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Bride to be Cold FEET!

Saturday 30 April 2005 @ 12:06 pm

WHOA, look it all the trouble she caused! So she got a bus to Vegas. This is what happens when you try to lie. You end up telling a lie, then find out you have to tell another lie to explain the previous lie. Was it worth it to put your family thru this? Guess what her husband to be had to go thru. At one point everyone pointed the finger at him.

Off all the places to run away too. The place you can get married on a drive thru. Where people get drunk, gamble away all there money, and get married all in the same day. Well I guess she will end getting famous going thru all the talk show and news circuits. Ophrah will surely have first dibs. Today Show, Primetime live.

I guess the good side of the story is that women get cold feet also. It was always a cliche for the man to jump ship.




Where are you Jennifer Wilbanks?

Saturday 30 April 2005 @ 2:22 am

Have you seen this women?

I can’t believe thier still having the wedding. 600 guests? damn. Sounds like her family was pretty well off.
Possible suspects hmm

  • ex-boyfriends

  • Jealous Girlfriends

  • Kidnapping for ransom money

  • last but not least the
  • the future husband

Interesting to see how this comes out tommorrow




$100,000 reward for Jennifer Wilbanks

Friday 29 April 2005 @ 5:26 pm

My goodness $100,000 reward for the information to getting Jennifer Wilbanks. This reward kinda of puts the Georgia State reward for the shooting of the judge in Atlanta a joke. Now they called off the search. Guess who their talking too. Yep the boyfried. Personally i would be seriously offended if the cops were to ask me to take a lie detector test. You got nothing to hide? You don’t think a lie detector test can be wrong? check this quote out from http://www.totse.com/en/law/justiceforall/liedctr.html

David Thoreson Lykken estimates that lie-control polygraph tests are about 70 percent accurate. (Remember, though, that choosing “heads” or “tails” of a flipped coin can be accurate 50 percent of the time.) Accuracy of 70 percent is not impressive, but it is high enough to talk meaningfully of beating a polygraph test.

and that ain’t all. Tons of google results about false lie detector tests. The last thing you need is to fighting for your life in courts for something you didn’t do….




Being unemployed is a job

Friday 29 April 2005 @ 5:09 pm

So it’s been a officially a week since I been laid off at AT&T. The telecom industry is fubar. The days of making big bank is damn near over. I remember when I use to get upto 5 calls a day for new job opportunities. Now I feel like i’m just a dime of dozen. Here is a quote from an auto reply i got from a Head Hunter.

As you know, competition in the market is fierce, and we receive a
tremendous volume of resumes for our open jobs. Though we would very much
like to speak to each candidate personally, market conditions dictate that
we can no longer effectively do so.

LOL, so who said the economy is getting better. Well maybe I should listen to President Bush and go back to school, HAHA that’s when i visited this site Got laid off went back to school and still can’t get a job. But hell at least his daughter got hired to pay for the high college tuition. He don’t have worry about paying that…...




How hard could this be?

Thursday 28 April 2005 @ 10:13 am

Article from Macon.com

1st thing is to fire them all for the screw up

Judges hire two groups to conduct courthouse security audit

Associated Press

ATLANTA - Superior Court judges have hired two groups to conduct a security audit at the courthouse where a judge and two others were shot to death last month.

A contract was finalized Wednesday with the National Center for State Courts, a Virginia-based nonprofit group founded by former U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger. The Indiana-based Public Agency Training Council will work with the center on the audit.

Chief Judge Doris Downs said the first two phases of the audit will cost $26,500. The cost of four remaining stages had not been determined. The judges are paying for the audit with state funds.

The judges sought proposals for the audit after becoming frustrated with Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman’s initial response to reports of security lapses at the courthouse where Brian Nichols is accused of killing a judge, a court reporter and a sheriff’s deputy.

The experts will visit the site to gather data May 16-20. They will then report to the judges within 14 days. A detailed work plan and “tasks to be accomplished” will be provided by the end of the first week in June, Downs said.

“It’s really important to us that we get the first phase out of the way quickly so we can move into the substantive phases,” Downs said.

