Woman Fakes Having Cancer - Again

[matcom]

:grr:

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. --A woman sentenced earlier this year to probation for faking cancer and collecting money from fundraisers has been arrested for allegedly deceiving her employers with a similar scheme.

Brookelyn Walters, 26, faces a preliminary charge of theft after convincing the owners of a gymnastics business that she had leukemia, police said.

Mike and Erin Booher, owners of Bloomington's Rising Star Gymnastics, said they felt so moved by her story that Walters stayed in their home for a month so they could care for her.

"Our trust just sort of kept us going with her, and our pity, too," Erin Booher said.

While she was a student at Ball State, Walters shaved her head and pretended to be deaf for three years, leading Ball State officials to provide an interpreter for her to attend classes, authorities said. A sorority and fraternity also gave Walters $1,000 raised at a benefit.

A Delaware Circuit Court judge sentenced her in March to four years probation after she pleaded guilty but mentally ill to felony charges.

Walters moved to Bloomington earlier this year and had been working at Rising Star since February, using a fake name, police said. In April, Walters told the owners that she had been diagnosed with leukemia, a form of cancer.

The Boohers organized a fundraiser earlier this month at which they held a cartwheel-a-thon and raised about $4,000, police said.

The hoax ended Sunday after Walters was taken to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis where she said she needed emergency brain surgery. Erin Booher and a friend said they asked to speak to a counselor.

When a doctor arrived, the pair told him about Walters' story and noticed that the doctor was smirking. The doctor told Booher and her friend that Walters said she was in remission from cancer and that she had received treatment in France.

The Boohers did Internet research and found Walters' former conviction in Muncie.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/08/30/woman_allegedly_fakes_cancer_again?mode=PF

[Spinzonner]

1. Well, relapses/recurrences are possible with cancer

and apparently with faux-cancer too.

[wildhorses]

2. we have been faux-warned

[Kurovski]

3. Test post. Is DU under attack?

I can't get to anything but this one window that was already open.

Anyone else having problems?

[matcom]

4. you can ONLY read MY threads

mmmuuuuaaaaahhhhhaaaaaaaaa

DU is MATCOM and MATCOM is DU :D

[Kurovski]

5. BWAAAhahahaha!! I could do a hell of a lot worse!

Like the guy I was reading before--DU bugged out on me--with seven posts telling us what would be best for "us" and we-uns to do--which was to stop politicising the storm.

Where does someone with 7 posts get the idea that he's part of "we" yet?

Don't they have to go through you for clearance first, Matcom? :-)

[matcom]

6. yes, that is proper protocol

but only the females. ;)

[Kurovski]

7. Stop making me laugh!

I shudder to think what the women of DU have had to endure...

[matcom]

8. oh, they don't mind too much

i have soft hands :evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

9. I think some might not speak out

due to the dire repercussions of going against "protocol".

Which is what? More laying on of the "soft hands"?

It might just be a nightmarish circle for some. :-)

But I speak out of turn , my mighty master!

[matcom]

10. technically, "protocol" has to do with

my goatee :evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

13. Some woman folk say it tickles, others say chafe.

Which brings us back to...

[matcom]

14. doe.. ray.. mi.. fa.. so.. la.. ti.. doe!

:bounce:

[Kurovski]

15. a FEMALE deer.

Is the term "oversexed" ever used anymore?

It really is irrelevant these days, isn't it.

Another old term, "girl crazy" and "masher", which could perhaps define someone who would tamper with ladies'room doors. :-)

[matcom]

16. twasn't moi

honest

[Kurovski]

17. It's odd, but I actually believe you.

Despite your suspicious addition of "honest" to the post.

But I've long suspected that you have been hypnotizing DU with your stair-stepping buttocks.

[matcom]

19. they are hydraulic see and

the generators in this thread aren't powerful enough to um... close them

yeah, that's it :hide:

[Kurovski]

20. So about those yellow buttocks of yours...

is there some code embedded within them that, over the years has convinced us to trust wholeheartedly--and perhaps dangerously--all that you profess?

[matcom]

21. no but...

if you stare at it for 45 seconds right before you go to bed, you'll see him in your dreams :P

[Kurovski]

22. Dammit all to hell, I said stop making me laugh.

I'm trying to be serious here.

Didn't you have an earlier model of your butt? Wasn't it different when you first revealed it to us? A different color or something? Did it used to do something else?

And I want you to be aware that your lack of seriousness is exactly what's wrong with the Democratic party.

[matcom]

23. the earlier version was larger and slower

thank you Thigh-Master!

[Kurovski]

25. A thigh-master helps with that?

Or are you using it in some unspeakable, non-conformist manner?

[matcom]

26. no but...

Suzanne Somers does :D

[Kurovski]

27. Yes, there is something about the angle of her master that lets us know

she could just miss her thighs in a terrible work-out "accident".

Nearly all exercise equipment is dual-purposed, or so I have discovered. Suzanne seems fully aware of this fact as well.

Edit: Note how she smiles and caresses her Master as one would a cherished and reliable friend.

The ultimate purpose of exercise equipment is the amusing banter it inspires at garage and yard sales.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. Besieged DUers take shelter in Matcom thread.. film at 11

[matcom]

12. BBBWWWAAAAHHHAAAAA

don't worry ladies. the toilets work fine in here. the DOORS to those toilets are another matter.

sorry for the inconvienence but this is a disaster after all!

[Hugin]

18. Geeze...

Crimminy!

[GOPBasher]

24. WTF????

:wtf: