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In other Wyoming news, ABC's David Wright brought us the tale of Hope Jackson, of Converse County, who was jailed for listening to a hymn.
It turns out that the trailer-dwelling Jackson is mentally ill, suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome. She fabricates stories of children afflicted with cancer and contacts celebrities to elicit their sympathy. Country singer Brad Paisley responded, including a hymn-singing session over the phone. Jackson never asked for any money and never received any -- just a rendition of Amazing Grace. Yet she was jailed anyway, since Paisley claimed that listening qualified as a $5K "theft of services."
Most amazing of all, after ABC's Wright spent an entire year investigating the case, producing a Nightline documentary entitled C@tfishing the Stars, his sympathy did not go to the incarcerated mentally-ill woman but to the graceless complaining celebrity and his wife, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley.
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