12 Responses to “So now petty thugs are politically motivated-no way, …”

marco says:
October 24, 2008 at 10:10 pm
People, she’s confessed it was a hoax.
… But I did just find my halloween costume. I’ll be the one who’s NOT Sarah Palin.
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Alex Brant-Zawadzki says:
October 24, 2008 at 7:12 pm
The ‘B’ may look backwards in a photo, but think about it – it’s on her right cheek, round bits pointing to her ears. Draw one like that on your own cheek and look into a mirror. What do you see?
So it’s possible she scraped the B into her own cheek while looking into a mirror – which might also explain why the cuts aren’t deeper.
This girl doesn’t need to be ridiculed, she needs help and the local media there needs a lesson.
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Amanda says:
October 24, 2008 at 11:30 am
She has already admitted it was a lie. Go Ashley! Move over Joe the Plumber. Ashley the Liar is the new joke of this distracting election!
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Melissa says:
October 24, 2008 at 6:22 am
Maybe the robber was dyslexic….lol
Regardless of who you are voting for I think the story sounds far fetched. If it happened at an atm shouldn’t there be video of the attack? It sounds more like she was desperate for attention.
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xiexieniii says:
October 24, 2008 at 12:18 am
If this girl’s story proves to be false, I wholly expect that effigies of her likeness — complete with backwards ‘B’, pencilled-in black eye and all — will be set ablaze across the nation.
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jacqui says:
October 23, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Ashley is just wasting the police’s time, according to me what she is saying is a liar and my question is what exactly is she trying to prove by telling a lie like that, or is she going to gain something after that?. Get a life dear, we don’t have time to sit and read your lies hey.
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sean says:
October 23, 2008 at 9:11 pm
This article should be pulled. Besides the questionability of the truth behind it, the writing itself is soooo slanderous. This is Supermarket tabloid level writing!!
Details like:
“eye also appears to be bruised, like a black eye”= like a black eye, but not a black eye, but lets put in the word black whenever possible
“dark-skinned black man”= well at least it’s not a light-skinned black man, rule out Obama himself
“He was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes, and the criminal is an Obama supporter.”= All one sentence, meaning Obama supporter is a part of his physical description.
Disgusting. Almost funny, but more upsetting. Proof that google is a part of the ugly establishment.
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Laura says:
October 23, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Such a bad lie lol Thinking to myself “I want to rob a chubby girl, for only 60.00.. and then spend the time etching an almost perfect “b” into her face”. This would leave the robber more time to get caught. Jury says this lady is out to lunch lol
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RobC says:
October 23, 2008 at 8:56 pm
So now petty thugs are politically motivated-no way, dude takes the money and runs. Except this thug spots a bumper sticker? and decides to knife (lightly) a backwards B?
Also, zoom in on the pic. The bruise is flat and matte-no swelling, no broken blood vessels. Google bruise images. Its mascara
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Mary V says:
October 23, 2008 at 8:29 pm
At first I thought it wasn’t and that it looked like it was done in front of a mirror. But as I was laying in bed with my head on the footboard end, my husband was standing over me as I was telling him about the story, and he pointed out that in the position that he standing over me, if he were to write a “B” on my cheek, it would look exacty like the one on her face. Look at the picture upside down and it makes it clearer. So now, I do think she is telling the truth, sadly.
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Grace says:
October 23, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Sadly, I think this is a hoax. But I’m also wondering if this was a more self-centered situation than an anti-Obama one. Namely, I suspect that this very motivated and passionate young worker may have realized that when volunteers get attacked by the other guy’s supporters, the candidate calls to check in on them.
The B’s backward, lending a lot of credit to the mirror theory. On top of that, as anyone who’s been tethered to a facepainting booth could tell you, cheeks are squishy. I truly cannot imagine a man wielding a knife in the dark would be able to create those curved bits, or manage the knife in a way that just scraped off a layer or two of skin instead of jabbing straight through her cheek. And considering that this woman was probably struggling the whole time…
I mean, there’s a reason people write on foreheads and the “serial killer font” is all angles, no curves.
Basically, I think this girl did this to herself. And didn’t think it through.
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David says:
October 23, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Yes, I am sure most robbers are very political active and all the things you stated in this article were on his mind when he robbed her.
This is such a stretch.. a desperate reach for SOMETHING to bring Obama down. Go ahead stoke racial hatred, you should be so proud of yourself!
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