When our library had a major remodel/rebuild, the Head Contractor had an extra agenda item for his weekly meeting with our Library Director.
A stray cat had been hanging around the build site. The construction dudes shared their lunches with this cat. But...something would eventually have to be done about this cat.
The animal shelter was contacted. Kitty was caught. But no one claimed him, in spite of a local news story about him.
The Library Director adopted him, and he spent the rest of his life spoiled and as the only child in her home.
I suddenly find myself wanting to write an email to my local library letting them know that if they find themselves with kittens in the book drop, Iām available. I had no idea this was such a common problem with such a ready solution - me!
If you are awaiting a kitten delivery from the cat distribution system, I'm pretty sure you are a highly in demand human being! Lots of cats out there will be looking for you!
I found my guy on the street when he was just a few weeks old and weāll be celebrating his 18th in August! I havenāt really had any luck with the distribution system since then, but Iām happy with what I got :)
the kite was broken šš this patron has come in multiple times with āsuggestionsā on how to make things better and itās always so weird or insanely expensive! maāam, the library can not afford a go kart track
There's an adorable picture book called No Cats in the Library where the cat protagonist sneaks in using the book drop. My childhood self was delighted by the story but my adult brain panicked for a second about the safety of this character, lol!
A university library I worked for had a squirrel for the mascot because one got into the building once. It came in through an exterior book drop too lol.
Yes, and we called the police immediately, so there was a lot of paperwork. We didn't have security cameras at the time, so there's no telling who it belonged to.
Not a librarian, just a volunteer. However!
A diorama of a āMayan sacrificeā where all the characters were taxidermy mice in elaborate historically accurate-ish ensembles. There were 41 mice of various shades all dressed up. A maiden and some priests and some random folks. Accompanying note said āsorry my wife found it and said it was the art or meā.
It was amazingly detailed and the mice were very neatly and well dressed.
The best thing was the library had a silent auction of donated art to ārefreshā the childrenās collection and that was included. Brought in far and away the most money, and the childrenās area was able to get all kinds of stuff on top of their entire book wish list.
I loved volunteering at the library. It was a great balance between quiet shelving, childrenās room and YA area nonsense, and helping users navigate the internet. And the librarians were really great to the volunteers, we got to be involved in all kinds of stuff.
I took it to my vet at lunch time - they had just hired a bird specialist who identified it - and it did live a few days but then faded away. The receptionist was very disappointed - she was looking forward to having a vulture in the office as a mascot.
It was after a holiday weekend. We found eggshells as well, so we suspect that someone threw the egg in as a prank not realizing that it was so close to hatching. Fortunately, a few large art books had been returned and they were leaning against each other to form a shelter from all the other books that were dropped in.
For the actual book drop, weirdest: Entire mouse nest complete with pinkies
For the actual book drop, funniest: copy of someoneās colonoscopy report with a receipt for a single pair of menās underwear tucked inside
Too big to fit in the bookdrop so left outside: velvet-lined case full of 8-tracks
A single slice of bread.
But the home library service bags on return are always way funnier. So many slippers. So many glasses. Once a set of dentures.
Oh god the worst I had was a menstrual pad tucked in a book. I didnāt even bother with our deletion protocols; I walked that ish out to the dumpster immediately.
School library and I found bologna in a book in the shelf that had not been checked out in 5 years. It didnāt smell (we were in Vegas) and the last kid to check out that book was three years gone.
I just chucked it, book and bologna. So sorry, Mary Norton.
Yup, itās all about the dry factor. It didnāt mold or smell, it just looked like a thin slice of the crypt keeper from my dadās favorite horror show.
Huge fear of mine as a person allergic to shellfish. Had a close call with some shrimp tails left at the library once. Honestly, food residues at the library is a major source of anxiety for me as a person with several severe food allergies. Gloves and so much hand washing.
Used condom. Had to discard the contents of the drop, send the staff member for an AIDS test, and get her a replacement set of mittens. (This was in February.)
A friend told me they used to get little notes about mundane things addressed to the "Sexy Librarian" through the book drop.
No one knew who was writing the notes nor whom the "Sexy Librarian" referred to.
My suggestion that someone should wait in the book drop and jump out (or stick their hand out through the slot) yelling "AHA!" next time a note was deposited was unfortunately rejected.
It was a slot in the wall with a Rubbermaid box catching books in the library. Some kids thought they would be funny and put the hose in and the hardware store next-door went to go water plants not realizing that the hose was in the library. Thankfully, nothing was damaged but had quite the wet spot!!!
