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   If you're planning to hide out in the library to burn books after hours, make sure you have an escape route so you don't have to call 9-1-1 after you light them

24 May 2012 02:54 PM   |   4793 clicks   |   610 WIOD
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Somacandra    [TotalFark]  
Looked over the various postings of AP copy. Can't find the names of the books he torched.

24 May 2012 12:20 PM
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Apos     
Who informed this genius that a literal re-enactment of Fahrenheit 451 was a good idea?!

24 May 2012 12:26 PM
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Vodka Zombie     
Let me guess, god-clotted idiot?

I ask because, JESUS!

24 May 2012 12:34 PM
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The Stealth Hippopotamus    [TotalFark]  
If only there was a place you could go to look up how to do things....

24 May 2012 12:38 PM
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I_Am_Weasel    [TotalFark]  
Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

24 May 2012 01:35 PM
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Lukeonia1    [TotalFark]  
Somacandra: Looked over the various postings of AP copy. Can't find the names of the books he torched.

I was going to say, what were the titles? Reporter, I am disappoint.

24 May 2012 01:42 PM
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Dee Snarl     
I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"


Damn you.

24 May 2012 02:55 PM
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TravisBickle62     
Throw the book at him.

24 May 2012 02:57 PM
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MBooda     
Apos: Who informed this genius that a literal re-enactment of Fahrenheit 451 was a good idea?!

Aw c'mon. Escape routes are for wussies.
static.guim.co.uk

24 May 2012 02:59 PM
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malkore     
Glad to see this got green-lit, but my headline was better. The link I sent including a winner of a mug-shot...he looked stoned, big time.

24 May 2012 03:00 PM
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LowbrowDeluxe     
Don't care if he was a Catholic burning "Everybody Poops", an evangelical burning the entire YA section, or a neo-fascist camouflaged as a liberal burning the Left Behind series as the abomination to literature that it is...

The only thing the authorities should have done in this case is put out the fire in the Library then take him out somewhere else and set him back on fire.

24 May 2012 03:00 PM
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Mantour     
img294.imageshack.us

24 May 2012 03:00 PM
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PonceAlyosha     
Damn it but they don't say what three books! What if it ends up being important later?

24 May 2012 03:02 PM
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lewismarktwo     
i45.tinypic.com

24 May 2012 03:04 PM
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Linkster    [TotalFark]  
The books titles are most likely being withheld as evidence and not to pee into the jury pool.

24 May 2012 03:04 PM
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Millennium     
PonceAlyosha: Damn it but they don't say what three books! What if it ends up being important later?

I don't know how likely it is to be important at any future point, but I've got to admit: I'm curious.

24 May 2012 03:05 PM
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rolladuck     
malkore: Glad to see this got green-lit, but my headline was better. The link I sent including a winner of a mug-shot...he looked stoned, big time.

Share the love?

24 May 2012 03:06 PM
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LeroyBourne    [TotalFark]  
ts2.mm.bing.net
it's real?

24 May 2012 03:07 PM
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CliChe Guevara     
I am wondering if it was a run-of -the-mill lunatic hung up on some random delusion completely removed from reality, or whether he was a dittohead/christian nationalist with a larger religious/social agenda.

/yes, i am well aware of the irony that the two groups are becoming very hard to distinguish apart.

24 May 2012 03:08 PM
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Sybarite    [TotalFark]  
PonceAlyosha: Damn it but they don't say what three books! What if it ends up being important later?


The Fire This Time, The Great Escape, and Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' for some odd reason.

24 May 2012 03:09 PM
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rolladuck     
From a safety perspective, I am a little concerned that it is possible to have a public building locked down such that it is impossible for someone inside to get out in the event of a fire. Are they concerned that people are going to pilfer the place and that they can't allow the panic bars to open the doors? Or was this guy just an epic world-class failure as a human?

24 May 2012 03:10 PM
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thaduke     
Dee Snarl: I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

Damn you.


s10.postimage.org

24 May 2012 03:10 PM
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dandude23     
Looks like he got all heated over the books

24 May 2012 03:12 PM
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treecologist     
What kind of idiot(s) keep so much flammable stuff all in one place anyway?

