What should be done about Wilbanks (The Runaway Bride)

[satireV]

She should be made to watch Julia Roberts movies for 7 days straight. They should include the movie "Runaway Bride" at least 12 times.

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The State of Georgia should prosecute her to the most extreme level they can. The State of Georgia should spend millions of dollars investigating and prosecuting her and then jailing her for many years. The State should spend as much money as possible. The Georgia Lege should convene in a special session and enact a law that addresses this action specifically and spend as MUCH money as possible!
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satireV

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[supernova]

2. Nah. She's just a scared bride

who needs to work things out with her family. CNN needs to stop reporting it now.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. She should replace Nancy Grace on CNN

!!

[Carni]

35. As annoyed as I am with the woman

That isn't a bad idea...nothing could be worse than N.Grace!

[leftofthedial]

4. we should all be made to shut the hell up about her

[B Calm]

5. She should have a trial because of the false police reports.

With a fine and a probabtion if found guilty.

[Inland]

6. Have a huge trial that the MSM can spend weeks covering

to the exclusion of everything else.

If it isn't her, it'll be someone else.

[greentrees]

7. It's Really Sad

I heard the prosecutors were going to hit her with criminal charges

This is such a sad thing ... of course, she was wrong to handle things the way she did by running away and then lying about it.

But as a young woman, I can relate to the fear and anxiety and apprehension she must have felt about such a huge wedding and all

Now, she's been terribly embarrassed before the entire nation and I'm sure she'll never live it down.

She will suffer for years because of what she did whether she gets charged or not, and it doesn't look like anybody was terribly hurt by her actions ... put out, yes ... but not really hurt.

So I think they should just leave her alone or at most, urge her to get some counseling ... Things like this need to be looked at with some human compassion especially since nobody was really harmed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. The prosecutor said

the county had spent over $100,000 on the search last week.

I wonder how much that 600 guest, 14 bridesmaid wedding was going to cost. hmm

[SGBL]

37. Oh gee

who's fault could that be? Perhaps the media for blowing the entire thing in to lacy peterson part 2.

[Orangepeel]

29. she's, like, 32

does that still count as a "young" woman?

I do agree with you that people, especially the media, should just leave her alone. Running away wasn't a crime, even if the whole town was put out by it.

IMO, she shoudl be charged with whatever the usual penalty for making a phoney 911 call is (what would that be? a fine and probation?).

[qanda]

8. They should order the money for the reward...

Be used to refund the taxpayers for all that was spent looking for her.

[stray cat]

9. She was legally innocent of anything until she made a false report.

She did file a false report with the police where she accused an annonymous couple of abducting her - at that point she broke that law and like anyone should be charged.

Running way is legal - making false accusations to the police is not. She crossed the line.

[ecstatic]

10. I'm torn with mixed emotions

At first, I wanted the book thrown at her. But that was mainly due to bitterness about how the media has been covering this nonstop (without thinking to cover the thousands of other women and children missing in this country); and also the way she tried to pin the crime on Hispanics. However, it isn't fair that she should go to jail or be sued because she exercised her right to disappear. The call to 911 was stupid; however, she was probably SO SHOCKED when she realized how much media attention she was getting that she just did something really stupid. Is she a spoiled brat? Most likely. But she probably had no idea that she would get so much attention.

Maybe her parents did this on purpose to teach her a lesson? I heard she has pulled stunts like this in the past.

[Canuckistanian]

11. Um, ignore her? Leave her alone?

Boycott any advertiser who buys time on CNN?

[burn the bush]

12. they should charge her for part of the expense the same as they do

if you are stupid enough to try to go over the falls or some other such stupid stunt that puts people in danger just trying to rescue your sorry ass. For her, she didn't put anyone in danger, but she should have contacted the police as soon as she knew that there was such a circus about her leaving.

I'd say send her a bill if she knew they were looking for her as a hostage or murdered person or whatever and failed to call off the search on her own.

[WilliamPitt]

13. Wilbanks, the corporate media and this whole nonsense story

should be stuffed in a bottle and sent out with the tide.

Well, maybe not Wilbanks. But the other two, definitely.

