On Thursday morning last week, Kayla Finley arrived at a Pickens County Police Station, South Carolina, to report a crime only to be informed that she, herself, was being put under arrest due to a warrant issued by a video rental company over a video that was 9 years over-due a return.
Kayla had rented out Monster In Law back in 2005 and had failed to return it. The police were said to have issued her a warning after a PJ Dalton, of Dalton's Video, had contacted police notifying them of the late return. After the warning was met with silence, a warrant was issued for Ms. Finley's arrest. A warrant that only came to light after Kayla Finley went to press unrelated charges of harassment and stalking.
The story was quickly picked up by Fox Carolina, with Finley taking to Facebook to express her distress and disgust:
'I went to the police station to press charges of harassment and stalking. Not once did I ever receive anything regarding this [video]. If I had, it would have been taken care of immediately.'
So much for that, Kayla was thrown in the slammer for the night over not returning the - mediocre at best - JLo RomCom, co-starring Jane Fonda. Police say that even though the video store has since closed down, that the warrant still had to be served. Ouch.
She was charged with peiti larceny and 'failing to return a rented video cassette' (which apparently is an actual thing, over yonder)
'I fully intend on fighting this. It's ridiculous that I had this happen to me' Kayla told Fox News
A judge ordered a $2000 recognizance bond on Friday morning, and she was released.
$2000 blips for a poxy J-Lo flic that wasn't even funny, that's a kick in the quiche, if ever I saw one.
Whatever if it was Shawshank Redemption or The Godfather, but Monster In Law? Embarrassing enough.
I'm pretty sure I have a copy of the Karate Kid that I rented about 15 years ago. But, to be fair, I'd go to jail for that movie, happily enough.
Via: BBC News
