If anyone at the police station asked Jory Enck what he was in for, hopefully he lied and came up with something less lame. Enck was arrested for having an overdue library book, a GED study guide that he'd checked out and failed to return more than three years ago. Copperas Cove in Central Texas apparently has such a serious problem with serial library abusers that it has passed a city ordinance that allows it to issue warrants for failure to return library materials. But the ordinance has been met with "universal hatred," municipal judge Bill Price told KEYE-TV. "Nobody wants to get arrested over a library book," he said. Enck was released on $200 bond, and by the next day that missing book was back on the shelf at the library — and Enck's library card was tucked inside. Guess it'll be Amazon.com from now on. [Source]
