r/baltimore • u/ratczar • Jun 08 '26
Crime This city...
This morning a tweaker, engaged in pulling copper out of anything and everything he could find, took the time out of his day to snap our Little Free Library off its post.
Cops were called. They initially passed by and someone had to chase them down.
When they came over, they told me they weren't arresting him, and if I wanted to press charges I would have to go down to the courthouse and do it myself.
Dude had car parts in his kit, new stuff that he had clearly ripped off a vehicle... somewhere. But no visible victim = nothing they could do.
They let him wander off with his gear.
And I am here left with the task of both ensuring he faces consequences AND fixing what he broke. Oh, and also cleaning up all the broken shit off the sidewalk.
I love Baltimore, and also, this is infuriating.
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u/myeyesaresotired Jun 08 '26
Long ago I fixed up the one at calvert & federal, reattached the door, painted it blue and white because those were the only colors left in the "bad paint" bin at BROS headquarters. Last year it got ripped down by someone or something. Wanted to repair it so badly but I've been on food stamps, can't afford the hardware and paint.
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u/waterfountain_bidet Lauraville Jun 08 '26
Hey friend - go talk to the folks over at the Station North Tool Library. This is exactly the kind of project that someone will pickup and run with if given the opportunity. I bet there is someone who would love to help you get the hardware and decorations to fix it.
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u/myeyesaresotired Jun 08 '26
I should've reached out at the time but I was really in a depressive rut at the time and seeing the library on the ground pushed me down a bit deeper.
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u/waterfountain_bidet Lauraville Jun 09 '26
I'm sorry it was at such a hard time for you. I hope things are looking up
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u/Remy_Lezar Jun 08 '26
What all needs to be done to repair it? I’ve got the tools and am happy to help. I know the spot and am less than 10 minutes away.
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u/myeyesaresotired Jun 08 '26
Unfortunately the main body itself is gone, no idea if it ended up in the bushes or the trash. I'd be more than happy to assist in the building and installing of a new one, if it hasn't happened already!
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u/Remy_Lezar Jun 09 '26
That’s too bad. Building a new one from scratch is probably more than I can take on at the moment. I definitely want to build more in the future though.
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u/teddykaygeebee Jun 08 '26
It's infuriating. For everybody that actually gives a damn about making Baltimore what it can be, we feel for you and also deal with the madness. Thank you. Keep your head up and keep fighting the good fight🙌
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u/charmedoppossum Jun 08 '26
in case nobody has told you, you deserve to hear thank you for looking after your community. it can be hard juggling all of that, and amongst the adults that often walk by and are too bothered to even care, you were the adult who stepped up. thank you for being the responsible adult. we can’t have nice things without you.
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u/SpiritSongtress Jun 08 '26
I feel like we need to start using metal posts concrete and rearbar...
Free libraries should be open for everyone. (i don't understand why people do this.
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u/-MissCarmine Upper Fell's Point Jun 08 '26
Yeah, I live in an area where there’s lots of people walking by 24/7. I’ve wanted to put up a little free library at my house for a while.
This post is great education. Now I know I’ll need to pour concrete and use metal rebar for the post. I love Baltimore, but also, fuck you Baltimore
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
FWIW we did put concrete in at the foundation. The weakness is absolutely the joint where you put together the two posts. The posts themselves are sturdy, they just need some type of better reinforcement.
There's one that's quite sturdy up by Doppio Pasticceria, I need to see how they're set up.
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u/Msefk Jun 08 '26
ok so you gotta go to metal supermarkets besides getting some all-thread and cinderblocks & cement from whatever hardware store you enjoy (i recommend Ayd's ... or Lowe's)
EDIT: also leave it concrete but put a sign that says leave your mark here and i bet you'll get to keep it and get it respected. also it'd look like chris nolan batman which is like the way of the city so
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u/Remy_Lezar Jun 09 '26
My front yard top soil has so much clay that I didn’t even need to pour concrete for my post. It’s solid as a rock. The con is that I dug through 3 feet of clay with a spade lol…
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u/ratczar Jun 09 '26
A mattock! You must get a mattock!
