but not before gary marshall.
― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― you work for kay (dymaxia), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― you work for kay (dymaxia), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link
How did this become international news?
I don't care if she's punished! I don't care about any of it at all. It doesn't concern me. It doesn't concern anyone except the people immediately affected.
Cable TV news must be killed.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not sure. It's baffling. One thing you can say, the international (non-US) sources take a less biased view of the whole thing.
― you work for kay (dymaxia), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:32 (nineteen years ago) link
and i love how the self-righteous twerps on that mailing list inexplicably act like it's this woman's fault that this story was chosen by the press to be this week's "pointless human interest story that no one cares about."
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andre Dawson (deangulberry), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link
"There's a minority that believe that there should be no prosecution, and then there's the same number that believe I'm a relentless publicity hound," Porter said.
He would not say whether he plans to file charges.
Asked whether Wilbanks has expressed sorrow for her actions, Porter said, "Sometimes, I'm not sure she has the capability for remorse."
He continued: "I'm not even sure she really understands the magnitude of what happened here."
Porter said he knew as soon as he heard Wilbanks' story that the woman was lying, and said he was not persuaded she had come clean yet.
"There's something about the statement she gave today that doesn't ring completely true and, to tell you the truth, I think that her absorption with herself is so great that she just really doesn't understand what the consequences of what she did are," Porter said.
"She said that she never thought there would be a search for her. Well, that just doesn't make sense."
That's a douchebag.
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― sugarpants: new and improved! (sugarpants), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― you work for kay (dymaxia), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
but, given that most local governments are getting fucked by dubya's tax cuts + unfunded mandates, i think it's more than the county treasurer that should be pissed about this waste of money.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, to whoever said that it's not her fault that the media blew the whole thing out proportion: OTM.
― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Dude, easy. They're just more interested in more traditional, train-based transportation solutions. It's like you've got this knee-jerk hatorade just because they like all-white subways. Jeesh.
― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.his.com/~blev/Images/lynner01a.jpg
http://www.lynnerussell.com/gallery/images/modeling_jpg.jpg
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alma Faggoo, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago) link
What law did she allegedly violate anyway? Giving a false statement to the police (in the course of one's own missing persons investigation, after one has been found, at which point would the investigation still be devoted to anything other than paperwork, like ensuring her continuin safety or well-being)?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Possible Punishments:
Isn't having your face on CNN for 3 days straight, punishment enough?
We're not the only board to be talking about this either. I'd be sick if I knew one of my dumb japes had caused me to be a subject of public comment. I definitely think that a DA's office needs the baility to prosecute people for filing false
Apparently the worst punishment would be to make her get married.
The DA should brandish the threat of prosecution and drop it and get on with bidness. She, on the other hand has some 'splainin' to do. I definitely believe that DA offices should have the ability to prosecute people for lying to the police but that they shouldn't press charges in most cases like this.
Morbius is right. My gf has that book.
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
and I think Ally was right upthread.
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
There's more than a hint of Salem witch burning here. It reminds me of that staged event where a man supposedly proposes to a woman at a basketball game and she declines and then everyone wants to attack her.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
PLUR
― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Friday, 6 May 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
it's pretty stupid.
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link
I call it the "Vanessa Williams Syndrome" or "VWS" for short.)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.spscriptorium.com/SPBios/ButtersParents.jpg
― Nippon Q Q, Friday, 6 May 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Friends said Mr Mason was once a "wild" guy who "dated a lot", but became a Christian and "born-again virgin" five years ago.
"He's been saving himself for the right woman," Andy Parsons said.
Ms Wilbanks' friends say that probably drove the marathon enthusiast to run from the altar.
In Ms Wilbanks' home town of Gainsville, girlfriends told The New York Post the 32-year-old woman had once enjoyed a very active social life, regularly dating men from a local gym as well as firemen.
Ms Wilbanks, who had breast implants before meeting Mason, "had lots of boyfriends," a friend said.
Yesterday, she said her cross-country jaunt had "nothing to do with cold feet."
"I cannot fully explain what happened to me last week," the runaway bride wrote in a rambling statement read by her pastor.
There were "a host of compelling issues which seemed out of control."
― it's mashed potato time! (dymaxia), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Wow, someone's on the rag. Right....females get 'free passes', muah-ha-ha-ha...
― it's mashed potato time! (dymaxia), Saturday, 7 May 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― broken down (noisemeltdown), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
The Associated Press
Jun. 16, 2005 - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks made a deal with a company that is pitching a movie about her life to networks annoying officials who spent thousands of dollars searching for her.
ReganMedia, a New York multimedia company, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for a story in Thursday's papers it has acquired all media rights to the "life stories" of Wilbanks and her fiance, John Mason.
The company did not say whether any money had changed hands.
"I am looking forward to developing the scripted project with Wilbanks and Mason," company president Judith Regan said in a statement. "Theirs is an unexpected and compelling story of love and forgiveness that has certainly taught me a thing or two."
The 32-year-old bride-to-be disappeared from her Duluth home on April 26, four days before her wedding in a high-profile ceremony with 600 guests and 28 attendants.
She took a bus to Las Vegas and then Albuquerque, N.M., and claimed she was abducted and sexually assaulted, but later recanted, saying she fled because of unspecified personal issues.
Wilbanks pleaded no contest earlier this month to making a false statement and was sentenced to two years of probation and 120 hours of community service. She also was ordered to continue mental health treatment and pay the sheriff's office $2,550.
Duluth spent nearly $43,000 to search for her. Wilbanks has repaid $13,249.
"It's disturbing to me on a personal basis that she's willing to profit from this, but there's nothing I can do about it legally," said Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter, who pursued charges against Wilbanks.
― RS (Catalino) LaRue (RSLaRue), Thursday, 16 June 2005 10:17 (eighteen years ago) link