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4/'20/15 PUNK AT ANAHEIM LIBRARY KEPT TURNING HIS HEADPHONES UP NEXT TO ME
i ASKED THE LIBRARIAN at the Anaheim Library (sunkist branch) to ASK THE KID TO TURN HIS HEADPHONES DOWN...so the kid did so for a minute, then when the librarian walked away, the kid turned them up again