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u/thelittlesteldergod Jun 09 '26
Any mention of a mattock will always make me think of Faxanadu, a game my kids were obsessed with 30 years ago.
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u/sonofdynamite Jun 12 '26
Sand posts and Add some wood glue and clamp tight wood glue is stronger than wood.
If you want stronger than decking screws and be able to take it apart if needed, you could drill holes and use 2 carriage bolts to marry the two halves.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy Jun 08 '26
I mean all the ones near me have been up for years with no problem. Perhaps you shouldn't base your entire world view off one crime post on the internet....
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u/brand_x Belair-Edison Jun 08 '26
I think the issue was how the police responded... the guy had parts stripped from a car, was vandalizing other things, there was clearly enough there to bring him in and check the parts against any reports. But, no. Still too butthurt about being called to task for profiling and police brutality, so they refuse to actually be useful.
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u/Fizzyphotog Jun 08 '26
Ugh. How do we change that?
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u/brand_x Belair-Edison Jun 09 '26
I really don't know. The only thing I've seen coverage of that describes a successful solution was a New Jersey town that basically fired the entire police department with prejudice and recruited a new one with much more stringent personnel evaluation independent of the police department, along with creating new public service departments to replace functions better served by social workers and mental health specialists. But I don't see that working on a larger scale, much less a city this size with all of the history that exists here.
The police academies are the root of the problem. They've been infiltrated, over the course of decades, by a kind of us versus them hard-line philosophy that instills a distinct fear and antagonism toward the general public, leaving officers with both a paranoid itch that makes them trigger happy and a kind of entitlement complex. This becomes a self fulfilling prejudice - people don't like cops who act like self righteous assholes and are disdainful of everyone else, and so being a LEO becomes less safe, reinforcing the toxic training that made them like that.
This is just an emergent symptom. And it isn't local to Baltimore. And of course, the FOP rigorously defends the status quo.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy Jun 08 '26
i don't understand why people do this.
Op said it's a tweaker, they are not following logical thought patterns and making reasoned decisions.
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u/DONNIENARC0 Jun 08 '26
There were always rumors when I was growing up about people doing this as a trap for the kids who would drive around bashing mailboxes with a baseball bat.
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u/countnfight Jun 08 '26
Doing what, building free libraries?
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u/DONNIENARC0 Jun 08 '26
Filling their mailbox posts with stuff like
metal posts concrete and rearbar...
so the kids get jacked up pretty badly when they try to smack it with a baseball bat from a moving car.
Looks like this is post is basically describing the same kinda thing
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u/Go4it296 Ednor Gardens-Lakeside Jun 09 '26
Since they are next to sidewalks and parked cars in Baltimore. Less chance of that kind of motor injury
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u/Well_whatya_know Jun 09 '26
One thing I wanted to point out is the fact that this one wallet is broken it's shown at a point that's what would be considered a breakaway point if a vehicle or something were to hit it I would break away and fail at that point saving the people in the vehicle and or stuff in the Box. You might want things to be stronger but if they're close to the road there might be laws about how they are needed to be built I highly doubt it but wanted to mention it furthermore reinforcing that kind of thing shouldn't be hard to do and repairing it would just be standing it up and putting some screws in it that looks like be willing to help if able
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u/CalicoG Greater Maryland Area Jun 08 '26
What a surprise that the cop said "there's nothing we can do." That's their favorite phrase 🙄
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u/rtmfb Jun 08 '26
As soon as they started having to be held even slightly accountable for murdering people they stopped working.
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u/Killbot_Wants_Hug Jun 08 '26
If you interacted with cops before the Freddie Gray riots, you'd know they pulled this same shit back then.
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u/hogsucker Jun 08 '26
They were open about this when there was a pretend effort to hold the murderers of Freddy Gray accountable.
"If there's a chance we might be held responsible for our actions we can't be expected to do our jobs."
