Friday, June 29, 2012

Portales In the News... and NOT In a Good Way

Portales makes an international splash, so to speak:
A mother was arrested in front of her young children and spent the night in jail – all for not returning a Twilight book and DVD.

Lori Teel was arrested and handcuffed at her Portales, New Mexico home in front of her five small children on June 12.

She had borrowed $36 worth of library materials not returned since 2010.
That's from an article in yesterday's (UK) Daily Mail.  Oh, the ignominy of it all.  My sleepy lil burg on The High Plains o' New Mexico is now the laughingstock of the entire UK.  So to speak.

The h/t goes to Occasional Reader Rob, who sent this to me via e-mail.
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10 comments:

  1. Barco Sin Vela II29 June, 2012 04:42

    Meanwhile, downtown; A young mother who speaks no english and has no proper documentation gives birth to twins at the County Hospital. Final bill (Which will be paid by taxpayers) is $14,899. The new family disappears into the countryside...

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    1. Buck29 June, 2012 10:08

      Do they double the bill if it's twins? Yikes.

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  2. Bag Blog29 June, 2012 05:52

    Thanks to library Nazis, I'm not a big fan of libraries. I couldn't find a link, but a car drove in to the Duncan Library yesterday. I wonder who will pay for that - hopefully the driver was insured.

    $14,899 is way ridiculous for the birth of a baby - just sayin!

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    1. Buck29 June, 2012 10:07

      I first read your comment as "hopefully the driver was injured" and I thought Dang, Lou... that's harsh! :-)

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  3. Suldog29 June, 2012 06:32

    They cuffed her for an overdue $36? Yikes! Remind me never to screw with the Portales Library.

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    1. Buck29 June, 2012 10:04

      A couple o' years o' few back I tried to get a library card at the P-Ville library. They wouldn't give me one since I was still a Texas resident. So I said "screw 'em" and go to the library out at Cannon. That was inadvertently smart of me.

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  4. (not necessarily your) Uncle Skip29 June, 2012 09:35

    It's good to see they are enforcing all the laws and not letting anyone get away with something as heinous as overborrowing a book and DVD.
    The only issue I have is that the police don't seem to have arrested the librarian for having an outdated database.

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    1. Buck29 June, 2012 10:02

      It's against the law to have an outdated database? uh-oh... ;-)

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  5. Kris, in New England29 June, 2012 13:01

    Lou - you'd choke at the cost of my hip replacement back in 2009; hospitalization alone was $24K. Total cost including all surgeon fees, P.T. and hip prosthetic: $90K.

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  6. Moogie P29 June, 2012 17:03

    My overnight adventure on the cardiac floor last fall ran over $13,000 -- and that was just the hospital.

    Maybe we could station your library Nazis on the border for awhile.

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Just be polite... that's all I ask.

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