[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This story sounds bogus. From what I've heard and read, when a person is subjected to a random attack, they're kicked and punched. When a person has derogatory words written or carved on them, it's usually bogus. We'll see how this shakes out. If the media totally abandons this story or fails to pick it up, then we'll know it is bogus. If it's for real, we'll never hear the end of it.

[dingram]

I'm with you. For those hetro haters, this sounds too good to be true.

[Drew68]

Somehow I already know how this story is going to end. I just hope the Denver PD doesn't expend a whole lot of time and effort looking for the "suspects."

I also know when it ends the way I envision, the story will get little to no media coverage.

[Howie66]

Hey, I'm a male lesbian.

[Marine Inspector]

My BS meter just pegged.

Didn’t some black women try this in Texas recently?

[jla]

What if it's as the article states?

[Travis McGee]

I agree. This has all the hallmarks of a bogus self attack blamed on one's perceived enemies, Tawana Brawly etc.

There was even a teacher in Florida who shot herself carefully through her side in her classroom before school hours to bring attention to gun violence, inventing an imaginary attacker.

[Centurion2000]

SUMMARY: A 17-year-old Denver girl was viciously slashed Tuesday afternoon, and the word "dyke" was carved into her forearm with a razor.

So what ? Who gives a d#$% about some silly dyke. I think America has bigger fish to fry.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

After awhile, the driver called the others back into the car, leaving Mora face down and covered with blood.

Face down? Silly me, I would have thought that a person would want to get a good look at the LICENSE PLATE NUMBER of the car while the perps are running away, plus any features of the perps now that they are running away.

[IsItTimeYet]

When a person has derogatory words written or carved on them, it's usually bogus

Do you recall what state it was that hosted the last "racist slasher" media show. The one starring that black lady with the "N" word carved backwards on her chest? A lot of hue and cry about that one until some astute detective pushed the issue and she admitted to doing it herself, in the mirror, with a friend to help corroborate the fantasy attack.

Got real quiet in the hand wringing gallery. That silence was the sound of all the media retractions.

I'm with you, I'll remain skeptical.

[Shovelhead]

These "suspects", and the eight year-old heroin addict in Washington, D.C.
They'll find them eventually.
(Hey... gimmee back that pulitzer and my job)

[Lancey Howard]

It could be the lesbian version of Tawana Brawley.
Is this yet another one of those incidents where the "slur" can only be read when looking in a mirror?

Interesting that the story doesn't mention any witnesses.
You know, anybody who could corroborate the story.

[Lancey Howard]

A 17-year-old Denver girl was viciously slashed Tuesday afternoon, and the word "dyke" was carved into her forearm with a razor, media outlets in Colorado report.

Forearm....hmmmm.
Opposite hand of the hand the "victim" writes with?

[altair]

she encountered three teen-age white males

More evil white guy stuff. Great.

[Lancey Howard]

Excuse my poor memory.
Where exactly did the Mathew Shepard murder take place?
Wasn't that near Denver?

[Friedrich Hayek]

A 17-year-old Denver girl was viciously slashed Tuesday afternoon, and the word "dyke" was carved into her forearm with a razor

Forearm? Why would a perp carve a slur into someone's forearm? It doesn't make any sense. On the other hand, the forearm is the perfect place to carve a slur on one's self. (You don't run into the backward lettering problem like you do when you use a mirror.)

[patriciaruth]

Is this Twana Brawley? revisited?

[Ronin]

My Tawana Brawley (sp?) bullshit meter is pegging.

[Drew68]

Here's our sweetheart.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

From 9News

Police re-interview possible hate crime victim
Written By: Web Producer Paola Farer March 28, 2002 - 10:13 PM

Girl says she was attacked because she is a lesbian

DENVER - Denver police are taking a hard look at the story of a teenage girl who claims she was attacked because she's gay.

Seventeen-year-old April Mora says she was thrown to the ground and cut by three men as she was walking in an alley near her home Tuesday. She showed 9NEWS the scratches on her face and body.

Detectives spent Thursday morning re-interviewing Mora. She says police asked her if her wounds were self inflicted and suggested she take a polygraph test.

"They think I did this to myself...so I don't know what's going on with them," Mora told 9NEWS reporter Heidi Hemmat.

Police say they are concerned about an inconsistency in Mora’s story. They say she told police that three men attacked her while a fourth man drove the car and then told some media organizations that there were three attackers.

Mora’s family is angry about the way the case has been handled so far. They say that her attackers are still free and police need to focus on finding them.

[abner]

How did they know she was a lesbian?