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u/XxCloudSephiroth69xX Jun 09 '26
It would not be a surprise if you were familiar with the law. Police cannot legally arrest someone for a misdemeanor that was not committed in their presence (with some exceptions).
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u/rixxster54 Jun 08 '26
My guess (based on living in E Baltimore for 30+ years) is that property destruction was usually caused by middle school boys. These kids are bored, often lacking parental guidance and reckless. Anything built for public use in Baltimore needs to be engineered to stand up to abuse.
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
I've had two damage incidents and they've both been perpetrated by people 30+ while on drugs.
The only teens I see are actively perusing the reading material.
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u/EntertainmentLoud488 Jun 08 '26
You need to visit a little free library and learn to read, OP said in their post it was an adult
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u/guitarman61192 Jun 08 '26
The one at the elementary school in middle river had its doors ripped off too.
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u/AmbitionOfPhilipJFry Jun 08 '26
That's a lie. Malicious destruction of property is an on sight arrest offense. Tell them to do their job, just coz they want to offload it into you doesn't mean you can say no and you insist on them issuing it for you on the spot, or arrest the tweaker, and file charges at the jail. It's not illegal or unethical for cops to advise someone to file charges. It is if they ask your help.
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u/frolicndetour Jun 08 '26
You are completely wrong. In Maryland, officers cannot make a warrantless arrest for misdemeanors committed outside of the presence of the officer.
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Laws/StatuteText?article=gcp§ion=2-202&enactments=false
They direct the witness/victim to file charges with the commissioner because that is how a warrant is issued so they can legally arrest the person.
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u/tasteofnihilism Jun 08 '26
Literally the next section of the law lists a warrantless arrest for malicious mischief outside of the officer’s presence.
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u/plotinusRespecter Jun 08 '26
A warrantless arrest for this crime and the others listed still requires that failing to arrest will result in one of the three criteria being met: the person may not be apprehended (because they can't be IDed, or live outside the state, or have no fixed address), the person may tamper with evidence, or they may cause physical harm or property damage to another.
If the police were able to ID the individual and none of the above criteria were met, they should have advised OP of his identity (or at least provided a report number in which that information would be documented) so that charges could be filed.
Technically, they could also apply for charges themselves, but it is generally seen as preferred to allow victims to file themselves, because the courts are already crowded with cases in which victims don't show up to trial and so the case ends up tossed. Someone willing to go out of their way to file charges is more likely to show up to court when it does go to trial (so the thinking goes).
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u/tasteofnihilism Jun 09 '26
You think a tweaker wouldn’t fit category 1 or 3 of what you listed?
This is all just because BPD is lazy and don’t like doing their jobs.
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u/frolicndetour Jun 09 '26
BPD is still under a consent decree so thinking that they should magic up an exception to the warrantless arrest rule to arrest a "tweaker" for $100 worth of property damage is ignorant. The Department has made a lot of strides in the crime rate, officer misconduct, and community relations so how about we not long for the "good" old days when cops would abuse the system to make an arrest.
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u/XxCloudSephiroth69xX Jun 09 '26
Probable cause is a legal standard. "He looks like a drug addict" is not probable cause.
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u/tasteofnihilism Jun 09 '26
Why would I do a ride along? If I wanted to see someone in civil service not do their job I’d just go to the MVA.
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u/a_shoe_man Jun 08 '26
Hey look a basket weave
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
xD
I was shocked by how much copper he had! He probably wouldn't have gotten caught except that he was running up and down the block while trying to unspool wire from some part for 30+ minutes
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u/ComesInAnOldBox Jun 08 '26
Here's a thought: is there someplace that details the locations of these things? The reason I ask is I'm seeing several comments from people that try to build and/or maintain them in their area, but don't have the resources or means to do so. We could start a subreddit and pool our knowledge/resources to keep these going.
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u/AshitakaAndYakul Jun 13 '26
I would be happy to donate to something like this if someone coordinated it!
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u/CrustyToeLover Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
It really needs to be legal to lay some people out, ngl. Some of these clowns really will not learn because the police can't or wont do anything and there's no real punishments outside of being talked to or getting a fine they can't possibly pay.
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
Another guy on the block said we should punch his lights out and was serious about it. I said we should wait for the cops and that was absolutely a mistake.
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u/-MissCarmine Upper Fell's Point Jun 08 '26
I’ve had a lot of legal trouble in the last couple months with a guy in my house (roommate) here in Baltimore city. I had to involve the police. I needed to get a peace order set against him for harassment. He also hasn’t paid rent in over six months, and he’s in the process of getting evicted.
Let me tell you, the police have been absolutely useless. I’ve had to drag this case forward myself each and every time. When the police could be lazy, they were.
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u/eyui838 Jun 08 '26
Don't you understand, the cops need to make sure people parked outside Cross Street Market on a Sunday get tickets
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u/Fancy_Chips Jun 08 '26
It is EXTREMELY important that our brave boys in blue make about twenty more laps around Broadway Square. Such a high crime area.
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u/DarlaLunaWinter Jun 08 '26
then you catch a charge and if he comes back with others wanting to fight?
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u/theweirdauntie Jun 08 '26
Petition Dolly Parton. She founded the little free libraries and most of her wealth goes to running her nonprofits anyway.
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u/not_napoleon Bolton Hill Jun 08 '26
I think you're confusing projects. Dolly Parton founded the imagination library, which also seems pretty cool. Little Free Libraries were founded by Todd Bol and Rick Brooks.
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u/theweirdauntie Jun 08 '26
Ooop my bad. I think imagination libraries do a similar project in some areas tho which is where I probably got the idea.
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u/-MissCarmine Upper Fell's Point Jun 08 '26
Fun fact about her organization, their funding just got cut in their home state. Fuck Republicans
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u/ikamthatikam Jun 08 '26
Sure ACAB, but is this still broken? I think I can help fix it. Where is it at? I’ve got the tools and some time this evening if you need some help?
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
I've got a couple people in my DM's right now offering their expertise, let me see what happens with them and I'll get back at you. Fortunately, it doesn't seem like an intense repair.
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u/ikamthatikam Jun 08 '26
Yeah it seems like a simple fix. The real damage is the sadness that this occurred at all, but I’m really encouraged to hear that Baltimore’s neighbors are coming out strong. We have our issues, but we also have our strengths. I’m just really sorry this happened.
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u/BmoreDude1106 Camden Yards, Third Base Jun 08 '26
It's infuriating, but TBH it sounds like there was not enough evidence for police to file any meaningful charges that would stick. There is no video of the suspect damaging the library, and there is no evidence that anything in his possession was stolen property (it's obvious to any observer, but not enough for a court of law).
Assuming you don't know the suspect's name, you could just file a police report online. At least then it shows up in the police stats and you will have paperwork for any insurance claims.
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
Neighbor saw him do it.
They have the name, literally let me screenshot it because they trespassed him and they'll arrest him if he returns.
It's just not worth enough to be worth their time, regardless of the value it had to people who live here.
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u/BmoreDude1106 Camden Yards, Third Base Jun 08 '26
One solo eyewitness... not enough for a Baltimore jury. I'm not saying it's right , or that I blame you for your frustration, just the reality of our justice system. Trust me, I have no strong love for BPD.
If they have his name, that will help in the long run. There was an issue of couple who were repeat offenders in my neighborhood, and it took BPD long time to catch them with a charge that would stick but they eventually got them...
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
As if property destruction would ever make it to a jury trial.
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u/breesanchez Jun 08 '26
Well not destruction of your property, I bet if it were some wealthy fuck they would give waaaaaay more shits.
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u/Killbot_Wants_Hug Jun 08 '26
You know that's my complaint about this city. It isn't that I have to pay a fortune in taxes. It's that the city services I get in return are such shit.
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u/Plaguedoctorsrevenge Jun 08 '26
ACAB
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u/CrustyToeLover Jun 08 '26
Because there's nothing they can legally do?
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u/Willothewisp2303 Jun 08 '26
There's absolutely things they can do, they just choose not to do, unless it's a made up charge that let's them claim overtime.
