "2013-03-22T13:22:09Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > Now he’s been publicly humiliated by having the article and his photo all over the internet.☹ After standing out in the open BEATING OFF IN A PUBLIC LIBRARY, _now_ he’s been “publicly humiliated”? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/22 "2013-03-22T20:53:16Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > 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. Let’s hope they pixilated it first, where need be. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/23 "2013-03-22T21:13:35Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Honor system? “In the Dewey Decimal System, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the Librarians who investigate crime and the Janitorial Staff, who clean up afterwards. These are their stories…” _Shhhh-Shhhh!_ ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/24 "2013-03-22T22:10:15Z")
No C programming. either! ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/25 "2013-03-22T23:25:29Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Maybe it wasn’t porn. Maybe he’s _really into_ sexy librarians. [Indeed](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTuyoOyWh0c). ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/26 "2013-03-23T01:49:07Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Maybe it wasn’t porn. Maybe he’s _really into_ sexy librarians. Or [L’espresso](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'espresso), an Italian newsmagazine. Think Newsweek, but often featuring nude women on the cover (at least, it did in the 1990’s). I worked at the library when I was in college, and one of my fellow employees claimed to have once surprised a guy whacking off in one of the old coin-op typewriter rooms to covers of L’espresso. They did seem to end up back there more often than other books and magazines. (Ewww.) This problem is older than the Internet. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/27 "2013-03-24T08:53:37Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > 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. Yip, the get-out-of-jail-free card on the cruel-and-unusual-punishment clause. This is actually one of the more benign examples. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/28 "2013-03-24T13:58:26Z")
> [@Tamex](#): > > Or [L’espresso](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'espresso), an Italian newsmagazine. Think Newsweek, but often featuring nude women on the cover (at least, it did in the 1990’s). > > I worked at the library when I was in college, and one of my fellow employees claimed to have once surprised a guy whacking off in one of the old coin-op typewriter rooms to covers of L’espresso. They did seem to end up back there more often than other books and magazines. (Ewww.) This problem is older than the Internet. And I hate to say, not so uncommon. Every library I have ever worked at had a few cases a year of people masturbating or having sex with a partner in the library. College libraries that have lockable study rooms are the worst. It’s not because of popular architecture style that the more modern of these feature giant glass doors and windows. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/29 "2013-03-24T18:05:58Z")
Reminds me of [Laura Hall](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266298/Woman-person-banned-EVERY-pub-club-country.html), the British woman who was legally banned from every bar in England. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/30 "2013-03-24T19:10:22Z")
Now if we could only ban Michele Bachmann from all microphones on earth, that would be impressive. We should also ban Pauly Shore from all film cameras on earth. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/31 "2013-03-24T19:25:05Z")
I need to change the library I go to. There’s never any sex going on there. ---
**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 24, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/32 "2013-03-24T23:17:35Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Now if we could only ban Michele Bachmann from all microphones on earth, that would be impressive. > > We should also ban Pauly Shore from all film cameras on earth. Pretty sure that second one’s happened. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/33 "2013-03-24T23:20:13Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > [Indeed](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTuyoOyWh0c). :: breaks into sweat :: ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546/34 "2013-03-25T03:16:30Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I need to change the library I go to. There’s never any sex going on there. Oh, there’s sex going on in there. You just haven’t known where and when to look. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-man-banned-from-all-libraries-on-earth/653546.md?page=1)