That’s right, a Pickens County South Carolina woman Kayla Michelle Finley, was arrested, charged and jailed when she went to the county sheriff’s office to report a (more recent) crime. I hope she wasn’t there to report a crime in progress, because the officers’ attention was diverted when they discovered an active warrant on the 27-year-old scofflaw. For her trouble, she spent the night in jail, until her bond hearing when a judge released her on a $2,000 personal recognizance bond.
It’s no wonder they are trying to recoup their lost rental profits on the Jay Lo and Jane Fonda classic “Monster in Law.” If you calculate the average late fee at $2 dollars per night, you run up a tab of approximately $720 a year, or around $7 thousand dollars in nine years…A bargain at twice the price. Figures could be wildly off, as math isn’t my forte, but you can bet it’s a lotta bucks!
I don’t know if there is a statute of limitations in Pickens County. It seems as though failure to return a video in 2005, and a charge of petty larceny is a bit severe – especially when the video rental store has long been out of business!