NEW info on B Girl story from Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - POLICE TO ADMINISTER POLYGRAPH TEST

The rest of the story is just a recap of yesterday's story.

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_594939.html

I just posted the local news stories about her too...

she fesses up before she has to be polygraphed.

It's too expensive. They're giving her an out before the polygraph, and if her Daddy's lawyer has an ounce of sense, they're going to take it. Expect recantation by 11am EDT.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

I'll bet she has a long, hard night of thinking ahead of her...

This is going to be humiliating for her and for her family.

Of course, as another poster so aptly put it, this is the sort of bullshit that got black men killed at random in this country for much of the 20th century, so I don't feel too bad for this desperate, over-excited, and very foolish young woman.

republicans.

why don't they have a look in the mirror!

Also, Welcome to DU! :hi:

n/t

They probably just have to do the polygraph to follow procedure but I'm sure they all know she's faking it.

the polygraph in the first place?

:cry:

Busted...
B felony...
Cell Block B
Bad Idea
Brain Dead
Bonehead
Better not say anything till the lawyer gets here..


Bwa ha ha...
Hope she already voted cause she's not going to get to now...

:rofl:

it backwards if they were a dork. a person cutting her face would make it right side to themselves. this is backwards. she's a sad little attention seeker. she will be sorry she did this. false report, etc. that's no small thing.

...it should be pointed out that, if an assailant knocked her down so that she landed with her head at her assailant's feet, and he cut the "B" on her cheek without first turning her around, it would wind up looking backwards when viewed right-side-up.

think of the logistics there... If someone is lying face up at your feet, and what.. you're kneeling on the ground carving her face with one hand.. how are you holding her arms from fighting you off? Doesn't make sense. I've seen some people in a thread featured here from freeperville that said that same thing you did, and a few DUers have said that. There is no way he could have been above her head and carving that upside down on her face. The only way it could have been carved on a conscious person is by being on top of their body, so you could immobilize her arms with your knees, while you carved, and use your other hand to hold her head straight. STILL... there is little chance that anyone would not come out with cuts and scratches because your natural reflex is to flinch.

Now don't forget.. she works for the College Republicans.... who have perpetrated so many scams, publicity stunts, and hoaxes, themselves.

If I start feeling down, I know I can just go to DU and find the latest completely ridiculous stunt attempted by McImpulsive or one of his supporters.

This has been the most entertaining campaign in history!

:rofl:

She'll be on Fox & Friends in no time.

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

serious real fast. This crazy behavior needs to stop.

:puke:

"He continued to kick and punch her repeatedly and said he would teach her a lesson for supporting John McCain," said police Chief Nate Harper."

"Police said Todd declined medical treatment at the scene. Her friend, a law student at University of Pittsburgh, said he took her to UPMC Shadyside for treatment."

So where's the report from UPMC Shadyside?


"Police said she described the attacker as black, about 6-foot-4, and said he was wearing dark-colored jeans and a black tank top. She said he had a knife with a 5-inch blade and ran from the scene on foot, Harper said."

They can tell if that B was done by a 5in knife blade.

I went up and down that street on Google street view, and there was only ONE black person in like, forever. Mostly whites, and elderly on the street, cafe's, resturants, small shops, gift stores, banks, etc. Not that dangerous looking of an area if you ask me. Not to mention that there is a HUGE hospital 2 blocks down the street.

The republican guy on the news said she was on her way to a meeting, yeah, right. She said something on her blog about Starbucks, and oddly enough, there's a SB's right down the block.

She's full of shit. She did that to herself after she left the bank.

made me hungry just looking at it. :-) But I am Italian. :-)

first to give benefits of the doubt but this story fails on so many levels.

This is the first time I'd read.."teach her a lesson for supporting john mccain"?! Give Me A Fooking Bre-ak!

As Obama said, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman for her to make a speedy recovery, and we hope that the person who perpetrated this crime is swiftly apprehended and brought to justice."

It borders some areas that can be bad. There have been some robberies in the area, Bloomfield, Shady Side(which is a ritzy area), etc.

