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A missing Duluth, GA woman, 32 year-old Jennifer Wilbanks, was discovered at a local 7-11 by Albequerque police Saturday after a frantic phone call to 911 in which she claimed she was kidnapped. Wilbanks stated she was taken by a man and a woman driving a blue van. "I have no idea. I don't know where I am," said Wilbanks, whose story was later found to be bogus. In actuality Wilbanks boarded a Greyhound bus bound for Las Vegas and after her week-long disappearance, eventually wound up in New Mexico.

This sounds like a case of a woman with cold feet. That combined with a spur-of-the-moment escape plan. Whatever it was, it doesn't look like it was well thought out. I bet there was something else going on in that story that probably won't come out. Will she still get married? Would a nervous breakdown/national hoax be a deal-breaker in an engagement? If she was willing to flee across seven states to get away, that's a pretty big statement.

The truth is, no one knows what entirely was going on and we probably won't know either. It's a good thing that she was recovered safely and wasn't in any physical harm during her disappearance. She probably shouldn't get in trouble for doing this even though it did turn out to waste a lot of people's time and energy. This reminds me of that college girl they found in a swamp in Wisconsin a couple of years ago. Both women turned out to be fine, which is the most important thing. They both looked crazier than a dog shittin tacks in their pictures too--with that same twenty mile stare. Interesting story- I'm sure we will hear a lot more about it in the weeks to come.

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