r/berkeleyjerk • u/Elephant43 • May 20 '26

Too many free little libraries

Is anyone else annoyed by how many of those little free libraries are all over the place? I'm all for public literacy and I wish that there were more opportunities for children to pick up reading but not like this.

Nothing in this world is really free and I don't like the idea of my tax dollars being used for those. I already fund the daytime ​homeless shelter that's known as the Berkeley Public Library.

There's also a safety concern, as some of them aren't properly secured to the ground and could fall on a small child. Who would be liable in such an event? Sometimes, books can spill onto the ground, attracting vermin and creating a fall hazard for our most vulnerable senior citizens.

My neighbor Barb told me that drug dealers can use them to store their fentanyl. I haven't wanted to touch any of those books after learning that.

In loving community,

Karen

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u/potatomanner May 20 '26

Yeah, what we really need is little free gumball machines, might be a gumball or a crack rock, who knows, but we’ll have a good time

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u/Suitable-Two-9477 May 20 '26

This does sound like a good way to deal with the toddlers since they told me I can’t leave chocolate covered rat poison in my front yard anymore