Teenager Goes to Jail for Overdue DVD

[jomofro39]

Now I can sleep at night knowing that this man returned his DVD. Heroes, every one of the officers of Littleton.

 

[Codesmith]

This happens all too often.

It could have been worse, he could have been arrested because the person who rented the DVD after him failed to return it.

Judge issued an order for my sister to appear in court to prove a car, which was no longer registered to her, could pass emissions testing. That then turned into an arrest warrant.








Nor did they notify her when that escalated into an arrest warrant for failure to appear in court.

The warrant just remained hidden in the system for over 4 years until she was suddenly arrested during a traffic stop.

She renewed her license, registered vehicles, fought a traffic ticket in court. The warrant either didn't show up or no one bothered to mention it.

Apparently its standard policy to do nothing about warrants of that type except wait until someone gets pulled over for a traffic violation.

 

[dan-fish]

I'm not renting anymore....

 

[phantomtrooper]

*sarcasm* Good! These are the kind of heartless criminals that deserver to go to prison. He should stay there and rot. *sarcasm*

seriously though WTF!?!?!?!

 

[coldmast]

In Capitalist America the DVD rents you! /sarcasm

 

[jonnyberthiaume]

As far as many of you complain, this was the right call.

You read the guy forgot the DVD, I read the guy never returned the DVD he rented. What difference does it make? Well, if I take something in any store and don't pay to actually own it, well I am by definition a thief.

The store filed a complaint and when the cops found where he lived they arrested him. That you stole candies or a DVDs is irrelevant. And just because the guy say he forgot doesn't make it true. When the guy unpacked the DVD in his new house, he probably found out he forgot about returning it and decided to keep it because he was lazy. At the end of the day, the guy didn't pay to own it and he chose to "steal" it as benign as it seems. The system isn't messed up because it actually worked.

Sure, it can happen to everyone to forget about a DVD and I am sure the guy didn't want to steal it. It seems ridiculous to be arrested over a DVD, but if I keep this same principle, it would be OK to steal anything below 30$ just because it's not that much and I don't really want to steal it...

 

[Guest]

What a blatantly misleading title / lede. The kid wasn't sent to jail for an overdue DVD. He was sent to jail because he failed to appear in court.

 

[timbo]

"Teenager Goes To Jail for Overdue CD"...
Actually he went to jail for failure to appear for a court summons. Just saying. But that wouldn't make as interesting a title.

 

[smithereen]

The kid stole a DVD, and moved without leaving a forwarding address. He covered most of the expenses. Nothing wrong with this picture except the sensationalist coverage.

 

[Guest]

Well lesson to us all...those old ladys arent puting up with them late fees no more lol

 

[ElCdt]

In other news, a kid went to jail on charges of indecent exposure for forgetting to zip his pants.

 

[IFLATLINEI]

This is the kind of stuff that happens when Government officials and entities forget they work for us. Its time we make them remember who the Boss really is. This Boss in particular is getting sick and tired of reading about all this wastefull behavior. How many times was that DVD loaned out? Has it provided a return on the investment? Does the cost of this whole fiasco justify the DVD's cost? No one asked any of these questions before arresting this kid. Typical. The Government is making fools out of all of us? When are we going to put our foots down?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

 

[captaincharisma]

hope it was at least a good movie

 

[fulle]

[citation][nom]nimbus77[/nom]Don't they have real criminals to arrest?[/citation]

In Littleton? Littleton's a pretty safe city, that has VERY low violent crime rates (assault, robbery, rape, murder, etc). What they do have, is average levels of non-violent thefts (burglary, larceny theft, vehicle theft). So, no. They don't really have anything better to do in Littleton, besides arresting thieves.

 

[Guest]

What a waste of tax money? I tell you we need to cut govt resources and fire few judges and police.

 

[jgiron]

How the hell is a DVD you can pick up for $1 on ebay/etc valued at $31.45?

Some Government Associations do not depreciate the value of their items. School boards who pay $1300 for a computer 5 years ago will still have them on their books as $1300. This has to do with the item being 'capitalized' (over a certain amount) that they have to account for when audited.
At the library level their capitalized amount or 'threshold' was $30. This means when they are audited and can not show the auditors where this item is they are hit big. Usually, the person in charge has to pay for it out of pocket.

 

[mtyermom]

Several people have already commented that the arrest warrant was for 'failure to appear' and not, implicitly 'failure to return a DVD'.

Several other people have ignored this fact and are crying: "OMGZ the nazi pig cop arrested this poor guy over a DVD WTFFFF?!??!!11"

Wake up, people. This wasn't an issue of an overzealous police officer. He was just doing his job. When the officer ran Aaron Henson's information (via license plates or driver's license), the information returned to him read something like: 'outstanding warrant re: failure to appear'. The warrant itself likely said nothing about the issue with the DVD itself.

The real issue and injustice here, which I think most of us can agree on, is the ridiculousness of the overdue return of a DVD to the library turning into an arrest warrant.

If Aaron's statement of "The city attorney told me, they weren’t concerned about due process. What they were concerned about was their DVD." holds any truth, it clearly shows greed winning over constitutional rights, and that is the biggest travesty of this whole fiasco.

 

[Guest]

I like that the city attorney isn't interested in due process - cool the Nazis won the war after all...

 

[techguy378]

[citation][nom]andboomer[/nom]How the hell is a DVD you can pick up for $1 on ebay/etc valued at $31.45?[/citation]
You can't buy this movie brand new on ebay.

 

[pink315]

[citation][nom]outlw6669[/nom]Wow, what a country[/citation]
Lol only in the U.S.A will you not have access to health care AND get arrested for overdue movies.