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2005-08-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Chris W. 2005-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hope they kept the keys to the John Deere.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-08-10 09:30|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-08-10 09:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The nearby city of Duluth, where Wilbanks had lived with her fiance, spent nearly $43,000 to search for her; Wilbanks has repaid $13,249.

She already paid it - it's called taxes. If the gov't is going to start billing us when we make them do their f*cking jobs, than what are we paying taxes for?

Posted by BH 2005-08-10 09:44|| 2005-08-10 09:44|| Front Page Top

#3 BH - She wasted a lot of other taxpayers' money because she couldn't do the honorable thing. Don't forget that.

If she would have been honest, the cops could have "done their f*cking jobs" instead of wasting time on an idiot like her.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-08-10 10:27|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-08-10 10:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I think she should be spanked.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-08-10 10:52|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-08-10 10:52|| Front Page Top

#5 This being the South, I noted that it was often mentioned that both she and her fiance had come from "prominent families" in the area. To me, this means that she was being forced into a marriage with this guy, who most agree looks rather 'oafen', and had zero choice in the matter. Marry that guy or else is a heck of a choice. Even if she was dead set against it, they would probably only give her the other option of never marrying anyone. Going from a "belle of the ball" debutante at the head of her social circle, to "chattal", overnight, would have to suck.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-10 10:53|| 2005-08-10 10:53|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know, anonymoose. I live right next to Duluth, and, in fact, many in this area are NOT Southerners. Even so, many Southern women these days fight against that stereotype. Finally, it was HER decision...she could've chosen to NOT marry. I think the point is being lost here, though. Must be a VERY slow news day if this is being posted at Fox News!

Posted by BA 2005-08-10 10:59|| 2005-08-10 10:59|| Front Page Top

#7 with that rack, she should be washing cars a la Coolhand Luke

Posted by Kim Jong Il">Kim Jong Il 2005-08-10 11:31|| 2005-08-10 11:31|| Front Page Top

#8 oops - that were me

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-10 11:32|| 2005-08-10 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 So, Frank, um, you wanna help Chuck with the spanking thingy? She exhibits at least some signs of a masochistic personality...

Posted by .com 2005-08-10 11:44|| 2005-08-10 11:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Marry that guy or else is a heck of a choice. Even if she was dead set against it, they would probably only give her the other option of never marrying anyone.

You been reading too many Southern Gothic novels, Moose. Marry him "or else", what? They'll cut off her charge accounts? She won't get Grandma's silver? They'll send five of her cousins 'round to gang rape her? It ain't the NWFP, you know.

Posted by The Low Countries 2005-08-10 11:48|| 2005-08-10 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 "Runaway Bride Mows Lawn"

Yea, but is she wearing eye protection?

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-08-10 12:13|| 2005-08-10 12:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Desert Blondie:

She wasted a lot of other taxpayers' money because she couldn't do the honorable thing. Don't forget that.

Actually, if you want to get technical, the person who called the police on her is the one who wasted the taxpayers' money. What she did was to leave home without telling anybody. It's a selfish thing to do, but do you really want them to pass a law saying you MUST inform somebody of your whereabouts at all times? No thanks, comrade.

She did a stupid thing. People do them all the time. People fall asleep with a cigarette and set apartment complexes on fire, but we don't hand them the fire department's bill. The gov't takes money out of our pockets to provide certain services, and I expect them to provide them. And it is not your prerogative as a taxpayer to cherry-pick the cases which you consider to be worthy. Either provide the service and accept the occasional false alarm, or don't provide the service at all. But I'm sick of seeing this women pilloried on a national level because she happens to be an moron.

Posted by BH 2005-08-10 13:30|| 2005-08-10 13:30|| Front Page Top

#13 What she did was to leave home without telling anybody.

No, she lied to the cops, BH:
She called her fiance, John Mason, from Albuquerque, N.M., early in the morning of her planned wedding day, claiming to have been abducted and sexually assaulted. She soon recanted her story, saying she fled because of personal issues.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-08-10 15:19|| 2005-08-10 15:19|| Front Page Top

#14 She called her fiance

No, she didn't - at least, not in her own state. She did give the NM police a fraudulent report, and they chose not to charge her.

Posted by BH 2005-08-10 15:35|| 2005-08-10 15:35|| Front Page Top

#15 BH, with the insinuation that the "crime" started in Georgia (the abduction, at least....), her fiance did the normal thing and made a police report.

The difference is, he was acting on good faith, and she knowingly lied. She couldn't possibly be that damn dumb to think that someone who cared about her wouldn't make a police report in that situation. I know I would if someone I loved said they had been raped, kidnapped, and dragged across the country.

Also, you forget that for a while the authorities believed he killed her and were treating him as a suspect. Most normal people don't go off on a run and not come back unless there's some foul play. She didn't just wake up one day and get her happy ass on a bus. She deliberately made it look like something bad happened to her.

He filed that report, assuming that the woman he loved was telling the truth, in Georgia. New Mexico could have chosen to charge her but didn't. That doesn't mean they couldn't have....maybe they were just sick of her crap by then and wanted her out of there.

If she had just been honest and said she didn't want to go through with it, guess what? NOTHING would have happened. She's over 18 and can do what she wants to. Even if her fiance wanted to make a report, there would have been nothing anyone could do absent evidence of a crime.

I still think that dumb broad got off easy....and that she's guilty as hell.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-08-10 16:25|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2005-08-10 16:25|| Front Page Top

#16 I clap my Palps with glee! She remembers nothing!

Posted by Sub Commander Megar 2005-08-10 18:32|| 2005-08-10 18:32|| Front Page Top

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