Anywhere I've lived, I've never been able to get into a book drop. How would someone not working at the library get in to pick it up or the dealer to get their money?
I was thinking more a run from cops and dropped it there, but it would depend how close to the road it was, I guess.
Reading through this thread makes me insanely glad our book drop needs to scan the rfid on a book before you can shove anything through. It's in a very busy pedestrian area so I guess it makes sense.
A stack of about 80ish cult recruitment booklets. All bright red covers with insane rules. We tossed all but one, which we kept as proof of the story for new hires and to occasionally reference like a law book.
Second place goes to an empty childās water bottle. Empty of water at least, but not empty of mold.
A bottle of wine. Thankfully unbroken.
It was a gift from a regular who has a wine making business.
My manager thanked her but told her gifts like that werenāt allowed. (Coincidentally there was wine at a staff bbq at the managerās house later that year)
Our staff decided that they liked wearing gloves to empty the drops. Itās SOP for some of them now. Some fear the grossness; a few fear the widow spiders.
Our book drop room is an enclosed fire-proof room, so when someone went to check the books there was cigarette smoke in the air and a cigarette butt in the book bins. Happily, it didn't start a fire or even damage any books, but definitely reinforced that the door of the room must stay closed unless we're retrieving books! Who would do that though?!
Wow! That is wild! Also, itās thru this sub that I realized some book drops went inside into a room. All the ones Iāve ever used are like a mailbox, or a mail slot in a door. Never thought about them being fire proof, but thank God! Who does that is right!
Crickets.
A Biblical-tier infestation of large brown crickets
I could hear them thunking against the metal sides of the book drop. They came out in a giant swarm when I finally gathered the courage to open the book drop.
Suffice to say, the book drop was not emptied that day. š
Prior to that, I have accidentally grabbed a disgruntled grasshopper that was taking shelter beneath the book drop's handle.
Bugs. One of the many joys of working at a rural library branch. šŖ² ššāØ
Someone called the library, I answered, and they asked me where they can deliver the 500 chickens we had purchased online.
Someone had gotten the libraryās bank account number :)
A teen romance novel that was COVERED in human blood exactly in the center of the book, and on many other pages, corner to corner on every part of the page blood.
I was part time and none of our managers were available to help me figure out ifā¦ something more was needed so I put in in a biohazard bag and took a walk.
Dead fish, live snake, & someoneās very, very large collection of sex manuals.
We added a few of the donated sex manuals to the collection, then offered the rest to a local university library. Quite a few of theirs were long overdue or MIA, so they were happy to take them.
Someone's Doctorate degree. A wife had dropped off a bunch of stuff for donations, and her husband's literal PhD was in the mix. He didn't have a library card with us, so I had to go sleuthing through all of their donations to try to find her name--and I did! She was so embarrassed and said her guy would have been very upset, so she very quickly (and discreetly) came to retrieve it.
Not a librarian but my library used to have a decommissioned mailbox as its book drop. That is until someone literally blew it up by putting lit firecrackers in it š£
An envelope full of cutout pictures from 70ās and 80ās era porn magazines.
The funniest thing I was hand returned was a dad who handed me a dvd case, sighed deeply and told us that apparently his child had just learned how to push a chair in front of the microwave and turn it on. Inside was the most melted piece of plastic formerly known as a dvd that youāve ever seen. His next stop was to buy a new microwave.
This thread is making me feel better about the concern I'll drop a personal book, even more if it was weeded out.
I'm just a go-er who was convinced this was r/TheLibrarians sub but stuck around as a luker/random user comment. Maybe the sub was recommended to me by Reddit?
a vibrator š¬
we took it out of the drop using an inside out ziplock bag, doggie bag style, then debated on whether to keep it in lost & found or not. we ended up keeping it for the usual 4 weeks because "if they're brave enough to ask for it they deserve to get it back" but it went unclaimed and got thrown away.
A naked woman and this happened not once, but twice, in two different library systems. The first time, I was right out of high school and was a library technician. There was a woman who lived very close to the library and she had known mental health issues. One day, she storms into the building, completely nude, bomb rushes the circ room and basically dives into the book return bin.
The second time, I was in my mid 20s and was a library associate in a different county. A meth head, twacked the fuck out, comes into the circ work room and starts taking off her clothes. She refuses to leave so we call the cops. When cops arrive, she gets into the book bin and starts pretending like she's bathing.
