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Pickens - When a woman went to the police for help, she was unexpectedly arrested and charged with a crime: failure to return a movie she rented back in 2005.
Kayla M. Finley, 27, went to the Pickens County Sheriff's Office to report a crime on February 13th, but when she provided her name to the deputies, she was placed in handcuffs.
Nine years earlier, she had rented
Monster In Law and apparently had not returned it to the video store. A warrant for her arrest had been issued in September 2005. Even though the rental store is no longer in business, police still intend on collecting that late fee - in the form of wringing her through the court system.
Her actual offense was "Failure to return rented video cassette," which is classified under petty larceny, a misdemeanor.
Police say that she was sent a warning letter from the store, but Finley says she never got this letter.
"Its obvious that Pickens County has nothing better to do. I fully intend on fighting this. Its ridiculous that I had this happen to me,"
Finley said to KPLCtv.com.
Comment: A wonderful example of just how far modern human society is from being "civilized".