It's like they were asking for it.

24 May 2012 03:12 PM
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KidKorporate     
If this was done for religious/conservative reasons other than just being straight up insane, I'd absolutely no problem with putting a bullet in that cocksucker's head. This shiat has to stop.

24 May 2012 03:13 PM
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xxmedium    [TotalFark]  
"We the jury find the defendant not guilty on all charges."

www.vanillajoy.com

24 May 2012 03:13 PM
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Galileo's Daughter     
thaduke: Dee Snarl: I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

Damn you.

[s10.postimage.org image 425x309]


"Goose-stepping morons such as yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!"

24 May 2012 03:13 PM
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roadmarks     
rolladuck: From a safety perspective, I am a little concerned that it is possible to have a public building locked down such that it is impossible for someone inside to get out in the event of a fire. Are they concerned that people are going to pilfer the place and that they can't allow the panic bars to open the doors? Or was this guy just an epic world-class failure as a human?

Well, according to another article:
"After he was arrested, Hughes asked to talk to former President George W. Bush, saying he wanted his favorite president to know he was in trouble."

Seems pretty clear that it is the latter.

/PA building codes for educational institutes require exits that are usable 24/7

24 May 2012 03:14 PM
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ZMugg     
thaduke: Dee Snarl: I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

Damn you.

[s10.postimage.org image 425x309]


3 min. too late.

*Shakes tiny fist.*

Same picture too.

24 May 2012 03:14 PM
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blatz514    [TotalFark]  
He was just burning the ones that had "pee pee" and "wee wee" written on them.

24 May 2012 03:17 PM
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ZMugg     
Galileo's Daughter: thaduke: Dee Snarl: I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

Damn you.

[s10.postimage.org image 425x309]

"Gooshe-shtepping morons such as yourshelf should try reading booksh instead of baerning them!"


FTFM

24 May 2012 03:18 PM
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thaduke     
ZMugg: thaduke: Dee Snarl: I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

Damn you.

[s10.postimage.org image 425x309]

3 min. too late.

*Shakes tiny fist.*

Same picture too.


You stood up to be counted with the enemy of everything the Grail stands for - who gives a DAMN what you think?!

24 May 2012 03:18 PM
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MBooda     
I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

All
the books, Montag?
thepinksmoke.com

/wondering about subby's headline. So this doesn't apply if you're burning books during the library's regular business hours?

24 May 2012 03:20 PM
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MattyBlast    [TotalFark]  
At least he is not a book-burner, you Nazi cow.

24 May 2012 03:22 PM
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Bruce Springsteen's Next Tour Stop     
Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
I'm on fire
Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
I'm on fire

/Oblig.

24 May 2012 03:36 PM
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Ed Grubermann    [TotalFark]  
KidKorporate: If this was done for religious/conservative reasons other than just being straight up insane, I'd absolutely no problem with putting a bullet in that cocksucker's head. This shiat has to stop.

Well, people should only burn books they own. Destroying other people's property is wrong. As for burning books, unless it's a one-of-a-kind, it's pointless in the era of mass produced books.

24 May 2012 03:44 PM
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ZMugg     
thaduke: ZMugg: thaduke: Dee Snarl: I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

Damn you.

[s10.postimage.org image 425x309]

3 min. too late.

*Shakes tiny fist.*

Same picture too.

You stood up to be counted with the enemy of everything the Grail stands for - who gives a DAMN what you think?!


My Mom? I'll ask her.

If I can pry you off her for 2 damn minutes

the trollop

24 May 2012 03:48 PM
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NullReferenceException     
Obligatory:
imgs.xkcd.com

24 May 2012 03:49 PM
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KidKorporate     
Ed Grubermann: KidKorporate: If this was done for religious/conservative reasons other than just being straight up insane, I'd absolutely no problem with putting a bullet in that cocksucker's head. This shiat has to stop.

Well, people should only burn books they own. Destroying other people's property is wrong. As for burning books, unless it's a one-of-a-kind, it's pointless in the era of mass produced books.


