Oops, I Faked It Again
by Hal_10000
Turns out the skepticism over the B attack was warranted:
Pittsburgh police said a 20-year-old woman who originally said she was robbed and assaulted at knifepoint in Bloomfield because of her political views made the story up.
Ashley Todd—who has a backward letter “B” scratched into her right cheek—confessed to faking the story and will be charged with filing a false report, Assistant Police Chief Maurita Bryant said at a news conference Friday.
Todd, of College Station, Texas, admitted there was no robbery or attacker and said she had prior mental health problems, according to Bryant.
McArdle notes, however:
I’m sure some bloggers will cast this as a dark Republican conspiracy, or somehow symptomatic of conservatism. In reality, AFAIK, faked hate crimes are usually faked by left wing causes, if only because the left has more groups who can realistically complain of attack. But while a few of them have been faked by student groups looking for attention, as far as I can tell the overwhelming majority are disturbed people looking for attention from their ideologically supportive peers, or, a la Tawana Brawley, trying to get out of some other trouble. It isn’t “symptomatic” of the fight for racial equality or gay rights that some sad members of those movements engage in false accusations; it’s symptomatic of the fact that some people will do anything to feel important. I expect the same applies here.
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Well, at least A&M;doesn’t run up the score.
How stupid do you have to be to carve a backwards letter into your face and think no one will notice it’s backwards?
How stupid do you have to be to carve a backwards letter into your face and think no one will notice it’s backwards?
Stupid enough to make Morton Downey, Jr. one of your personal heroes. Bio link documenting his faked “attack.”
Holy crap, I’d forgotten all about Downey. Man, that guy got huge fast and fell fast.
Holy crap, I’d forgotten all about Downey. Man, that guy got huge fast and fell fast
Well he died pretty quickly as well.
he died pretty quickly as well.
Not as fast as his career did.
Bad form not to include a link to your quoted story.
I wanted to read the whole thing to find out if the author pulled the idea that “faked hate crimes are usually faked by left wing causes” totally out of his ass or if there was some justification for it.
Sounds like a douche to me.
Bad form not to include a link to your quoted story
Fixed. Megan backs it up by noting that lexus-nexus searches turn up far more left-wing fake crimes than right-wing (think Tawana Brawley). The right simply doesn’t have as many self-proclaimed victim groups, although Rove and his buddies are hard at work trying to make rich white christians into a victim group.
I love this little gem from an updated news story on the attack:
“She just opened up and said she wanted to tell the truth,” Bryant said, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “She was upset with the media for blowing this into a political firestorm.”
If she wasn’t trying to create a media firestorm what the fuck was she doing when she faked a mugging and scratched a B into her cheek? What a fucking nutcase.
Can’t we all just agree that there are nutcase Dems and Reps????
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College Station? This girl just created dozens of new Aggie jokes. (Ok, she goes to Blinn, which is TAMU lite, but close enough!)
Backwards ‘B’ from the mirror indeed!
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