Runaway coverage
Maybe time will soften my heart, but I'm having trouble mustering much sympathy for the runaway bride from Duluth, Ga.
In a story that was grossly over-covered ("Deadly insurgent bombings continue in Iraq, but first, more on the bride-to-be whose ice-cold feet took her all the way from Georgia to New Mexico") Jennifer Wilbanks, 32, apparently had second thoughts about marrying John Mason in a wedding big enough to fill a Wal-Mart.
The latest plot twist: The jilted groom still wants to marry her. This, even after she went jogging last week and just kept on running. Wilbanks cut her hair, hopped on a bus to Vegas and then Albuquerque, led police and the FBI on a frantic, multi-state bride-hunt, concocted a story that she'd been abducted by a "Hispanic man and Causcasian woman," admitted that she'd made the tall tale up, then returned to Georgia with a towel over her head.
Her town's mayor now says she make seek to Wilbanks for the estimated $60,000 to $100,000 cost of searching for her. Wilbanks also may be proscecuted for falsely claiming she'd been kidnapped.
Now, I don't wish this couple any ill will, but I wouldn't bet on the longevity of this marriage... in Vegas or anywhere else.
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You know, until yesterday I had only given this story a passing thought and thought much too much was being made of it. I thought, Why all the fuss, brides get cold feet all the time, leave the chic alone.
Had I had a brain I would have run away from my own weddings.
Then last night I heard that she had faked a kidnapping... I'm now having a hard time feeling sympathetic.
Posted on May 3, 2005 8:11 PM
I fully agree, Billy. Cases of cold feet happen. But trips across country and a fabricated kidnapping are a bit much.
I am pleased that the News & Record news department, which is separate from the editorial pages, chose not to be seduced by this lightweight story.
It does have a man-bites-dog quality to it, but it wilts in the glare of more consequential news.
One other aspect that bothers me: Again, we have a case of imaginary abductors, at least one of whom, naturally, is an ethnic minority, in this case a Hispanic man in that now-famous imaginary blue van. Shades of Susan Smith and two black guys in toboggans.
Posted on May 4, 2005 1:17 AM
People who make false kidnapping reports should be charged as FELONS, just like the REAL kidnappers get charged.
Just because she is rich shouldn't make it ok. If she lived in a trailer park and did this, she most likely would be under the jail. But this is AMERICA, where money talks and BS walks. I hope she gets charged, and has to repay all that money.
People should be afraid, very afraid, if women are allowed under the law or lack of one, to tell lies to cops saying they were kidnapped. YOU could find yourself at the other end of a warrant for your arrest based on that lie. Trust me, it has happened. The defendant gets his day in court, proven innocent, but the fees for bail, attorneys, time off work, etc. and the emotional distress is something you cannot put a pricetag on. The lying woman gets off scott free. Where is the JUSTICE in that?
If a woman can tell the police a lie, that she was kidnapped, and in fact she was NOT kidnapped, and not get punished like a FELON, something is wrong. There has to be a way of discouraging this.
Posted on May 4, 2005 9:36 AM
Hi y'all...my name's Lilly. And I'm a redneck woman, I ain't no high class broad, I'm just a product of my raisin'...I say hey y'all and hee haw!
Thank Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Posted on May 4, 2005 5:58 PM
*ahem*
LMAO, B***H acts like they know somebody.
Posted on May 4, 2005 8:53 PM
Y'all come on to tha trailer and we'll drank some Bud and smoke a Salem light. I wanna hear some Free Bird!
Posted on May 4, 2005 9:56 PM
The sad thing is that many, many people run away, but most don't get the overblown, 24/7 news coverage that this sad girl got.
If she'd been a poor, ugly, or black young lady, would it have been such a nationwide event? I doubt it.
It seems the media is just sitting on the edge of it's collective chair each day, looking for a news snippet that can be sensationalized. When one network finds one, the rest pile on.
Posted on May 5, 2005 9:49 AM
That certainly seems to be the pattern.
There are criteria for newsworthiness: proximity, timeliness, consequence, conflict, eminence or prominence, oddity and human interest.
But this story registered high on none of them, so far as I can see.
The story is certainly odd in some ways, but it hardly seems a national story that deserves extended live coverage from CNN, as it received Saturday. Go figure.
Posted on May 5, 2005 10:36 PM
The chick looks like a hamster being held by the tail. What she did was a criminal act. She fully expects to bat the baby-browns and say it was a female thing. Yank out her dental implants with a backhoe and put her in a cell with Maudie!
Posted on May 6, 2005 5:53 PM
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