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Hanging’s Too Good For Him
I’ve been deeply opposed to capital punishment since I was 14. Well, no more, pal.
A book bandit who checked out hundreds of books and DVDs from area libraries and then sold them online will be going to prison.
Thomas Pilaar, 34, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $53,549 in restitution. He pleaded guilty to theft in May.
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Denver Public Library last year estimated its losses at $35,000, while Douglas County reported that Pilaar had $11,000 worth of overdue materials, mostly pricey coffee-table books and DVDs.
We could spend a lot of time and burn many synapses trying to come up with appropriately vicious and agonizing punishments for this man, but why bother? The monks at the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona did all the heavy lifting for us long ago:
The Curse Against Book Stealers
“For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a Serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no Surcease to his Agony till he sink to Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goes to his final Punishment let the flames of Hell consume him forever and aye.”
Damn, those dudes were not kidding around.
