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Why a Man Was Arrested After Renting a VHS Copy of ‘the Worst Movie Ever’

‘I just saw this and I am struggling to believe it is real,’ the film’s star tweeted at the time.

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In March 2016, North Carolina resident James Meyers Jr. was pulled over while driving his daughter to school. The reason for the stop was a broken brake light, but after handing the police officers his license, Meyers was shocked to learn that there was a warrant out for his arrest. His big crime? Not returning a VHS copy of the 2001 Tom Green comedy Freddy Got Fingered, a box-office bomb once described as “the worst movie ever released by a major studio in Hollywood history.”

“They were chit-chatting with me and talking........

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