# WTF happened in you life to make you such an attention whore? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 22, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369 "2005-06-22T14:58:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Big\_Norse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/big_norse/32/9954_2.png) [@Big\_Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Norse)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/21 "2005-06-22T17:25:10Z")
> [@5que](#): > > Maybe someone should remind her of her [police report](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0513051wilbanks2.html): > [list=a] > [li]Kidnapped by Hispanic Male and White Female[/li][li]Sexually asaulted by female: oral sex, digitally penetrated her vagina[/li][li]Forced to perform oral sex on white female until the latter had an orgasm[/li][li]Raped by Hispanic male[/li][/list] > This is someone who we should pay no attention to. I want to know if she addressed this in the interview (my sanity and constitution could not have survived a minute of Katie Couric and this chick on the same TV screen). Suicidal? OK. But how many suicides make up false police reports to cover their tracks? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/22 "2005-06-22T17:32:55Z")
Jennifer and [Dar Heatherington](http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/heatherington/) need to hook up and become the next Thelma and Louise. Imagine all the hijinks this pair could get up to. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/23 "2005-06-22T17:37:43Z")
> [@JimSox5](#): > > Does she really? I must confess, I don’t think I’ve ever actually look at her body beyond her eyes. Neither has **lieu**. But you know what they say about women with big eyes. :eek: \<-------Jennifer Wilbanks about to blow a pregnant chicken ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/24 "2005-06-22T17:40:01Z")
> [@](#): > > WTF happened in you life to make you such an attention whore? …and start four Pit threads in less than 24 hours? Holy mackerel, man. What happened to her? She ran, her family reported it, the media got involved, some asshead offered her a fat check and she took it. So I guess your answer is “I’m a white girl in her late 20s/early 30s in the USA. This is how we’re supposed to act.” ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/25 "2005-06-22T17:41:06Z")
Dear Lord, **tdn** , that was one of the funniest posts I’ve ever seen here. I need to stop laughing, people trying to work out are beginning to stare. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/26 "2005-06-22T17:53:48Z")
> [@auntie em](#): > > Well, dammit, what’s left . . . ? Run off with a trucker. Disappear from work and home for weeks without telling anyone that you’re leaving. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/27 "2005-06-22T18:13:50Z")
**auntie em** you could always marry a twee Straight Dope Moderator… oh wait… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/28 "2005-06-22T18:27:54Z")
I don’t know what everyone is complaining about. Without the book deal, she and her husband (did they ever marry yet?) have to come up with the money for her fine and her counseling which means that they will be under extra stress in their marriage, meaning the courts will have to deal with their future divorce (and probably provide foster homes and counseling for their future kids). With the book deal, the court can re-assess her guilt and increase the fines, giving the state more money, the husband can afford to get her the counseling she needs to reduce (not eliminate) the chance she will pull some other stupid stunt, bookstores across the country will get a tiny boost in sales when the book is published, and it will all be paid by a tax on stupidity, reducing the amount of money that idiots in this country have to waste on _other_ stupid kitsch. I had to open this stupid thread to even find out who was named in the title. Now I’m cranky. Don’t get out of line in GD for the next few hours. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/29 "2005-06-22T18:28:28Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > Run off with a trucker. Disappear from work and home for weeks without telling anyone that you’re leaving. But by God, whatever you do, get a coworker to become a Doper before you do this. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/30 "2005-06-22T18:36:22Z")
> [@Hamadryad](#): > > …and start four Pit threads in less than 24 hours? Holy mackerel, man. 😃 I’ve been saving up my bile. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/31 "2005-06-22T19:00:58Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > I had to open this stupid thread to even find out who was named in the title. Now I’m cranky. Don’t get out of line in GD for the next few hours. [Good Mod Hat On]See, people, I’m trying to keep **tomndebb** from banning you, but you’ve got to work with me here. If you keep posting like that, I’m not going to be able to restrain him.[/Good Mod Hat Off] ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/32 "2005-06-22T19:17:58Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > According to Jon Stewart on _The Daily Show_ last night, she’s been given half a million bucks to write a book. If this is true, it’s un-fucking-believable. \ If it is true: > [@](#): > > She also was ordered to continue mental health treatment and pay the sheriff’s office $2,550. The city of Duluth spent nearly $43,000 to search for her; Wilbanks has repaid $13,249. Bitch better pony up that money these people have wasted looking for her sorry ass. Fuck. _I’m_ 29, white, & female with bills to pay. Where’s the nearest bus station? Wait…I’m heavily pierced and tattooed. Damn. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/33 "2005-06-22T19:21:22Z")
Who is Jennifer Wilbanks and why does anyone care what she does? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/34 "2005-06-22T19:23:02Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by tomndebb > > I had to open this stupid thread to even find out who was named in the title. Now I’m cranky. Don’t get out of line in GD for the next few hours. > > [Good Mod Hat On]See, people, I’m trying to keep **tomndebb** from banning you, but you’ve got to work with me here. If you keep posting like that, I’m not going to be able to restrain him.[/Good Mod Hat Off] Is this what’s called a curtesy reach around? 🙂 I’m so going to SDMB hell… ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/35 "2005-06-22T19:24:26Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > Who is Jennifer Wilbanks and why does anyone care what she does? That’s what we’re trying to get to the bottom of. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/36 "2005-06-22T19:27:18Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > Who is Jennifer Wilbanks and why does anyone care what she does? Exactly! But here’s her picture: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/37 "2005-06-22T19:31:22Z")
As for the eyes/face, I think she’s very attractive. It’s too bad she seems to have serious issues, perhaps intellectual as well as psychological. The fact that Mom does her banking doesn’t speak well for her ability to function on an adult level. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/38 "2005-06-22T19:45:59Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > That’s what we’re trying to get to the bottom of. Any ideas? I consider myself “above” the media-orchestrated soap operas. Having said that, do NOT search for “cricetus AND schiavo”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/39 "2005-06-22T19:46:29Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > As for the eyes/face, I think she’s very attractive. > > It’s too bad she seems to have serious issues, perhaps intellectual as well as psychological. The fact that Mom does her banking doesn’t speak well for her ability to function on an adult level. After suggesting this possibility, I feel obliged to point out that she does work as a nurse, according to [this](http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4560409/detail.html). So I’d say intellectual deficiency is not the issue, after all. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369/40 "2005-06-22T19:55:56Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > Run off with a trucker. Disappear from work and home for weeks without telling anyone that you’re leaving. Oh! Oh! And then **file a federal suit against your former employer for discrimination**. Well, OK, first file a claim with the State, and then when that gets dropped like a hot potato, take it to the Feds. Oh, yes. It’s true. And guess who’s been listed as a witness? But I hijack. The point is, THAT’s been done, too. And don’t think I’ll be shocked when the bitch gets her own reality series. :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-happened-in-you-life-to-make-you-such-an-attention-whore/309369.md?page=3)