I’ve heard reports that a she bought a bus ticket to Austin, TX, a week before her “disappearance.”
I’d give her a pass on everything, disappearing, freaking out her family, causing a massive manhunt, if, when she did decide to resurface, she’d called to say, “Sweetie, it’s Jen. Yeah, I’m fine, I’m in New Mexico, I needed some time to think.” But she came out with this kidnapping story first. :dubious:
The radio also reports her family has gone to NM to get her, but her fiance did not.
I’m guessing the wedding will NOT be rescheduled. Ivylad said if it were him, he’d never lay eyes on her again.
Stranger, you have shown me the light. I admit my ignorance. I grew up in world where ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ was a cautionary tale. I see now that it was actually suggesting acceptable behaviour.
Obviously, the next time a woman is reported missing to the police, they should just sit and wait for a couple of days. The missing woman is most likely just overwhelmed and needs time to her self.
I think it has more to do with the fact that she lied about being kidnapped. Sure, disappearing is not a crime. Getting cold feet re: a wedding is not a crime. But I can imagine (again IANAL) that LYING about being kidnapped is a crime.
Also, as far as I am concerned, she caused police resources to be diverted away from more serious crimes such as smoking pot.
Sure, and she should suffer a penalty. I can’t see how throwing her in prison, though, is to anyone’s advantage. Certainly not for the taxpayers who will be footing the bill. A public apology and a goodly amount of public service, along with the humilitation she’s no doubt already enduring, seems far more appropriate. Hauling out, say, the Patriot Act is as absurd as quoting RICO on National Spelling Competition cheat scheme.
In most municipalities and states a misdomeanor is punishable by no more than 12 months or $1,000, plus reparations. I get the sense that a lot of people would like to find a nasty French prison to throw her in and leave her rot for a few decades for a misdomeanor crime. What, did you people run out of kittens to smash?
Southern weddings are more formal and elaborate than seems to be the norm in other parts of the US. My brother married a young lady from Dothan, AL, and they had (this is more than 10 years ago so I don’t remember exactly) 10 or so attendants each, easily a dozen parties in the three months prior that they were both expected to attend, in addition to showers, teas, etc. for the bride alone, and at least 500 guests. My midwestern family thought it was overdone, but no one else did. (In fact, I heard one guest telling another that she thought the reason they hadn’t gone all out was because it was Advent, and they were being respectful of church traditions.)
I have no idea how involved she was in the planning, or if her mom was pushing her, or what, but this wedding doesn’t sound unusual in the context of southern weddings.
I’m willing to let the dust settle before I take away her right to have Rosepoint sterling place settings. But I think the police ought to wait before they decide “no charges” too. Didn’t this involve the GBI and the FBI? It may not be up to local authorities where the fiance’s father was once the mayor.
Just one more reason I adore you, Sugar. You know how we love our little adventures.
Now come to your senses. I’ll bet Sampiro knows that Mother of the Bride meltdowns and mile-wide craters are part of the tradition in some families. That’s how we know the bride is really fit to start a Southern home of her own.
It seems, from the quotes from the parents and family, that this wedding is just delayed. Clearly, they are focusing on the wedding and not her. Heavan forbid the wedding is called off entirely…won’t somebody think of the deposits!!!
She’s been swallowed up by the Machinations of the Wedding and somewhere along the way, she became unglued.
In her mind, I bet faking her kidnapping was the only way out.
If her family is that wealthy, and she does not get charged in NM, I am willing to guess Daddy greased a few hands. Cause that’s the kinda gal I am.
Either way, I’ll wait for the Law & Order case on it.
If you can point to where I said it was the case please do. Until then I want to be sure that I have your position clear. You are saying that it is not okay to lie to the police. Is that right?
And you are also saying that lying to the police, while wrong, should not be punished?
According to the news this morning, she claimed she had NOT seen any media coverage about her missing. But I haven’t seen the latest news, and we all know how the news media can toss in a couple adjectives like “purported” or “allegedly” and then make up any fairytale they desire.
As far as I can tell, the only thing she’s done that’s illegal was to say (in Albuquerque) that she was kidnapped. It is not a crime to take off and disappear, no matter how many people look for you or worry about you.
