Posted on 10/23/2012 2:16:31 PM PDT by TigerClaws
*pats self on back, sadly*
I expect she didn’t realize that burning had the potential for a really catastrophic injury.
I don’t want to say I’m glad to read this, but I really am, because people need to know that this simply isn’t a country where white people attack a random black victim, paint racial slurs on her car (in “a sticky substance,” if I correctly recall the article, not anything permanent) and set her on fire.
It’s also not a country where straight men break into a homosexual woman’s house, neatly paint her basement wall, superficially carve sexual slurs on her easily-accessible arms, and do a carefully-calculated $200 worth of fire damage.
Instead, it’s a country where a few crazy people will do absolutely anything to get attention, and they know what buttons to push to take the attention national/international.
What is surprising, is to visit the liberal sites and realize that these fake outrages have been so common, for so many years, that even a very sizable percentage of the liberals get away with posting a “wait and see” caution, without suffering too much abuse from other posters.
In regards to this story, which many of us were skeptical of from the beginning, I got the impression that the media was trying to milk it as much as possible before the truth could come out, I think even they realize that they had better jump on these tales and wring out whatever use they can make of them, before the other shoe falls.
Some were thrown off by the seriousness of Ms. Moffitt’s injuries. The fire thing was a tactical error.
I have kids who set things on fire all the time. It rarely turns out like they intended!
I was one of them. I overestimated her intelligence, figuring no one would take the chance of serious, painful injury just to make a wacky point.
Throw her in jail anyway. Skip the medical care.
People watch tv or play video games, and nobody on the “A-Team” ends up with 3rd-degree burns or even a blister. I’m sure she had no idea how badly it would turn out. She’s lucky she survived, especially if it’s true, as reported, that she sprayed water on her flaming clothes. What if it had spread the accelerant and really torched her?
People watch tv or play video games, and nobody on the “A-Team” ends up with 3rd-degree burns or even a blister. I’m sure she had no idea how badly it would turn out. She’s lucky she survived, especially if it’s true, as reported, that she sprayed water on her flaming clothes. What if it had spread the accelerant and really torched her?
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