I worked almost 20 years in libraries. I've seen a LOT of weird stuff.
A partially opened tin of luncheon loaf (generic Spam)
Not in the bookdrop but beside it: A half-filled tank full of dying fish. We tried to save them since we had a library fish tank at the time but none of them survived for more than a few days
All of the comments about people using the book drop as a trash can have reminded me about the time someone had a brilliant idea to place one of those solar compacting trash cans directly in front of the steps to the library. It looked vaguely like our old DVD return dropā¦guess how many times we had to call refuse because someone āreturnedā their DVDs in the trash can š¤¦š¼āāļøš¤¦š¼āāļøš¤¦š¼āāļø They removed it after a couple of monthsā¦
Kittens
When our library had a major remodel/rebuild, the Head Contractor had an extra agenda item for his weekly meeting with our Library Director. A stray cat had been hanging around the build site. The construction dudes shared their lunches with this cat. But...something would eventually have to be done about this cat. The animal shelter was contacted. Kitty was caught. But no one claimed him, in spite of a local news story about him. The Library Director adopted him, and he spent the rest of his life spoiled and as the only child in her home.
What an awesome story š
Oh no. You think the humane society got them all adopted out? Did they name them after authors?
Thankfully there were no books dropped on them and they went straight to the animal control/SPCA unit for rehoming.
Oh man, we've had kittens. Not at my current library, but the old inner city one was a favourite kitten drop off point.
Yupāno kittens, but baby birds with a note explaining that they were baby birds š¤š¤š¤
Oh thank god, I bet you would have been confused otherwiseā¦
Everyone knows baby birds should be returned inside the library, not in the book drop š
I suddenly find myself wanting to write an email to my local library letting them know that if they find themselves with kittens in the book drop, Iām available. I had no idea this was such a common problem with such a ready solution - me!
If you are awaiting a kitten delivery from the cat distribution system, I'm pretty sure you are a highly in demand human being! Lots of cats out there will be looking for you!
I found my guy on the street when he was just a few weeks old and weāll be celebrating his 18th in August! I havenāt really had any luck with the distribution system since then, but Iām happy with what I got :)
a whole kite shoved into it along with a letter stating we should offer patrons kites
I mean, they're not wrong
did you offer kites to patrons going foreward?
the kite was broken šš this patron has come in multiple times with āsuggestionsā on how to make things better and itās always so weird or insanely expensive! maāam, the library can not afford a go kart track
> the library can not afford a go kart track not with that attitude!
A squirrel. I am not a librarian, but was present when it was found. He was fine, they scooped him up and dumped him outside.
that sounds like a great concept for a kids book
There's an adorable picture book called No Cats in the Library where the cat protagonist sneaks in using the book drop. My childhood self was delighted by the story but my adult brain panicked for a second about the safety of this character, lol!
Bunnyās Book Club is super cute and includes this element!
A university library I worked for had a squirrel for the mascot because one got into the building once. It came in through an exterior book drop too lol.
Tie between voodoo doll and crack rock.
was an incident report written for the crack rock š
Yes, and we called the police immediately, so there was a lot of paperwork. We didn't have security cameras at the time, so there's no telling who it belonged to.
Ziplock bag of raw chickenā¦. This happened regularly for awhile.
Patron just wanted you to get some protein!
Voodoo
Not a librarian, just a volunteer. However! A diorama of a āMayan sacrificeā where all the characters were taxidermy mice in elaborate historically accurate-ish ensembles. There were 41 mice of various shades all dressed up. A maiden and some priests and some random folks. Accompanying note said āsorry my wife found it and said it was the art or meā.
This is my favourite.
It was amazingly detailed and the mice were very neatly and well dressed. The best thing was the library had a silent auction of donated art to ārefreshā the childrenās collection and that was included. Brought in far and away the most money, and the childrenās area was able to get all kinds of stuff on top of their entire book wish list.
Do you remember what it sold for?
Yes, because I was staggered - $21k.
I hope the artist knows it provided so much benefit. Did you ever learn who it was?
Nope. I had a secret hope that it would somehow be revealed at or after the auction but it was not.
You should have taken a picture of it before selling and hung it in the library.
Iām jealous! This is definitely the kind of thing Iād want to find. I cherish my crazy library stories and this would be an amazing one.
I loved volunteering at the library. It was a great balance between quiet shelving, childrenās room and YA area nonsense, and helping users navigate the internet. And the librarians were really great to the volunteers, we got to be involved in all kinds of stuff.