It's a city after all. You've got neighborhoods from low income to high income in close proximity. That being said Bloomfield with bars, restaurants (Yes it is the Little Italy of Pittsburgh), high street and car traffic, etc. 9 at night I wouldn't be afraid to be walking on Liberty. Can a robbery happen at an ATM? Sure. But with the high traffic including police patrols I'd figure a robber would take off running not stick around to beat a Repub over her bumper sticker.

Some here thought she was driving over from Greentree where McCain HQ is, I was reading she finished an assignment at Univ of Pittsburgh which is in Oakland not far from Bloomfield which makes some sense.

a tank top?? Was her mugger having hot flashes?

I thought it must be a lot warmer in Pittsburgh than is is up here in Central New York in the night time..brrr.

"Her attacker was wearing a tank top".

as being questionable!

Oh wait, that was Philadelphia...

NEver Mind...

on a Pennsylvania autumn night.

but very gusty winds, as the cold front in the middle of the country was coming through Texas yesterday.
I wouldn't wear a tank top in 60 degree weather, but I'm a Floridian...so, who knows???

:shrug:

she was from, I guess I didn't notice the BIG BOLD NEWSPAPER NAME at the top!

:dunce:

This kind of acting out indicates she's probably seriously mentally ill.

The B on her face was probably self-inflicted, and I'm not sure if the black eyes are real or not, and if they are real, they're probably self-inflicted too.

That and the whole attention-grabbing story indicates she needs therapy. No joke. She needs to talk to a shrink.

that is not something I can excuse with just "oh, she needs help." That is malicious irresponsibility.

She's probably got something like Borderline Personality Disorder - which causes some very seriously fucked-up behavior, and could lead to her being a danger to herself or others. We're talking bunny-boiling psycho here.

I'm not a shrink, but I do sincerely think she needs professional help.

some psychological issue. Only that she would rather create a fake attack blaming a black guy in hopes that the racial implications arising from it would help her candidate. That is all it comes down too. She is an overzealous McCain supporter. She just assumed that if she said a big black guy beat her up, of course people would believe it, and not question her on it.

vile elements of a world view that is independent of any psychosis.

i don't there is any way she will take a lie detector test, i think she'll fess up or lawyer up.

The DA will drop charges, and probably gently imply that she should leave.

She will have to make a full public admission, though, probably including an apology to the (African American) people of Pittsburgh.

several cameras in that area. It's in the 'Uh oh'....thread...

It sounds like the implication is that she didn't withdraw money from that ATM. And at this point, I bet they've checked her home bank account to see if there was a withdrawal done at any Pittsburgh bank last night.

The banks don't mess around with this stuff because it impacts their business big time if people think it's the site of a mugging.

"she thought she gave him ABOUT $60.00"....now, if you just withdrew money, you'd know how much you gave someone...

That guy is a f*cking cancer on the news circuit.

David

Bristol was out rounding up the young Republican mavericks and branding them. And Bristol took the money because momma needs a new pair of shoes. :spray:

Drudge too. What if the story continued unchecked for another day .... the freepers were already talking about stocking up their ammo for the race riots they expect.

What if Palin and McCain talk this up tomorrow? Shit, people could die because of this sick deranged attention-hungry girl.

And it doesn't look like it was done with a knife.

1. most obviously, the b is backwards. one can assume, that if you were dumb enough to scratch yourself in the face, you would also be dumb enough not to realize that it would show up backwards to the rest of the world
2. does that look like a knife wound to you? i don't make it a habit to get scratched by knives, but knives generally produce 2 types of wounds: lacerations and stab wounds. maybe he used a butter knife? either way, knife, toothpick, fingernail, whatever, i'm not just going to lay there idly while you scratch a stencil quality backwards B in my face.
3. the blog. what a coincidence that less than an hour before the "incident", that she would foreshadow her tragic fate (and who blogs about searching for BOA atms?)
4. i live in pittsburgh, more specifically, 3 minutes away from bloomfield. i had dinner there on saturday, its not a bad neighborhood its not the kind of place where i would expect to get mugged at 9pm on a wednesday, on the main street, in a well lit area. (we also seem to be short of corroborating witnesses)
5. the bumper sticker. i wouldn't consider myself a criminal, but i can guess that if i were mugging someone, i wouldn't be so observant in the middle of committing and armed robbery to notice the political affiliation of my victim displayed on their bumper. i'd probably be more focused on fleeing the scene of the crime.


