Where are you guys getting all this info on the family’s craziness? Stuff I’ve seen online doesn’t really say anything about them.
I wondered if there would be any editorial cartoons. 8 pages, many of them tied into Social Security reform.
I liked Varvel’s best–skewering the ghouls in the media about their coverage.
Also like John Stewart’s comments on the media coverage a few days ago.
This chick seems to be a disaster waiting to happen at some point.
IMO, either she has a physical cause for her behavior (thryoid, eating disorder, mental illness) or she is a horribly spoiled, narcissistic immature person.
Either way, not someone who should plan a family anytime soon…
In one fashion or another, you just described most of the parents I know.
The ever-enlightened New York Post[hhtp://nypost.com] puts it this way:
Discuss.
:rolleyes: I’m sorry, I’ll code that again…sheesh, nine years on the web and still typing garbage like hhtp://…cripes…anyway:
The ever-enlightened New York Post puts it this way:
Discuss.
I think Mark Maron said it best: Everybody’s just pissed off at her because she’s not dead like we all thought she was.
I wonder how many CNN, MSNBC, Fox news, etc. interns had already been assigned to create the dozens of splashes they were going to need to keep this case going right through the sentencing of the fiancee.
Two Updates:
- Apparently, Wilbanks’s imaginary abductors when caught should also be charged with imaginary rape. From here:
Also
Then it was all worth it as a learning experience. (Man, Georgians [at least the ones I know] are p-i-s-s-e-d; several have called for her not to have to pay back the money but instead pick up garbage on the roadside.
You know what’s funniest of all about this whole thing? Let’s say this was a poor black woman from Detroit who bailed on her civil ceremony at city hall and took off for Miami.
Nobody would be screaming for her to apologize, because …
… we’d never have heard a fucking thing about it.
Oh, poor little rich Muffy went jogging and now she is missing before her 600 guest wedding? We’d better make this national fucking news before the receipt for her bus ticket is even finished printing.
If I may paraphrase Steely Dan, the things that pass for news – I don’t understand.
Hey, Jack, didja hear NPR this morning? They had a story about a groom who bailed on his bride on the wedding day. He turned up a week later, after having spent the week walking up and down the beach. No one knew where he was that whole time. Didn’t spark a national panic.
He probably wasn’t a jogger.
Yeah, and I’m just gonna go out on a limb here and assert without a cite that women are much more likely to disappear and end up kidnapped/raped/murdered than men. Men are also probably more likely to just disappear on their own without telling anybody. It doesn’t surprise me that there isn’t as much publicity when a man goes missing for a few days.
The New York Post confirms that they haven’t done the nasty yet.
But it’s not because she’s a dull date. No, it’s because he’s a born-again virgin.
Can I repeat that?
HE HASN’T HAD SEX IN FIVE YEARS!
What kind of dumbass thing is that to do to your fiancee? Reportedly they both used to have active sex lives with other people, so she was definitely feeling the itch, and on their wedding night he’d be all “Wow you look so good, sorry I spurted as soon as I dropped my pants. Maybe by next week I’ll actually be able to last more than 30 seconds in the presence of your breast implants.”
This so-called abduction has now become a national story about a woman needing a booty call!
A born again virgin? Maybe they do deserve each other.
I’m expecting to see one of the trash tabloids report that she received an anal probe from aliens in the Vegas desert.
This probably isn’t the best reason for a bump, but…
Around the same time as this was posted, there was a bandwagon on b3ta.com riffing on a girl featured in a photoblog who exhibited the same weird quality. The gallery came down pretty quickly after she was made a figure of fun.
What with b3ta’s crude organization of the board, I wasn’t able to find it back when it was topical, but it’s become something of a meme now and I have the animated give I was looking for. So, for your comparison:
“give” = “.gif”
I wish I had a spell-checker I could blame. 
Oh, and here’s a flash movie with many more source pics, less cropping, and a hot soundtrack. 
Here’s an interesting article from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Seems our runaway bride has had problems with sticky fingers in the past.
Then again, maybe that’s what folks do for entertainment in Gainesville.
That story also says that she bought the Greyhound ticket a week before her trip, which is a piece of information i don’t think i had heard before.