Man Avoids $12,055 Fee by Returning 132-Year-Old Magazine
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New Hampshire man dodges $12k fine after returning magazine to library 132 years la
Anyone who regularly uses a library will have been hit by a late fee at some point. Usually it’s just a couple of bucks, but occasionally you find a book that’s fallen down the back of the sofa that librarians have been hunting for for the best part of a year that’s amassed maybe $50 in fines. Eek. So spare a thought for New Hampshire man John Hanson, 84, who discovered the September 1894 issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in his …
John Hanson returned to a library in New Hampshire an 1894 magazine that was 132 years late and avoided a $12,055 fine. The man does not know how it came into his hands.
John Hanson, a resident of the US state of New Hampshire, suddenly became a media hero after he returned an issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, taken more than a century ago, to the library. If the institution continued to charge late fees, the 84-year-old man would have to pay $12,055, writes the New York Post.Read more...
A 84-year-old man returned a magazine from 1894 to Concord Public Library, avoiding a $12.055 fine thanks to the freezing of tariffs
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