Posted on 10/23/2008 1:26:12 PM PDT by MountainLoop
PITTSBURGH -- A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m.
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.
Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank's surveillance cameras.
The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes.
I certainly won’t argue with you, since you are the clinical expert, and because I have had routine dental implantolgy performed in the front of my mouth, and the resulting swelling affected my entire face — from one ear to the next, and from the middle of my forehead to beneath my chin. I’m simply skeptical that that sort of deep tissue discoloration could occur without accompanying swelling.
As to your last paragraph, we’re agreed on all points.
Good God! Do I have to spell out something so obvious? If she was held in a headlock from behind, the B would be exactly as shown. Or if she was laying on the ground and the mutant was at her head, facing her feet.
This is as plausible as anything else, and the entire point of my earlier posts on this is that little vanities like this run the risk of making us all look like raving nutbags.
Ya know, nevermind. I love the wild west too.
The injuries pictured look real enought to me but the catch in the story is the calculated nature of the injury. If such an assailant truly exists, they need to get this guy because he is truly dangerous and diabolical. To mark up a young lady’s face is akin to the the muslim ladies who are disfugured with acid by brutal husbands and to take the time to do this supposedly over a political difference is truly psychopathic.
That’s what troubles me...if her story is true then there is more going on with this guy than just a simple robbery. On the other hand, I have the same reservations as you about the story! If she has truly concocted a false story, then she needs to be jailed for a long time!
Regardless of whether it’s true, she has my sympathies. She’s either been attacked, or she needs professional counseling.
"Did this happen in Murtha's district?
I worry that they may run with this story before they are sure it really happened. I am not trying to question the young lady. They just need to be sure. I think she probably is in shock if she was mugged.
most hussein supporters are either stupid, drunk, drugged, jobless, lazy, too rich to care, or arrogant and self righteous and I think a lot of them have ALL of these characteristics...
I’ve had teeth pulled out, I don’t swell but lots of folks do. I almost hope the it was just the case that the lady made up the story, even if it makes us look bad...because the alternative is that you have a truly dangerous, vengeful, violent man on the streets who will only escalate...especially if Obama loses(or even if he wins, he’ll justify violence in the name of vengence!)
If you expect to be here long, you shouldn’t be so quick with pointing troll fingers. Just a newbie but yet so familiar with DKos and Huffpo (and their endearing little shortened form). Puh-lease, crawl back into your mama’s basement, the grown ups are busy.
What we are seeing is a social movement based on emotion and an organization which takes advantage of and channels emotion in its more extreme adherents. This is how ordinary people who you say are indeed "not like this" get sucked into it a little at time, just as happened in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s in many countries, Spain, Germany, Italy and so on.
Rather than actually eject such people prone to violence, the Obama Campaign puts them to work. Thus the thug, instead of simply robbing the woman, goes the extra mile and carves a "B"in her face. The effect is one of chilling of politics, one is more prone to keep ones dedication to Mccain secret, This is how fascism begins. So you need to know the context in which you say," Most Obama Supporters Are Not Like This." Notice how those who are not like this are remaining silent rather than decrying this travesty. Note how the MSM turns the other way?
WAKE AMERICA UP. DO not go along to get along.
Those F'n days have been over for several months now, but Obama is banking on millions of people just like you.
This is America. No one carves the initial of a presidential candidate on a victims' face and yet it does NOT become a central news item? Imagine if it had hapened to a black person who was an Obama supporter with a M carved into her face!
THINK ABOUT IT.
Say two words to yourself.
" Kenya Template."
And the MSM is letting it happen rather than protecting America.
Lastly, this crime is a genuine federal offence. It is a violation of the civil rights of the victim. ACLU where ARE you?Buahahahaha.
Self help is the only remedy against Obama and his thugs.
No one else will protect you, not even the police in many instances. The feds are also in the bag for Obama, they know the DOJ will do nothing to prevent Obama thugs from intimidating US citizens during this campaign or on election day.
WE my FRiends, are ON OUR OWN.
This is the beginning of the devolution of America, when such an attack DOES NOT trigger national outrage and sympathy.
Arguing with 'em is low value. Plus, everybody on FR already knows everything, so it's pointless to add anything new.
I was more concerned about the fellow who thought it snappy and clever to put dog poop in his hollow points. I couldn't let that pass without saying something.
The trouble coming the way of the ones who just say the wrong thing if called to defend their use of deadly force is pale, compared with the trouble that would come the way of one who is found out to have used dog-doo filled hollow points.
Thanks for the update. Hopefully, she recovers quickly and they catch the dirtball who did it.
A little pork coating to ones bullets with a loud pre-warning to any misbehaving Islamists might be a good violence preventative!
Wouldn’t there be a video of the assault around an ATM or bank area? They have cameras that cover parking lots as well as the ATM’s.
You have got to be kidding. They have ‘scrips like that all the time - light skinned, dark skinned, etc.
You know, the B doesn’t have to stand for Barack - it could stand for something else - you can use your imagination.
I’m seeming to recall that someone up thread said the assault took place out of range of the security cameras.
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