Brooklyn Public Library No Place To Watch Porn...But Great For Fist Fights!

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Nothing livens up a library like a good old fashioned porn fight! Two men got into a fist fight at the Brooklyn Public Library over the weekend, allegedly because one was waiting for the other to finish looking at porn on one of the library's computers. And in the end, only one of the men was given assault charges...and it wasn't the one looking at porn!

The fight started when 38-year-old Santiago Real was taking too much time viewing pornography on a library computer, while 25-year-old Durail Wright sat, stewed, and became irate. The two exchanged handfuls of fist cuisine before being broken up by police. Wright was charged with assault, disorderly conduct and harassment, while Real was only given a summons for disorderly conduct. The Post took some umbrage with that outcome, lamenting that the "sex addict got off easy."

All of the city's libraries, including the Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), have a rich and storied history of creepy dudes checking out porn on their computers—in 2008, the BPL was criticized for seemingly protecting porn enthusiasts. In 2009, a Brooklyn grandmother rented a VHS copy of Austin Powers at the Borough Park library branch for her grandkids to watch, only to discover that someone had spliced it with "long pornographic scenes" during the credits. And last year, an investigative report of the city's libraries uncovered hundreds of softcore and erotic films available to rent or view. Obviously, we've been doing something very wrong by masturbating in the comfort, safety and relative anonymity of our own homes.

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By Ben Yakas in News on April 20, 2011 6:55 PM

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SafeLibraries

Porn Fist Fight in Library; The Brooklyn Public Library May Be At Fault, Perhaps the ALA As Well

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Dan Kleinman

And now there's stabbing over porn in a branch of this library, and still the porn remains available:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

At some point people will begin to see the library itself may be partially at fault since this incident might not have occurred but for the library acting outside the law and/or defrauding the federal government on the very issue of porn in the library, and the library still has done absolutely nothing about this (despite having been given notice otherwise), other than to publicly support it.

coolmikeperry

Libraries protect free speech, even creepy antisocial free speech.

justthinkin

11th rule of fight club....stay out of libraries.

lightstays

When did librarians become such lazy pussies that they can't tell a kid to shut the fuck up, tell a hootchied out Jersey Shore wench to the get the fuck off her cell phone or keep an undersexed loser from ejaculating on the public computers? Is this seriously a developed country??

bklngrrl

They do. All of the time. The problem is that most people working circ desks or walking around aren't librarians. They're paraprofessionals. The BPL is much more dependent on funding than, say, NYPL. To make sure that they can afford to pay at least one reference librarians per branch (which, incidentally, is NOT a lot of money), they have to cut back on other professional staff, like additional librarians who care very much about what they do. Maybe if this country really valued libraries enough to actually fund them properly, we wouldn't have this problem.

aspiringrapper

Because they depend on public funding and are too afraid of offending even the most vile of their visitors.

silver

theyll all cut ya

chud_hunter

this is what happens when you "clean up" the city. Disenfranchised pervs with nowhere to call home invading the library for a few strokes.

Peanut_Butter

I've had a few strokes in a few unlikely places. I wouldn't judge him the worse for it.

jezzybelle

i've always wondered why it's totally acceptable for people to look at porn on computer libraries. right there in front of children and everyone!! why is adult content permissible in a public space? i don't want my tax money supporting this.