[thebigidea]

15. too little room in that metaphorical bottle, what with Hubert Humphrey

[WilliamPitt]

16. Feh. He's dust now

And I'm talking about one bigass bottle. :)

[eissa]

14. I think marrying her fiance

will be punishment enough. A Faux-watching, Hannity-loving, Bible-thumping, flabby freeper. Eeeeeeewwwwww :puke:

[AspenRose]

23. I'd run away too if that was my prospect Eissa!

Maybe she should be sent on a mandatory speaking circuit to LULAC, MALDEF and La Raza and explain why she wanted to pin her abduction on hispanics....

[Carni]

36. Don't kid yourself...that's why she was with him

She most definitely has that vacuous stupid look about herself like most Limbecile type Republicans.

[rzemanfl]

17. Someone should suggest to her that now, should her future

hubby ever decide to bump her off and hides her body, or some pervert kidnaps her and make her his personal slave in a dungeon dug in his yard she will rot wherever that might be with no one looking for her. Or buy her a book with "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" in it.

[Mondon]

18. public spanking by groom n.t

[Bluebear]

19. She already released her wedding photo to the media

[moobu2]

20. She didnt violate The State of Georgia's laws that I know of

The only thing she did was briefly claim someone had abducted her. She made those claims which, she quickly recanted, in another state so she doesn't owe Georgia anything and the other state declined to charge her.

If she made false claims to the Feds I guess she could be charged but they wont want to.

Shit happens.

[LiberallyInclined]

22. the georgia prosecutor is a DICKHEAD.

it's funny to watch in a way, because he knows that there's abso-fuckin-lutely NOTHING he can charge her with, and he doesn't want to admit it, and it's really pissing him off.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Jose Diablo]

25. I am reluctant to critisize the county attorney, he is a powerful man

But, he IS a very political animal. Most DA's are I guess.

[LiberallyInclined]

41. he's a douche-bag...okay...a POWERFUL douche-bag-

the seeming preponderance of politicos of his ilk in georgia is one of the BIG reasons that i would never even consider the peach state as a home- Texas and Florida round out the unholy three....IMHO.

but i do get a kick out of watching that bumpkin DA squirm with hate and contempt over a situation he wants to have control of so badly- but knows damn well that there's not a damn thing he can do...oooohhh- maybe he'll get an ulcer.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

i sure wouldn't want to be his dog these days...or his wife or kids either, for that matter.

[LiberallyInclined]

21. nothing.

the only crime she committed was in albequerque- and they've declined to prosecute. the georgia prosecutor is a dickhead, as are all those people calling for her to make restitution.

[Jose Diablo]

24. Yep, I totally agree

The poor woman, she is the one that has a legitamate complaint. All she did was take a bus ride, she sees the news and wham, all of a sudden she somehow is to blame.

If someone is to blame it is the one that yanked the Duluth Police Chiefs chain to start looking before 24 hours had elapsed in her disappearance.

No wonder she is a nervous wreck with future family like that.

Edit: Do you think if a poor Hispanic or a black woman disappeared that there would have been a search initiated so soon. I doubt it. The police would probably said "why not check some crack house down in Atlanta" before lifting a single pinky

[Heddi]

27. Well she did make a false report of being abducted

she called 911 and said she was abducted by a HISPANIC male and a white female.

She also left a false 'clue' of her clothing that she threw out the bus window.

If she was so distraught about her wedding, she should have done what thousands upon thousands of people do every day--CANCEL THE FUCKING WEDDING. Posphone it. Send a letter. Make a phone call. No big deal.

Leave a note for your loved ones "Hey--I need some time to think. I'm okay, and I'll call you in a few days"

She is a putz that wasted THOUSANDS of dollars of taxpayer money looking for her sorry lying ass.

Fuck her and the bus she rode to NM on. She's a liar, a spoiled brat, and she should be charged with making false claims, ESPECIALLY since she pulled the 'race card' and, just like Susan Smith, accused an otherwise innocent 'everyman' of a certain race (in her case, a Hispanic, in Smith's case, a black male) of her own self-created crime. Nothing like a little bigotry to add to the mix, eh?

