“Apparently you rented the movie Freddy Got Fingered and never returned it”.
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A Concord, North Carolina man, James Meyers, was driving his daughter to school Tuesday morning when he got pulled over for a tail light being out, a pretty routine traffic stop.
Meyers said the officer ran his license and that is when he said the officer asked him to step out of the vehicle. Instead, he found himself booked for a class 3 misdemeanor, which is punishable with a fine up to $200.
Meyers said he vaguely remembers renting the particular movie from a family-owned video store in Kannapolis.
“Freddy Got Fingered” scores a lowly 11 percent critical rating on the movie website “Rotten Tomatoes”, which says “a significant number of critics are calling Tom Green’s extreme gross-out comedy the worst movie they have ever seen”.
“I thought he was joking”, Meyers told WSOC news, adding that he felt surprised when the arrest was carried out.
A single father has been arrested for failing to return to return a VHS video he rented more than a decade ago.
Turns out, Green caught wind of Meyers’ arrest. He was promptly handcuffed and taken to the magistrate’s office.
Green, who was reached by the NY Daily News while doing a stand-up comedy tour in Australia, said he’s since spoken with Meyers about the incident and has offered to do what he can to help. A court date was set for April 27th. “They’re not focusing on the crimes I think they should be focusing on”.
“If it’s 200 bucks, of course I’ll pay it for him, just for the principle of the thing”, he told the paper.
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“That’s what my local police department and lawmakers are up to”, he said on a video he uploaded to YouTube page.
