Ms. Todd told police during at least five hours of questioning last night that her attacker said to her, “You are going to be a Barack supporter.” She told police the man then sat on her chest, pinning both her hands down with his knees and used what she believed was a dull knife with a roughly 5-inch blade to carve the B…
When Ms. Todd reported the incident, “nowhere did she say to the officer that [the assailant] made reference to the bumper sticker. I don’t know how she came to the conclusion that he noticed the sticker,” Cmdr. Ross said.
He said the description of the robber as a 6-foot 4-inch, 200-pound black man is similar to that of a man who robbed a Liberty Avenue bank in recent weeks.
Police were checking surveillance video of the Wednesday ATM incident.
Several employees at nearby businesses last night said they were unaware of the attack.
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Actually, this gives her story more credibility. If this was a premeditated fraud, she would have told this to the cops in her first breath. But when you’re rattled & in shock, details come back to you slowly.
jgapinoy on October 24, 2008 at 9:02 AM
I’m telling you. If this woman faked this…
…..I WILL PERSONALLY GO AFTER HER.
Mommypundit on October 24, 2008 at 9:05 AM
So the robber sits on her chest, meaning he was facing her (not backwards or the other way around), and then carves a backwards “B” on her face? Huh?
Dyslexic robber?
cornfedbubba on October 24, 2008 at 9:05 AM
What I’d like to know is, didn’t the police ask her about the “B” on her cheek? I’d think that would be one of the first questions…
JetBoy on October 24, 2008 at 9:06 AM
There were so many inconsistencies, they gave her a lie detector test. Stay tuned for results.
Valiant on October 24, 2008 at 9:11 AM
In other news, Michelle Bachmann’s home was vandalized.
carbon_footprint on October 24, 2008 at 9:15 AM
I really hope she’s not full of crap because if she is, it’s going to be BAD…
I wonder if the media outlets are already fighting over who gets to dig through her trashcans. Is her name even really Ashley? Does she owe any taxes?
Bill Scrunty on October 24, 2008 at 9:16 AM
What a dumbass. Save us from idiots who want to save us.
albo on October 24, 2008 at 9:19 AM
If he was really sitting on top of her chest with his knees pinning her arms down, then I figure he would have written the B on the side with the black eye and it wouldn’t be backwards…
ninjapirate on October 24, 2008 at 9:22 AM
… that being said, I don’t get the big deal about forgetting the bumper sticker in the initial report…
ninjapirate on October 24, 2008 at 9:23 AM
The police want her story to be discredited so that it will go away. There are forces at work here that are obfuscating the truth. After all the coverups you have seen regarding Obama’s past, how do you expect to discover the truth? From the media? When will you ever learn?
I live in Pittsburgh. It is owned by the Democratic Party. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is also owned by the Democratic Party. They will lie about everything. Remember, were it not for the DNA from a blue dress worn by a frightened and intimidated Monica Lewinsky, we would never have known the truth about that either.
jay12 on October 24, 2008 at 9:23 AM
A right-handed robber would put the B on the right facing side of the face. It’s on her left facing side of her face (her right).
He would have to be left-handed, dyslexic robber.
cornfedbubba on October 24, 2008 at 9:36 AM
I agree with jgapinoy.
She must have been rattled by the incident. It is shocking to me that the police did not even question the scar on her face.
jencab on October 24, 2008 at 9:36 AM
I feel like this is a CSI episode where the victim is still alive and we’re piecing together the clues.
jencab on October 24, 2008 at 9:39 AM
Either that or he is right handed, held her head down with his right hand, and wrote the B with his non-dominate left hand… I find it easier to write backwards than forwards with my non-dominate hand…
ninjapirate on October 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM
Michelle has an update…Todd told police the robber sat on her chest when the “B” was etched. Puts to rest the idea that the “B” is backwards because the robber did it from the other side.
The more that slowly comes out about this whole thing, the more it looks like a hoax. Not that it didn’t seem suspicious from the get go.
JetBoy on October 24, 2008 at 9:45 AM
WHAT???? Was she waterboarded?
Wait until the Pittsburgh popo gets their hands on Joe the Plumber.
faraway on October 24, 2008 at 9:54 AM
In other news, Obama’s disowned white granny got sick.
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faraway on October 24, 2008 at 10:01 AM
I’ll just second most of what jay12 wrote. There’s a definite sense that pittsburgh police are just trying to bury this because of the national press (and probably because pittsburgh is owned by enough corrupt dems to rival chicago)
cameo on October 24, 2008 at 10:06 AM
I’m not going to waste any more time following this story.
Russian plane been hijacked? Breaking…
Connie on October 24, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Apparently all the MN representatives homes were vandalized, both parties. As I wrote in the blog thread this is a sad story regardless of how it plays out. It’s hard to believe that after witnessing the treatment received by JTP that you would willfully put yourself in the eye of the storm but there are people who need the attention. It would be better treated discreetly, I am hoping for an experienced police department.
Cindy Munford on October 24, 2008 at 10:22 AM
I’m inclined to +3, although there is nothing we can do to prove that is the case. That’s where corrupt politicians take ya. You can’t have faith in your own institutions.
a capella on October 24, 2008 at 10:25 AM
I call BS. I think this is a hairbrained idea she has concocted to try and win sympathy for McCain.
If I’m wrong, I’ll apologize.
Geronimo on October 24, 2008 at 10:39 AM
14:59:57….14:59:58…..14:59:59……anddddddddd yer done.
Next.
Dave Rywall on October 24, 2008 at 11:28 AM