PSA: You can apparently still lose jobs and get arrested for an overdue VHS rental
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Ever mysteriously lost a job opportunity? Did they treat you like a criminal? Better check to see if your family forgot to return a VHS tape 22 years ago!
As utterly ridiculous as that sounds, it’s apparently the true story of Texas woman Caron McBride, who had a warrant out for her arrest in Oklahoma for felony embezzlement all because a movie store thought she rented a copy of
Sabrina and the Teenage Witch in 1999 and never bothered to bring it back. Never mind that the store in question (“Movie Place”) closed in 2008, or that VHS is such a dated tech that even the last Japanese manufacturer finally stopped producing the players five years back.
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.”
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Now, as vaccination rates are up and much of the country is experiencing something that feels like normalcy and hope, many (myself included) are in the mood for viewing that s a little more uplifting. Think less gruesome murders and more onion ring scandals and Blockbuster nostalgia.
As such, I ve gathered some of the must-watch documentaries from the last couple of years some of which you may have missed amid the pandemic that are the perfect antidote for too many true crime binges.
1.
The Mole Agent (Hulu)
In a Chilean town outside of Santiago, Sergio Chamy answers an unusual newspaper ad: ELDERLY MALE NEEDED. Retired, between 80 and 90 years old. Independent, discrete, and competent with technology. He arrives at the office of a private investigator named Rómulo, who explains that a client is concerned that her mother, who has dementia, is perhaps being neglected or even abused in the nursing home facility where she resides.
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