Should the "Runaway Bride" be punnished?

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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)?

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.

and I think Ally was right upthread.

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.

PLUR

it's pretty stupid.

I call it the "Vanessa Williams Syndrome" or "VWS" for short.)

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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."

Wow, someone's on the rag. Right....females get 'free passes', muah-ha-ha-ha...

"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.