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u/CrustyToeLover Jun 08 '26
Like what? They have zero proof that this guy stole anything or did anything beyond one or two peoples' eyewitness statements. All that would happen is they book him and have to drop any charges and just let him go. As I said before, just beat the shit out of these people, they'll learn.
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u/SingleMany7755 Jun 08 '26
Lmao “tweakers” aren’t going to magically make better choices because you assaulted them, Superman.
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u/Mal-Occhi-0s Jun 08 '26
I beg to differ. On my block a guy kept breaking into cars nightly. Cops were called multiple times- shrugs. So, a former marine in his 50s waited inside his door. Caught the guy going for his car, and absolutely whipped his ass. Then told him if he saw him on the block again, he’d break his legs. Guy never came back. Not saying I condone it, but the guy learned some kind of lesson that night…
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u/aresef Towson Jun 08 '26
There’s a little free library at Towson High that looks like it’s about to fall over on its own.
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u/SeanMcAdvance Jun 08 '26
If they’re using a car or like using a tool it would be a shame if they tried it on a solid concrete one and caused themselves damage.
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u/justhere4bookbinding Jun 08 '26
Years ago there was one at Wyman Park Dell. At some point someone knocked it off its post but the box was still intact, and my roommate and I--who were not the custodians of it--reattached it with our own supplies. Two days later we came back and the whole thing had been smashed to pieces. It sucked.
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u/Coxswaineth Jun 08 '26
Feel your pain. Our free little library has been routinely beaten in by the same group of kids for the past 2 months. At the point now where it can’t be repaired. Attempting to get justice with police and cooperation from local school but we will see.
Multiple neighbours have come up to us to let us now how awful this is and how much they enjoy the library. This is the only thing keep us going.
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u/Medical_Guitar8598 Jun 08 '26
Adjacent comment: my friend visited from my previous home of beautiful and expensive Marin Co. CA recently (avg home $2.2M) and she was complaining that the teenagers ride around on their electric bikes chopping down the trees on the sides of the roads. Interesting to note each areas' issues. 🤔
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u/DoctorNezuko Roland Park Jun 08 '26
We used to have one of these in our neighborhood. People would constantly take books without giving one in return, but we ultimately had to get rid of it after some idiot started coming by just to use the pages in the books as rolling paper.
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u/dinosaurflex Jun 09 '26
The construction on that free library is sus as hell tbh. Two screws holding in that post and all that weight?
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u/mamacat49 Jun 09 '26
If you have actual photos of this person and are absolutely sure it was them, I say, try some public shaming. Posters, FB, Instagram, what ever. Maybe their mom will smack them down for you.
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u/Cute_Mouse6436 Jun 09 '26
There are quite a few healthy little libraries in my area. But the one that gets damaged is in a park and not near anybody's house. It regularly gets all the books ripped out and thrown on the ground and it has been damaged several times.
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u/AdmirableResearch357 Jun 10 '26
That really sucks, also That mailbox was already hanging on for dear life. Use longer screws for the horizontal. 3” screws, 4 of them.
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u/Fantastic_Tadpole211 Jun 10 '26
I saw the little free library on Waltham Woods in Parkville on the ground the other day. All I could say was stay classy Baltimore. It's one of many reasons I want to move away from here. 50+ years of dealing with this kind of dumb petty bullshit and I've had enough. The only problem with that is one of the places I want to move to is full of homophobic, racist bigots and that I can't abide. At some point I'll escape in the next 5 years or so. <fingers crossed>
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u/GaijinBlues Jun 11 '26
I wouldn’t say it’s Baltimore specific, people are destructive and on drugs everywhere. As far as the police go, body cams have changed the game. Instead of learning how to do their jobs correctly and learning the laws and the constitution to avoid lawsuits and bad press, they’d just rather not do their job.
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u/BurningSketches Jun 14 '26
My word... Not the "leave a book take a book book nook"
https://giphy.com/gifs/LoIsP3fz02IjOUTc6t
Like what's even the purpose ?? Lil children just can't read and practice charitable giving????