[Jose Diablo]

30. But she is not the one that started the search using political power

As for the 'false clue', so what.

[masshole]

32. So what?

Is it her fault the cops decided to launch a $100,000 search?

She decides to take off. She's an adult, she owes nobody an explanation. She learns of the search, she calls "home" (Duluth, GA police) and makes up the abduction story. She then recants, and admits she left on her own. It doesn't matter if she claims the abductor was hispanic, black, white, or an alien.

She's suffered more than she deserves, let her alone to work things out with her family and fiance.

[greentrees]

33. Cruelty is Unnecessary

"Fuck her and the bus she rode to NM on. She's a liar, a spoiled brat"

You don't know her from Adam, and you know nothing about what has gone on in her life that may have a bearing on her actions.

She has, and will, suffer tremendously for the rest of her life because she has embarrassed herself not only in her own town among her friends and family, but to the whole nation.

Yes, she screwed up big time, and yes we all know there was a much better way she could have handled this.

But it is very troubling to see someone as confused as she apparently is have to endure not only all that embarrassment, but also people who talk about her in the coldest, cruelist and most foul language

As for those thousands of dollars, the police get paid whether they are checking out problems or eating donuts during a lull. Nobody REALLY got hurt here, at least not in the criminal sense, yet that Duluth sheriff is acting like she was Timothy McVeigh or somebody like that.

A little understanding and compassion isn't too much to ask, unless we're going to sink as low as those heartless Repugs.

[Carni]

40. " police get paid whether they are checking out problems or eating donut"

You have GOT to be kidding me?

You're kidding right?

Maybe they do in B.F. Georgia but 100 grand in most urban areas would be a large outlay to find a missing person.

[greentrees]

43. police get paid

Oh, so you're saying the $100,000 was money that wasn't, like, normal recurring overhead ... that it was incremental money they had to spend solely because of her actions?

If that's what you believe, then show us a link that says it.

I thought this was Democratic Underground, not Repugs anonymous.

Let's have some compassion for this poor misguided soul, after all.

[Carni]

45. If you want phony compassion go to freakrepublic

Or should I say go back to?

[Carni]

39. I totally agree with you

Additionally I think she must have made up the story so that she could still marry the dough boy and his wallet.

[Carni]

38. Your edit is exactly what I have a problem with

This stupid buffoon tried to pin *her abduction* on some Hispanic guy...

I don't know but something about choosing to implicate other people in an imaginary crime, to me, just sucks...

If she were 22 I would say -- OK, Well she made a mistake but the 32 and the 600 person wedding kind of screams *asshole* to me.

With all that said I wish the media would just STFU about this because it's a STUPID issue.

[Beelzebud]

26. Give her her own show!

And the basis of the show would be this:

She would sit there and give you a daily run-down of all the actual news that the "journalists" were missing, because they were too busy talking about CRAP like her cold feet.

:)

[0rganism]

31. Advertisers should sue the news networks to recoup costs

If they wanted to advertise on networks devoted to frivolous bullshit, there are several out there pushing much better "reality" TV than the Wilbanks story.

Not that it'll happen, I'm just sayin... If I were paying out the wazoo to advertise on the Cartoon Network and they started showing live music videos 24/7 I'd wonder where my money was going. Same with the news channels.

[Carni]

34. She's a frickin idiot and should be totally ignored

From here on out (as I answer a thread about the a-hole)

Pardon my venom but it pisses me off royally that she:

A) Wasted the cops time when actual missing people (esp children) are in need of these kinds of resources

B) The imbecile provided the media with a week long diversion from whatever the bush reich is doing.

What a selfish stupid wench IMO

Excuse the rant, but I am REALLY sick of seeing this loon and her goony finance and family on television.

[ComerPerro]

42. Some lady on the OReally? Factor had a good idea

Bill mentioned that the State had spent $100k on her. Interestingly, the woman mentioned that the family happened to be offering a $100k reward for her...

So, the lady suggested that the family repay the state.

Additionally, I think the bride should be fined. Nothing severe. Just something to let her know that she wasted a lot of resources and potentially put people in danger.

[MrMonk]

44. News blackout

followed by a healthy dose of STFU.