Forcible Campaigning? - Update




An Obama supporter attacked a woman and cut a "B" into her face when he learned that she supported McCain/Palin.

Convince me that this incident isn't reminiscent of the 1930s in Germany.


[Update 10/24/08]

(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) It's now being reported as a hoax.

Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter "B" in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

Ashley Todd, 20, of Texas, initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car.

Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.

Authorities, however, declined to release the results of that test.

Investigators did say that they received photos from the ATM machine and "the photographs were verified as not being the victim making the transaction."

This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.

Well, it appears we're seeing a simple everyday case of criminal stupidity. I don't expect the story to die since it's gone international.