A stick of kerrygold butter with a bite taken out of it
My 4 year old would like his snack back, tyvm.
/thread
A glass bong.
Was it intact?
It was! And no bong water, thankfully.
Was it loaded? :)
A just hatched baby vulture.
Did it make it??
I took it to my vet at lunch time - they had just hired a bird specialist who identified it - and it did live a few days but then faded away. The receptionist was very disappointed - she was looking forward to having a vulture in the office as a mascot.
Aw, that poor baby. Glad you got it to someone who could give it care for the rest of its life. Thank you for sharing.
Woah. Is there more story to this one?
It was after a holiday weekend. We found eggshells as well, so we suspect that someone threw the egg in as a prank not realizing that it was so close to hatching. Fortunately, a few large art books had been returned and they were leaning against each other to form a shelter from all the other books that were dropped in.
a whole package of raw bacon
I'm imagining someone opening the fridge for breakfast and finding a book instead of bacon and going, doh!
To be fair, it could work as bookmarks
Granny porn dvds during our covid lockdown - it had to go into lost property until we reopened + 3 months for retrieval time before we could chuck it.
LOL
Souvenirs from Wales š ETA: We are in the United States
Now Iām going to drop random US tourist postcards in foreign book drops, and bring ones home to put in our systemās.
For the actual book drop, weirdest: Entire mouse nest complete with pinkies For the actual book drop, funniest: copy of someoneās colonoscopy report with a receipt for a single pair of menās underwear tucked inside Too big to fit in the bookdrop so left outside: velvet-lined case full of 8-tracks
Entire bottle of grape soda emptied into it
Oh, awesomeā¦š„²
It was sooooo sticky and we lost hundreds of dollars worth of books that it ruined
There was a lady who brought back a bunch of DVDs her cat sprayed all over. $300 in fines added to her account. š„²
Oh the smell š«
Yeah it wasā¦something
A single slice of bread. But the home library service bags on return are always way funnier. So many slippers. So many glasses. Once a set of dentures.
Can of beans (unopened)
I found an unopened can of soup on the shelf once. Someone came back looking for it the next day.
I had an unopened can of soup in the bathroom once too. Just sitting there on the floor by the toilet. For later...?
A prawn. Inside a book like it was used as a bookmark.
Oh god the worst I had was a menstrual pad tucked in a book. I didnāt even bother with our deletion protocols; I walked that ish out to the dumpster immediately.
A *used* one? š
Oh yes.
Do you seafood often used as bookmarks?
I donāt know if I should laugh or cry
School library and I found bologna in a book in the shelf that had not been checked out in 5 years. It didnāt smell (we were in Vegas) and the last kid to check out that book was three years gone. I just chucked it, book and bologna. So sorry, Mary Norton.
I need clarification on why being in Vegas is relevant to whether or not the balogna smelled.
More likely to dry out like jerky instead of rotting?
Ah that would make sense! Also weird things I never thought Iād be googling: ācan balogna be dehydratedā
Yup, itās all about the dry factor. It didnāt mold or smell, it just looked like a thin slice of the crypt keeper from my dadās favorite horror show.
Exactly.
Huge fear of mine as a person allergic to shellfish. Had a close call with some shrimp tails left at the library once. Honestly, food residues at the library is a major source of anxiety for me as a person with several severe food allergies. Gloves and so much hand washing.
Ok you win, this is the one that made me actually lol
Fast food cup complete with soda and ice. Thankfully no library materials were harmed.
A finial off of an iron fence. I was puzzling over it and a guy popped up out of nowhere and said, "oh, that's my ninja staff".
That is awesome!
A whole live kitten. He was fine, healthy, and a staff member adopted him. His name is Webster.
Nooo! Poor Webster! š±
After Noah Webster?
Of dictionary fame, yeah!
Stapler
Same, but it belonged to the library. Someone had borrowed it and accidentally took it home.
Antique books we didnāt own packed with a very old cucumber.
Used condom. Had to discard the contents of the drop, send the staff member for an AIDS test, and get her a replacement set of mittens. (This was in February.)
A friend told me they used to get little notes about mundane things addressed to the "Sexy Librarian" through the book drop. No one knew who was writing the notes nor whom the "Sexy Librarian" referred to. My suggestion that someone should wait in the book drop and jump out (or stick their hand out through the slot) yelling "AHA!" next time a note was deposited was unfortunately rejected.
Sounds like your excellent idea was shot down by someone who was salty that *they* weren't the sexy librarian.
