Last year I had someone bring back a couple of library books she’d found when moving house. They were books she had borrowed for a high school project and she is now in her mid twenties.
This guy leaves her for dead:
Thomas McArdle did a naughty thing 74 years ago. As a sixth grader at Chestnut Street Elementary School in Scottdale, PA, he checked out Laura Orvieto’s The Birth of Rome to complete a class assignment—and he never gave it back.
via School Library Book Returned 73 Years Overdue – 1/7/2010 – School Library Journal.
Wow. Great link. At least he finally gave it back… Gus Hasford, author of _The Short-Timers_ (which Kubrick adapted into _Full Metal Jacket_), apparently had a bit more severe library problem than accidentally forgetting to return an overdue book:
http://www.gustavhasford.com/killing.htm
You’re right. He seemed to have some serious library issues.