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"When Librarians Attack"
Hi. My name is Jimmy. I'm 15 years old. And I attend a public
school. The school librarian was the nicest lady in the world. I couldn't
believe she worked for the government. It was just too good to be true.
She would help us find the books we needed, or find someone to
help us if she was already busy. She would teach us about the evils of the
internet, upper-classmen, and Maryland. She even told us to avoid this one kid,
and his web site "sporkfish", she called it.
It was a cold day in January. Some of the Library Science
students thought they were doing a good deed and decided to shelve all the
unshelved books, not just the ones they were assigned. Little did they know,
the librarian was planning on giving low grades to the other Library Science
students who had forgotten to shelve their assigned book sections.
The scene was horrible. First, the librarian responded in a nice, calm voice
"What are you doing?"
The students responded "We're just trying to be helpful,
we shelved all the books for you!"
"But why would you do that, you're only assigned a
specific section!"
"We were just trying to he-" BANG.
I ran out of the library as fast as I could.
My name's Allison. I visited the public library once a week.
My parents started me going there as a small kid, something about "Reading
is Fundamental" or something like that. When I was four, my mom took me
into the children's section to read Curious George™.
My mom read aloud to me quietly, telling me the story of how
the man in the yellow hat and the monkey went places together, like the
restroom, the night club, the airport on a flight to Cuba, to the street corner
where they played "dress-up", and occasionally to the police
station.
One time, while we were reading, a baby across the room
started to cry. I felt bad for the baby. It must be hungry or need a diaper
change, I thought.
I thought too late. The librarian snapped. He got up and
headed for the woman with the baby, and..
and..
It's just too horrible.. [at this point, Allison has broken
down into tears in our interview, she managed to snag this photo of the act,
which was then re-animated by our crime photo staff.]
Warning: The Following Photo May Be Too Graphic For Younger
Viewers, so If You're a Younger Viewer, or Just Not Sure, DO NOT LOOK AT THIS:

Please, if you have seen or witnessed in any
form, any librarian attacking innocent library patrons, please, PLEASE contact
the "When Librarians Attack" Hotline at 1-888-555-BOOK.
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