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Anonymous 19/07/11 (Thu)12:40 No. 19649 Anonymous
11th July 2019
Thursday 12:40 pm 19649

Hunt for ‘book ripper’ tearing up dozens of Herne Bay Demelza charity shop novels

A mystery vandal has been tearing up dozens of books at a charity shop.

As many as 15 paperbacks a week have had their pages ripped in half at the Demelza store in Mortimer Street, Herne Bay.

The callous bibliophobe - dubbed "the book ripper" by customers - has been targetting sections out of sight from staff since April. Store manager Nick Rogers says the slippery perpetrator tears the pages horizontally before putting them back on the shelf.

Shop workers have erected signs to try to deter the sneaky saboteur - but so far this has been ineffective.

A number of books at Herne Bay Library in the High Street have also been damaged over the last six months. Staff members have not identified a pattern to the vandalism as the defaced paperbacks have been from a variety of sections.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/hunt-for-book-ripper-tearing-up-novels-207914/

It seems that crab killer has moved on to ripping books. Who knows what other dastardly deeds he will move onto next. The coast is not safe.

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>>	Anonymous 19/07/11 (Thu)13:11 No. 19650 Anonymous 11th July 2019 Thursday 1:11 pm 19650 >>19649 Yet another reason to only buy from the Kindle store.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/11 (Thu)23:38 No. 19651 Anonymous 11th July 2019 Thursday 11:38 pm 19651 >>19650 Careful, he may find a way of ripping your Kindle in half.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/11 (Thu)23:48 No. 19652 Anonymous 11th July 2019 Thursday 11:48 pm 19652 >>19650 Who's to say he isn't in the pay of Big eBook and that's what he wants.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/12 (Fri)08:17 No. 19653 Anonymous 12th July 2019 Friday 8:17 am 19653 >>19652 Who cares? Paper books are the preserve of the pretentious hoarder.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/12 (Fri)09:45 No. 19654 Anonymous 12th July 2019 Friday 9:45 am 19654 >>19653 You sound insecure.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/12 (Fri)11:53 No. 19655 Anonymous 12th July 2019 Friday 11:53 am 19655 >>19650 Never heard of libgen, lad?

>>	Anonymous 19/07/12 (Fri)17:08 No. 19656 Anonymous 12th July 2019 Friday 5:08 pm 19656 >>19655 Yeah? I've heard of shoplifting as well, but I still pay a supermarket.

Anonymous 19/07/12 (Fri)17:12 No. 19657 Anonymous
12th July 2019
Friday 5:12 pm 19657

>>19653
I had previously unquestioningly assumed that people with bookcases like the one pictured had vast or at least better than average general knowledge, but I've since learnt some of them have the kind of knowledge gaps you'd expect from a council estate kid who stopped attending school at 13. Maybe that's what happens if you engross yourself in fiction.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/12 (Fri)17:35 No. 19658 Anonymous 12th July 2019 Friday 5:35 pm 19658 >>19656 I wasn't aware that supermarkets lent you food and reserved the right to come into your home and take it away from you for any reason.

>>	Anonymous 19/07/12 (Fri)17:40 No. 19659 Anonymous 12th July 2019 Friday 5:40 pm 19659 >>19657 A lot of people have bookcases for aesthetic purposes. I'd wager that I haven't read even half of what are on mine, but that's because I buy them faster than I can read them.

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