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

Summary by Vice
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 maj…

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Vice broke the news in New York, United States on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
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