The Monroe county sheriffs office of Florida (which apparently has a Blog?!?) has reported that A 15 year old Marathon, Florida girl has been arrested for filing a false report to police in regards to HOW she got covered in bite marks.

Apparently the girl is a Twilight fan, and engages in “fantasy biting behavior”. After getting a wee bit too hot and heavy with an 19 year old male – the teen panicked that her mother would see the bites, and be upset. So she decided to head her Mothers assumptions off at the pass by calling her and creating a confabulation about being attacked whilst on a jog. The mother then called the police to report the attack. Things went down hill for the teen from there. Police uncovered the truth as the teens story did not hold up under questioning. The teen was then charged with filing a false police report and released to her mother’s custody.

This story is no doubt getting national attention due to the connection of the girl being a Twilight fan. The story from the Monroe Sheriff’s office seems to infer that the girls own reasoning for the behavior was BECAUSE of her Twilight fixation. But this brings up a very “Chicken or the Egg” kind of question; What came first – a psychological predisposition, or Twilight? The Twilight series is just the newest incarnation of the genre to captivate a generation. In previous waves of “vampire media” there parallelly have been incidents of a range of severity. Do themes of Vampirism bring out behaviors in people? Or do themes of Vampirism just have the bad luck in aggregating a fan base with a higher statistical probability for such behaviors?