B as in Bogus
She lied. Fox:
PITTSBURGH — A 20-year-old volunteer for John McCain’s campaign has admitted that she lied when she said she was attacked by a robber who carved a “B” into her cheek when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, Pittsburgh police said Friday.
Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas, will be charged with filing a false report, a misdemeanor, police said.
“She told lie after lie, and the situation compounded to where we are right now,” Lt. Kevin Kraus, head of major crimes for the Pittsburgh police, said Friday.
Todd had told police that on Wednesday night at 9 o’clock ET, a 6-foot-4 black male in dark jeans and a black tank top held her up at an ATM machine in Bloomfield, Pa. Todd said the robber put a knife to her neck and demanded money. She said she gave him $60, according to the police report.
Todd, who is white, said the robber then noticed the McCain bumper sticker on her car, punched her in the back of her head, knocked her down, and continued to punch and kick her while threatening to teach her a lesson.
“You are going to be a Barack supporter,” she said the robber told her before he sat on her chest, pinned her hands down with his knees and scratched the letter “B” on the right side of her face, using what she believed to be a very dull knife. The robber then fled, Todd said in the police report.
On Friday, officials said they had found several “inconsistencies” in Todd’s statements. She was brought back to police headquarters, where she finally confessed that she had made the entire story up.
“After a while, she just simply stated that she wanted to tell the truth,” said Maurita Bryant, assistant chief for investigations.
Todd confessed to police that she was driving alone, looked in the mirror, saw her black eye and the “B” on her face, and didn’t know how they got there. She assumed she could have done it herself, she said, and then she made up the story about the attacker.
“She saw the ‘B’ on her face, and she immediately thought about Barack,” Bryant said.
Kraus said the ‘B’ was what first led him to suspect Todd’s story. He said he was struck by how neatly the letter was etched on her face.
I was struck by the fact that it was backwards, but whatever.
Local TV with vid here.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 4:46 pm on Friday, October 24, 2008
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