Well, we found a spiked club (39" long, with iron spikes around the business end) in a floor bed outside the library about three weeks ago. Yesterday we found a 12 gauge shotgun shell with a rock tightly taped over the primer in the south parking lot -- throw it just right or drive over it just right and it would have went off.

Given that a girl from the high school two blocks away was stabbed to death by two of her 16 year old classmates back in September, the Mayor is concerned (I spoke with him today). He's going to talk to the Chief of Police and we're going to see what might be done -- both the Mayor and I think that this is related to the high school. This sort of thing bothers me more than just a little -- the shotgun shell was a sort of mini-handgrenade.

Yes, we called the cops in both cases.

The public library is supposed to be a safe place for everyone. I intend to see that it is.