"The part of this story that bugged me was the community's
over-the-edge reacton to this couple's wedding! Eight
wedding showers?"
Personally I don't care if they threw her a hundred showers. It's their right to do as such but her mindless dragging law enforcement into her drama is over the line.
My post must have been misleading. In no way
do I excuse her putting the community/authorities
through that fiasco. Part of the problem, of
course, lies in the fact that the public is daily
presented another case of child abduction/missing
person hype by the media. And for lack of any
real news, these accounts get 24 hours of opinion
and projection by the Talking Heads.