Posted on 10/23/2008 2:58:22 PM PDT by grundle
A knife-wielding man robbed a Texas woman and etched a "B" into her face after he saw a John McCain bumper sticker on the woman's car, Pittsburgh police said.
Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas, was using an ATM at Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street in Bloomfield just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when a man approached her, put a knife to her throat and demanded $60, police said.
Todd handed the man $60 she had in her pocket and stepped away from him, investigators said. The man then noticed the bumper sticker on the woman's car, which was parked in front of the ATM. The man became very angry, made comments to Todd about McCain and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground, police said.
The man then carved the "B" into Todd's right cheek.
Todd declined to comment. Friends said she is in Pittsburgh volunteering for the McCain-Palin campaign.
"We are aware that there was an incident and we are aware of the stories circulating on the Web, but the victim is very shaken up right now, and out of concerns for her privacy, we are not going to confirm if she works for us," said campaign spokesman Peter Feldman.
Police described the suspect as black, about 6-foot-4, and said he was wearing dark-colored jeans and a black undershirt.
The ATM has a security camera and investigators are trying to watch the video, police said.
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I have been e-mailing Fox News asking why this is not breaking news.
Effective today, my 9mm goes everywhere I go.
makes..... blood...... boil.......
I’d be banned if I posted what I thought they should do using that guys knife on him.
Gee, s’pose it’s stuff like this that has caused Michelle to no longer be proud of America?
My sympathies to the young victim but...ROFLMAO!!!!
The “B” appears to be backwards. Is the picture reversed?
I hesitate to suggest this, but was it done in a mirror?
The majority of mediaA$$holes are conveniently omitting the B part. Their headlines differ from the true story!! This is just being reported as a mugging nothing more..that’s all...move along...nothing to see here.. UGH...I loathe the mediaPUKERS!!
I was just going to post the same thing.
“Get in their faces and get your share of their wealth now. Don't wait for big gubmint to do the stickup job for you on those rich people. Get sum o dat money now.”
Oh, those wacky Democrats!
Thanks. Glad I’m not the only one who had that thought fleeting through my admittedly suspicious mind.
I’m guessing a reversed photo. And hoping that it isn’t the other possibility.
Yeah probably. And she gave herself a black eye by beating herself with a doorknob.
“I hesitate to suggest this, but was it done in a mirror?”
It looks very symetric, but let’s wait and see what the security camera reveals.
if i wanted to forcibly carve a letter on someone’s face, I’d do it from behind by pulling the head back. That would result in the backwards B. If I did it face to face, the victim would resist by moving her head around and I would not be able to carve the letter.
I’m reserving my judgement in this case until more information is in.
what if he was on top of her facing the other way??
geesssshhh
Where are the Zogby/Gallup/ IBB polls asking how this will affect BO’s chances?
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