Her name is Heidi Jones, and she's a weather gal on WABC/Channel 7 in New York City. You may have also seen her on Good Morning America, where she's been a fill-in weather chick. But her skies have darkened now that cops have busted her for "perpetrating the ultimate snow job" -- giving police an allegedly false account of being the victim of an attempted rape (link to full New York Post story at bottom).Heidi likes to jog. She runs in marathons, even sometimes broadcasting live while she runs them. So it would come as no surprise that she would be jogging in Manhattan's Central Park one afternoon in September. But the rest of her story reportedly "proved to be as unreliable as a five-day forecast."
She told cops that on that occasion, an Hispanic man grabbed her, dragged her into the woods and tried to rape her, only to have the rape thwarted by two mysterious passers-by (the ghosts of John Lennon & Babe Ruth, perhaps?). (BTW, nice of her to throw in the Hispanic angle -- after all, white dudes never commit rape, right?).
Heidi also told cops that the same Hispanic mystery man "somehow found her again" two months later and continued his harassment ("I know you went to police," she quoted the enigmatic hoodlum as saying). But the entire story was "all wet," reports The Post.
One issue was the fact that Heidi didn't report any of this until late November -- two months after the initial alleged attack in the park. It probably also didn't help that on the day of the second alleged incident, Heidi hit Twitter with the following happy tweet: "Here is ur turkey day forecast! Gobble gobble!"
After cops investigated her story and starting confronting her with inconsistencies, Heidi reportedly folded like a K-Mart deck chair in a summer typhoon. The Post reports that she admitted to cops that she concocted the whole sorry story, blaming the tall tale on her personal "plea for sympathy" following some mysterious, unspecified "setback" in her personal life.
But even that excuse may not fly much higher than a low-level stratus cloud: The Post reports that Heidi's myriad public posts on Facebook and Twitter "have been bright and sunny for weeks." Put another way: Setback-schmetback.
At the moment, Heidi is charged with filing a false report and could face up to a year in the joint. WABC has suspended her as a reported first step towards giving her the axe. And I'd assume that the GMA gig has also been swept away faster than a Mississippi $hithouse in a 500-year flood.
But at least Heidi was accurate on one part of her dismal forecast: On the day the cops slapped the ol' cuffs on her, she posted the following on Facebook: "You guys ready for the arctic chill? Ready or Not . . . Be careful!"
http://www.newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/wabc_weather_gal_in_rape_lie_cops_Dt6rDzCTktzVPJ049g2YlO
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