Runaway Bride To Become Face Of Police Recruiting Billboard
ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Jennifer Wilbanks, the bride-to-be who skipped town just days before her planned wedding in Georgia, has a new starring role in New Mexico – as the face of a new police recruiting billboard.
The Albuquerque Police Department plans to unveil the ad on 10 digital billboards across the city next week, the Albuquerque Journal reported Thursday.
“Running away from your current job? Call APD recruiting,” the ad reads, above a photo of Officer Trish Hoffman grabbing the veil of a bride, adorned in gown and wedding shoes.
Hoffman got national attention two years ago after Wilbanks landed in Albuquerque claiming she had been abducted before she was set to marry. Photos of Hoffman leading Wilbanks through the airport with a blanket over the runaway bride’s head appeared on televisions and in newspapers across the country.
Now, Hoffman will be on billboards.
“I am sure I am going to get some harassment,” she told the newspaper.
The ad will be up for a month at a cost of $16,000. Depending on the response, the department may incorporate it into fliers, posters and possibly TV ads.
“The runaway bride is one of those stories that people across the nation still talk about,” said Police Chief Ray Schultz. “We hope we can capitalize off of that.”
The department currently has fewer than 1,000 officers and is trying to build the force to 1,100 by this summer.
JOKESTARTERS:
- I know that nothing makes me want to be a cop more than a billboard with the ‘deer-in-headlights’ eyes of a flakey woman. Where do I sign up?
- Doncha just hate it when your mugshot goes into the public domain and you can’t do anything about it? Makes me want to run away…
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This is absolutely rediculous, was it not enough that these people were on national news and now The City of Albuquerque behaves in this unprofessional degrading manor, shame on the supported behavior! Way to set an example to the rest of society.
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