Pon Farr - you're doing it wrong.
Posted on 05/31/2013 12:37:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It was the happiest day of Anita Wood’s life – but her science fiction-themed civil partnership landed her in a lot of trouble in reality.
The 46-year-old same-sex ceremony with partner Margaret Wood, held at Swansea City’s Liberty Stadium in 2011, attracted some unwanted attention as the couple and their guests donned costumes inspired by their favourite show Star Trek.
Photos from the unusual gathering were spotted in the local press by investigators looking into fraudulent benefits claims – proving Wood had falsely claimed £16,000 as a jobless single person while she was living with her partner who was in full-time employment.
She was then forced to boldy go to court, where the mother-of-two was handed a suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay back all the cash.
Prosecutor Felicity Lewis told Swansea magistrates’ court: ‘Anita Wood should have declared that she and Margaret Wood were in a civil partnership.
‘It would have reduced the amount of benefits she was entitled to claim as Margaret Wood was in full-time employment.’
Wood, from Swansea, pleaded guilty to six charges of benefit fraud by failing to declare a change in her circumstances. She was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail, suspended for a year.
She told the court her 50-year-old civil partner had not been paying half the bills after moving into her home, only enough to cover her bed and board.
After avoiding jail, she insisted: ‘It wasn’t intentional. We had declared Margaret as a non-dependent but not a partner.
‘I was devastated. My whole family has been affected by it. I’ve never done anything wrong in my life, or anyone in my family.’
Wood met her partner through an online forum for fans of Star Trek.
At the time of her wedding – before she wished she could be beamed up and away – Wood spoke of her love of the show: ‘We have always been into the show.
‘I watched the original series as a child and you just enjoy the escapism and the humour of it all.’
LMAO!
perhaps it is the wide angle plate that did it...
love the CONNNNNNNNNNNNNga line
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Don't blame the poor lens, it didn't do anything wrong.
Owwwww! blackface!!! they’re racists!!!!!!!!!!
Pon Farr - you're doing it wrong.
Shaka-and the walls fell...
LMAO!
No wonder Vulcans only get horny once every 7 years.
The Camera Adds several TONS!!!
Does anybody know the Klingon word for “rug bumper”?
Well, they say the camera adds ten pounds.
Looks like there is about fifty cameras between the two of them.
Looks like they’ve been hitting the replicator a few too many times.
Computer, chocolate ice cream
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NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM ......
To boldly go where no man has gone before!
Does this dyke make me look fat?
It is no wonder that they are into Star Trek.
They each have their own gravitational field!
Ha Ha Ha!
Well Done.
Who invites a frickin Borg to the wedding, wouldn’t all the guests get assimilated.....
What does the Borg do to obese assimilatees....
Maybe the borg have to walk them in circles around the cube till they shed a few stones....
Oh and didn’t evolve PAST money in the future??, but I guess the welfare deptartment didn’t get the memo... They should cut their benefits to zero and esend them a note: Welcoem to the 24th century, we are ending your benefits because we have evolved PAST money, LOL
Does anybody know the Klingon word for “rug bumper”?
You gotta watch out for Klingons when you are “down there”...... Cause if you find them the personal hygene prime directive has been violated....
I am bad... bad bad....
Did she fight with Kirk for the green-skinned slave girls?
If she did it was when Kirk was at his fattest, I think season 3 or in the movies...
It would be like a fight between Fat Albert fromt he cosby kids and fat bastard from Austin powers....
The gravitation distortions would be detectible from several sectors away....
YA PUT yer whole self in ...ya put yer whole sef out youse put yer whole sef in an ya shake it all about...ya do the herky jeky....an ya.....et al..
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