Um, isn't that what the library is for? A place for them to gather when they're not in cafes or on buses.
Yes of course, but I should have specified: there are whack jobs and then there are
whack jobs. The chap standing there quietly talking away to himself in the non-fiction seciton is all very well, the man who decides to react to an e-mail that someone has sent him by destroying the monitor in front of you is an entirely different prospect.