First of all i would like to say… i had beautifully written out what i wanted to say on this post… and then i stupidly clicked on the wrong thing, and got sent somewhere else, so i lost everything i wanted to post… so i’ll make it short and simple.

I agree with you Leshawn, 100%!!! Wilbanks is an idiot, and being an idiot should not let you off the hook that easily. She should be jailed for her actions. She commited a felony by staging her own kidnapping. They even caught her on tape saying that she was kidnapped. (911 usually tape calls) If she gets away with this, what kind of example is she setting for everyone? You can stage your own kidnapping and get away with it?

Yeah, she was only gone for four days, but you know what? She was supposed to be getting married then, and if i were her parents, i would call the cops on her as well. My sister is getting married sometime in june, and i would kill her if she did something similiar to this Wilbanks moron.

People normally assume that when you’re getting married to someone, that you’re in love, or that you have a commitment to that person. You normally don’t assume that person is going to stage her own kidnapping four days before she is to be wed.

If she had such strong feelings against this marraige why not call it off? Is it really that hard to call off your wedding?!?

Please, stop with the excuses people, she is 30 years old and she knew what she was doing. She should’ve left a note or something to indicate that she was alive and kicking. I hate it when people try to make excuses for idiots. Some of these posts i don’t agree with. (Most of the people who wrote them are christians not a surprise, sorry if i offended anyone)

I definately don’t agree with Dan Hops post. Ofcourse Leshawn didn’t say that the girl was racist (although it wouldn’t surprise me if she were) She said that the reason why Wilbanks would get away with it is because she is white, and i do agree with that as well.

Look where she’s from? The South, not to mention, Georgia, the biggest Southern heap of hypocracy. Everyone knows the South is racist as heck.

I agree with Montie with his/her statement above. Everytime a white woman screams bloody murder, they usually paint a portrait of a colored man. (black/hispanic) The next time a white woman claims that a colored man raped her or hurt her, be sure to stare at her like a crazy person. Most likely she is lying.

Not to mention, Black/hispanic men are not stupid enough to do anything like that to a white girl. They know that if they do, police will be all over their @$$ like white on rice, before they can touch her. (susan smith had seen to that!)

I also agree with Seal, how far have we fallen, when a story about a fake @$$ julia roberts wannabe outwieghs that of a story about two murdered little girls?!?!

Oh and another thing, she wasted all that time/money/etc on this stupid ploy. People may say that she was stressed and wanted to get away from it all, but you know what? She saw what was going on on the news, everyone in the USA saw this.

She saw that she was a missing person, yet she chose to go through with this charade. The point being, she knew what was happening and did nothing to stop it. At any point or time, she could have stopped this and called someone to tell them that she was ok, but she didn’t. She is very much at fault.

I happen to be a taxpayer, and i would definately send her some hatemail if she was in my state. (We pay for police to search for her!!!)

So, Why did she do this?! She’s a selfish spoiled southern belle, that’s why. She probably thought that she could get away with this because she is white, and is well off.

A wiseman once said, “God must love stupid people, cuz there sure is a lot of them…” I hope that her finacee leaves her or that something so horrible happens to her that she can’t have kids. We need the stupid gene to disappear with her, and others like her.

As for the story in Duluth, Georgia: It wouldn’t come as a surprise to me if it is later revealed the would-be groom (Mr. Mason) was also involved in the ploy. Perhaps all of this was concocted by the both him and Miss Wilbanks as part of a ‘get-richer-quicker’ scheme. After all, shortly after word was received that Wilbanks had been “found” in New Mexico, Mason was already boasting before cameras that he hoped to be interviewed by Fox’s Sean Hannity. Mason could already hear the cash registers ringing. Of course, the story had a few different twists after that Kodak moment (The registers were ringing even louder after each twist).

It all seems a little fishy and if the groom-to-be is as willing to go ahead with the wedding so soon as the headlines indicate (I’ve purposely haven’t read beyond the headlines lately), that is even more suspicious. I believe he may have orchestrated this on our easily duped and celeb-crazed, gullible, and anything-or-anyone-can-be-famous for practically doing squat society. So if it comes out later these two crazy kids from Georgia tried to pull a fast one on all of us – remember where you read it first.

DeWayne

I know it was a wonder..but if you lived inside my skin, it wouldn’t even be rhetorical…

That website you wish for, I’m afraid, doesn’t exist and probably won’t ever…LOL!!!

