Friday Fluff

One of our librarians passed on this news story about Flexible Fred, and how this skeleton is being banished from the Delaware (Ohio) County Law Library after someone said Fred scared her child.

Flexible Fred is dead
Law library's skeleton can't go near the windows after complaints from a mom
Thursday, October 2, 2008 3:19 AM
By Jane Hawes
FOR THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

DELAWARE, Ohio -- This summer, he was the baseball-cap-wearing pawn in a battle between Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds fans. Last Halloween, he was festooned in pirate gear and brandished a sword.

Those were good times for Flexible Fred. But these days, the 5-foot-tall, 200-bone plastic skeleton slumps on his roller stand in a corner of the Delaware County Law Library. Taped to his clavicle is a sign that reads: "We have had a neighbor complain that Flexible Fred is scaring her children. Please do NOT put him near any windows." (cont.)