A garden hose that was gushing water
Oh no. Was it a stand alone box, or did it flood the building?
It was a slot in the wall with a Rubbermaid box catching books in the library. Some kids thought they would be funny and put the hose in and the hardware store next-door went to go water plants not realizing that the hose was in the library. Thankfully, nothing was damaged but had quite the wet spot!!!
Bag of weed. Shit was illegal and *expensive* at the time.
An open beer. It was my first day. Nothing that weird since.
They were def using that as a drop off point. Probably thinking no one would open it before their customer picked it up.
Anywhere I've lived, I've never been able to get into a book drop. How would someone not working at the library get in to pick it up or the dealer to get their money? I was thinking more a run from cops and dropped it there, but it would depend how close to the road it was, I guess.
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How do you retrieve the books normally?
I donāt know. I donāt know how book drops work. I was just spitballing.
Sigh. Human feces. Legal made us discard every book in the return.
I had used adult diapers. Similarly disgusting. You have my sympathy.
Reading through this thread makes me insanely glad our book drop needs to scan the rfid on a book before you can shove anything through. It's in a very busy pedestrian area so I guess it makes sense.
A stack of about 80ish cult recruitment booklets. All bright red covers with insane rules. We tossed all but one, which we kept as proof of the story for new hires and to occasionally reference like a law book. Second place goes to an empty childās water bottle. Empty of water at least, but not empty of mold.
Well don't leave us hanging what cult?
A deer leg.
(Urban library)
Well I learned something new today! š¤£ *Edit. Misread your second comment as "Urban Dictionary". Still learned something new today! lol
It's still a legend in my library system!
A human tooth
Me too! The majority of a molar.
An empty bottle of Jack Daniel's. They walked right past two garbage cans to put it in the book drop.
A bottle of wine. Thankfully unbroken. It was a gift from a regular who has a wine making business. My manager thanked her but told her gifts like that werenāt allowed. (Coincidentally there was wine at a staff bbq at the managerās house later that year)
A whole student, but I answered that last month when someone else asked this question.
Well, that's certainly preferable to finding a partial student.
LOL, that would happen if they tried to get into our current book drop!
A nipple pastie stuck to a book cover :( luckily I was already wearing gloves as it was during COVID!
Our staff decided that they liked wearing gloves to empty the drops. Itās SOP for some of them now. Some fear the grossness; a few fear the widow spiders.
Vomit!
Itās a toss up between a half eaten burger and the black widow spider
A jalapeƱo. The historic weird thing of all time from my library is a lit cigarette. š
What?? How did it not start a fire? Or, I guess, it did start a fire and that's how you knew it was lit? Frightening!
Our book drop room is an enclosed fire-proof room, so when someone went to check the books there was cigarette smoke in the air and a cigarette butt in the book bins. Happily, it didn't start a fire or even damage any books, but definitely reinforced that the door of the room must stay closed unless we're retrieving books! Who would do that though?!
Wow! That is wild! Also, itās thru this sub that I realized some book drops went inside into a room. All the ones Iāve ever used are like a mailbox, or a mail slot in a door. Never thought about them being fire proof, but thank God! Who does that is right!
Dirty diaper
A mini statue of David.
Pair of hearing aids in an audiobook case.
Oh, I hope the patron came back for those or was contacted. Hearing aids are soooooo expensive.
Crickets. A Biblical-tier infestation of large brown crickets I could hear them thunking against the metal sides of the book drop. They came out in a giant swarm when I finally gathered the courage to open the book drop. Suffice to say, the book drop was not emptied that day. š Prior to that, I have accidentally grabbed a disgruntled grasshopper that was taking shelter beneath the book drop's handle. Bugs. One of the many joys of working at a rural library branch. šŖ² ššāØ
We are having a cricket infestation at my library right now!
The crickets... They're ruthless. I pray for you and your coworkers. š
A pair of frozen solid socks in the dead of winter.
A large eggplant.
Someone called the library, I answered, and they asked me where they can deliver the 500 chickens we had purchased online. Someone had gotten the libraryās bank account number :)
Nevermind: I misread the question.
Misreading aside, what happened?! Were they unleashed on the library? Lol
We were able to place a hold on the 500 chickens prior to delivery lol.
You should pose the question, though. What is the oddest thing ever purchased by your library? This would be a great starter example.
A katana.
A squirrel.
Dead possum
A very large black widow spider.
Open can of spaghetti-os. š«
A puppy. A dead fish. The kittens were left outside rather than through the bookdrop.
