Posted on 04/30/2005 12:05:31 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 04/30/2005 12:28:18 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
exactly...
I think the MSM is trying to give the impression that she is just a Run Away bride but I think there is a lot more than just cold feet here, it's criminal. I would think there is something on the books that they can get on her.
I think if an adult wants to get lost, they have no responsibility to make there whereabouts known---but in this case it was very cruel to her family most of all--if one of my kids had done that---I don't care if he/she was 32...they would hear it from me!!
I agree with that. This little twit is way too self-centered, or way too meek for her own good. I don't know which. Maybe she's been steamrollered by circumstances her whole life, and lacks the gumption to assert herself in a timely fashion.
I wish her well, but I don't think well of her.
I'm in the south and I'm a good wedding planner (if I may say so myself) and I know I couldn't feed 600 people for $10k without going to Subway, and getting a couple of cases of Pepsi! Paper plate, paper napkins . . . .
Isn't it enough that her family, the groom, his family, the 14 bridesmaids and all her friends are going to give her hell.
We ought to let the families deal with this. Why the need to charge her? For crying out loud, she did a bad thing to her famly. She did not call the cops until she was ready to come home. The press magnified this to the extreme.
Unless she gets together and they marry, her life is going to be hell for a long time. Isn't that enough?
That's the ticket. Maybe it was a cash buffet, too.
THey could do a gumbo/crawfish boil wedding reception down here for very cheap and they do regularly. With a cajun band. And not more than 10 k for three or four hundred guests. Really, they do that!
600 invitations could yield 1200 people, minimum (assuming all singles were allowed to bring a 'guest')! 60% of invited guests usually attend. That's a L-A-R-G-E wedding!
I agree with the media making hay with it. And whoever said they pick cases to air based on looks, right on the money. There are thousands of missing people a day.
In 2001, 840,279 missing persons (adults and children) were reported to the police and entered into the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC). This represents the smallest number of missing persons reports since 1992 (801,358).Once the search goes beyond the actual missing person, and is based on a false report (it isn't a false report that she is missing), it is actionable. Her report of two abductors was false, but probably not acted on, i.e., no loss to society for her BS report. I'm not sure it's illegal on a technicality, if she never signed a statement and no searching was done for phantom abductors.http://fomlo.homestead.com/statistics.html
I think a little lightening up is in order---my gosh, WE haven't hurt anyone, but she has...
Besides, with the Hacking case and the Peterson case, and the police ALWAYS looking to the husband/fiance as a suspect, you can't fault a web site for having a range of speculation....
Well, pretty big of you to admit it. I just wonder what they're going to do to her?
How big is this place where the wedding is being held? Except for some huge hotel ballrooms, here in Boston, there are not many places that could hold that many people.
Justice can't be ignored when so many others, outside her family, has spent time and money and grief trying to locate her based on a selfish criminal act of staging an abduction.
Of course, it could be that these people were so prominent in the town that a lot of things were gratis, just because of this prominence.
I went to a Pig Pickin' wedding reception in eastern NC. Paper plates, beer and the worst BBQ sauce I ever ate.
I'm putting on the flame proof clothing because I know how NCians love their BBQ sauce, but honestly it was only peppery vinegar. We thought it was dreadful, but them we're not from eastern NC! lol I've heard it gets better in the west around Lexington where they add some tomato, but haven't tried it.
LOL! You still have it! And this thread keeps agoin'. I was out putting up some deer fencing (it is truly amazing how effortlessly high they can jump from a standing start), and this old thread is rolling along. I guess this will continue through the "Runaway Bride" blockbuster on CNN tonight, eh?
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P.S. Haven't seen old 'Psych Ward' yet, but haven't forgotten. ;-)
"Of course, it could be that these people were so prominent in the town that a lot of things were gratis, just because of this prominence."
If that's the case, it didn't work out so great for the businesses!
Yep, he's back in Duluth creating atmosphere.
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