In a case that would have made Officer Javert proud, a woman in the US suddenly found out she was a wanted felon for the crime of...
...not returning a videotape rented from a store on Oklahoma in 2000:
Woman charged and sacked from job after not returning video rental more than two decades ago --
https://7news.com.au/entertainment/v...ntal-c-2680264
A few things occur to me...
1. She says she was let go from several jobs, quite possibly due to the outstanding felony warrant; it seems odd that none of those employers would even ask her for her side of te story before sacking her;
2. Given how many different sort of legal functions (driver's license renewals, passport application, pre-employment screening, etc.) tend to require at least a cursory scan of a person's legal status, it seems odd the matter hasn't come up in the past two decades;
3. Oklahoma must really have some exceedingly stringent standards regarding the classification of crimes; it is stated in the displayed OK legal document that the value of the tape was USD $58.59; in almost all states, a felony property crime charge is not leveled unless the value of the property is in excess of ~ USD $500 or more, with the general cutoff of at least USD $1,000; anything under the cutoff is usually a misdemeanor and is often handled via a civil suit rather than criminal action; OK must really be an über law and order state...
Well, I'm off to get rid of that copy of
Beetlejuice I "forgot" to return in 1989...
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