TB guy might not be actually married, after all.

[pnwmom]

So hundreds of people were exposed for a sham wedding?

What really galls me is that when he was told that he was multi-drug resistant, and that the final set of tests would show what he had, he decided to push up his trip and leave the country EARLY. He changed his plans to make sure they couldn't stop him.

I wonder if these documentation problems were one more thing he didn't tell the wifey-to-be?


http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/06/01/tb.flight/index.html

SNIP

Speaker's comments followed an earlier statement by Mayor Angelos Roussos of Santorini, Greece -- where the couple were believed to have recently wed -- that there had been no wedding at all.

Roussos said a clerk from the municipality office informed him that Speaker and his fiancee, Sarah Cooksey, did not have the necessary paperwork for a civil marriage.

"He made no previous contact with the town hall about arranging a civil marriage," Roussos said. "So the wedding never happened. He stayed instead at a hotel for two days, the Majestic Hotel, before setting back for the United States. It was his first time here."

Speaker balked at the claim.

"If there's some loophole and the local mayor didn't check some box, I don't know. Heck, we've even got the marriage pictures," he said.

SNIP

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Yeah, I have pictures of myself dressed as a nun too.

I'm a sister of the Perpetually Dumbstruck order.:sarcasm:


So either he lied to CNN or he lied to his former roommate about the wedding. Mr. Speaker seems to be struggling with reality.

edited to add smiley.

[Hekate]

4. His "struggle with reality" is coming up against having a chunk of lung removed...

And I wonder if it's sunk into wifey yet that he seriously could have endangered HER life what with the kisses and the air exhanged between them...

Hekate

[phillysuse]

13. Speaker has got to be a Republican.

He sounds like the kind of guy who makes it own reality.

[Hekate]

2. He's a personal injury lawyer who said he "never intended" to hurt anyone. Uh huh.

Don't personal injury lawyers make big bucks by convincing juries that the road to enormous settlements is paved with "never intending to hurt anyone" yet someone got hurt?

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Hekate

[karlrschneider]

3. There used to be (might still be) a big billboard by the highway in St. Cloud MN

advertising a law firm. It said in big letters "We only do personal injury"

:D

[Kagemusha]

7. Meaning, they'll leave your car alone? Haha.

It comes off oddly.

[earthlover]

15. Uffda!

Probably run by Norwegian Bachelors?

[quiet.american]

5. This story gets weirder and weirder. n/t

[nealmhughes]

6. I heard he killed JonBenet Ramsey and that Patsy was his accomplice!

And that she infected him with the MegaTB as revenge after he would not move in with her. . .and that he also is the real Unibomber, not the crazy mathematics professor and is suspected as being Number Three in al Qaeda.

[pnwmom]

12. That would simplify things. n/t

[Kagemusha]

8. This is the part that absolutely burns me.

"I said, 'What changed?' " Speaker related. " 'When I left I was told I wasn't a threat to anyone. When I left I was told I wasn't contagious, what changed? Why are you abandoning me like this and expecting me to turn myself over for an indefinite time? What has changed?' And they did not have an answer for that."

Me, me, me.

Edit: Upon further reading, yes, I see what was going through his mind. He decided that he knew better than the CDC and that the risk to others part was a lie and a mistake and that it would be used to keep him held in a foreign country where he would be certain to die without the specialized treatment at the Denver facility. So, he decided in his arrogance that he couldn't possibly be putting anyone else at risk by returning to the US through means similar to that which might be used like a terrorist to evade the measures put in place by the CDC in cooperation with Homeland Security to prevent him from doing so ON HIS OWN. And he believes that the CDC simply was not trying to get him to Denver at all and that any implication it was doing so is a lie.

So basically he arrogantly decided that other people had no real risk from him and he had to do this to save his life from... medical quarantine on foreign soil.

I understand what was going through his mind. Doesn't make it right. He decided the CDC tries to stop the travel of people with diseases casually and for no good reason and that since he hadn't been told this before his trip that it couldn't possibly be true (not really, really). Not his damned decision, and he put plenty of people at risk.

[pnwmom]

10. And then, for the second time,

he changed his plans and left a country before the authorities could act to stop him.

(Just like when he pushed up his travel plans and left the U.S. two days early.)

[TahitiNut]

9. Traveling across state (and national) borders as man and wife and living

... together (even in a motel) as man and wife were once (iirc) sufficient to substantiate a common-law marriage.

:shrug: Not everything has to done by kneeling to the state.

[pnwmom]

11. True. But maybe his paperwork wasn't in order

because he had been in too much of a hurry to leave the U.S. before the last test results came in. Or before he could get the written confirmation of the CDC's conversation with him.

[Neshanic]

14. Atlanta billboard. "Exposed to TB on a flight by a negligent lawyer?"

Call the TB Flight specialist lawyers.