Librarians try to get East Boston kids to stop flipping out

By adamg on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 11:46am

Ban on bottle flipping in East Boston library

Eastie Strong noticed this sign in the East Boston BPL branch.

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A more positive approach...

By theszak on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 10:34am.

Better to set up a bottle flipping day. Post a sign like bottle flipping only on a bottle flipping day/afternoon. Or a monthly bottle flipping afternoon event or Saturday event
https://www.google.com/search?q=bottle+flipping&tbm=isch

idea #2. From time to time our libraries would do well to make available events for graffiti artists and for graffiti documentarians and for folks interested in learning how to read graffiti ornamental letters !

Great!

By anon on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 8:16pm.

We'll have another day for yelling in the library, another one for running in the library, maybe one for pulling all the books off the shelf and stacking them on the floor.

Or, we could just set clear expectations of what behavior is appropriate, and prohibit antisocial behavior. Which is what this Eastie library did.

Flipping Bottles = Antisocial?

By SwirlyGrrl on Sun, 06/04/2017 - 11:21am.

Really?

You need to get out more.

Or, better yet, remember the sorts of antisocial things kids these age were doing 40 years ago - like stealing cigarettes and smoking, burning buildings for fun, robberies, fucking like bunnies without protection, doing every drug that they could find ...

Kids these days are totally tame in a relative sense. Yes, flipping bottles in a library is really freaking annoying .. but it isn't antisocial. Its just being a kid who doesn't know any better.

Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs

By PeyoteEatingWaterBear on Sun, 06/04/2017 - 12:56pm.

I think the end goal of this sign, which is directed at kids who "don't know better" than to flip water bottles in a library, is that they will read the sign and then know better. Not an unreasonable request IMHO.

No

By poster on Sun, 06/04/2017 - 3:39pm.

The reason there are signs is so that, when a staff person asks someone to stop doing (whatever the sign says) they have grounds to kick them out for refusing to comply or giving attitude.

We have signs like this at my work, too. We have one that bans people from doing drugs in the all gender handicap bathroom and taking excessive time in the all gender handicap bathroom. This is so when we call the police on the homeless man who locked himself in the all-gender handicap bathroom to snort drugs for two and a half hours, we are justified in doing so (there was a sign!) and he can't cause nuisance complaints against the staff that we are being racist, sexist, discriminatory against the homeless, providing poor customer service, or any other combination of ridiculous complaint that people who get caught abusing the rules tend to levy at those who caught them.