Shakespeare would have a field day on this one. On the same day, two seperate news stories appear. In one, a man returns his mothers 100 year old overdue library book. In another, a woman is sent to jail for failure to return 53 DVD’s to her local library.

Is the difference that the book was checked out years ago when libraries didn’t consider collection agencies or pressing charges? Or is the difference the value of the DVD’s in today’s market? I wonder if a hundred years from now people will still be able to return century overdue books, or will they they have been retrieved by the police and the offending patron thrown in the clink?