On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:24:39 -0700, Tim Douglass wrote:


Our library has magnetic strips or something in the books - try to
take them without checking out and an alarm sounds.

A long time ago I ended up with an unintended book. I had been doing
research at the library amidst the research volumes. I re-shelved them and
properly checked out several others.

The alarm went off.

I walked back over to the checkout desk and the pile was re-swiped.

Again, the alarm went off.

One more trip to the checkout counter for a third scanning.

The third time the alarm went off the security guard grinned and waved me
through.

Had any of us ever looked in my briefcase we'd have found the offending
volume.

....

That left me, a normally honest man, with a problem -- how to return it
past the scanner / metal detector at the entrance.

I eventually opted to come back late at night and use the night drop-off.

Bill