Box of trash
A few weeks ago a couple of boxes appeared in the mail room of the library where I work. The address label said DONATION ENCLOSED, which equals somebody else’s problem, so I didn’t look at them very closely. Then yesterday a co-worker mentioned that they appeared to be from L. Ron Hubbard! I had a better look today, and sure enough:
And of course I had to see what was inside. And it seemed that some sort of documentation was in order. So here’s me, heading back down to the mail room, camera in hand, imagining getting a box open, wondering if it would have actual poison in it, seeing myself collapsed on the floor, camera gone flying…. I was brave and opened one up anyway. And of course it was just books and a DVD. Maybe they had poison on them, I don’t know. I feel fine so far. I did feel kind of dirty touching them though.
Anyway, it was LOTS of books:
And that’s just from one box! They sent us two times this amount of crap! What do they think we are, a Crap Library?
I had to get a close-up of the DVD, since it has a picture of L. Ron himself on the cover. Click to embiggen …if you dare.
Then I put all the books and the DVD back in the box, and closed it up again. SEP Field engaged!
February 26th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Holy cow! Nick works with a woman whose husband is in an architecture firm that is working on a building for the Scientologists in Florida. I think it’s called the Land Base or something like that. Anyway, I passed this New Yorker article along to him because of that. It’s an interesting little read. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/14/080114fa_fact_goodyear/
February 28th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Hey Lisa! I finally had time to read the article — fascinating! Thank you!
March 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
You are so very brave.
He is so terribly cartoonesque.
I would have had to put all of the books in the freezer to ensure the safety of my co-workers at the “no crap, thank you library” and especially the safety of innocent unknowing passers-by.
s c a a r y.
i think that you should send them back cod.
March 6th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Haha! The freezer!
If only we had a freezer.
They are still in the basement. Someone else has opened the boxes now, but it doesn’t look like anything else has happened to them.
March 6th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
that’s to mean c. o. d.
not cod.
why would you want to send them to a fish?
March 6th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Maybe the fish could eat them.
March 6th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
i’m certain that the ink would be poisonous.
poor fish.
March 6th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
heh… maybe the fish could poop on them. fish poop!
March 6th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
weirdo
March 6th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I am not!