Pointless, absolutely. To me that just underlines the outmoded non-think that must be erased from our species' collective memory if we are to save ourselves from ourselves.

24 May 2012 03:51 PM
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thaduke     
ZMugg: thaduke: ZMugg: thaduke: Dee Snarl: I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

Damn you.

[s10.postimage.org image 425x309]

3 min. too late.

*Shakes tiny fist.*

Same picture too.

You stood up to be counted with the enemy of everything the Grail stands for - who gives a DAMN what you think?!

My Mom? I'll ask her.

If I can pry you off her for 2 damn minutes

the trollop


I was setting you up for 'You do!'. But now everything's ruined forever.

24 May 2012 03:57 PM
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kisseswookies     
Sigh. I weep for the future. I'll never forget when I was in high school, sitting reading a book in my free time, one guy felt it necessary to mock my extracurricular activity... People are encouraged to not think anymore.

/why no, he didn't graduate.

24 May 2012 04:04 PM
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Millennium     
rolladuck: From a safety perspective, I am a little concerned that it is possible to have a public building locked down such that it is impossible for someone inside to get out in the event of a fire. Are they concerned that people are going to pilfer the place and that they can't allow the panic bars to open the doors? Or was this guy just an epic world-class failure as a human?

Well, we do need to have something to keep looters and other such unsavory types out of burning public buildings. I'm thinking something obvious; something big and brightthat would severely injure people who went in. You know, like maybe, say, a fire.

24 May 2012 04:09 PM
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Mock26     
What books did he burn?

24 May 2012 04:10 PM
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ZMugg     
thaduke: ZMugg: thaduke: ZMugg: thaduke: Dee Snarl: I_Am_Weasel: Is there where you say...

"You know who else liked to burn books...?"

Damn you.

[s10.postimage.org image 425x309]

3 min. too late.

*Shakes tiny fist.*

Same picture too.

You stood up to be counted with the enemy of everything the Grail stands for - who gives a DAMN what you think?!

My Mom? I'll ask her.

If I can pry you off her for 2 damn minutes

the trollop

I was setting you up for 'You do!'. But now everything's ruined forever.


But...but that was HER line.

Not a 'her'.

Didn't think of it.

Sorry.

24 May 2012 04:11 PM
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Doink_Boink     
Fark THAT story, missing the best part is not acceptable!

24 May 2012 04:14 PM
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thismomentinblackhistory    [TotalFark]  
malkore: Glad to see this got green-lit, but my headline was better. The link I sent including a winner of a mug-shot...he looked stoned, big time.

Cool story, bro.

24 May 2012 04:40 PM
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CliChe Guevara     
KidKorporate: If this was done for religious/conservative reasons other than just being straight up insane, I'd absolutely no problem with putting a bullet in that cocksucker's head. This shiat has to stop.

From another article:
"After he was arrested, Hughes asked to talk to former President George W. Bush, saying he wanted his favorite president to know he was in trouble."

I think a bullet in the head is a pretty safe bet here.

/My only question is whether he asked for his phone call to be to Rush or Hannity

24 May 2012 04:46 PM
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HairBolus     

Better article at Journal Star:

bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com

Police say a 25-year-old man tried to burn down the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Love Library North on Wednesday morning.
...
Police said Hughes called 911 because he couldn't find an exit after the fire started.
Evans did not know which books burned, but he said the fire did not spread to anything else and the library was not damaged.
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After he was arrested, Hughes asked to talk to former President George W. Bush, saying he wanted his favorite president to know he was in trouble.
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Prosecutor Nicholas Freeman said he was charged Wednesday afternoon with first-degree arson because he knew there were people in the library.

24 May 2012 05:05 PM
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malkore     
Yep, my submission used the Journal Star article because it included the mugshot...where he looks stoned as stoned can be.

/naw its probably just allergies
//that's my alma mater
///slash

24 May 2012 06:09 PM
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Galileo's Daughter     
Mock26: What books did he burn?

If he burned any portion of the Twilight Saga, he should be applauded.

24 May 2012 06:12 PM
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