WTF: Woman Jailed For Failing To Return Jennifer Lopez Movie In 2005
By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2014 1:00 pm EST
South Carolina woman Kayla Michelle Finley was sent to jail last week for failing to return a copy of the Jennifer Lopez comedy Monster-in-Law that she’d rented nine years ago. Although the store where she originally picked up the tape, Dalton’s Video, has since shut down, the warrant for her arrest never expired. Find out exactly what happened after the jump.
The deputies indicate that arrests like these were much more common in the days of video stores, and stress that failure to return rented property of any sort is illegal. Which, fair enough. Businesses rely on customers to keep their end of the deal. Still, in an age when even DVD-by-mail has been supplanted by streaming, there’s something almost quaint about the idea of a really bad late fee.
