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I have been in the midst of moving for the past month and haven't had time to watch the news or visit the TFP : I was taking a break from unpacking last Friday when I saw this story on CNN (and it was all over their broadcast's!). After hearing this story over and over again and continually hearing sad phrases like "she was due to have her dream wedding tomorrow", it suddenly struck me-this is a hoax.
For whatever reason (I think the fact that she seemed to be a "privileged" person and the sheer amount of wedding guests), it popped into my head that this is staged. She got "cold feet" and couldn't deal with letting everyone down by leaving him at the alter (I know it's silly but I thought of Rachael running out on Barry at the beginning of "Friends") or facing her family and guests about backing out at the 11th. hour. Hubby knew way before I did that my instincts were right (I just saw the news tonight).
Maybe she didn't expect the media attention but that is no excuse for scarring the shit out of her family and letting it go on once she knew it was national news. She actually shed her sweat shirts and pants and other articles to make it look like she'd been abducted. The press conference on Fri. was quite sad. She willingly and knowingly put her loved ones through that heartache and bullcrap.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, but it bothers me that there seems to be a trend of people faking things just to get attention. There was the girl/young woman a while ago that faked her own kidnapping and the woman recently who claimed to be a witness to a baby being thrown out of a moving car, when in fact it was her own child and the throwing out of a car had never happened.
Don't we have enough serious shit in the U.S. to deal with without this new breed of self-absorbed people forcing themselves on the population just for attention? The phrase "negative attention is better than no attention" is unfortunately being thought of as all too real. Sadly, it is a tide that no one is going to be able to stem with so many assholes out there. Only really tough legislature might be able to nip-it-in-the-bud before it gets out of hand. I'm holding my breath but am hoping for not too long.
Ali
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