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A centuries-old Matthew-Tyndale Bible.
One nice thing about having my eldest son home for the holidays is that he’s a fount of quirky web site knowledge. He showed me this article where I learned that the Bible is the most frequently shoplifted book.
“…But perhaps the most intriguing bookworm of all is the bibliokleptomaniac, or what we like to call the kleptobrainiac. These people are book thieves, the nerdiest outlaws this side of Hogwarts…”
Also ranking high on the list of purloined books:The Virgin Suicides, The Naked Lunch and On the Road.
Who steals books? “It’s mostly younger men stealing the books,” he told Rabb, “They think it’s an existential rite of passage to steal their homeboy.”
Feel free to purge your conscience before the start of the of the New Year. Have you ever shoplifted anything? If so, what?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Cabbage Boy on December 30 at 1:09 p.m.
Regretfully I was not always the saint I am now. :)
spokelooneh on December 30 at 1:23 p.m.
Yeah I nabbed a copy of Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book”.
nic on December 30 at 1:33 p.m.
Never shoplifted… but I have caught shoplifters. (I’ve shared one of those stories here before) I blame my parents strict fear of eternal damnation for my saintly youthful days.
Bent on December 30 at 1:55 p.m.
I tried to shoplift a pack of gum at Hanks corner store on Best Avenue when I was in the 4th grade… i got so nervous my ankles started popping when I walked, so i turned around and put the gum back and looked at Hank behind the counter to see if he noticed…he did. When I left he chuckled and said ..”you aint got it in ya, boy…” After that, I never tried it again…