Run Bride Run....All the way to the bank

[owl_the_beatnik]

Remember the "runaway bride (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159758,00.html) ? Now She has a book deal! It makes me sick that she is going to make money of this crap. She puts her family and the nation through hell and now is laughing all the way to the bank. Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks has made a deal with a media company that is now pitching a movie to networks...But news of the deal annoyed officials who spent thousands of dollars searching for her.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159758,00.html

[IHL]

I'd have to say that if there is a movie or book or whatever it is that comes from this story, this woman should not see a dime. She committed a crime - plain and simple. Should she go to jail? Hard to say but she most certainly should not gain anything from what she did. If there are proceeds from this deal, they should go to pay back the money spent look for her and the rest should go to help look for other people that are really missing. IMHO.

[DoubleU]

Will people actually give a damn?

[chi1088]

I do not give one DAMN about this "runaway bride"!

Those eyes of hers are so creepy. If she does get money, she needs to talk to some optical surgeons and see if anything can be done.

[believer]

People, people! There are enough laws already that started with some self-empowered do-gooder meaning to make themself feel good for doing "good". We have more than enough government involvement in our lives, the way it is. If somebody has the spare money to give this flake to support her whoredom of her flakiness, then that's their business deal! All the power to them! It's nothing more than the circus and their freak show; either you're a ticket buyer, or not. Do you concern yourself with the morality of the freak? Did you pause to consider that of the circus, itself? Yourself?

[LiberalsAreBabyKillers!]

I voted no, but prehaps she should be allowed to sell her story, but I hope that the whore doesn't make a damned penny off of it!

[FightinDaMan]

Wow, more than half of the voters said that they wanted to regulate a person's ability to make money.

It's almost funny. Minimum wage laws, environmental laws, etc are unfair restrictions on business, but the runaway bride shouldn't be able to sell her story because it's "wrong".

Not that I don't think it's wrong, I'm just saying for a bunch of capitalists you seem awfully concerned with the morals behind making money.

[owl_the_beatnik]

She broke the law.
She lied.
State spent thousnads looking for her.
She played a race card.
She had people worry

[owl_the_beatnik]

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050622/ap_on_re_us/runaway_bride_3) wanted to vanish because she feared she could not be the perfect wife. She picked Austin, Texas, as her original destination after seeing actor Matthew McConaughey talk about his hometown on TV. And she funded her odyssey by cashing a cell phone rebate check and emptying an old bank account.


She planned it out How many people get cold feet before a wedding? Everyone is not writing a book.
Why should she be rewarded?

[short circut]

if she writes it and some wacko idiot wants to buy it let them. i dont really care.

[FreedomFirst]

I voted yes.

This is america and in the free nation we live in she has unlimited right to contract. As perverse as she is for wanting to profit off the misery of others... she still has the freedom to sell her story.

I do not endorse what she did. It sickens me she would try to capitalize on her families suffering. But you can't stop her from doing it. She has rights too unfortuneatly. Besides... who will really give two sh1ts?

Besides they can always sue her ass for defimation of character or something. (welcome to America :biggrin: )

[Wadi66]

If she writes a book and makes money from it, she can repay the cost of searching for her. If not, the State is out a lot of money.

[Bumblebee]

If she writes a book and makes money from it, she can repay the cost of searching for her. If not, the State is out a lot of money.
In the beginning, that's what I thought she was going to do.
I read the story she told the FBI and couldn't believe what a
dirty imagination she had. You'd think she would be embarassed.
I read it at (The Smoking Gun.com,) look under Jennifer Wilbanks.
It has her mug shot and the whole report.

[rightwingxtremist]

Now She has a book deal! It makes me sick that she is going to make money of this crap.

So what, we have whole industries of filthy pornographers of various kinds making money, casinos taking people for their last dollar, funeral homes mark up caskets 400%, and those highway McDonald's restaurants charge 7 bucks for a value meal!


She puts her family and the nation through hell and now is laughing all the way to the bank.

