I had this package delivered Friday evening by UPS; the driver and I had a good laugh.
He said he has never seen anything like this warning in 5 years of delivering packages.  
Enjoy.





I didn't recognize the reference immediately; however someone on Facebook knew who this was:

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So, I bought a book on-line.  Stuffed in-between the pages was a small, folded-up piece of paper.  It's just a book about Byzantium.  I pulled it out and here's what I found:



I believe the town listed on the Birth Certificate is Bournemouth, a coastal town in southern England. I looked up Heidi Louise Louka on Facebook, and didn't find anything promising.  If I don't track her down, I'm guessing it's not that big a deal, but I welcome correction/confirmation.  Perhaps someone here has better Google-fu than me or a better detective skills than me.  I mainly thought it was a fascinating find and decided to share.  

That’s a special piece of someone’s life. I live near Bournemouth and will use my GoogleFu today. It would be important to reunite the certificate with the lady or her parents if possible
Interestingly the certificate is dated 20 years after the birth date. But doesn’t say it’s a duplicate

ashmire13 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:This is a very interesting piece of history now to delve into  :)

Things I've recently found in used books:
-A typewritten sheet of lyrics to popular gospel songs (Why does the line "He's got the itty-bitty baby in his hands" sound so creepy?)
-A calendar page marked with the date & location where its owner died (a hospital that is now a college)
-An enrollment form to a night school which closed fifty years ago & became a fancy hotel (Business management is checked. Did this person go on to an illustrious &/or scandalous career in management, or was it a failed dream? Does the ghost of the student yet walk those halls in a cramming session which never ends?)

Often these are more interesting than the book.

ashmire13 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:Interestingly the certificate is dated 20 years after the birth date. But doesn’t say it’s a duplicate

Using the analytical skills which the best of the American education system has given me, I deduce that the date of 16.11.1997 indicates origin on a world with at least 16 months, & therefore an orbital period of more than 487 Earth days. There's your time discrepancy right there, solved it for you. As I expect never to find out the true answer, I look over at the old copy of Sherlock Holmes I got from a used bookstore, & ponder upon how great minds think alike. Internet sleuthing wins again!

Further research has shown that the registrar was working at the office in 1996, so is likely to have written this out in 1997.

Which begs the question, maybe it is a duplicate or copy?? Which would also suggest maybe the named person didn’t die young?

I think that may be GRO which is general registry office

Mine is longer than that, which made me think that one might be an abbreviated birth certificate, but again, abbreviated certificates usually say so. So maybe the birth certificate just depends on what stationary is supplied to particular registry office at the time.

Looks to have been folded in a manner and size to be carried around in a wallet or credit card slot. I’m sure the owner has long since bought a replacement, but has to be one of the more interesting things to have been found inside a book.

ashmire13 wrote in Random Thoughts or OT Chit-Chat Thread:I think that may be GRO which is general registry office

Looking at the original, I believe you are right.  In fact, GRO is all over the certificate, like/is a watermark.

Thanks for all the help.  I'd love to reunite this with the owner, but I'm not worried about it if it doesn't happen.