Overdue VHS Tape From 1999 Leads to Warrant for Embezzlement
The charge was related to a “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” tape that had been rented from a video store in Norman, Okla. Prosecutors dismissed the case on Wednesday.
Prosecutors said that a Texas woman had failed to return a VHS copy of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” that she rented from a video store in 1999.Credit.Kazuhiro Nogi/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
April 25, 2021Updated 5:35 p.m. ET
They once dotted shopping plazas in America with ubiquity, beckoning binge watchers with shelves of VHS cassettes, microwave popcorn and boxes of candy and a reminder to “Be Kind, Rewind.”