Missing Bride Alive: Cold Feet

[sundog]

I wonder how many millions of dollars were burned getting this message out to us. :eyes:

Boggles the mind.

:argh:

[Straight Shooter]

1. You have got to be kidding me!

I don't watch television but yesterday afternoon I saw the photos of her mother in absolute agony over fear of what had happened to her daughter.

I cannot imagine causing that kind of pain to anyone. Now I shall refrain from calling her names, although a few spring to mind.

[Fenris]

2. Utterly ridiculous.

:eyes:

[Nikia]

3. Maybe there's another message they are getting at

There are probably a certain percentage of women who get cold feet before getting married. Some of them decide not to go through with it. They usually tell someone though. I can see though how social pressure might lead some brides to not even be able to do that. This story sends the message that women better just go through with it or they will cause a lot of anguish and embarassment.
Am I reading too much into that?

[JimmyJazz]

4. Unbelievable! I wonder how much attention this "abduction"

would have received, but for the fact that she is rich, white and fairly attractive. :eyes:

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. good grief

we are going to hell in a handbasket

[kedrys]

6. The photo of her at cnn.com makes her look like a complete airhead

Um, wait...er, she IS, isn't she? :P

[JimmyJazz]

8. I don't think attacks on her are appropriate. What she did clearly

indicates someone who had a breakdown of some sort. I'm not saying we should pity her, but I think we should reserve judgment and certainly attacks on her appearance are inappropriate.

IMHO, our anger/disgust should be directed toward the media coverage of this incident. They jumped all over it way too quickly and now they have egg on their collective faces and have proven what idiots they are.

[tjdee]

9. Didn't she say Mexicans were responsible?

I don't have a problem with her own mental problems, but I do have a problem with her making up people to abduct her. Police resources were wasted tracking down imaginary people.

Not cool.

[JimmyJazz]

13. The answer is, "I don't know." It's too early to tell.

I think her mental status needs to be evaluated. This is not the behavior of a mentally stable unit.

Perhaps she should be charged for distracting the police from investigating real crimes and for filing a false report, but I think it's too early to tell. I'm going to reserve my opinion until more of the facts are out.

Again though, my issue is more with the media coverage of this than any wrong doing on her part.

[tjdee]

17. I'd agree with that.

It's ridiculous we have been treated to so much information on it already.

[kedrys]

11. Point taken.

I'm sure the media circus is not going to help her or her intended sort themselves out.

CNN could have picked a better photo - she looks very pretty, but that particular pic is somewhat less than flattering. BTW, it's the first photo I've seen of her, so I apologize for the kneejerk reaction.

Bottom line, nobody handled the matter well.

[sundog]

12. I'm sick thinking about what else could be done

with the cash used to cover this bullshit :grr:

put an inner city kid through college? no.

feed some hungry people? no.

fuck this shit... grr... makes me sick :puke:

[JimmyJazz]

15. EXACTLY!

[alarimer]

21. Very true

There is more going on her than meets the eye. Why would she run away from a case of cold feet? It sounds like she was under a lot of pressure. The media as usual way overplayed this story. I think they wanted another Laci Peterson. Maybe they were hoping the boyfriend did it and they could have another celebrity trial.

[readmylips]

7. I wish my son's girldfriend would get cold feet.....

again. She has called off three previous weddings. Now at 37, she's determined to marry my son and start a family. Like this Jennifer woman, my son's girlfriend is a lunie. One time he called off the relationship and she broke into his house and spray-painted his beautiful house. All the danger signs are there, but God Bless Him, he always liked stray dogs. We have yet to meet her family.

[Cobalt Violet]

10. As long as the sheeple keep feeding at this troth...

This will be all that the news will be. Sheeple food.

[DS1]

14. Imagine that

:eyes:

[libodem]

16. You know I'm just glad she's alive

and not strangled, decomposing, in a dumpster, in Toledo. What she must have put that family through, however, is unforgivable. Let alone the national air time, we could have spent, being groomed for social security privatization, and being kept in the dark about Iraq civilian casualties.

[Fleshdancer]

18. How long will it take for Fox to create some sort of copycat show?

Desperate Brides or Desperate Housewives to be.

Everyone wanted her to be okay and she is. What she did was immature and hurtful to her family but hopefully she'll get help for what I assume is a meltdown and hopefully everything will turn out allright.

One thing I do know...no one needs a wedding with 600 guests and 28 people in the bridal party. Planning a wedding sucks. There's no way I would have maintained my sanity with a wedding that big. yuck.

[Pool Hall Ace]

19. I was blissfully unaware of this story until just now, so I Googled it.

As a recent newlywed who put off marriage until age 42, I can understand the bride getting cold feet. And I understand that planning a big foofy wedding is stressful, which is why I opted for the courthouse. What I couldn't understand is why this made national news. Then I saw that it was the bride herself who cooked up the abduction story.

Not to undermine the grief of the families involved, but it seems like by following the MSM, one can learn more details about abducted and murdered children in Florida, dead toddlers in Georgia, or a pop star's trial then about our seemingly daily government scandals, President Goofus' bungled war, or his continuing efforts to wipe his bunghole with the constitution and flush the whole country down the toilet.

Not that this trainwreck isn't remotely interesting; it is. The family reports that the groom passed a polygraph test, yet why has he been negotiating with authorities for another one?

I see from the article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4973476,00.html that stepmomzilla says the wedding (which includes 14 bridesmaids, 14 groomsmen, 600 invitations sent) will be rescheduled.

``We will definitely have a wonderful, big, beautiful wedding,'' she said, ``and everybody will be happy and smiling.''

Oh boy.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. This is what happens when the media reports on something that really

shouldn't be reported on in the first place. How many children really went missing on that same day? From what I had read, this was an idea that popped up almost right away. I'm disgusted with our media outlets....actually, I guess I already was.

[sundog]

23. and now it will be a one week news event

with all the psychologists... reports on WHAT makes a bride run away...
the secret connection with Julia Roberts & the "Runaway Bride" :eyes:

[fortyfeetunder]

22. No criminal charges?

That is a bunch of bullshit! If we can handcuff 5 year olds for throwing tantrums, we can certainly jail rich young women for staging a kidnapping/murder and splitting town! :nuke: