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POLICE UNVEIL BRIDE PROBE
NY Post ^ | May 2, 2005 | By HEIDI SINGER, JIM MORRIS, and BRIDGET HARRISON

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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BRIDAL PROBE...ouch


1 posted on 05/02/2005 4:07:32 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Beat me to the punch line!


2 posted on 05/02/2005 4:08:18 AM PDT by pa mom
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To: pa mom

Love those NY Post headlines.


3 posted on 05/02/2005 4:09:03 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount
From free bird to jail bird.

She does not deserve to walk away from this after what she put her friends, family and fiance through. Nor all the expense she caused the state of Georgia and others.
4 posted on 05/02/2005 4:13:49 AM PDT by stm
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To: COUNTrecount
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.

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.

5 posted on 05/02/2005 4:17:15 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: COUNTrecount

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=5577795202&rd=1

Jennifer Wilbanks Runaway Bride Found On My Toast!!!!


6 posted on 05/02/2005 4:18:11 AM PDT by maggief
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To: stm

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.


7 posted on 05/02/2005 4:18:23 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: stm

"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.


8 posted on 05/02/2005 4:18:54 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: stm

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.


9 posted on 05/02/2005 4:19:13 AM PDT by tort_feasor (FreeRepublic.com - Tommorrow's News, Today)
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To: COUNTrecount
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.

Oh pul-eeze.

Since she DID purchase it in advance, then it was obviously 'planned'....

so WHERE are the charges???

10 posted on 05/02/2005 4:19:24 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I'd rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong)
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To: COUNTrecount

Set your VCR/TIVOs for Leno and Letterman tonight...the poor girl and NO idea what's in store for her..


11 posted on 05/02/2005 4:20:11 AM PDT by ken5050 (The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
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To: sgtbono2002

Sorry : it should read she should not walk away without punishment.


12 posted on 05/02/2005 4:20:19 AM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: ken5050

Hannity gets an interview with the fiance, per Fox & Friends.


13 posted on 05/02/2005 4:21:46 AM PDT by maggief
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To: sgtbono2002

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!


14 posted on 05/02/2005 4:22:08 AM PDT by Cricket24 ("We have met the enemy and it's the U.S. press (and the democrats)!")
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ROTFL !!!!!!!!!

There are already eight bids for it!

Many thanks for the heads up.

Our Daily Bread, indeed!

15 posted on 05/02/2005 4:22:58 AM PDT by jigsaw (God Bless Our Troops)
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"What crime did she commit?"

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.

16 posted on 05/02/2005 4:23:12 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: sgtbono2002

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.


17 posted on 05/02/2005 4:24:12 AM PDT by Cricket24 ("We have met the enemy and it's the U.S. press (and the democrats)!")
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To: freeangel
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.

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.

18 posted on 05/02/2005 4:24:42 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: COUNTrecount

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.


19 posted on 05/02/2005 4:24:50 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: MamaTexan; tort_feasor


Reporting a false crime to police is a felony charge.


20 posted on 05/02/2005 4:25:38 AM PDT by Josh in PA
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