capitalism & punitive justice vs people, The Verge link
"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."
"While the warrant has now reportedly been dropped and her record may soon be expunged, it wouldn’t have been totally surprising if she’d actually gotten arrested over the tape: a man in North Carolina got arrested for an overdue VHS rental in 2016."
re: capitalism & punitive justice vs people, The Verge link
@LexYeen Same piece of shit DA described a crusade against weed paraphenalia as "totally worth" the exorbitant amount of money the city spent on it. (https://www.oklahoman.com/article/5551315/prosecutor-in-norman-cost-of-prosecuting-glass-pipe-case-worth-it) Nuke their whole court building from orbit far as I'm concerned.
re: capitalism & punitive justice vs people, The Verge link
@zebratron2084 Now now, nuclear fallout is an ecological hazard.
Let's drop a couple rods from god instead.