Rules That Were Supposed to Help But Ended up a Big Fail

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The Library Showdown

At our highschool, the library was one of the main places to hang out during a free period. It was common for kids to ‘book’ each other. ‘Booking’ was a prank where you would sneak a random library book into someone’s bag and watch as the RFID tag in the book triggered the alarm when the person tried to leave. It always caused a big commotion.

In order to combat the booking situation, the librarians implemented stricter and stricter policies. When the alarm went off, they started blocking the exit to all students until the offending book was located. This made tons of innocent bystanders late for class but only encouraged more and more bookings. Then they made it so that if you were the victim of a booking, you got an automatic detention. But of course, this only encouraged people to book each other even more! At the height of it, kids were self-booking, kamikaze style, then making big displays of annoyance at getting detention for not even doing anything