p.s.

what poetic justice that a campaign activist would have their face carved in a hate crime so close to halloween

has anyone noticed how she looks just like the girl from silence of the lambs? silence of the lambs was filmed in pittsburgh, lol. (the real coincidence)

how the car was parked, and where the bumper sticker was placed on the vehicle, it would seem easy enough to prove whether it was even visible or not.

I am rarely quick to judge, but this story really does not seem at all plausible to me - on any level.

Did the assailant tell her specifically what the B was for? It seems odd that a politically passionate mugger would choose the first letter of the first name of a presidential nominee to disfigure someone with. If the politics and details were reversed and someone with an Obama bumper sticker got mugged at an ATM, and received a "J" scratched on his or her face, what would that mean to us?

Is the B for Biden or Barr, I wonder? Ridiculous.

Though I can't imagine someone carving a B that neatly without holding her down. It seems like he'd need another person to help.
It seems most likely that she did it herself.

It'll be interesting to hear her tell the truth.

welcome to DU :hi:

From her blog. If she got attacked on Wed. 9 pm on the 22nd, aren't the post times on her blog and the comments a bit odd?

http://lifeinthefield.com/users/ashley-todd

Or -4 hours for Eastern daylight

It seemed so weird but that would explain it. If that attack had happened to me I would be a basket case and I sure wouldn't be posting on a blog.

1. Is administering polygraph tests on crime victims SOP for the majority of assault cases? I'm guessing no.

2. Is it significant that the investigators have chosen this route so quickly - and made the information public?

I realize I am basing all my views on pure conjecture (my default mode is extreme curiosity), but it does seem as though the initial skepticism of the police is fast becoming a more serious matter of the investigation of a falsified assault and the resulting crime, if true.

I'd be interested to know what the black eye looks like in a follow-up photo in order to verify that injury as well. It looks fake to me, but I would think it'd be awfully hard to "fake" a healing black eye because of the daily changes in color and shape that occur during the healing process.

The "B" wound looks like it was made by a toothpick or something. It's a scratch at best.

Do people who usually need glasses for reading/computer use also use their glasses for things like using an ATM? Perhaps not, if the touchscreen images are large enough. Wouldn't she need her glasses to blog while driving, at least? I can't use my cell-phone without glasses... Besides all that, texting and driving is bloody dangerous. Was she really doing that?

and leading people to believe that the streets are unsafe.

Imagine that.

For a city like Pittsburgh that has spent a good deal of time trying to re-craft its image, little things like this are even more important. Finally, the mayor of Pittsburgh (Luke Ravenstahl, age 28!!) is a Dem, and I suspect he's hearing holy hell from his constituents and their reps about false racist accusations, and that flows down to the cops. She will confess to her fraud by 11am tomorrow, almost certainly.

livid... for good reason. I know this hasn't been proven false (or valid) yet, but it sure does look that way.

The police don't need things like false reports to keep them from keeping their communities safe... the hate/racial aspect of this puts the severity of it up a notch, in my view (again, if proven to be a falsified incident. I agree with you - I think we may hear something on this soon).

So many ramifications if it's as false as it certainly looks from here.

"teach her a lesson for supporting john mccain". :wow:

but I won't buy a lie detector. She is a Republican and those people have no trouble at all believing their own lies.

..as the police try to get to the bottom of it.

But she will recant. Too much light and heat always shows up the mold.

will go into the final report.

1) she's telling the truth. :eyes:
2) she's lying and thinks she can beat the machine.

victim:



prime suspect: