Library fines

scruttocks

I just got fined a tenner for having food in the library. I have a little piece of paper with my name on it telling me i have been "found in breech (sic) of Library Regulations: Other offence"

A fine is payable within three days to the Librarian's Office.

My question is this: if I ignore this for long enough will it go away?

Failing that, is there another option to make it go away that doesn't involve submitting to that baldy eastern european bloke with a hardon for justice?

Running Bing

scruttocks wrote: »

I just got fined a tenner for having food in the library. I have a little piece of paper with my name on it telling me i have been "found in breech (sic) of Library Regulations: Other offence"

A fine is payable within three days to the Librarian's Office.

My question is this: if I ignore this for long enough will it go away?

Failing that, is there another option to make it go away that doesn't involve submitting to that baldy eastern european bloke with a hardon for justice?

Just pay the fine.


Its a library not a cafeteria. The people who work there probably have enough to do without cleaning up crumbs, searching out rotten food or cleaning books covered in crap that people were eating.

Its a fair enough rule tbh which benefits everybody, you took the chance and broke the rule, pay up.

tolosenc

As long as you don't have anything to do with any Trinity library ever again, that tenner of yours should be safe.

If you never want to graduate either you won't have to pay.

I assume it wasn't something small?

Mark200

Good. People eating in the library really annoy me when I'm trying to concentrate.

uprooted shane

just pay it

Corruptedmorals

You can't graduate until you clear the fine. Sometimes they're nice about clearing massive fines, but I'd say you'll have to pay that.

dan719

Tom you fat bastard do you ever stop eating? I reckon go and find a nice librarian and start begging, and give the old I was trying to do an essay/assignment/cure cancer.

Tricity Bendix

Babybing wrote: »

Just pay the fine.


Its a library not a cafeteria. The people who work there probably have enough to do without cleaning up crumbs, searching out rotten food or cleaning books covered in crap that people were eating.

Its a fair enough rule tbh which benefits everybody, you took the chance and broke the rule, pay up.

Also, the smell of food can be veeeery distracting for others trying to study. No t to mention the sound of crisp packets. I murder UCD students for less.

scruttocks

In fairness, it was carrot sticks, doing no-one any harm.

Unshelved

There was an infestation in the Hamilton some time ago. Insects that had previously fed on dropped food crumbs left by students eating in the Library found that their food supply dried up once summer came, so they ate the glue that binds the books. All the books started falling apart and so the only solution was to deep freeze every book and in the Hamilton for a two week period to kill off the insects. It cost a fortune.

That's why food isn't allowed in the Library.

(And we won't talk about the time the rat escaped from the lab and took up residence in the Hamilton. They said it was a guinea pig but I'm still sceptical.)

Peleus

Unshelved wrote: »

There was an infestation in the Hamilton some time ago. Insects that had previously fed on dropped food crumbs left by students eating in the Library found that their food supply dried up once summer came, so they ate the glue that binds the books. All the books started falling apart and so the only solution was to deep freeze every book and in the Hamilton a two week period to kill off the insects. It cost a fortune.

That's why food isn't allowed in the Library.

(And we won't talk about the time the rat escaped from the lab and took up residence in the Hamilton. They said it was a guinea pig but I'm still sceptical.)

strange, i cant tell if you're joking or not.

Unshelved

strange, i cant tell if you're joking or not.

All true!

Degsy

Oh yeah,the next ****er i catch talking on the phone in the orientation space is getting hit with a 15 euro fine.
There's signs everywhere!

Time Magazine

Unshelved wrote: »

the only solution was to deep freeze every book in the Hamilton for a two week period

Wow. Hell did freeze over.

xeduCat

I did in fact do nothing for two weeks other than sleep and pack those books into bags to go into boxes to go into the freezer. I even remember a slight delay cause they needed to move the legs of lamb or whatever out of the warehouse. It was just as bizarre then.

Anyway, on the substantive issue, surely it's time for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyLTqBARFt8 ?

Ron DMC

Degsy wrote: »

Oh yeah,the next ****er i catch talking on the phone in the orientation space is getting hit with a 15 euro fine.
There's signs everywhere!

And where else are people supposed to take phone calls?

Boston

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

And where else are people supposed to take phone calls?

Not in a library?

Mark200

Boston wrote: »

Not in a library?

I'm struggling to comprehend the complexity in this idea

Mark200

Mark200 wrote: »

I'm struggling to comprehend the complexity in this idea

When I was in final year I had the misfortune one time to be sitting beside some idiot who decided to wear a tiny bell on their jacket.

Tricity Bendix

Myth wrote: »

When I was in final year I had the misfortune one time to be sitting beside some idiot who decided to wear a tiny bell on their jacket.

I had to give out to someone in UCD for their excessively loud atire once. Jinngley things on her jacket and on her bag. Part librocop, part fashion police.

Degsy

Mark200 wrote: »

I'm struggling to comprehend the complexity in this idea

A lot of people seem to have the same problem.
Its is unfortunate that students in an academic library cannot decipher signs that feature a crossed-out mobile phone and "Do not use your phone here,fines from 15 euro" or words to that effect.