Comments on: The TSA Kidnapping Saga Comes To An End

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:55:23 +0000

Why is there no talk of prosecuting this woman, she’s crazy like a fox, though a dumb fox. But it’s always the dumb ones that get caught right? We as a society have to let future people who enter this person life to know about it, like future employees or license bodies. What if she wants to take care of old people in 10 years, you want her near your senile dad? Or kids, you want her to be able to get a job in childcare? I want her to at least be accused so it shows up in a public records search. Thereby alerting background checks that delve deeper than just a conviction check, such as a licensing check.

By: Sceptic

Sceptic — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:34:53 +0000

She has a new post up today (10/25).

By the way, this was HER story. It had nothing to do with ANYONE else. Not the people she asked to spread her story. Not the people she asked to contact the TSA. Not her friends who leapt to her defense. Nope, just her story.

It was her version and she has the right to mix fact with fiction without regard to consequence.

Funnily enough, her new blog post is titled “Ownership” yet she again fails to take ownership for what she did.

And no, she did not post her phone records – wonder why?

By: Elaina

Elaina — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:43:12 +0000

Eye Spy I did see that and I took her “the video is incomplete” comment to mean that it ended before the incident she says happened. Not that it was edited. I suppose the problem is that the use of the word “edit” has a different connotation to me then “incomplete.” When the word “edit” was used in this article, I assumed that she had used that or a similar meaning word on her blog.

By: running with scissors

running with scissors — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:16:51 +0000

Well if it is being handled between her and TSA, why tweet about it. Just an attention whore. If you read her blog she is so self absorbed it is shocking. And the support from these others on her blog is frightening. I am worried about the future of the children these women are raising.

By: Eye Spy

Eye Spy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:19:31 +0000

Your reading must be suffering LOL. It is there:
in the video, it looks as though my son is playing happily in his stroller while i am being searched with a wand. obviously this is the big discrepancy with my story, since he was not in my sight at that time, and one that i too am thoroughly looking into. neither of the two phone calls i placed while seated in security are in the video either. what is shown in the video is incomplete as it leaves out when the security agent took my son to a separate area and out of my sight. this matter is one that is being handled between my family and the TSA.

By: Elaina

Elaina — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:38:34 +0000

Oh yeah . . . I meant to also say that reading her “statement” or supposed apology only makes her look that much worse. But I’m wondering if she removed the statements about them editing the tape? I just read that and I didn’t see her make mention of them editing. She must have changed those. Either that or my reading comprehension is severely suffering today!

By: Elaina

Elaina — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:36:14 +0000

Thanks for your take on the story. I missed the whole thing originally because I got so sick of Twitter, I deleted my account. I have been complaining for months and months about a lack of integrity in the blogosphere. This isn’t the only story like this. There’s quite a few of them out there. The others I’m aware of involve things like faking a child’s serious illness and a woman who faked a pregnancy (April Rose — baby was said to be quite ill) and received all kinds of support. She had a PO box for donations and had Blogher ads. There are others. Those are just two examples.

But there are also other little twists of the truth I’ve found via people’s Tweets and their blogs. I just think it was time that more attention was paid to this issue. She didn’t think even remotely logically about how quickly her story could be refuted by the TSA. Yet, all of the attention, is hopefully going to get those who chose to twist the truth or outright lie, to think twice.

On another note, I’m sure her husband’s command is THRILLED about this. Just thrilled. Note the use of sarcasm in the previous two sentences.

By: running with scissors

running with scissors — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:23:23 +0000

Wow, I really hope this was worth 15 minutes of fame. Look at her blog it would appears she has some issues. Talks a lot about drinking and a ton of photo’s of her drinking. Wonder if the Navy is talking to her husband right now. Wonder if his job could be in jeopardy over this, not good he has a wife who appears to have some mental health issues.

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