Does anyone know? Is there a web site where bloggers can suggest topics/events that we would like to see covered? So many people in the MSM seem to lack imagination on slow news days.

If Ms. Wilbanks, was a minority female, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. Trust me, we WOULDN’T.

From FoxNews: When runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks (search) made her way home after running away last week, John Mason was…

I wonder if Ms. Wilbanks had been a minority female if the story would have been covered at all. Foolishness like this dominating the news causes me to turn off the TV.

I was surprised that you assumed because you wanted to see her prosecuted, conservatives would be upset with you. I’m not a hard line feminist but I still know that there are some cases where women are discriminated against because they are women.

You both make valid points that persons resembling descriptions given by false reporters like Wilbanks might be subject to greater police scrutiny and/or unnecessary investigative detentions.

I can say from personal experience, that people who make false reports often give a description of a racial minority as a suspect. It is so common, that if we suspect the report might be false when we start investigating, we consider it as one of the indicators that the victim may be lying.

Whether this indicates some innate level of prejudice in the victim is impossible for me to say. But, it can create “community relations” problems for the police who, in good faith, start looking for a nonexistent suspect among the minority population.

My brother saw an actual copy of the police sketch of Smith’s phony description of the “carjacker.” He said it looked like a parody of a poster from one of those old Negro minstrel shows.

True, her actions were not directed at a specific person, but by giving a description, however vague it was, of a Hispanic male and Caucasian female as the kidnapping offenders, she potentially subjected a lot of people to police harassment, possibly false arrest and who knows what else. Just ask the brothers in Boston what happened to them when that Charles Stuart (?) guy claimed that black men had robbed him and shot his wife. Same thing with Susan Smith.

In the meantime, has anyone else heard that bones belonging to a young girl have been found in Chicago, and there is speculation that they may belong to one of the Bradley sisters-2 little black girls who have been missing for a few years. If you have heard, I’d be surprised with this oh so important Wilbanks story dominating the news as it has been.

I agree wholeheaartedly with you that Wilbanks should be prosecuted for the filing of the false police report with the New Mexico authorities. From the police perspective it is wasteful of manpower, pulls officers from other areas where they may be critically needed, etc.

I’m not so sure that she should necessarily be prosecuted in Georgia, because she didn’t really do any thing wrong. Her actions while certainly distressing to her family and her fiancee’ (to put it mildly) don’t border on criminal. I’m not sure that she ever considered that she would be come the object of national media exposure, and a nationwide manhunt involving local, State and Federal law enforcement agencies.

I was somewhat taken aback at your comparison of Wilbanks’ actions to Hardin’s, along with your inference that the different handling of the two situations might intimate some sort of racist intent on the part of those dealing with Ms. Hardin.

While Ms. Wilbanks did indeed commit a crime (which I’m not sure whether it would constitute a felony or a misdemeanor under New Mexico’s State Laws), her actions were not directed at anyone else. She simply pulled a disappearance, that blew up into much more. The only thing she directed at anyone else was her claim to have been abducted by anonymous individuals. She didn’t point a finger at anyone and falsly claim “that person kidnapped me”. Of course this doesn’t take into account what she put her family through emotionally, but unfortunately that’s not something which came be prosecuted.

Ms. Hardin on the other hand directed her actions toward others. She wrote threats and racial slurs to OTHER people making them fear for their safety and possibly their lives. Of course, what she did might also constitute a “hate crime” (a catagory of crime that I know you disagree with and so do I), which is definitely a felony. I’m sure that Ms. Hardin never expected that the stir she created on campus would gather national exposure either, but she surely knew she was making an actual threat to another person, even though it had no basis in reality.

One also must take into account that each situation is being dealt with primarily at the local level as far as any prosecution, and each situation is thus considered in isolation of the other, regardless of the fact that both are part of the national dialogue.

You can’t compare apples to oranges and come to a conclusion of motive or intent on the part of the authorities in each individual situation, even though it is tempting to do so. Each case has absolutely NOTHING to do with the other, except that both involve a young woman who sought the wrong approach to solving her immediate situation.

Oh no! Our first disagreement, (sigh) looks like the honeymoon is over. Of course, I still respect your opinion, and agree with it 99.999% of the time

I said earlier that I thought they should just leave this “runaway bride” (Jennifer Wilbanks) alone, and just let her and her family deal with her problems.

When I first commented on that, I hadn’t heard yet that she had also claimed to have been…