I don't care if the runaway bride is charged with a crime.

[proud2BlibKansan]

But I am dying to know this - does she get to keep the wedding presents from those 600 guests?

[MASSAFRA]

1. I was wondering

what her running pace was and her distance.

[rodeodance]

2. I was flipping channels just know-5/5 had this case on including Nancy

grace yacking and yacking. I am so bored/angered by it all.
And no--they even have and etitique person on--explaining educating us all that she doen NOT get to keep the presents.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. What a dumbie

She should have gone ahead with the wedding (and the honeymoon if it was going to be in a great location), came home, opened those presents and then divorced the guy.

Did the etiquette person say how long you have to wait to file for divorce if you want to keep the gifts?

[Inland]

4. But that would have been embarrassing. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Right

and what she did was NOT embarrassing?

[bpilgrim]

8. that's the punch line

:hi:

peace

[atommom]

5. Good question. Perhaps she should have taken the gifts and run

away after the honeymoon. She could sell the less-desirable gifts on eBay while she established her new identity. Hmmmm...

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. You know, atommom,

she may have seen the face of Jesus in one of those gifts and ebay could be making her a rich woman.

What a lost opportunity.

[atommom]

10. It's a tragedy, I tell you!

:rofl:

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Just heard this on AAR this morning

and I thought it was hilarious:

'Runaway bride: overindulged yuppie or radical feminist? You decide."

LOL

[imax2268]

9. well...

It's nice to see that the media is giving this full attention...nevermind all that Washington DC stuff...we need "TABLOID NEWS"...

it's pathetic...

[OneBlueSky]

11. I don't watch ANY television news, but I assume from the posts . . .

here on DU that they're running amok with this stupid runaway bride story . . . to me, that means that they're trying real hard NOT to report something important . . . or, more likely, a LOT of things that are important . . . the recent documentation confirming that Iraq was planned way in advance comes immediately to mind, as does the increasing proof that the 2004 election was stolen . . . not to mention what's happening in Iraq every day . . .

but what REALLY worries me is the stuff we DON'T know about -- that which has already happened, and that which is yet to come . . . THAT'S what really worries me . . .

[zann725]

12. Let me guess. She goes to court...in a plea bargain, they "bind" her feet

and she lives happily ever after tethered to the man she unsuccessfully tried to run away from.

What a romantic new-age tale! Women as chattal AGAIN!

[BattyDem]

14. One thing that does bother me ...

the city she lives in is now talking about a civil suit against her. They want to be reimbursed for the search and investigation.

That scares me.

Every adult in this country has the LEGAL RIGHT to leave town without informing anyone. It's called freedom. If they want to charge her because she lied about the kidnapping, fine. I agree, she shouldn't have done that, although I doubt she would have made up that story if her disappearence hadn't turned into a media circus.

But ... filing a civil suit against her could prevent other families from reporting a missing person. Think about it ... if a family believes there may be the slightest possibility that their loved one disappeared by choice, they may wait for days or even a week before reporting them missing because they don't want to be sued for the cost of a police investigation. Those extra days could mean the difference between life and death.

It's not right. There was no intention to cause trouble, like when someone pulls a fire alarm. The woman got cold feet and she left town to get her head together - which is her legal right! If the media stayed out of it, I doubt the police would have launched the full scale search as quickly as they did. Let's face it ... people disappear everyday and that type of search isn't done for just anyone - this was a rich, white woman whose face was plastered all over the televison 24/7. They had to make it look good. Let the media reimburse the town since they played a big part in causing the chaos. JMHO

By the way ... did it ever occur to these people that there was a reason she didn't contact her family?

[elehhhhna]

15. Batty, you have changed my opinion . Excellent post.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

16. Fantastic

We could shut down the entire country if just 10,000 of us "disappeared" at once!

[KharmaTrain]

17. CNNServative Should Be Sued

I posted in another thread something very similar to yours...and saying CNNServative should be held liable as they're the ones who blew up this story in the first place and wouldn't let it go. Even after this lady fessed up, they still had to find a way to milk the audience and keep the ratings ball rolling. They turned her from victim to demon and all for their own profit and greed.

A great point about how this could affect people reporting missing persons...or how police department will react if they sense legal ramifications of investigating the calls they do get. Damn asses. Self serving, dum asses.

I'm hoping this lady comes out in a week or so and does a Jessica Hahn. The pictoral for Hustler, the road tour with the metal band, the drunken brawl at some bowling alley. After seeing her zombie groom and the wacky family, I don't blame her for running. I kept seeing Patty Hearst in those pictures (my age is showing).

Cheers