> "I discovered that if you rip the tags out of a library book, you can just walk out with it and the alarm won't go off!"
I recently went on a tour of my former university's new library building.
One thing that surprised me was that all the upper floors are set about six feet back from the exterior windows ( leaving an internal building-height vertical gap all the way around, so you can look over the railing down to the ground floor ).
When I enquired about this, the response was that it was to prevent the throw-book-out-of-window-and-collect-it-later trick that was apparently common with the old building!
I recently went on a tour of my former university's new library building.
One thing that surprised me was that all the upper floors are set about six feet back from the exterior windows ( leaving an internal building-height vertical gap all the way around, so you can look over the railing down to the ground floor ).
When I enquired about this, the response was that it was to prevent the throw-book-out-of-window-and-collect-it-later trick that was apparently common with the old building!