I'd like to hear more about these "severe eye injuries." If the victim severely injured her eyes intentionally, that requires a much deeper commitment than the usual hoax.
Self-inflicted severe eye injuries would decrease the likelihood of hoax, but wouldn't eliminate it.
I'm still in for April 14.
I’m not so sure. Typically when someone wants to fake an injury to themselves, their first thought is to bash themselves in the face, and that can lead to an eye injury, while their intent was something like a black eye.
Here is a picture from a previous hoax attack.
http://i.imgur.com/p96ZJFq.jpg
But investigating this further, look at the logic of the event itself. Men approach a woman who is by herself, screams a homosexual slur at her and attacks her.
The obvious question is how did he know she was a homosexual?
Her suggestion that during a brief lapse in the law she had married her girlfriend and it was in the news, is pretty weak. It would suggest that one or more of the attackers already knew her, lived in that neighborhood, etc.
People are so bad at identifying strangers from memory that most police line-ups fail, even when there was intense and close interaction during an event. So they saw somebody in the news and were able to recognize them on the street? Not likely.