Put the nation through hell? If you and the rest of the viewing nation were minding your own business, you wouldn't even know she existed! Since when does the technology of television and mass-media give us a stake in everything broadcast over them by default? Get a grip!

- Nate

[owl_the_beatnik]

Put the nation through hell? If you and the rest of the viewing nation were minding your own business, you wouldn't even know she existed! Since when does the technology of television and mass-media give us a stake in everything broadcast over them by default? Get a grip!
- Nate


It happening again down in Aruba. These piss poor stories are tying up my mojo wires. For a week a had to hear about a chick whose eyes are going to pop out ASAP. And Since May 28 all I hear about is Aruba, and a missing teen. Hooray why doesn't media come to Chicago and cover the Diamond girls who were kidnapped on Christmas Eve two years ago?

[Bumblebee]

After the runaway bride made a call to her fiancee, I was really riveted to the story. After wondering how she could do such a thing to her fiancee and her family, I found her story very amusing.

The Aruba story is very interesting because of the twists and turns, especially when they arrested the father. It's such a mystery.

I'll have some fun and make a guess. They gave Natalee Holoway a date drug.
The son probably picks up girls for the father, while the mother is away.

[Guns R Cool]

Besides the fact that I don't really care about her, she committed a crime and should not be allowed to profit from that.

[Bumblebee]

Besides the fact that I don't really care about her, she committed a crime and should not be allowed to profit from that.
Yes, and you're right, but it seems that everybody is writing books and profiting from their crime stories, nowadays.

In the beginning she was hailed as a good Christian, I thought she would pay back the state who spent all that money searching for her with the profits she will be making.

[rightwingxtremist]

Well, that's all fine and good if we're interested in the story. However, the second we feel that the subject of the story owes us anything by virtue of our having seen it on the television, we need to re-examine the genesis of the non-existant relationship between subject and audience (us). Obviously, this does not apply to situations where we actually have a stake in the outcome, as far as elected officials, business executives, and certain criminals are concerned.

- Nate

[fancyguppy]

I agree with ya Right wing on your sentiments regarding the runaway bride. Nobody would even know about this had it not been for television. Yeah, what she did wasnt right. I dont agree with what she did and said, however, I found it weird the media attached themselves to this story so quickly.

How many other wives have skipped out on their soon to be fiances out of "the fear of getting married" and how many others have fabricated stories etc etc. Dont hear about them. And why should you? Seriously, its not my business to know what went on between the runaway bride and her fiance etc. Just my opinion.

People only have opinions about this case in partcular cuz they heard it on the news. Didnt affect them first hand or I personally believe it was a liberal tactic to deflect other issues in the news. Namely, the Terry case which is something I would much rather hear about considering if I was on life support I wouldnt want the government to have the right to pull the plug on me. Who cares if a bride was careless and caused a couple thousand to the town. I think the Laci Peterson Story, Terry's case, and the MJ trial are much more worthy of attention then this frenzy of the media to come up with "the next big story". She certainly wasnt an upstanding person but dang, arent there worse fish to fry?

[rightwingxtremist]

Besides the fact that I don't really care about her, she committed a crime and should not be allowed to profit from that.

Well, it seems that the only crime was the false statement, the running away was not really a crime, although not a smart move by any stretch. In a world awash in pornography and other degenerate media programming, it makes the runaway bride seem like a walk in the park to me.

- Nate

[Douglas Adams]

I don't personally think that she should make money, she should spend her life in prison; but it's not our descision if she can make money. Capitalism!

[FightinDaMan]

I think life in prison is a rather harsh punishment for what she did.

[Bumblebee]

[QUOTE=fancyguppy] I found it weird the media attached themselves to this story so quickly.

Usually it's because of high ratings and sometimes it's because they don't have that much news to report.

There are many who are very interested. I was.

[ProtestWarrior]

I think that she should be able to sell her book and profit from it. I am in no way simpathizing with what she did, but come on, this is America. What she did was wrong, and she should be punished accordingly by law. That should not interfere with her basic rights unless ruled so by a court. I think that she should use the money she makes to cover the damage that she did.