Remember the Seinfeld episode where Jerry’s contacted about late fees on an overdue library book – twenty years overdue?
Well, this one’s not quite as bad, but the individual returning the books has a good excuse.
California State University at Fresno Library Dean Peter McDonald reported that he got a call from U.S. Airways Captain Chesley Sullenberger “…almost immediately about the books he’d borrowed that were stuck in the hold of a downed plane.”
When the luggage was collected from the plane that Sullenberger brought to a safe landing in New York’s Hudson River last month, one of the items returned to the hero-pilot were books he checked out from the California Universitysystem.
When he contacted the library, Sullenberger asked for an extension or at least a waiver on additional fees.
“Here is a national hero,” McDonald said, “you would think would have more important things to worry about. I’d trust my life to a man like Sullenberger. Of course we’ll waive the fee.”
The library not only waived the charges, but said that they plan on placing a bookplate dedicated to the pilot inside a new copy of the book the pilot checked out.
And what was the subject of one of the books Sullenberger checked out: Professional Ethics.
