Huh.

[apocalypsos]

OCTOBER 23--Shortly before a John McCain campaign volunteer was reportedly robbed at knifepoint and had a "B" carved in her face after her assailant noticed that her car carried a McCain bumper sticker, the woman blogged last night that she was "Stubbornly searching for a bank of america to avoid ATM fees" and had somehow ended up "on the wrong side of pittsburgh."

You know, that sucks if it's true. But I say "if it's true" because as jrosestar pointed out, the B is carved backwards, as if someone were ... say, looking in a mirror when they did it to themselves.

Then again, maybe watching five million Law and Order episodes has turned me into a suspicious bastard.

*

EDIT: Meet Rick Reilly's fantasy football partner: Barack Obama.

I don't even like football, but that's goddamn awesome.

Comments

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

you know, that's really funny, because I live in Pittsburgh, and that's hardly a bad part of town, let alone "the wrong side".

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Seriously. Every Pittsburgh local I know is like "Bloomfield's not the 'bad part' of town!"

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

it's the Italian neighborhood, and really not that bad, though it does border some areas that are less than stellar. but even then, pittsburgh is hardly a hotbed of crime compared to other cities.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, Little Italy! Someone might assault me with a delicious cannoli!

...Please? :D?

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

I suppose if you flung it hard enough, it could give you a slight bruise?

and yes, Little Italy. very, very little. (and also home to the best thai place in town!)

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

WTF?

I mean, it'd be pretty hard to legitimately give yourself a black eye, but that's fucked up - who carves a letter BACKWARDS into someone's face? (Oh, I know, it was an illiterate angry black man out mugging Republicans. *rolls eyes*)

Also, that looks like scratching or a small sharp object. Not a KNIFE WITH WHICH YOU WOULD MUG SOMEONE.

I don't know, it looks suspicious from here too. If she really got mugged, I'm sympathetic. Maybe it's just the tactics of the GOP and their crazyface voters lately...

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

The fact that her twitter uses the word baller in a seemingly unironic way-- hurt me.

But yeah, that doesn't look like it was done with a knife. Plus its backwards -- plus -- yeah. I'm betting someone is getting in some trouble for filing a fact report soon.

[callie-chan.livejournal.com]

It's also kind of eerily clearly and carefully cut - I don't know her story, but unless she's claiming that her assailant knocked her out and then crouched over her for a good five to ten minutes carefully etching that into her skin while she was unconscious, I can't see anyone being able to carve something into flesh that neatly. At least not flesh that wasn't their own.

Seriously - if she was unconscious, then the assailant ran a huge risk for being caught while s/he took the time to make that B very neat and legible(while simultaneously missing that it was backwards?). If she was conscious - she didn't flail or flinch at all while being cut in such a way as to mess up that B?

[dargie.livejournal.com]

She also refused medical help but said she'd get to a hospital on her own, the alleged attack took place in a busy area but no one saw it, and now the details of her story are changing. Now she's saying she was sexually assaulted, too.

I did notice -- and I could be wrong here because the photo was small -- that the cut seemed to be quite shallow. If that's the case, I think it casts even more doubt on her story because an attacker wouldn't be careful to cut lightly to avoid a possible scar, but would probably intend to make it a permanent mark.

Yes, I'm a suspicious bitch, too, and I didn't even know it was a McCain campaign worker until just now.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

And the black eye -- she could have gotten a friend to do that.

It's just all very odd. Plus, I don't know but I more expect to be robbed by a white man these days. Even when I lived in apartments in a bad part of my college town it was the white guys in the area I was always nervous about.

[darcydodo]

Yeah, I feel bad that I have trouble believing that... but I have trouble believing that. IT'S FRICKIN' BACKWARDS!!!! Also, who uses the word "carve" of what looks like a cat scratch? Sorry, I mean a healed cat scratch.

I'm also glad to see that even some Republicans are crying wolf on the story.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know, right? The whole story just reeks.

[darcydodo]

And she said it was a knife — a butter knife, maybe!

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

She just admitted making it up.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Wow, shocker. :)

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

I ADORE the fantasy football story.

[jrosestar.livejournal.com]

Not everyone who plans to vote Republican for the presidential election is a crazy faced voter. Some of us just have different opinions of what is most important at the moment.

BTW - thanks to the friend of a friend, I just found this link which confirms it was faked.

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

The story is here.

The cops are worried about her mental health, so she may not just be a Political Whackjob but a genuinely sick girl. Poor kid. Hope she gets the help she needs.

[miriad.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing when I saw her face. Why would it be backwards if someone else did it?

Yeah... not so much.

People are stupid. Just sayin'.

[darcydodo]

Or possibly both.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to imply that - I realize re-reading that it does in fact come off like I think all Republicans are nut jobs, which I don't.

I meant mostly that there are some really crazy people showing up to rallies and such.

Thanks for the link, btw: especially generous of you considering how my wording came off. Sorry about that.

[jrosestar.livejournal.com]

No offense taken. I just tend to sometimes point out that not every McCain support is a far-right-wing, moral majority, zealot - some of us are middle of the road lesbians.

I appreciate open communication on both sides. Most of my friends in LJ and RL are staunch Obama supporters.

And BTW - *whispers* I'm not really a Republican,I am just pro-McCain. And for the record, it has nothing to do with race.

[astaria51.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what factors made/are making you support McCain? I won't debate, I'm just interested.

[jrosestar.livejournal.com]

Rather than hi-jack Troll Princesses LJ, why don't you email me and we can carry on a discussion.

You can email me at J_Rosestar@yahoo.com

or we can continue in my LJ in this post where I started...there are more reasons now.

Jean.