Takes an idiot to destroy a villiage

[depechemodefan]

I was off yesterday but right before 5pm (we close at 8pm) some customer decided to go into the men's bathroom on the third floor and kick the wall until it broke and kicked the pipe revealed until it broke. This lead to water flooding the third floor, entering the IT closet kitty-corner from the bathroom, and though the water didn't touch the equipment there, the water did go down to the IT closet below on the second floor then go into the IT closet on the first floor. Also, water entered the elevator shaft ,and the light fixtures, so that water rained down from the lights unto the floor below. Patrons were evacuated (some still wanted to check out their books). Not many books got damaged. IT wants the IT closets to air out, they think it will take until Monday but management thinks we might be open anyway on Sat, even though drywall is crumbling in area.

Fridays were are closed to the public anyway, but we have to answer phones. We are not sure yet if the phones will work.

I don't know if the culprit was caught, but I hope the fucker drowns somewhere for no doubt causing more than $1 million worth of damages.

[sirwired]

Damn... that's messed up. We can only hope Karma will extract sweet revenge.

At least it didn't damage too many books.

[Aria]

Holy shite! That's appalling.

[Food Lady]

That person HAS to be some form of mentally ill. There's no other reasonable explanation.

[Slave to the Phone]

That person HAS to be some form of mentally ill. There's no other reasonable explanation.

Libraries are havens for homeless people. Many homeless people are mentally ill.

I'm suprised that nobody heard all the banging, but maybe that's because nowadays, libraries are not like the ones I was raised with. The noise level is much higher, and many people are using headsets.

[depechemodefan]

I'm suprised that nobody heard all the banging, but maybe that's because nowadays, libraries are not like the ones I was raised with. The noise level is much higher, and many people are using headsets.

My understanding was another guy in the bathroom came out and told a cw about it but by the time she called security the asshole vanished.

So late today it was decided that we will be closed tomorrow, and open on Mon.

[Opalin]

0_o wow. That's... bleh, I hope your library recovers quickly.
Somewhat of a foolish question, but how exactly was he kicking the pipe hard enough that it broke without doing damage to his foot?

[Slave to the Phone]

My understanding was another guy in the bathroom came out and told a cw about it but by the time she called security the asshole vanished.

So late today it was decided that we will be closed tomorrow, and open on Mon.

Offers up lots of hugs and chocolate, because you are going to get so many people yelling that you were closed when your signs said you should be open.

I think you are being very kind by just calling him an asshole. That's the word I use for someone who damages library books. Someone who damages the property gets lots of much worse words.

I wonder if its the full moon or something. Our library has limited parking and I always drive from a road that allows me to see if there is a spot open in the parking lot, or if I should park on the street. (street parking means that I have to trudge up a steep hill while carring my precious books). One way in, a U shaped drive and then you go out.

I saw that there was one parking place SWEET!, and pulled in. The "lady" in the car behind me pulled behind my car and bitched me out because I had taken her parking spot...she had seen it first.

After that WTF moment, I walked in to hear another "lady" bitching the person at the counter because her son had used her card and she had overdue fines. Apparently, the library staff should have noticed that someone using the self checkout was using the wrong card and that everyone should have to show picture ID before using their library card.

I got my crack and was walking out when I heard a lady quietly tell her daughter (maybe 4 year old) that it was time to go home and the kid had a full meltdown. While I understand not wanting to leave the magic place with books...I'm sure the library staff didn't want to hear all that.

[depechemodefan]

0_o wow. That's... bleh, I hope your library recovers quickly.
Somewhat of a foolish question, but how exactly was he kicking the pipe hard enough that it broke without doing damage to his foot?

Maybe he's on meth? Or wore steel-toed boots. I don't think anyone saw a guy hobling out the door.

After that WTF moment, I walked in to hear another "lady" bitching the person at the counter because her son had used her card and she had overdue fines. Apparently, the library staff should have noticed that someone using the self checkout was using the wrong card and that everyone should have to show picture ID before using their library card.

These people never think about how someone got their card out of their purse/wallet. Maybe she should pay attention to her kid. But we know she is really weaseling out of paying fines.

Luckily, Slave to the Phone, no one bitched us out. Though one person called the next week and passive/aggressive joked about us being closed.

It ended up being win-win for me, because I traded with a cw 2 weekends ago, and if we didn't close up that Sat. I would have worked 3 Saturdays in a row.

[Merriweather]

After that WTF moment, I walked in to hear another "lady" bitching the person at the counter because her son had used her card and she had overdue fines. Apparently, the library staff should have noticed that someone using the self checkout was using the wrong card and that everyone should have to show picture ID before using their library card.

And we all know how she (and hundreds more) would then scream & yell at their - privacy being violated/time being wasted/honor being doubted/tortured by having to open their wallets/whatever - for having to show ID.

ID's are definitely one you can't win on, everyone wants them checked if they're being used by the wrong person, no one wants them checked if it's their own legitimate card. It's like wanting the battery in your smoke alarm to only be used when the alarm needs to go off for a fire, but not be used to just keep sensing there's no fire.

SCs, gotta love 'em (at least til hunting season on them is legalized)

[Caractacus_Potts]

These people never think about how someone got their card out of their purse/wallet. Maybe she should pay attention to her kid.

Reminds me of a post by someone in a call center for a place that sells minutes for pay as you go phones. A woman called about unauthorized charges on her credit card. Turns out the charges were to buy minutes for a phone and the phone that recieved the minutes belonged to her daughter.

This woman stated that her daughter would have never used her credit card wihout permission so the only reasonable explanation was that somone working for the company stole her credit card info and then used the stolen info to fraudulently place minutes on her daughters phone. She didn't just want the charges reversed she also wanted the cuplrit to be caught, fired and criminally prosecuted for the theft and for trying to frame her daughter.

[HeroOfNotBashingSkulls]

Ooooohhhh, I'm SO tempted to make a Bush joke, but I'll keep the controversy to a low 0..

Still tempted. Anyone wanna hear it? Just PM me.

On another note, who kicks a wall AND a pipe? Did he want a broken toe to complain about? Angry? Or did they just hate your wall?

[Aethian]

On another note, who kicks a wall AND a pipe? Did he want a broken toe to complain about? Angry? Or did they just hate your wall?

Ya know I had been thinking the same thing...

I think he was looking for stolen eggs.

[depechemodefan]

The public bathrooms here have a pipe from the toilet heading toward the ceiling (though it's about chest-high, not ceiling high) at the terminus of the pipe is the handle you pull to plush. So I guess he kicked the pipe and the top must have flew off or he kicked in in half; I understand the water headed up and over the stall into the next stall because the other customer got wet from his head down.

ONe thing I remember from The Terminator was how a cop told Sarah Conner that the guy she saw (the Terminator) smashing his hand in the windshield was propably high on PCP. Or was it meth? meh, been years I've seen the movie but anyway, I think it's likely the guy breaking the pipe must have been high. I think the guy in the other stall heard the guy kick the pipe.