Irony Supplement

October 18, 2007 by Derek | No comments

Lo and behold, though I have posted nothing in quite awhile and am therefore a bad, bad blogger… I came across this tidbit, which has languished for two months in my “drafts” folder. I must have run out of time after composing it and had to rush off somewhere.

Far be it from me to make light of auto accidents (a subject with which I have become all to familiar); nevertheless, I could not help but be struck (ha ha) by the following item, which I discovered at The Map Room:

CARS CRASH INTO THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA MAP LIBRARY

The University of Georgia’s Map Library seems to be a favourite target of wayward (and inebriated) drivers: it was hit last September (there are photos) and, less spectacularly, earlier this month. Via MAPS-L [a cartographic listserv] where the University’s map librarian reported on “what has apparently become an annual event.”

UGA map library Sept 2006

Since the librarians are writing poetry about it, I guess nobody was killed or anything. Then again, in my schoolboy days I did encounter a few librarians who were utterly cruel and heartless, so who knows.

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