 | 19 Aug 08 |
I think I’ve had my share of misfortune this past year, although it doesn’t take much to find someone WORSE off. All you have to do is turn your head. But it’s still been rough, and I think it’s affected my brain. I appear to have HOLES in my head, because I can remember NOTHING anymore.
Still, I manage to laugh. For example, many of you will have read about the Dog Cloner, who turned out to be the infamous Joyce McKinney. This story made news worldwide, with pictures of “Bernann” McKinney holding her precious puppies. They were cloned from the ear of her late, beloved pet BOOGER. Yup, that’s right. Booger.
Well, when Joyce’s picture showed up online on news sites, after the AP wrote a story, more than a few people recognized the former beauty queen, even though it has been many years since her, uh, heyday. At first, she denied she was the infamous McKinney, who followed a Mormon missionary to England, kidnapped him and then held him captive and raped him.
Joyce is very well known for this quote: “I loved him so much,” she told a judge, “that I would ski naked down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to.”
She made some pretty funny protestations about NOT being Joyce, but it wasn’t that hard to figure out it WAS Joyce. Then, she said this:
“I thought people would be honest enough to see me as a person who was trying to do something good and not as a celebrity,” McKinney told the AP. “My mother always taught me, ‘Say something good or say nothing at all.”‘
“I think I gave people too much credit,” she said.
Whoa! You should have heard what she said to ME when she thought she was talking to MY mother! It involved a lot of expletives and words like “hell” and there was some major screamage going on…..
Yup, I had my own run in with Joyce, and it resulted in a criminal stalking injunction. Against her, not me. Then I stopped talking about it.
I doubt she is real worried about ME right now, however.
I hear she’s on the lam again, running from charges that she engineered a burglary in order to buy a prosthetic for her three-legged horse…. I am NOT lying.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
© 2008 Natalie R. Collins. All rights reserved.
Natalie R. Collins was born in Logan, Utah and attended the University of Utah. She worked for eleven years at The Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's largest daily newspaper, before leaving to devote more time to her family. During the ensuing years, she wrote five novels. She also worked for the 2001 and 2002 Sundance Film Festivals as an editor. Natalie is a member of the International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and Romance Writers of America.
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ROFL. You really can’t make this stuff up.
by Amy August 19th, 2008 at 7:36 amOMG! Some people should be locked up for their safety as well as ours. Natalie, that is completely scary to have to deal with. I hope that she stays far far away from you and your family.
by HollyD August 19th, 2008 at 8:05 amAmy, I know!! The whole incident with her was surreal.
Holly, maybe this time they will.. But I doubt it. They haven’t done it yet. I, too, hope she stays far, far away.
by Natalie August 19th, 2008 at 8:30 amIf you wrote this no one would buy it, they would find it unbelievable. LOL I agree. She should be locked up for the good of mankind.
by Amanda August 19th, 2008 at 9:00 amOMG!!! Kidnapping a mormon missionary, stalking, a 3-legged horse with a prosthetic leg and cloned puppies from Booger’s ear. I think I’ve heard it all now. LMAO!
by Erin August 19th, 2008 at 9:49 amThis woman is Dangerously Entertaining. But it annoys me that the authorities really don’t take her seriously.
by Jen August 19th, 2008 at 12:40 pmOkay. I have officially heard it all!
by Karin August 19th, 2008 at 2:13 pmthe part that scares me is that we’ve not heard it all when it comes to Joyce McKinney.
by Cele August 19th, 2008 at 7:52 pmAmanda, she would find some way to sue me. And it’s too crazy!!
Erin, your summary made me smile. Yup, that’s Joyce.
Jen, I am annoyed too, although for some part I do understand it. Extradition is expensive, and I think they don’t want to be the laughing stock of the law enforcement industry. But still…. She JUST keeps breaking the law.
by Natalie August 19th, 2008 at 10:47 pmKarin, well, you’ve certainly heard a LOT of this story, because you had to deal with it with listening to me!! But I sincerely doubt Joyce is done.
Cele, AUGH. You said it.
by Natalie August 19th, 2008 at 10:49 pm