...in the case of the Michigan miscreant who, as I reported here back in August, went to extremes in order to hook into an open public library network and access That Which Should Not Be Accessed.
And it seems as though it could have dropped a little harder, if you ask me. Just six months, and only on a state charge? Where are the feds? Well, if the stuff really didn't cross state lines, here's hoping that the unnamed party of the second part-the creator of the downloaded material-is promptly reeled in and given a much more appropriate sentence.
While we're on the subject of libraries and yucky stuff, I thought I'd note in passing this item from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Curious how they wait until the third-from-last paragraph to point out that the patron in question might have been using a laptop and therefore possibly could have been on the Wi-Fi, which, of course, means that the library's ability to do anything about the situation would have been limited in that the computer wasn't one they owned or managed. And has it dawned on anyone out there that if the patron was using a laptop, he may have brought the questionable material into the library with him to start with?
Finally, why do so many of these my-kid-got-porned-in-the-library stories fall into the category of second-hand after-the-fact reports? At some point, you've got to wonder.
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