An Oakland City man is sentenced for intimidating a librarian.
Authorities say Larry Fisk, 40, became angry with Maureen Barton when she told his wife they would no longer be able to check out dvd’s from the Oakland City Public Library.
Fisk reportedly threatened Barton in her office in front of others, parked outside the library as she arrived for work and followed her around town.
He was sentenced to four and a half weeks in jail and ten months probation.
Headline confusing … … but Oakland City is actually in Indiana. Oakland City, IN vs. Oakland, CA (also known as “Oaksterdam” but that’s an unrelated post …).
I don’t know if the “CA” in the title was meant to represent “California”
Crappy article 🙂
I hate television and newspaper station websites that aren’t remarkably obvious about where they are. I have no idea where the Triborough Times- Sun and Voice is. Be clear on your website the intertubes are not new and you probably pay people to design them. If I can’t tell where you are within four seconds they are idiots, trust me I am a Certified Usability Analyst
That said, this genius is lucky she didn’t run him over. He didn’t harass her he stalked her; in most places that is a felony. Four and a half weeks, come on in Paris Hilton time that is Tuesday.
Don’t they have statutes about threatening a public official, or intimidating a government official in the performance of their duties? This is not a month in jail sort of thing, this is a state prison sort of thing. He could have stopped, he could have apologized, he could have not done it at all – what did he do to be denied DVD borrowing to begin with.
It is just my opinion but this guy is an antisocial misfit who will end up killing someone.
Re:Crappy article
Not responding to the original article, but TV and radio websites aren’t the only ones. Working on my Public Library Blogs book, I was going from library blogs to the libraries–and in, I’d guess, half the cases the library’s website doesn’t say what state it’s in. (The blog doesn’t always even identify the library–but presumably you wouldn’t be there if you weren’t part of the library’s community.)
“Worldwide” is a concept that doesn’t always make it through to the home page itself…