[ElDiabloJoe]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

A few years ago I was acquainted with a woman in her 60s who was a librarian in Laguna Beach, CA. The verbal abuse and threatening gestures from homeless bums she was forced to endure daily were awful. Apparently the police could not or would not patrol the library or intervene as the bums had their"rights" although she apparently had none. She was close to retirement so could not just quit.

Public libraries in many cities have become for their legitimate users distasteful at best and dangerous at worst as alcoholic, druggie, filthy, stinking criminal homeless bums are allowed to spend their days lounging around on the couches sleeping it off inside. I would not dare enter the bathrooms of a public library in many communities today. When I was a child my mother took me at least weekly to the town's public library. I always felt safe there and never saw a vagrant (as they were called in those days) hanging around. How did it come to this?

I have been to that library, several times. It's on Glenneyre. I used to park in the adjacent two-story structure for my training runs up to "Top of the World." I would jump into the library pre-run to use their bathroom.

I have seen first-hand that which your librarian friend complained about.