Posted on 05/31/2013 12:37:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It was the happiest day of Anita Woods 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 Citys 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 wasnt intentional. We had declared Margaret as a non-dependent but not a partner.
I was devastated. My whole family has been affected by it. Ive 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.
Actually, their double chins are what make them look fat. :)
I guess the farce is with them. Big time!
Fixed.
LOL!
“Your agonizer, please.”
That’s just stoopit.
It their pants....
/s
Would have been better as a Star Wars wedding, they could have gone as the Hutts.
“Ho ho ho, Jabba no Baaaagray! Neena lolo SOLO!”
Make sure they use the cargo turbolift in the back of the ship.
At least they were not wearing red shirts.
>>Does anybody know the Klingon word for rug bumper?
Not an exact translation, but this works: be’ ‘Iv Sop be’pu’
The reviewers are stating that the new trek instalment is crony promotion vs the meritocracy promotion of the previous. (not including voyager)
Throw in Scotty and the scene would collapse into a black hole.
Well, i guess Anita Wood no longer has to be Hans Solo.
What this world needs is a good enema.
I gotta wonder if the whole Vorta Mythology back story the founders fed the Vorta wasn’t just a piece of cleverly disguised propaganda and that the Orginal Vorta were the first enemies of the Dominion....
That they took the Vorta and made them servants for dareing to oppose them...
Then fed the back story and genetically engineered them to only like those two foods as “proof” that they “kept their promise” to them...
She canna take much more of this...
Those two brides-or grooms, or whatever-look like waiters on the loveboat in those costumes-or maybe Tweedledum and Tweedledee minus the beanies. At least one of them should have dressed as the fat chick with antennae and 4 hands who played the piano in a bar in an episode of TNG-it would have looked better.
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