![]() ![]() In another incident in 2014, a South Carolina woman was at the sheriff’s office for an unrelated matter when she found out there was a warrant against her for not returning a 2005 VHS tape of Monster in Law. In 2016, a North Carolina man had been pulled over for a malfunctioning tail light when he was told there was a warrant for a misdemeanor charge against him for not returning a VHS tape of Freddy Got Fingered. ![]() McBride said that lawyers told her that after her story made the local news, they received calls from people who went to jail in similar situations. Other people have gotten in trouble with the law for not returning VHS tapes. McBride suspects having the felony on her record cost her opportunities in the job market. Now, she is looking for an Oklahoma attorney, but some lawyers have turned down her case. “I thought I was going to have a heart attack.” “I called it and the lady … looked up the reference number and told me it was a felony embezzlement,” McBride said. When McBride emailed the Department of Motor Vehicles in November to make an appointment, the agency responded on April 16 that she had to settle an issue in Oklahoma first. The email response contained a case number and a phone number for the courthouse. McBride did not find out about the outstanding warrant against her until she attempted to change her name on her license after getting married and moving to Texas from Oklahoma. She believes her then-boyfriend, who had two young daughters, rented the tape under her name. The 52-year-old was charged with felony embezzlement of rental property in Oklahoma, where she used to live back in March 2000, more than a year after the VHS tape of Sabrina the Teenage Witchwas due to be returned, according to USA Today. “It makes me madder and madder the more I think about it.” Now she is free to change her driver's license without fear of arrest over a borderline extinct medium of home video consumption.A Texas woman who did not realize she rented a VHS tape of Sabrina the Teenage Witch 22 years ago and did not return it from a place that shut its doors more than a decade ago recently discovered she was charged with a felony.Įven though the case was dismissed and expunged on Wednesday, Caron McBride is exploring her legal options. “It’s hurt me tremendously, and my family,” she told USA Today. (The punishment for felony embezzlement in Oklahoma is a maximum of one year in jail, along with a fine of $1,000, plus restitution.) Thankfully, upon learning of the situation last week, the Cleveland County District Attorney decided to dismiss McBride’s case. The store that McBride supposedly rented the tape from closed years ago, but the warrant was still outstanding, which means she could have still faced a serious penalty. She added “I didn't try to deceive anyone over Samantha (Sabrina) the Teenage Witch. Meanwhile, I'm a wanted felon for a VHS tape. I have never watched that show in my entire life, just not my cup of tea. He had two kids, daughters that were 8, 10 or 11 years old, and I'm thinking he went and got it and didn't take it back or something. I had lived with a young man, this was over 20 years ago. McBride told Fox 25 she doesn’t remember renting the tape, much less not returning it - but she suspects this is what happened. According to Fox 25, McBride had been charged all the way back in March of 2000 with “embezzlement of rented property” over a VHS copy of Sabrina the Teenage Witch that she allegedly borrowed from the Movie Place video store in Norman, Oklahoma and never returned. ![]()
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