Five weeks ago, I brought some books home. Within ...

Five weeks ago, I brought some books home. Within the week, my partner was having a reaction to something biting him. Three and a half weeks ago, we found the culprit-- bed bugs. Found never-fed babies on a book a short time later and bagged the books I had up. Given that the books were only within five feet of the infested area for about an hour before I finished copying down recipes, I can only see one reason there would be eggs there-- seems a lot more likely that an already-hatched bug would crawl off a book seeking a dark space than one would come out into the light to lay eggs. The math almost does itself.

Apparently, as I found out when I went to take my (bagged) books back and try to negotiate late fees, the MLS has no treatment plan in place for infected materials. They just toss them (assuming someone actually tells them that they're infested), and penalize honesty instead of recognizing that OKC is the now sixth worst city in the COUNTRY for these things and getting a heat treatment oven, or even just spraying the items, then bagging them and putting them in storage for the next two years like other libraries apparently do.

Tell you what. I'll pay for the books, and the MLS can pay for our new furniture.

TL;DR: Library materials gave us bed bugs and now the library wants us to pay for the "privilege".