South Carolina Woman Jailed After Failing To Return Movie Rented Nine Years Ago

An anonymous reader writes "Could you imagine being arrested for failing to return a movie you rented 9-years earlier? Well that's just what happened to one South Carolina woman. 'According to a Feb 13 arrest report, 27-year-old Kayla Finley rented Monster-in-Law in 2005 from now defunct video store Dalton video. The woman failed to return the video within the 72 hour rental limit, eventually leading up to her arrest 9 years later.'"

Re:What

[Anonymous Coward]

I bet it was "The BEST VHS in the WORLD!"

This is the problem with Netflix, etc.

[dacut]

How are we going to arrest people on frivolous charges when movies are streamed? I suppose we could make it a felony to fail to rewind a stream when you're done viewing it...

Re:Economically Inefficient

[PRMan]

Yeah, fine her $100 and call it a day. I mean, after all, she already watched Monster-in-Law. Hasn't she suffered enough?

Re: Debtors Prison?

[In hydraulis]

If she lost a VHS tape 9 years ago, and the store went under since then, (1) there's no victim

Are you seriously not seeing the cause-effect relationship here?

Re: Debtors Prison?

[Anonymous Coward]

Shh, don't say that here. AK Marc believes that the value of money increases with inflation, because magic.

Re:I was once filed an order to pay for a tape onc

[natd]

... And people wonder why Blockbuster went out of business.... :-0

Wow - you must watch a lot of movies!!!