While covering a lunch shift at the Ref Desk one day it was hard not to notice three guys with guns on their belts come running through the front door and up the central staircase. Two broke away and started searching the stacks and one guy just stopped and started looking around. I asked if we could help him find anything and he said "Did you see a guy in a dark hoodie come running into the library?"
Well, that describes about half of the twenty-something males that come into our library on a daily basis but I figured this wasn't the time for a witty comeback considering they were armed and dangerous. He then asked if there were any other stairwells in the building and I pointed out the two in the opposite corners of the library and the guy took off in a flash.
These guys turned out to be Federal Marshals who were escorting a guy to court when he apparently decided quite suddenly that he didn't want to go to court that day so he jumped out of their car at the red light in front of the library and fled.
