Man forgets to return rented "Freddy Got Fingered" on VHS. He's now arrested. - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35899697[/url] [img]http://i.imgur.com/WhbVgyb.jpg[/img] [quote=excerpt]"The officer said, 'I don't know how to tell you this but there's a warrant out for your arrest from 2002. ... I thought he was joking," Mr Meyers told WSOC, a local TV station. "For the first time I got put in handcuffs." He was booked at the police station and was given a court date, but the charge was later dismissed. He faced a fine of $200 (£140). Freddie Got Fingered, about an out-of-work cartoonist who moves in with his parents, was criticised by critics and was considered a disappointment at the box office when it was released in 2001.[/quote] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3Uvi4fZk4[/media]

What kind of DVD rental place gets the cops to put out a WARRANT for an unreturned movie, especially one that sucked?

[QUOTE=mralexs;50020277]What kind of DVD rental place gets the cops to put out a WARRANT for an unreturned movie, especially one that sucked?[/QUOTE] The fact that it's for a VHS is what blows my mind.

[QUOTE=LSK;50020282]The fact that it's for a VHS is what blows my mind.[/QUOTE] Well VHS was still pretty prevalent in 2002 and the warrant is from that time, it was only executed now for some reason.

Pan?

Why didn't they just raid his house? That's 14 years with an active warrant out for your arrest.

[QUOTE=mralexs;50020277]What kind of DVD rental place gets the cops to put out a WARRANT for an unreturned movie, especially one that sucked?[/QUOTE] freddy got fingered is a work of art

[QUOTE=mralexs;50020277]What kind of DVD rental place gets the cops to put out a WARRANT for an unreturned movie, especially one that sucked?[/QUOTE] does it hurt having bad taste?

I have a copy of the immortals out from 2012 oh god.

[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;50020376]I have a copy of the immortals out from 2012 oh god.[/QUOTE] i'd flee to mexico tbh

Get the rope, boys. This is one sick fuck.

We had a blockbuster copy of one of the Police Academy films for years when I was little.

Tom Green said he's going to help pay for the fine [url]http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20981907_20996197,00.html[/url]

Justice has been served :hammered:

[QUOTE=Araknid;50020496]Tom Green said he's going to help pay for the fine [url]http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20981907_20996197,00.html[/url][/QUOTE] So his bum is paying fees? His bum is paying fees?

Had something along the same wacky lines here a few weeks back. [url]http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/77839475/debt-collectors-chase-video-ezy-late-fees-after-store-shuts[/url]

Movie rental places used to do this scummy tactic, the law usually has minimum damages that you have to have caused before they can put out a warrant but because movies are their business they could claim that it was damaging their business or something Really funny though

This is the funniest thing I've heard about today. That warrant was on his name for that long? A fucking WARRANT? From a VHS rental store in 2002?

[QUOTE=mralexs;50020277]especially one that sucked?[/QUOTE] fu that film was best

[QUOTE=Araknid;50020496]Tom Green said he's going to help pay for the fine [url]http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20981907_20996197,00.html[/url][/QUOTE] Except in the OP he wont face the fine. [quote]the charge was later dismissed. He faced a fine of $200 (£140).[/quote]

[QUOTE=Electrocuter;50020295]Well VHS was still pretty prevalent in 2002 and the warrant is from that time, it was only executed now for some reason.[/QUOTE] Either the cops are really slow or someone was bored enough to put a warrant on him.

[QUOTE=KOS-MOS;50021835]Either the cops are really slow or someone was bored enough to put a warrant on him.[/QUOTE] It was most likely just a bench warrant and not a full blown arrest warrant. Cops won't usually go out of their way to arrest you for small bench warrants, and will instead wait until you get pulled over or something like that to take you in. Departments who actively pursue bench warrants as arrest warrants all of the time are usually cash grabbing departments.

funny thing is, there is no way the stores even in business any more

Many long-overdue stuffs have been returned this week. In another news, a library book overdue by nearly 50 years was returned to a university library in Ohio :v: [URL="http://www.pantagraph.com/news/weird-news/library-book-overdue-nearly-years-returned-to-ohio-school/article_3b47ef78-634e-5657-b5f5-0af10a060041.html"]http://www.pantagraph.com/news/weird-news/library-book-overdue-nearly-years-returned-to-ohio-school/article_3b47ef78-634e-5657-b5f5-0af10a060041.html[/URL]

cant get away from the law this time perp on a serious note [I]what[/I]

[QUOTE=erkor;50023078]cant get away from the law this time perp on a serious note [I]what[/I][/QUOTE] Misdemeanor warrant issued in 2002. Police dont waste resources trying to catch people for petty shit like that unless its within the context of the contact. The victim (or suspect - same thing here really) just didnt have any police contact for 14 years of his life until that traffic stop. Arrest warrants dont expire. Was probably a cash-in-hand warrant too.. if he came up with $200 on the spot he would have been free to go.

[QUOTE=Starpluck;50020311]Why didn't they just raid his house? That's 14 years with an active warrant out for your arrest.[/QUOTE] That would've started a fire in the media if they'd sent a swat team to pick him up. I kinda wish they had, could've showed how dumb things can be.

Worth it for that wonderful film. The apex of human creation.