4 comments | Our Friends of the Library are so important, they bring a multitude of resources and JOY to our library system. Join Gordon Tarbat, President of the Friends of the Main Branch Library, as he shares some insight into what the Friends of the Library do for our libraries and our community. Please see our Friends page for more information: https://sjcpls.org/about/friends-of-the-library/ | St. Johns County Public Library | Facebook

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Australia's most fascinating criminal. 13 things you may not know about Mark "Chopper" Read. 1. Read spent the first five years of his life in a children's home, and was made a ward of the state by the age of 14. Read says he was certified mentally insane three times - at ages 15, 19 and 23, and that he was given "60 serves of shock treatment in six months". 2. Read earned his reputation as a hard man first by ripping off drug dealers in Melbourne, then making his living kidnapping and torturing