Ashley Todd political attack or hoax
Posted on October 24th, 2008
Ashley Todd from College Station, TX is making national headlines after telling Pittsburgh police that she was a victim of a mugging that was also a political attack. Ashley claims that a mugger, described as a 6′4″, 200lb black man in dark clothing, robbed her at $60 at knifepoint, slapped her, and carved a backwards B in her face. Now questions are being raised if she is actually telling the truth or if this is an elaborate political hoax. She stated that the attack was initiated when the mugger noticed a McCain sticker on her car. Thoughts of a hoax have come up because she failed to report the incident to police right away, the B in her face is backwards as if it was done while looking in a mirror, the would is very shallow which could indicate she did it herself and was afraid to cut deep, and the police never took a photo of her. So the questions becomes who took the picture and circulated it so close to the election? More will come of this story in the next couple of days.
****Update - Ashley Todd has confessed to making up the story about being attacked. Pictures from the ATM proved she was not even there at the alleged time of the assault. So not only did she make up the claim, she is now facing charges of filing a false police report, and is now has a solid lead for the Darwin Awards by carving a backwards “B” on her face. Good job Ashley! ****
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Tags: Ashley Todd, Criminal, hoax
October 24th, 2008 at 11:20 am
its obvious she carved the B in the mirror, not being quite bright enough to realize what she was doing.
shes more then likely is a troubled girl who has just ruined her entire life and opened herself up for criminal charges.
what a flake.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
What a faker. She has changed her story, that looks like black eyeshadow, and really, if somone was carving a B into my face with a 5 inch blade, I could only be so greatful that it was so perfect (dispite struggling and twitching in pain) and so shallow as to be almost sure not to scar. What a considerate robber.
And she calls that the wrong side of town? Oye.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Also, she wears glasses, but that “black eye” sure doesn’t look like she was wearing them. If you need glasses, you don’t go out after dark without wearing them.
October 24th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
No way. The location she claims this happened is a lively area with many restaurants and bars. At 9PM – someone would have seen this. Pearl and Liberty in Bloomfield is not “the wrong side of town” – it’s a charming old “Italian” neighborhood, which has experienced some pretty significant rejuvenation in the last 10 years. 2 of our favorite dining establishments are in that very block. The one – a steakhouse – Tessaro’s is a Pittsburgh legend (with by the way, a mostly “white” clientele – I only add that after reading the description of her supposed attacker to note that it is an area much inhabited by all) and the streets around this area are generally busy until later at night. No way this happened at this location without anyone seeing it.
October 24th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
It was a hoax. She made it all up. She is going to jail for filing a false report.
October 24th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
It’s disgraceful to see someone perpetrate a hoax like this, especially with everyone already on edge regarding race, the election, etc. This girl must have mental problems to set herself up like this, especially if she thought she was doing one of the campaigns a favor. Unfortunately, now we have to listen to conspiratorial drivel reach deafening levels as each camp’s supporters read more into this than there is: just the misguided actions of a dingbat who needs psychoanalysis more than anything.
October 26th, 2008 at 3:01 am
*FAIL* Seems to be a lot of dumb republicans making national news trying to make democrats look bad and having it backfire. The threatening letters from No on Prop 8 to companies that have donated more than $10K to Equality California are my favorite, but this is up there!