Phase 3 will be a physical survey of the court complex. Phase 4 will be a written evaluation of that survey.

“Five is implementation, and six is training,” Downs said.

As they receive reports, Downs said, the judges plan to share the findings and recommendations with the newly formed sheriff’s commission looking at courthouse security.

On March 11, Nichols, who was on trial for rape, allegedly overpowered a lone deputy and stole her gun. Authorities say he then went on a shooting spree at the courthouse, killing Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Ann Brandau and deputy Sgt. Hoyt Teasley. Federal agent David Wilhelm was killed later that day.

The sheriff’s department, responsible for security at the courthouse, has been widely criticized for its handling of Nichols, who was unshackled at the time of the attack and had previously been caught with homemade knives hidden in his shoes.




Another Scott Peterson Case?

Thursday 28 April 2005 @ 10:02 am

Wedding jitters? Possible murder? Already hit USA Today’s website.

Search on for bride-to-be who vanished from Atlanta suburb
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) — A 32-year-old woman disappeared while jogging just days before she was to be married, prompting hundreds of volunteers to search an Atlanta suburb.

Jennifer Wilbanks left home Tuesday night to go jogging. When she did not return in a couple of hours, her fiance began looking for her, then notified police.

On Wednesday, more than 250 people searched for Wilbanks, including volunteers and police using helicopters and tracking dogs. Authorities called off the volunteer search but continued canvassing door-to-door for clues in this northeastern Atlanta suburb. They were treating the disappearance as a criminal investigation.

Wilbanks’ family told authorities it is “totally uncharacteristic of her behavior” not to let someone know where she is, police Maj. Don Woodruff said.

“There’s been a lot of speculation … that it could have been a case of the premarital jitters,” Woodruff told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday. “But again, according to all of her friends that have been interviewed, all of her family, that’s simply not the case.”

Investigators checked the banks of the nearby Chattahoochee River, and the state Department of Natural Resources planned to search the river, Woodruff said.

Wilbanks and John Mason were to be married Saturday.

“She left out of here with just a radio and the clothes she has on,” Mason said. “Everything she owns is in the home. If this is cold feet, it is the weirdest case of cold feet I have ever seen.”

Wilbanks was described as 5 feet, 8 inches tall, about 123 pounds, with shoulder-length dark brown hair. She was last seen wearing a gray sweat shirt and blue sweat pants, police said.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-28-missing-bride_x.htm?csp=34




Airplane Pilots need some lessons

Thursday 28 April 2005 @ 1:49 am

First a plane lands on 316 Now another plane crashes at the Gwinnett County’s Briscoe Field Airport . Fortunately they both survived




No fun walking on train tracks

Thursday 28 April 2005 @ 1:28 am

Its not smart to walk on the train tracks

A man walking on MARTA rail tracks was struck and killed by a rush-hour commuter train on a bridge that runs over Interstate 85 northeast of downtown Wednesday, authorities said.

The unidentified man, about 20, was between the Arts Center and Lindbergh stations shortly before 5:30 p.m., said Jocelyn Baker, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. The train was carrying 300 passengers. No one else was injured.

As authorities investigated, train service was halted between two stations, and commuters were shuttled on buses. Train service resumed about 9:30 p.m.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/11507140.htm




Funeral Set for Slain Policeman

Thursday 28 April 2005 @ 1:19 am

Funeral arrangements have been set for an Atlanta police officer who was gunned down two days ago during a traffic stop in southwest Atlanta.

The funeral for Officer Mark Cross was scheduled to be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Jackson Memorial Baptist Church on Fairburn Road in northwest Atlanta.

A wake was planned from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Murray Brothers Funeral Home in southwest Atlanta.

Investigators have said they may never know what prompted a 19-year-old convicted felon to allegedly open fire on Cross and a second officer.

Cross, 31, died after he was shot Saturday night during a traffic stop in southwest Atlanta, Sgt. John Quigley said. Officer Andy Griffin was shot in the jaw but treated and released.


Click below for the entire storyhttp://officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=2&id=23155