Posted on 05/02/2005 4:07:31 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
May 2, 2005 -- Georgia cops yesterday warned runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks they'll slap her with a felony charge if they find out she planned her escape — with a bus ticket to freedom purchased in advance. Officials initially said the disgraced bride-to-be would get off scot-free despite sparking a nationwide manhunt when she disappeared from her home in Duluth on Tuesday.
She finally surfaced in New Mexico on Friday night, the day before her lavish wedding was to have taken place.
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Beat me to the punch line!
Love those NY Post headlines.
Well, I think she's admitted as much that she purchased the bus ticket in advance. The warning from the Georgia cops is crystal clear. Guess we'll be seeing a felony charge sometime soon. If not, then Georgia cops warnings are idle.
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I agree she should walk away with no punishment, However: The police at first said they would not charge her. The after thousands said it wasnt right not to charge her the Police state they will. I dont like a Police force that takes a political poll to make up their minds whether or not to charge folks either.
"She does not deserve to walk"
I'll second that. I am so sick of people that take no responsibility for the things they do and the consequences that then happen to others as a result of their behavior.
What crime did she commit? She took a bus trip to Las Vegas without telling anyone? She did not report the event to the police until she was in New Mexico and even there she told the truth before any action was taken.
Oh pul-eeze.
Since she DID purchase it in advance, then it was obviously 'planned'....
so WHERE are the charges???
Set your VCR/TIVOs for Leno and Letterman tonight...the poor girl and NO idea what's in store for her..
Sorry : it should read she should not walk away without punishment.
Hannity gets an interview with the fiance, per Fox & Friends.
Exactly. They already said they wouldn't charge her. What the police should have done was kept their mouths shut after she was found. BUT if you've ever gotten cold feet, even during the ceremony, it can be very overwhelming. This wedding was to be huge!
There are already eight bids for it!
Many thanks for the heads up.
Our Daily Bread, indeed!
I don't know about Georgia, but she lied to the 911 operator in New Mexico when she said she had been kidnapped and then lied to police about the tale of her kidnapping until she confessed after several hours of interrogation.
I don't think she should be punished although she did call 911 and report a crime. That might just be the thing she's charged with but in GA, it was her family that called the police.
I'll be looking for the law change that back-charges ALL people who report runaways, if it is later found that the runaway was voluntary.
That will make a dent in the missing persons report statistics, which run at a clip of more than 800,000 per year. I'm tired of people being reported missing, when they weren't abducted.
While I think she should be charged, I also think this case is pretty sad.
This woman comes from a good home and good family but, when it was important to her, she couldn't talk to her family and explain her fears, nor did she feel comfortable expressing them to her fiancee. I think it says a whole lot more about her relationship with all of them and it is not a good barometer for a successful marriage.
Hopefully, she can get her head screwed on right. But right now, she owes a lot of people a lot of money for the trouble she put them through with her phoney story and she owes her family for the losses they suffered as the result of having to cancel a VERY expensive wedding.
She's a little old to start learning responsibility, but better late than never.
Reporting a false crime to police is a felony charge.
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