"She showed up at weddings uninvited, mingled with guests and never left empty-handed.
A Spokane woman's wedding-crashing scheme unraveled last summer when an old high school classmate - and off-duty police officer - recognized her at a wedding where she wasn't an invited guest.
When the hosts discovered missing gifts, they realized they'd been looted."
So starts the article in The Spokesman-Review (Spokane) by Meghann Cuniff.
Pamela McBride will now serve 45 days in jail for stealing gift cards and personal checks from a wedding in Nez Perce County, Idaho last June. Police also suspect that she stole similar items from a gift table at a wedding on the Gonzage University campus a month after that. Who knows if there were any more such capers.
"Pamela said she was embarrassed about what she did and does not have a good reason for it," said Spokane Police Officer Brian Eckersley.
As to the newlyweds?
"We had so many guests at the wedding that we didn't really notice until we went to open gifts the next day," Scott Drago said. "You don't get very many gifts and you're wondering, 'Gee, something's wrong here.'"
I can just see it now.
"My best friend ate all that food and didn't give us a gift!"
"Hey, neither did Grandma!"
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