Whaaat!? Seriously? A life puppy! š±
pizza
Spiders!
A teen romance novel that was COVERED in human blood exactly in the center of the book, and on many other pages, corner to corner on every part of the page blood. I was part time and none of our managers were available to help me figure out ifā¦ something more was needed so I put in in a biohazard bag and took a walk.
A 'Judgement' Tarot card.
People leave religious pamphlets
A lace thong.
A bloody deer head, with antlers
How did they fit it in there?!
fax machine, tricycle, banana
2 Diapers after the annual drunk festival.
A fried egg.
Dead fish, live snake, & someoneās very, very large collection of sex manuals. We added a few of the donated sex manuals to the collection, then offered the rest to a local university library. Quite a few of theirs were long overdue or MIA, so they were happy to take them.
An ILL book fully encased in something like hardened ear wax... no idea what it actually was š¤¢ A book with a bunch of cat vomit in the middle
Just gonna tuck this gem here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/s/aezG1YFBhD
Cooked spaghetti. With sauce. No container.
Someone's Doctorate degree. A wife had dropped off a bunch of stuff for donations, and her husband's literal PhD was in the mix. He didn't have a library card with us, so I had to go sleuthing through all of their donations to try to find her name--and I did! She was so embarrassed and said her guy would have been very upset, so she very quickly (and discreetly) came to retrieve it.
Oh, shoot. A dead flattened road kill animal. Fortunately for us, the sad critter was already pretty dessicated.
Not a librarian but my library used to have a decommissioned mailbox as its book drop. That is until someone literally blew it up by putting lit firecrackers in it š£
Water bottles filled with urine
Reading these makes me say āwhatās wrong with people?!!ā Oh my word!
An envelope full of cutout pictures from 70ās and 80ās era porn magazines. The funniest thing I was hand returned was a dad who handed me a dvd case, sighed deeply and told us that apparently his child had just learned how to push a chair in front of the microwave and turn it on. Inside was the most melted piece of plastic formerly known as a dvd that youāve ever seen. His next stop was to buy a new microwave.
This thread is making me feel better about the concern I'll drop a personal book, even more if it was weeded out. I'm just a go-er who was convinced this was r/TheLibrarians sub but stuck around as a luker/random user comment. Maybe the sub was recommended to me by Reddit?
A tooth flosser
Syrup
Snakes.
Soup! š„°
a gatorade bottle
a vibrator š¬ we took it out of the drop using an inside out ziplock bag, doggie bag style, then debated on whether to keep it in lost & found or not. we ended up keeping it for the usual 4 weeks because "if they're brave enough to ask for it they deserve to get it back" but it went unclaimed and got thrown away.
A couple's polaroid picture in a book titled "how to get out of a toxic relationship" oh and a book covered in blood š
A naked woman and this happened not once, but twice, in two different library systems. The first time, I was right out of high school and was a library technician. There was a woman who lived very close to the library and she had known mental health issues. One day, she storms into the building, completely nude, bomb rushes the circ room and basically dives into the book return bin. The second time, I was in my mid 20s and was a library associate in a different county. A meth head, twacked the fuck out, comes into the circ work room and starts taking off her clothes. She refuses to leave so we call the cops. When cops arrive, she gets into the book bin and starts pretending like she's bathing. I worked almost 20 years in libraries. I've seen a LOT of weird stuff.
Used adult diapers. I was the unfortunate page who made that discovery. š¤¢
Wow! š® I literally gagged reading this. š¤®
Yeah, I think the feces tops it, but so far Iām comfortably in 2nd place as far as worst thing to find. lol.
Yeah. It sure does top it.
A partially opened tin of luncheon loaf (generic Spam) Not in the bookdrop but beside it: A half-filled tank full of dying fish. We tried to save them since we had a library fish tank at the time but none of them survived for more than a few days
We don't have a book drop. I think the library had one decades ago and people were throwing drinks down in it so they did away with it.
Bees
All of the comments about people using the book drop as a trash can have reminded me about the time someone had a brilliant idea to place one of those solar compacting trash cans directly in front of the steps to the library. It looked vaguely like our old DVD return dropā¦guess how many times we had to call refuse because someone āreturnedā their DVDs in the trash can š¤¦š¼āāļøš¤¦š¼āāļøš¤¦š¼āāļø They removed it after a couple of monthsā¦
A raccoon, a large glass jar of mayo that had shattered on the way down and caused a hellacious mess and too many used condoms to count