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Scuz-ball librarian teef manages to escape a prison sentence by claiming he did it for the emotional thrill, not the money. Isn’t that’s the same reason sociopaths kill people?
A librarian who stole more than 500 antiquarian books worth £175,000 from Manchester Central library, and then offered several for sale on an internet auction site, was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday. Norman Buckley, 44, began his thefts after breaking up with his long-term girlfriend. He made more than £11,000 from sales of books on eBay but hardly spent any of the money, claiming the sales gave him a buzz.
Hey, man. Don’t bogart that seventeenth century Donne. Next time, try getting a plant or a pigeon or something. Pigeons being the plants of the animal world.
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October 26th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
I apologize, I didn’t follow the link. But its no surprise that stealing for the thrill is less punished then stealing for money.
Kleptomania has long been a ‘disorder’ usually only diagnosed in those who are well off. Makes you wonder if the crime is in the
theft, or in the need… My cynical self says we usually find ways to punish the poor for their poverty and this is more of the same.
October 26th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
The fact that ‘criminal behaviour’ exictes these people should be a crime.
October 27th, 2006 at 8:11 am
omninaif: if excitement due to criminal behaviour was a crime, then we’d have no literature, and all literature would be a crime. Okay there would be a few banal exceptions, such as those books in Canada that tend to win major awards (I jest…) but otherwise no EM Forster, no DH Lawrence, no Celine, no Wilde, no FM Ford, no Richard Ford, no Alice Munro, Annie Proulx, and the list goes on.