Fox Breaking News: Jennifer Wilbanks to pay 13K to city.

Thank GOD there's nothing important going on.

Oops! Almost forgot Paris & Paris' engagement.

Put this worldwide crisis to bed.

I'm tired of economics and war and gas shortages...I don't want to know about corporate corruption or stolen elections anymore!

I AM NOT YET SUFFICIENTLY ENTERTAINED!

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asinine press conference performance by Bush. Not on FOX News anyway.

Wilbanks should face charges relating to lying to police. Period.

To have to pay $13k to the city for an ill-advised, media-seeking missing persons "event" is absurd. It was the city that blew this out of proportion, and now people are all pissed off over her for it.

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that.

Why I know this, I don't know. God help me, I need a life!

If they spent money on Wilbanks' bogus "kidnapping," she should recompense them.

The frenzy was initiated by Duluth, GA, within hours of the missing person report being filed, and several other police departments jumped into the fray within a few hours of that. I don't use the word "frenzy" lightly -- it was an emotion-charged case that would guarantee many hours of coveted limelight for the mayors and police chiefs who involved themselves. And now that Wilbanks is THE Runaway Bride™, the story will be kept alive for months, if not periodically re-emerge for years.

Jennifer Wilbanks, though, is a troubled young woman who was reacting (among other things) to her obsessively ordered life which required obedience, submission, and marriage as a career choice. That's just way too much of the wrong kind of pressure for anyone to have to put up with.

And now, in spite of that, she gets the additional burdens of public humiliation, being charged with a felony, investigation by a grand jury (WTF?), plus a couple of runs through the Georgia District Attorneys' Paddling Line, instead of the more customary misdemeanor charge plus fine and court-ordered counseling.

Justice demands an appropriate response to her transgression; the Mob has already extracted a pound of flesh and tens of thousands of miles of film and videotape. Her case ought to be consolidated, the charges reduced to the appropriate level of (un-)importance they deserve, and that she get her head, heart, and life in order. Paying $13k is much more than most such false missing persons are required to pay; the public shaming alone is more than she deserves.

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So say I.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civil society. No one complains about the price that cities, and counties pay to search for missing kids or murderers. Hell, Duluth just had the Fulton County, GA courthouse killer holed up in the town with that young woman who talked him into surrendering. My stepdaughter lives in Duluth. It's a nest of Republicans. The future father-in-law is a former mayor of the city!

That county is obsessed with Law Enforcement. I have come to believe it has dedicated an entire floor of its Town Hall to sustaining a fully-stocked media unit complete with satellite feeds, a T1 internet backbone, and a super-top-secret faster-than-light-speed scalar-wave subspace hyperdimensional communication device.

A HUGE percentage of the "true life" cops-and-crime shows on FOX or Court TV, including the show COPS itself, are about Fulton County cases. Not a day goes by that at least ONE cable show will carry a Fulton County criminal case.

Maybe Jennifer Wilbanks should ask for residuals, or at least a couple of performing-artist "points" so she can join AFTRA.

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I had no idea that so many Cops and Court TV stories were from the Atlanta area?

I kept seeing the lardass woman mayor of Duluth on Faux News.
She is a media whore.

I'll keep my ears open for mention of Gwinett County; but Fulton County has been in so many of them, they're impossible to miss (my Mother watches a lot of those shows, and I get to hear bits and pieces of them).

I don't watch Fox News; Mom wants me to program the Parental Block feature so she won't land on it while channel surfing :)

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a grand jury was investigating. That IS over the top. I still have a problem with a woman over 30 acting like this.

About Anderson Cooper's interview with a man that got his face eaten off by chimps.John Abrahms look out you are getting competition.

He's still alive? Those chimps really hated him for keeping them in cages.

Two adult male chimps broke out and quite literally tore him to pieces, ripped off all of his fingers, his ears, lips, nose, testicles, etc. For some reason they left his wife alone. They were visiting their chimp, who had been a member of their family and lived with them for many years until the City made them take the chimp to this sanctuary. He and his wife were visiting the chimp on his birthday. The guy was an ex-NASCAR driver, I think.

It is really quite horrific what happened to him.

and probably not with humans either; Chimps are exactly like humans in this fashion. The elder chimp the humans were treating may've been able to bring them back in line (the other chimps), but he was locked in while those chimps whaled on that guy for nearly FOUR HOURS or so. They certainly have to live in a society: animals aren't insensate cabbages, no matter how many tears Penn and Teller shed on HBO.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/11768688.htm

The two who escaped must have been jealous of all the treats the couple brought Moe. They couldn't get at Moe, but took the opportunity to attack the treat-providers. The pretty much ate the wife's thumb.

Severe violations of the pecking order has consequences.

Eureka! Maybe this explains Michael Jacksons face. Did Bubbles chew mjs' nose off?

Don't all rush to congratulate me. :-0

Stay married or fox will scarlet letter you too. (That was sarcasam). Is it just me or are these culture of life protect marriage people really leanning on everyones last nerves.