Note to self....Don't fake my own abduction...

[truth]

Wis. Woman Charged With Faking Abduction
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By JENNY PRICE
Associated Press Writer

April 14, 2004, 11:58 AM CDT

MADISON, Wis. -- Audrey Seiler, the University of Wisconsin sophomore accused of staging her own disappearance last month, was charged Wednesday with two misdemeanor counts of obstructing officers.

Each charge carries a jail sentence up to nine months and a maximum fine of $10,000. Investigators said she told them, "It just got so out of hand. I did not mean for it to."

Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard filed the 16-page criminal complaint two weeks after Seiler, 20, was discovered in a marshy area within a mile of her campus apartment, when she told police a man with a knife and a gun was in the area. She was reported missing March 27 and found March 31.

When officers attempted to assist Seiler to her feet she said "I can't leave the woods -- a bad man will kill me," according to the complaint. She told officers the man had a knife and a gun.

Her claim touched off a major manhunt, which authorities said accounted for most of the money they spent on the case. The Madison police department last week estimated its costs at $96,000.

According to the criminal complaint, Seiler told police on March 31 and April 1 that a man had entered her room at 2:15 a.m. March 27 while she was doing homework and forced her from her room at knifepoint, telling her to leave the building.

Seiler told police that once outside, the same man grabbed her and put her into a car with threats that he had a gun, according to the complaint. She also said the man used duct tape over her mouth and would sometimes give her Nyquil pills.

Police concluded Seiler's story was fake after obtaining a videotape that showed her buying the knife, duct tape, rope and cold medicine she claimed her abductor used to restrain her. They also obtained a warrant to search her laptop computer and cell phone records.

After investigators showed Seiler the surveillance photos of her buying the knife and other items during the April 1 interview, she said she purchased gum, Chapstick, flu medicine and tape for her bedroom lights.

Seiler's roommate, Heather Thue, told officers that Seiler seemed depressed and was "confused" about her relationship with her boyfriend, Ryan Fisher. Thue said Fisher did not pay as much attention to Seiler as she wanted.

During her April 1 interview, Seiler broke down crying when investigators told her they believed she was under a lot of stress.

"I know you think I can't handle Ryan, or my grades, but I can," Seiler said and started crying, according to the complaint.

As investigators attempted to console her, she added, "It just got so out of hand. I did not mean for it to ... everybody did so much for me," the complaint said.

Hundreds of people from Madison and Seiler's hometown participated in searches for her after her disappearance.

Seiler had also reported an unexplained attack in February, saying she was struck from behind and left unconscious, but the complaint does not say whether police believe that attack was also fabricated.

A message left at Seiler's home in Rockford, Minn., wasn't immediately returned. The family's attorney, Randy Hopper, was traveling and didn't immediately return messages left at his office and on his cell phone.

Seiler had been under a doctor's care since she was found, but returned home to Rockford, Minn., last week.

Hopper did not release any details of Seiler's condition or say what type of treatment she was receiving. "Dateline NBC" reported that Seiler was in a psychiatric facility.
Copyright © 2004, The Associated Press

[phUnk]

*slams head on keyboard repeatedly*




Are you almost done regurgitating the news? The following ski-related threads are now on the 2nd page: Back to the stoke now, La Grave TR, Progression, Alta closing day roll call, PBR goggle giveaway, Alpental closing day roll call, Longoni skis wtf, April dump in Kirkwood.

But at least we got to read a story about some stupid woman...

[truth]

Originally posted by phUnk





*slams head on keyboard repeatedly*

Keep whining.

[MacDaddy]

did she have nice boobies?

[phUnk]

Originally posted by truth
Keep whining.

Keep posting retarded shit.

I love ya like a brother, but your news posts (and DaveTV's gloom and doom news pukes, and spanky's deleted gloomer) all take up space that ski-related posts used to occupy. It only feeds morbid curiousity. It only brings people down to read about stupid/horrible shit, so why make that your contribution to this forum. (I'm not saying it's your only contribution, far from it, I'm just saying that it is part of what you decide to contribute.)

Don't you have any pics or TRs you could post instead of copy & pasting the news? Tonghand's co-worker story was 100% off-topic, but funny and entertaining as hell. I know you've got stuff like that in ya, so why not post it instead of this stuff?

[bagtagley]

You mean there are other places to get news? Seriously?

[Woodsy]

Originally posted by phUnk
Keep posting retarded shit.

I love ya like a brother, but your news posts (and DaveTV's gloom and doom news pukes, and spanky's deleted gloomer) all take up space that ski-related posts used to occupy.

Why do you notice the sliver in your friend’s eye, but overlook the timber in your own? How can you say to your friend, "Let me get the sliver out of your eye, when there is that timber in your own? You phony, first take the timber out of your own eye and then you’ll see well enough to remove the sliver from your friends eye

P-man,
the stoke is there, but noone responds to it, look at your last few days of posts.
http://tetongravity.com/forums/searc...searchid=34979
repsonding to threads keeps them on the front page.

people post what they want, our response keeps them @ the top.

edut mEE speLL guud

[iceman]

Part of the reason the ski topics sink is that they are usually not discussions. Whether it's a TR, a bit of news from the industry, a report of somebody's ski popping off and still nailing the landing, once a everybody's read it, they've read it. Once ten people have said "wow" or "cool" or "bummer", what else is there to say? Does it make it better to have another ten people say the same thing?

The topics that stay at the top are ones on which people have conflicting opinions, ones on which people feel, rightly or wrongly, that they have something to contribute to the discussion. I mean, the Longoni skis were cool, but what can I add to that discussion? For what reason would I bump it? I read it, I thought it was interesting, that's it.

So don't think people don't like the stoke just because it often sinks quickly, and don't break your keyboard with your head when a non-stoke-related topic often stays at the top for days, it's just the way it is.

[phUnk]

I disagree. I think posting news puke and gloom&doom threads are a negative contribution and they don't contribute in any positive way to this board. Just because a gloom thread gets a # of replies doesn't mean it was a positive contribution. Most of those replies will be "wow, bummer." or "". Great, now people are stoked on life. Good job.

And yes, if a retarded thread comes up, you know I'm (clearly) not going to be able to keep myself from replying. But when that thread was started, it bumped a ski-related thread thread off page 1. My replying bumped it from halfway down page 1 to the top, but didn't bump anything else off page 1.

Before I become "the guy who won't let it go," I'll let it go. I've had my rant and if people disagree with me, then let them post non-skiing anti-stoke stuff in the Ski forum. I think the summer haze is starting to settle in here at TGR and I should just relax and start hibernating until winter.

[Mulletizer]

What's the padded room meant for?

[iceman]

Heh, I thought this was leading to a hibernation phase. Actually I agree with you on hte doom-and-gloom topics, I was just trying to make a point about why ski stoke often rapidly falls down the page. And since I don't want to be "that guy" either, that is all.

[AntiSoCalSkier]

Posting something that will cause a debate is one thing , but just posting some random piece of news is totally different. Anyone who cares already knows about this, and the rest of us probably don't care. Had you posted this article and followed it up with some commentary on how the youth of today are spoiled attention whores, it would have provoked some interesting debate, instead, it's just a piece of news that I could find on cnn.com, or latimes.com.

[rip]

Maybe everyone should start using the thread rating system. That way when you see an obviously off topic thread that has a good rating you will know it will be a good entertaining read. And then eventually maybe people will start looking for the higher rated threads on the front page instead of just the ones that are hovering around the top. then the better threads get read more, responded to more, and would stay at the top more.

just a thought