Texas man sent to jail because of overdue library book

If you check a book out in Copperas Cove, Texas, you best make darn sure you return it. Failure to do so could result in a trip to the big house.

Jory Enck learned that the hard way when he was recently arrested over a book, a GED study guide, that he checked out and failed to return three years ago, KEYE reports.

The city ordinance was passed because some patrons weren’t responding to requests to return their library materials. “The reason they passed it was that they were spending a tremendous amount of money replacing these materials that people just didn’t return,” Bill Price, the city’s municipal judge, told KEYE.

Enck was released on a $200 bond.

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