Runaway Bride Sues

Jennifer Wilbanks (AKA The Runaway Bride) Sues
By Susan Hatch
Oct 11, 2006

http://www.nationalledger.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=5&num=8981

Jennifer Wilbanks, the bug-eyed runaway bride wants some cash. In fact - Jennifer wants some serious coin.
She is asking for half a million bucks...never mind the cash that was blown on her wedding that had to be cancelled...
Wilbanks, 33, the woman who maybe forever known as the runaway bride, has sued her former fiancé for a cool half-million dollars.
She is claiming that he took advantage of her hospitalization to defraud her of her share of the proceeds from a book deal about their adventure.
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The Associated Press or AP reports that in a lawsuit filed Sept. 13, she and her lawyer said that while she was hospitalized and under medication, she granted Mason power of attorney to negotiate the sale of the couple's story to a publisher in New York, and Mason struck a deal for $500,000 or half a million bucks.
But she said Mason used the money to buy a house in his name only, and later evicted Wilbanks from the home.
She is seeking $250,000 as her share of the home, and $250,000 in punitive damages for alleged abuse of the power of attorney. I suppose the jilted groom is not so pleased to stay with her...
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Wilbanks, then 32, ran off four days before she was to be married in a lavish wedding in 2005. She turned up in New Mexico, claiming she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. She later recanted, saying she fled because of personal issues, and pleaded no contest to telling police a phony story.
She was sentenced to two years' probation and performed community service that included mowing the lawns at public buildings.

This is the stuff attorney's dream about...

football wedding

This story reminds me of the couple that called me on Superbowl Sunday at around 10:30 AM to ask me if I could perform their wedding that very day.

I said: Sure, do you want to do the wedding before, during or after the superbowl game...?
The groom said: before if I can pull it off....
During the wedding, the groom joked if I could speed up the ceremony so as not to miss the kickoff...

Border battle (football) wedding

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=4752977
November 11, 2006 - One week before the big Ohio State - Michigan game, a local couple tied the knot while honouring their favorite teams.

The bride named Heather Rogge and the groom named Tim Kyle got married at Immaculate Conception in Swanton, but tradition was out the window.

The bride is a big Michigan fan and the groom is for Ohio State. In fact, their relationship started just before the border battle four years ago.

The couple held the wedding the weekend before the game because family members said they wouldn't attend if the wedding was on game day.

I love this story and hope they stay together for along time...

Political correctness

Best definition ever
For those, like me, who do not believe in Political Correctness

Political Correctness:

A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

I was riding to work yesterday when I observed a female driver, who cut right in front of a pickup truck, causing the driver to drive onto the shoulder to avoid hitting her. This evidently angered the driver enough that he hung his arm out is window and gave the woman the finger.

"Man, that guy is stupid," I thought to myself. I ALWAYS smile nicely and wave in a sheepish manner whenever a female does anything to me in traffic, and here's why: I drive 48 miles each way every day to work. That's 96 miles each day. Most of the bumper-to-bumper is on an 8 lane highway. There are 7 cars every 40 feet for 32 miles. That works out to 982 cars every mile, or 31,424 cars. Even though the rest of the 32 miles is not bumper-to-bumper, I_figure I pass at least another 4000 cars. That brings the number to something like 36,000 cars that I pass everyday.

Statistically, females drive half of these. That's 18,000 women drivers! In any given group of females, 1 in 28 has PMS. That's 642.According to Cosmopolitan, 70% describe their love life as dissatisfying or unrewarding. That's 449. According to the National Institute of Health, 22% of all females have seriously considered suicide or homicide. That's 98. And 34% describe men as their biggest problem. That's 33.

According to the National Rifle Association, 5% of all females_carry_ weapons and this number is increasing. That means that EVERY SINGLE DAY, I drive past at least one female that has a lousy love life, thinks men are her biggest problem, has seriously considered suicide or homicide, has PMS, and is armed.

Give her the finger? I don't think so.

now that the elections are finally over

http://palmbeachweddings.blogspot.com/2006/08/elections-wolves.html

Beware of wolves that come to you in sheep's clothing, Or suits and ties for that matter.
Ever notice that 99% of all politician's are lawyers...?

Lavish wedding amid poverty

In Bangkok, Thailand there was a video that was leaked over the internet of an extravagant and lavish wedding being put on my the top military general (read dictator) of Myanmar (formerly called Burma) to the north of Thailand. General Than Shwe threw this wedding extravaganza for his daughter. This has produced outrage among ordinary people in the communist military-ruled country that is very poor.

In the 10-minute or so video clip that is posted on the Internet, the bride Thandar Shwe is seen lavishly decked out in layers of pearls and sparkling stones. The sparking stones resemble diamonds. As she is standing next to her husband, he is seen pouring a waterfall of champagne in a cascade of wine glasses.

Hundreds of guests are in attendance with a five-tiered wedding cake as it is cut. The newlywed couple is seen posing for pictures before an ornately laid golden braid bridal suite bed. It comes complete with a beautiful red canopy that stretches all the way up to the ceiling.

This July wedding was the talk of the town in Yangon. Yangon is located on the river by the same name. It was formerly called Rangoon and was the former capitol during the colonial era during the time of British domination.

$50 million was supposedly spent on luxurious cars and a mansion. This country has a population of about 53 million people. This wedding cost well over double what the annual health budget is for this impoverished nation.

One of the guests reported that he had never seen so many yellow coloured diamonds. Reportedly there were many grape sized stones wrapped around the neck of the bride. Rangoon residents are calling, Thandar the bride, "Sein," which means diamond in the Burmese language. Zaw Phyo Win, in the groom and husband and he is an army major and a deputy director at the ministry of Commerce.

Aung Zaw, the editor of Irrawaddy, which is a magazine based in Thailand says "It's outrageous, just outrageous, especially when you consider that most Burmese live in extreme poverty," Burma is considered to be one of Asia's poorest countries. A string of military dictators have ruled Burma and it is presently a tightly closed communist society.

Whoever leaked this lavish wedding video may want to embarrass and disgrace Than Shwe, who is 73 years old. General Than loves to play to the official media outlets and pretend that he is a frugal and modest man
"Weddings have mystery politics behind them, so I'm curious to find out why this video was released," Aung Zaw said.

The wedding video is shown here: http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/thandar_shwe.html