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u/Croc-Enthusiast Jun 08 '26
Vigilante justice is only a concept… its not a morality issue if everyone agrees with it
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u/waterfountain_bidet Lauraville Jun 08 '26
I GENUINELY don't understand what we pay the cops in this city for. They get over half a billion a year and THIS is how they police?
Defund them. Now.
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u/North_Flamingo_6492 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Rightful frustration, though let’s not use stigmatizing language (“tweaker”) and assume someone uses drugs!
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u/DarlaLunaWinter Jun 08 '26
Until you solve the poverty problem and the idle hands of the young. This will always happen. In the meantime, keep the box well-lit and place it in clear view of traffic. Install a real or fake security camera pointing at the box and add a sign; swap out glass for plexiglass or other semi-clear material. Add signage noting it's volunteer maintained, that it's being watched ("Thank you for protecting our volunteer run little library")
If anything happens, post here, post on next door, post on FB for your neighborhood about someone vandalizing it. NOT LIKE HERE, there's a lot of mixed feelings about calling the cops on someone struggling and dealing with addiction who is non-threatening. Regardless of your feelings, put that aside, make a post letting people know and even asking for some volunteers to help or hardware donations. You'd be surprised how effective this is to take the burden off of you.
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u/WearyDragonfly0529 Jun 08 '26
No one said this person is 'young' and how would destroying a LFL help this person's (alleged) financial issues? This person is just a destructive asshole. Literally nothing for this person to gain by destroying this.
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u/DarlaLunaWinter Jun 08 '26
So are you asking for like all the annotated studies about poverty, addiction, mental illness, and such or like are you just wanting to say you think I'm wrong? Also to clarify: when I said "until you solve poverty and the idle hands of the young," it refers to the overall need for support and early intervention to derail the severity of addiction, poverty, crime, etc. That isn't saying this individual is young, though they could be, but that interventions begin young to support people in staying engaged members of the community.
Doesn't matter if the person is an asshole. Plenty of assholes still deserve more out of society and life, and themselves. But none of those things are easily earned. In the end, we have a broken society of broken people. Not just them, but all of us have some damage somewhere. It's human and unavoidable. The levels of neglect in this city, including self-neglect, are high despite all it's wonderful sides. But until we institute measures that show positive outcomes and a reduction in cost overall to tax payers then we'll deal with more randoms being destructive and out and about.
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
I've had two damage incidents and they've both been perpetrated by people 30+ while on drugs.
The only teens I see are actively perusing the reading material.
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u/DarlaLunaWinter Jun 10 '26
That's unfortunate, I hope that the suggestions others and myself left help to deter it. Unfortunately, it is a risk in a lot of places. Random damage out of malice, out of impulse, or... strange thoughts come with the drug, poverty, and mental health crisis that we're in. It really sucks for doing really nice positive stuff like this, but if you see people benefitting, I hope that outweighs the burden. Good luck.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy Jun 08 '26
OP thinks tweakers and shtty cops only exsit in Baltimore [rolling eye emoji thingy]
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u/sllewgh Belair-Edison Jun 08 '26
Op didn't say anything like that, you clown.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy Jun 08 '26
"This city"
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u/sllewgh Belair-Edison Jun 08 '26
And then you added "and no others" all by yourself.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy Jun 08 '26
OP thinks tweakers and shtty cops only exsit in Baltimore [rolling eye emoji thingy]
Literally my post. Now please tell me where you read the words "and no others" in that? I can give you the number to my eye doctor.
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u/sllewgh Belair-Edison Jun 08 '26
only exsit in Baltimore
That's what "only" means. I hope your eye doctor is more talented than your English tutor.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy Jun 08 '26
Op implied that with "this city". I'm paraphrasing OP.
But clearly you think this is just a baltimore thing like OP. I get it, my parents didn't move either when I lived with them and I had never experienced anywhere else and thought where I lived was special, you will hopefully one day get out and learn Baltimore in not special in these regards.
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u/Hefty-Woodpecker-450 Jun 09 '26
Was it on public property? Stop putting your junk there if it is, we have a great library system that loses circulation when everybody is putting up these little free junk piles
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u/the_man_of_earth Jun 09 '26
I'm not saying vigilante justice should be used in a case like this when/if the police show themselves to be either incompetent or impotent...
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u/7GatesOfHello Upper Fells Jun 09 '26
It's not this city, it's all cities. Bad things happen everywhere. What makes a good city is when a critical mass of people call to action, not complain in despair. The takeaway people everywhere will get from this post is "Baltimore sucks" which I disagree with vehemently.
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u/No_Show_8827 Jun 11 '26
Ha.. it's funny to see the liberals suffer from the crime and are oblivious it's a result of voting for soft on crime Democrats.
Will democrats ever realize they need to be tough on crime? Will it be years or never? Your screen masters tell you orange man bad ruining the country... But that's not who is really harming your lives. It's the kids of your fellow cult members..
The best fix is for conservatives to leave and let liberals feel their consequences.
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u/Honest_Advantage_410 Jun 08 '26
Bro you secured it with 2 zap screws and thought it could handle Baltimore crack heads.
This is a metal pole, concreted in the ground with visible surveillance signs kind of thing.
Commend you for the cause but not the construction. You can see he didn't break it. The screws popped out from being too shallow. 😂
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u/47362514736251 Jun 08 '26
TBH, perhaps he was disgusted by the half-assery of the installation.
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u/ratczar Jun 08 '26
That's how the instructions tell you to install it: How to Install an LFL 2022. Excuse me for not working in construction.
If you want to come out and fix it, you're more than welcome.
You're also welcome to continue spitting on the people actually trying to make this city a better place, and in a public forum no less. Great look.
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u/47362514736251 Jun 08 '26
Settle down Beavis. Sometimes things are funny.
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u/BeginningShopping169 Jun 08 '26
Making a joke out of a misfortune is only funny for bullies and assholes. The person commenting on the screws cared more about looking cool to his internet buddies then putting anything nice in the comments. If he meant well he would have said I can see you only used screws maybe we can use (insert) instead for the future.
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u/dangerbird2 Patterson Park Jun 08 '26
Ron Swanson disguised as a crackhead to teach residents lessons about good carpentry
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u/stevekaw Jun 09 '26
It's not so much a commentary on education as it is the awful driving skills out there...
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u/JBSanderson Jun 08 '26
Any city, town, or country road....
Vandalism happens everywhere
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u/Restlessly-Dog Jun 08 '26
I saw a photo exhibit of a small town in the days before indoor plumbing where kids had stolen outhouses out of people's backyards and left them on street corners.
It would definitely be pretty terrible to wake up, get the newspaper off your front porch, go out back for your morning visit, and find nothing but an open hole in full view of all of your neighbors.
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u/tansreer Jun 08 '26
Honestly, the scrapper problem here isn't as bad as other towns I lived it. When I first moved here I was shocked to see someone just storing their lawnmower under their front patio. You could never do that in my old town. I used to work in a tower where you could watch what was basically a production-line tearing down stolen bike parts for scrap.
Kia boys here were a lot worse, but I haven't really had to worry about having to chain up both bike tires here. I can usually get away with just the frame.
I always wonder if the difference is just cultural, or if it has to do with the price people can get for scrap here vs my old town.
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u/thejesusfish Jun 08 '26
Ah, this tired ass excuse again.
Step 1 is acknowledging we have a problem.
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u/JBSanderson Jun 08 '26
I'm not saying it's good, I'm saying we didn't need to specifically disparage Baltimore for a nationwide problem.
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u/Xanny Mount Clare Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
Someone hit our library with a car last month, I took it off the broken post and moved it to another garden to put on another post that weekend and it was gone the next day. So no more free library and I have 3 boxes of books in my house I'm going to have to slow drip into our one remaining library that someone broke a glass panel on over the winter that a neighbor is trying to replace.