What does it matter if it was any book or not
That guy wasn't just any guy. I'm sure his life was more valuable than any book. You really can't put a book above someone's life.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:38, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Unfortunately, in British law
property is valued above human life, acocrding to some ex copper on the radio this morning.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:40, Reply)

It's very sad
There's something wrong with us and our laws, if we can't change something so obviously wrong.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:47, Reply)

I fucking can, you know.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:40, Reply)

Tell that to the bible/koran/blah blah

(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:40, Reply)

But there's millions of humans and only one of that book.

( girlinthehole, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:41, Reply)

No, there are about thirty copies of that book.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:43, Reply)

Well there's billions of humans so her point is still valid.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:46, Reply)

I do apreciate that the odds don't change much with that few copies.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:47, Reply)

Fucking hell!
Stop the internet, Chompy just agreed with Blousey.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

There are thousands if not more, of copies of that book
There is only of that one, that exactly, that only book.

There was one of that exactly, that only human being. There are not even copies of him anymore.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

There are not thousands of copies of the first folio.
Only 1000 were ever printed, and only between 230-240 still exist - and each one is individual from the next, which is how they proved that the book that was stolen was the one from Durham.

I'm not saying that a book is worth more than a life, far from it, by the way, but I am saying that the sentence given to the man for defacing a part of British (and literary) history for personal gain is bang on.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 12:22, Reply)

I would happily trade the lives of
'Jobless mum-of-eight Theresa Bystram, 45, and her three teenage sons' for that book. No question.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:46, Reply)

I'd trade them for a dog-eared copy of 'Where's Wally?'
That some Downs Syndrome kid had defaced with crayon.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

^This.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I would happily trade the lives of, etc
for a decent ham sandwich right about now, but I seriously doubt their collective worth is sufficiently high
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

too fucking right
I'd trade her life for any of the books in my collection.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:48, Reply)

So would I
But I would make he read it all out loud, before letting her drop.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:49, Reply)

you'd be there all fucking year
maybe start with the Hungry Caterpillar instead
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Ok,
I'll hook the trap door to a computer already programmed with the complete works, and if she stops reciting or makes a mistake, the computer trips the trap door, and then sends me an E-mail.

I can be at home with my feet up watching Dave or having a wank while I wait.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:54, Reply)

Don't forget you are talking to social retards who only know one or two people but have many books.
So of course they value books more highly than humans.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:42, Reply)

I think you're talking sense there
You have to be retard to value a book, any book, above a life.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:49, Reply)

Erm,... I have many more books than friends myself.
Three books in fact.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:56, Reply)

That's a lot of friends
if you have 2.

I have more books than friends myself, but then I love reading.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 3 Aug 2010, 10:59, Reply)