Movie Rental Felon

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a woman in Texas who learned she has a felony embezzlement charge on her record after being turned down for jobs. The crazier thing is the charge stems from a movie that wasn't returned back in 1999.

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00:00there's nothing like finding out you're a wanted felon over a technology that really

00:08basically doesn't exist anymore a woman learned she has an outstanding felony charge

00:14for not returning a vhs tape back in 1999 andy that seems yeah i see i'm not worried about it

00:24because i don't think blockbuster does that right this has got to be one of those like little uh

00:29little places right and what was it sabrina the teenage witch oh man that's her outstanding

00:38felony charge here's the story i would i think it is i think it is worth it here's the story from fox

00:4625 in oklahoma take a listen to believe that one of these could result in felony embezzlement charges

00:53but that's exactly what happened to mcbride and now she's dealing with even greater issues because of

00:58it the first thing she told me was felony embezzlement so i thought i was going to have

01:03a heart attack it was a moment of disbelief for karen mcbride as she was talking to the cleveland

01:08county district attorney's office this week where she learned she was a wanted felon for never

01:14returning sabrina the teenage witch on vhs 21 years ago a movie she says she never even rented

01:24no actually i had lived with a young man this was over 20 years ago he had two kids daughters that

01:32were 8 10 11 years old and i'm thinking he went and got it and didn't take it back or something i don't

01:40know i have never watched that show in my entire life just not my cup of tea online documents show

01:46mcbride was charged with embezzlement in march of 2000 but never knew about the charges until recently

01:52when trying to change her name on her license after getting married they told me that i had a

01:58issue in oklahoma and this was the reference number for me to call this number and i did

02:03meanwhile i'm a wanted felon for a vhs take

02:08documents show the movie was rented at movie place in norman oklahoma we've since learned

02:14movie place the name of the place is called movie place you don't steal from movie place down here

02:21you understand you understand what we do to people steal our own to the greatest extent of the law

02:28how'd you guys come up with the name i don't know thinking about it we spitballed a couple different

02:33places we was gonna call a movie stop yeah popcorn joint and then we was just gonna call it the flick

02:39center but then turns out that was taken it was it was you believe that so then he just comes run

02:46up one day and says movie place you know and i was like that's it it came to me in a dream and if

02:51somebody steals sabrina the teenage witch we are gonna just slap them with a felony to think how many

02:58families went without seeing sabrina the teenage witch it says here you listed the cost of sabrina

03:04the teenage witch at almost 55 dollars for a vhs it's expensive vhs table there's licensing

03:10there's licensing things out it ain't simple stuff we dot our i's and cross our t's here at movie place

03:17are you still in business no no we haven't been in business in 25 years oh okay when did they just

03:24say that they went out of business in 2008 is that what is that what they said okay i just saw

03:28and i thought the reporter just made up she didn't like they just they're like i don't know the name

03:32of it yeah like movie place no no it's there that's the name of it meanwhile i'm a wanted felon

03:42for a vhs table mcbride says over the last 20 years she's been let go from several jobs without

03:48given a reason why and says now it all makes sense oh my god could you imagine you've been fired for

03:55this my criminal background check all they're saying is those two words felony embezzlement oh

04:01my god i mean i can't you can't hire someone that has that yeah hooked up with some guy who rented

04:07sabrina the teenage witch and you didn't probably brought it back to the wrong place probably dropped

04:13it off at blockbuster her whole life could have been different it wasn't for the movie right she's

04:17like i live in a van now it looks like she's like she did the interview from a van it did it did look

04:22like everything was going really great turns out a life is a tragedy at least she's got a good sense

04:28of humor about it yeah she can laugh she can laugh laugh it off laughing off that my life's been a

04:36nightmare i just got fired from every good job i ever had i had so many opportunities i could have had

04:41i just laugh and laugh but wait a second hold on so i'm just like randomly fired from every place i

04:49don't ever say hey what's the deal why she wasn't hired no like she wouldn't get jobs or i should go

04:55in for the interview they do the the background check and it would show up as felony embezzlement

05:00and they would say no yeah yeah see you later hire you yeah sabrina the teenage witch changed the

05:07course of her entire life no so she could have had a high paying job worked her way up been like

05:13living the dream one bad choice in a man spring of the teenage bitch it only takes one of us lease

05:18must be the independent little places like you said because the big yeah you said the big stores

05:23yeah i waited a couple of those big dogs out yeah

05:25i was in that by the way that's that colin ferrell

05:55colin ferrell you're right somebody was in a full booth yes and there was a sniper right

06:01oh yeah it doesn't seem worth it in the end

06:09it wasn't it wasn't it take it in the shower great

06:15take it in the shower

06:16ah too bad yeah only two movies that are worth that

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