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Didn't she call home (or the cops) and say she'd been kidnapped? I don't know the timelime of this - how much time elapsed between the call and her being found, but that's where some of the feeling that she owes somebody money comes from.
― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
the money-seeking is not a matter of the finances being recouped, but society's need for JUSTICE, goddammit. Someone has to PAY, in both senses of the word!
it's pretty stupid.
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link
(Anytime you can see completely around a person's iris, you know something freaky is up.
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
My god. I don't think a woman would 'run away' like that for no reason whatsoever. Maybe someone or something drove her to do it. Maybe she felt like she was losing her mind. What moralistic bullshit we have here.Hispanics Across America would beg to differ with your "she must have a good reason and anyway it did no harm" argument:
Wilbanks, whose three-day disappearance led to a nationwide search and a media sensation, initially told investigators she had been abducted by a Hispanic male and white woman with a handgun, a story that quickly unraveled...Her statement also did not specifically address her false claim that a Hispanic man had abducted her. But Fernando Mateo, the president of the group Hispanics Across America, backed down from his threat to protest outside her home, saying members were satisfied with her general apology. "Our purpose was not to crucify this woman but just to let the nation know they can't freely use the name 'Hispanic' in a stereotyping manner where Hispanics are perceived to be thugs and criminals," he said.(but of course, she gets a free pass on this stuff because she's female, and so in your book, she must have had a good reason, right?)
http://www.spscriptorium.com/SPBios/ButtersParents.jpg
― Nippon Q Q, Friday, 6 May 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Runaway bride update....
she says it was because she was not getting enough sex. 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
if she wasn'te getting enough sex before, and he was saving himself for marriage, then why run away just before she's about to get the boffing of her life? maybe she realized she was repulsed by the idea of him crawling all over her new rack.
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 7 May 2005 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
one month passes...
Company Announces Deal With Runaway Bride to Make a Movie About Her LifeThe 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