Donald Davis, owner of East Village Books on St. Mark's Place, had been fooled by the guy before. So they set a trap for him the next time he walked in.
Anyway, long story, the guy returns... and, after a confrontation, a tussle ensues, the Post reports. But! Davis was a wrestler in high school. He pinned him until the cops arrived.
“There’s no other situation where I would do this. I was so angry that he was stealing from the library,” Davis said. “The library is just a very important piece of our community.”
3 comments:
What a jerk this guy is. I mean, first of all, if you steal books to sell, you know a thing or two about books, and if you know something about books you should respect the public library. A drug problem is no excuse, Mr. Hansen! Everyone in publishing has/has had one of those! We still don't steal from libraries!
Second, if you must make money this way, just get a job at or freelance for one of the many publishers in town, and pilfer from their free-book carts. Again, a drug problem should not hinder your participation in the industry. Warning: This method will probably yield chump change/beer money unless you work for a publisher of art books.
not that I or any of my underpaid colleagues have ever done that
*cough*
Anyway, good on Donald Davis ... EVB is my favorite bookstore and I found the part about Davis wrestling the thief to the ground very exciting!
donald davis - right on!!!
Awesome! This explains why some of the rare art books in the NYPL holdings that I requested always suddenly disappear from their system. That shit is out of print, man! Good call going after this jerk. I love the bookstores in the EV! Yeah! Now go buy more books, people.
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