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Colorado library receives book 37 years late: ‘long strange trip’
A library book due nearly 37 years ago was recently returned to a library in northern Colorado, the High Plains Library District announced in a Facebook post on Monday, March 18.
“This book, ‘Psychedelics’ by Bernard Aaronson, was due back May 30th, 1987,” the High Plains Library District said in the post.
“It was returned to Riverside Library and Cultural Center … last week. 13,437 days late! Or, 36 years, 9 months, and 13 days late,” said the library, located in Evans, Colorado.
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“But, hey, we get it. Sometimes you get busy. For almost 37 years. It happens,” said the library.
The library also joked that perhaps “a book on psychedelics may, MAY, have affected someone’s perception of time.”
The book was anonymously returned using a drive-through drop box, according to James Melena, community relations and marketing manager at the High Plains Library District, who shared the details with Fox News Digital in an email.
While the person who checked out the book will remain a mystery, the library patron did leave a note inside the book, saying, “Sorry so late!! It’s been a long strange trip!!”
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The High Plains Library District stopped charging late fees years ago, Melena told Fox News Digital.
“We used to charge 10 cents a day per overdue item, so if we charged [a late fee], it would have been over $1,300,” he said.
But even if fees were still in place, the fine would have been waived in this case, said Melena, “since it’s such a funny and odd story.”
Now, patrons are charged the price of an item if it has not been returned after 42 days, he said — and that fee is removed if the item is eventually returned, “even if it is really late.”
The High Plains Library District believes that “Psychedelics” holds the record for most-overdue book ever returned to the library.
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With the return of “Psychedelics”, the current most overdue book in the High Plains Library District is a copy of “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie,” which was due back in Feb. 2017, said Melena.
When “Psychedelics” was checked out, the High Plains Library District was known as the Weld Library District, and included library locations throughout Colorado’s Weld County.
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The name was changed to High Plains Library District in 2008 as part of a re-branding effort, said the library’s website.
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There are presently “seven branch libraries, bookmobile services and six autonomous member libraries governed by their own separate boards of trustees” that comprise the High Plains Library District.
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Julian Assange trial in London could decide whether the WikiLeaks founder is extradited to the US
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a court hearing in London that could end with him being sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges, or provide him with another chance to appeal his extradition.
- The U.S. has assured judges that Assange’s rights would be protected and that he would not face the death penalty in the event of extradition, but Assange’s legal team argues they are not good enough to rely on.
- Assange was indicted on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over his website’s publication of classified U.S. documents almost 15 years ago.
Julian Assange faced a key hearing Monday in the High Court in London that could end with him being sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges, or could provide him another chance to appeal his extradition.
The WikiLeaks founder, who has spent the past five years in a British prison, was not in court to hear his fate being debated. He did not attend for health reasons, his lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said.
The outcome of the hearing will depend on how much weight judges give to assurances U.S. officials have provided that Assange’s rights won’t be trampled if he goes on trial.
In March, two judges rejected the bulk of Assange’s arguments but said he could take his case to the Court of Appeal unless the U.S. guaranteed he would not face the death penalty if extradited and would have the same free speech protections as a U.S. citizen.
The court said that if Assange, who is an Australian citizen, couldn’t rely on the First Amendment then it was arguable his extradition would be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, which also provides free speech and media protections.
The U.S. has provided those reassurances, though Assange’s legal team and supporters argue they are not good enough to rely on to send him to the U.S. federal court system.
The U.S. said Assange could seek to rely on the rights and protections of the First Amendment but that a decision on that would ultimately be up to a judge. In the past, the U.S. said it would argue at trial that Assange is not entitled to the constitutional protection because he is not a U.S. citizen.
“The U.S. has limited itself to blatant weasel words claiming that Julian can ‘seek to raise’ the First Amendment if extradited,” his wife, Stella Assange, said. “The diplomatic note does nothing to relieve our family’s extreme distress about his future — his grim expectation of spending the rest of his life in isolation in U.S. prison for publishing award-winning journalism.”
Assange, 52, has been indicted on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over his website’s publication of a trove of classified U.S. documents almost 15 years ago. American prosecutors allege that Assange encouraged and helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to steal diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks published.
Commuters emerging from a Tube stop near the courthouse couldn’t miss a large sign bearing Assange’s photo and the words, “Publishing is not a crime. War crimes are.” Scores of supporters gathered outside the neo-Gothic Royal Courts of Justice chanting “Free Julian Assange” and “Press freedom, Assange freedom.”
Some held a large white banner aimed at President Joe Biden, exhorting: “Let him go Joe.”
Assange’s lawyers say he could face up to 175 years in prison if convicted, though American authorities have said any sentence would likely be much shorter.
Assange’s family and supporters say his physical and mental health have suffered during more than a decade of legal battles, which includes seven years spent inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London from 2012 until 2019. He has spent the past five years in a British high-security prison.
Assange’s lawyers argued in February that he was a journalist who exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sending him to the U.S., they said, would expose him to a politically motivated prosecution and risk a “flagrant denial of justice.”
The U.S. government says Assange’s actions went way beyond those of a journalist gathering information, amounting to an attempt to solicit, steal and indiscriminately publish classified government documents.
If Assange prevails Monday, it would set the stage for an appeal process likely to extend what has already been a long legal saga.
If the court accepts the word of the U.S., it would mark the end of Assange’s legal challenges in the U.K., though it’s unclear what would immediately follow.
His legal team is prepared to ask the European Court of Human Rights to intervene. But his supporters fear Assange could be transferred before the court in Strasbourg, France, could halt his removal.
Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson may also postpone issuing a decision.
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If Assange loses in court, he still may have another shot at freedom.
Biden said last month that he was considering a request from Australia to drop the case and let Assange return to his home country.
Officials provided no other details but Stella Assange said it was “a good sign” and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the comment was encouraging.
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