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Police were called to Reading for the Love of It, a romance bookstore in Cool Spring, Fla., after a local woman allegedly vandalized the store's "Blind Date with a Book" display. The woman was detained by staff until she could be escorted from the store by police, who have not responded to inquiries about whether charges will be filed.
The bookshop's owner, Sarah Cooper, said the customer had been browsing the display's selections and reading descriptions written on the brown wrapping paper used to disguise the covers.
"She was kind of reading to herself but out loud, sounding disgusted," Cooper recalled. "Suddenly she started ripping the paper off to see what the book titles were. Then she just swiped across every level of the display, sweeping the books down to the floor. It was just weird."
Cooper added that while it wasn't completely clear why the agitated patron would resort to vandalizing the display, "she did yell something about the lack of Amish romance novels represented."