[PJ-Comix]

I thought this "hate crime" story would begin to unravel by the end of next week so it is a bit ahead of schedule. Please, don't send me any kudos for predicting this since this outcome was about as tough to foretell and predicting that a rock tossed in the air would eventually come falling back to earth.

The only thing really surprising about these "hate crime" stories is that the perpetrators continue to think they can get away with faking it and they NEVER do. The Lincoln cops probably already know this is a complete hoax and are just now going through the motions of investigating it as a real "hate crime."

[CodeToad]

Homosexuals are mentally retarded. This, as you say, was easily predicted the day the story broke.

[JoeDetweiler]

If she takes even one cent of the money that’s being raised to help her then I hope they will be able to add some sort of fraud charges to whatever else they hit her with.

[JoeDetweiler]

This reminded me of a story from a couple of months ago that I saw here on FR....

‘Kill the Gay’: Lesbian Couple Charged After Allegedly Faking Hate Crime

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2885969/posts

I never saw any follow-up so I decided to look, and voila:

“A gay couple accused of staging a hate crime they blamed on neighbors has pleaded guilty to one of the charges against them......pleaded guilty to one count of false reporting and were sentenced to 12 months of probation...”

http://www.ourcoloradonews.com/parker/news/couple-pleads-guilty-to-faking-hate-crime/article_5e3bdaba-c226-11e1-bc6a-001a4bcf887a.html

[dog breath]

I would think a real hate crime would be simpler and less elaborate. A simple beating or simply killing her would be more believable. I am not really sure who would have it in for lesbians that much, I have read of gay men who have been beaten up but never a woman. There was a kid in my high school who was openly gay 40 years ago, long before it became acceptable. He got in fights all the time with some of the jocks, I figure by the time he graduated he was one of the toughest fighters around. Aside from that one individual while I have read of the occasional assault of a gay they seem more like the targeting of easy marks for robbery.

[huldah1776]

soon as i read the headline I thought fake.

[PapaBear3625]

The only thing really surprising about these "hate crime" stories is that the perpetrators continue to think they can get away with faking it and they NEVER do.

Not surprising. The hate-crime story goes on page 1. The news that it was a hoax gets buried on page 18, so most people never find out it was a hoax. The hoaxster generally faces no penalty.

The net effect is to create a perception in the public mind that hate crimes are rampant, and SOMETHING MUST BE DONE, like passing more legislation. Net win for the Left.

[TomGuy]

She is a good person and staging a brutal attack and then lying about it to an entire community would be out of character, Thorfinnson said.

But ...

Dawn Thorfinnson, another friend who said she met the victim of the reported crime two months ago."

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Thorfinnson knew the 'victim' only 2 months but knows the 'victim' was not capable of staging a hoax. Yeah, right.

[Wurlitzer]

While the jury is still out if this is a hoax, in any event regardless of outcome it is a HATE CRIME.

It is either a hate crime against perverts or a hate crime against straight people.

Should this, or other crimes of this nature be determined to be a hoax, the punishment should be EXACTLY the same as if it were not a hoax.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Lincoln attorney Megan Mikolajczyk told the Journal Star she was representing the woman who reported the crime,

Why does the purported "victim" need a lawyer so quickly?

[rotstan]

Well it took a month, but here you have it! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191664/Charlie-Rogers-Lesbian-charged-lying-claiming-masked-men-tied-beat-carved-anti-gay-slurs-body.html