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Did you return that VCR Tape? You might have a warrant out for you.
For comedy, if this wasn’t serious. Imagine the stormtroopers at your door at 2:00 AM for your “late” tape rental.
Make sure you returned that Sabrina The Teenage Witch tape you “stole” in 1999 or you might face arrest. For “felony embezzlement!”
An arrest warrant for not returning that VCR tape? And a 20 year old one at that? What is wrong with courts that they issue arrest warrants for a $20 tape with a felony embezzlement charge?
[link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/26/carol-mcbride-davis-sabrina-vhs/]https://www.washingtonpos…ide-davis-sabrina-vhs/[/link]For years, Caron McBride never understood why she was spontaneously fired from jobs or why she had trouble landing a new one. But when she tried to change her last name on her Texas[b] [/b]drivers license earlier this month, she finally found out why.
When they ran my criminal background check, all theyre seeing is those two words: felony embezzlement, McBride, 52, told [link=https://okcfox.com/news/local/oklahoma-woman-charged-with-felony-for-not-returning-vhs-tape-21-years-ago]KOKH[/link], which first reported her story.
Her crime? Not returning a VHS copy of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the 90s sitcom staring Melissa Joan Hart, after renting it from a Norman, Okla., video store in 1999, according to court documents shared[b] [/b]by KOKH.
McBride first learned of the felony charge after getting married in November in Texas. When she emailed the Texas Department of Motor vehicles to legally change her last name from Davis, she learned there was a problem.They sent me an email and they told me that I had an issue in Oklahoma, McBride told KOKH.
[b]They told her to call the Cleveland County District Attorneys office, which informed her there was a warrant for her arrest filed in March 2000 on felony embezzlement charges.[/b]
[b]She told me it was over the VHS tape and I had to make her repeat it because I thought, this is insane, she said. This girl is kidding me, right? She wasnt kidding.[/b]
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I had a similar thing when I was in undergrad.
Rented “Outlaw Josey Wales” in 1986 on VHS from local video store.
I forgot to return it for a looooong time. When I finally found it wand brought it back, the owner wanted to charge me $865 for late fees.
I refused. It got sent to collections and the bill collectors followed for the next 5 years. Calls to my home in Indianapolis in medical school. Calls to my childhood home in Cleveland.
Came up when I bought my first new car on my own in 1991 on a credit search.
But I never paid. By the time I bought next car in 1994 it was gone. 🙂
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But your credit score got dinged for awhile & you have to put up with the collection leeches but you were never at risk for being charged with a actual felony and a warrant out for your arrest for 2 decades.
This is brain dead legal system at work making criminals for petty stuff. It’s not like she shoplifted a pack of cigarettes a some food or such. /S-
Not specifically VHS tape related but I got turned over to collections by my own employer for something like $4 and change that I didn’t know I owed for a lab bill that was barely overdue. I never got a bill and just got called by the collection agency. I just logged into the PHR and paid it while the person was on the phone and we were good to go.
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