Soren wrote:At this point I get bummed out by hanging out with my best man. Just have nothing in common with the guy anymore.

td11 wrote:

Soren wrote:At this point I get bummed out by hanging out with my best man. Just have nothing in common with the guy anymore.

what do y'all do when you hang out?

The Dude wrote:why was he your best man if that's all you have in common?

phatj wrote:Holy shit at this explosion in China

ReadingPhilly wrote:just caught a bit of the meteoroid shower. definitely good viewing tonight.

Ace Rothstein wrote:

Ramon Gris wrote:Hey, you guys ever hear of "slick-leggin'?"

You must have never been to a BSG gathering

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.
A Pennsylvania beauty queen has been jailed on charges she faked having leukemia to benefit from fundraisers, and will be stripped of her title.

Online court records show Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates, 23, of State College was arraigned Tuesday on charges of theft by deception and receiving stolen property.

State police say an April bingo benefit raised $14,000 for the recently crowned Miss Pennsylvania U.S. International pageant winner.

Butler’s Beauties, the company that sponsors the pageant, says in a Facebook page statement that it also was “led to believe that she was dealing with this horrible disease” and are making her return her crown and sash.

State police said Wednesday that they were getting calls from people reporting they donated money to support Weaver-Gates.

“We’re expecting an overwhelming response from victims to come forward,” Trooper Thomas Stock of the Rockview station said Wednesday.

The state police investigation into Weaver-Gates started after troopers got an anonymous tip that she was “faking” having cancer, according to court documents.

The tipster reached out after she called Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, where Weaver-Gates said she was receiving treatment, to make a donation to Weaver-Gates’ medical bills. The hospital reported that Weaver-Gates was not a patient there.

The tipster reported that Weaver-Gates also told her that she received treatment at other facilities, including UPMC Altoona and Geisinger Medical Center. When investigators contacted each of the hospitals, employees reported there was no record of Weaver-Gates ever being there, or had been there years ago, before her alleged diagnosis with leukemia in 2013.

Stock said Wednesday that police haven’t yet determined a total amount raised to cover Weaver-Gates’ medical expenses, but there were four fundraisers held to contribute to medical bills. One event, called Bingo for Brandi, raised about $14,000, according to court documents.

Organizers from that event set up an account from the proceeds and would write checks to Weaver-Gates as she provided treatment bills, Stock said.

“We do have a copy of one bill that we’ve verified is a fake bill,” Stock said.

Investigators haven’t found any evidence that Weaver-Gates has any kind of medical condition, Stock said.

Weaver-Gates was being held Wednesday at Centre County Correctional Facility in lieu of $150,000 bail.

Grotewold wrote:You gotta be kidding me with these You Are Now Unsubscribed emails

pacino wrote:
The tipster reached out after she called Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, where Weaver-Gates said she was receiving treatment, to make a donation to Weaver-Gates’ medical bills. The hospital reported that Weaver-Gates was not a patient there.

The tipster reported that Weaver-Gates also told her that she received treatment at other facilities, including UPMC Altoona and Geisinger Medical Center. When investigators contacted each of the hospitals, employees reported there was no record of Weaver-Gates ever being there, or had been there years ago, before her alleged diagnosis with leukemia in 2013.

Monkeyboy wrote:

pacino wrote:
The tipster reached out after she called Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, where Weaver-Gates said she was receiving treatment, to make a donation to Weaver-Gates’ medical bills. The hospital reported that Weaver-Gates was not a patient there.

The tipster reported that Weaver-Gates also told her that she received treatment at other facilities, including UPMC Altoona and Geisinger Medical Center. When investigators contacted each of the hospitals, employees reported there was no record of Weaver-Gates ever being there, or had been there years ago, before her alleged diagnosis with leukemia in 2013.

I didn't realize hospitals could say that a person wasn't a patient somewhere.

What a horrible person.