Woman jailed for not returning 2005 video rental

[joeybee12]

Kayla Michelle Finley may be wishing that services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime had been around a little earlier.

The South Carolina woman spent a night in jail last week for failing to return a video she rented -- in 2005.

It was a VHS tape. Of a Jennifer Lopez movie.

Finley, 27, was arrested Thursday in Pickens County, South Carolina, on a misdemeanor charge of failure to return the video, according to CNN affiliate WYFF-TV.

The movie, "Monster-In-Law," starring Lopez and Jane Fonda as a feuding potential daughter- and mother-in-law, was rented from a video store, Dalton Videos, that is now out of business.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/17/tech/web/video-rental-arrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

An aside, a very inaccurate news story...the movie starred Jane Fonda; Lopez can never be a star of anything.

[redwitch]

1. A heinous crime indeed, worthy of incarceration.

If she had shot the video store owner while standing her ground...

[Orrex]

3. That's inappropriate for at least two reasons:

1. SYG laws only apply to white males who pull the trigger.
2. SYG laws only apply to black males who get shot.

[redwitch]

12. Oh, of course. I forgot the rules.

[Orrex]

2. Generally I oppose capital punishment, but...

[jberryhill]

4. They should have jailed the producers of that film

[joeybee12]

6. An awful movie, but I liked it because it was the first film

Jane had done in ages...she had un-retired

[jberryhill]

9. Holding out for Barbarella II?

[joeybee12]

10. Wasn't there a remake of that?

The male lead was gorgeous in that...and he's probably 80 now, if he's still alive.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. Why did you use "woman" in your headline?

Do you have an axe to grind or something? This board has no room for misogyny.

[LanternWaste]

11. Yet more than enough room to transport petulance from one thread to another.

"This board has no room for misogyny..."

Yet more than enough room to transport one's petulance from one thread to another.

(insert rationalization here)

[kcr]

13. It's only a certain small group that stirs the gender wars and causes problems on DU n/t

[gopiscrap]

7. this thread is fucked up!

on a serious note, this is such bullshit....yes, go after the woman civially, but what a bunch of crap. This is one of the reasons I can't stand capitalism!

[Vashta Nerada]

8. I commend the officers for taking this dangerous criminal off our streets.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Does anyone recall the episode of The Big Bang Theory.....

...where Sheldon makes Leonard track down the owners of a defunct video store where he supposedly forgot to return a video, only to tell him in the end that he actually returned the movie for him and that he was only trying to teach him a (inexplicable) lesson?