Cops Question McCain Volunteer

[reason]

Before you read the story, click on the link and look at the picture of victim. Most of you should see it right away -the "B" on her face...is backward.

Is this chick a retard or what?


http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10...b-carved-face/

PITTSBURGH -- Police are questioning several "inconsistencies" that have emerged in statements made by a woman claiming to be a John McCain volunteer who alleges she was robbed at knife point by an attacker who cut a "B" into her face after noticing a McCain bumper sticker on her car.

Ashley Todd, 20, reported to police that on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET, a 6'4" black male in dark jeans and a black tank top held her up at a Citizens Bank ATM in Bloomfield. According to a police report, Todd said the robber put a knife to her neck and demanded money. She said she gave him $60.

Todd also told police that the robber then noticed the McCain bumper sticker on her car, punched her in the back of the head, knocked her down, and continued to punch and kick her while threatening to teach her a lesson.

"You are going to be a Barack supporter," she recalled the robber saying before he sat on her chest, pinning both her hands down with his knees and scratched the letter "B" on the right side of her face using what she believed to be a very dull knife. Then the robber fled, she said in the police report.

But Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard told FOXNews.com on Friday that Todd later added to her tale, saying she was groped by the robber and lost consciousness during the assault. Neither of those details was in the original report.

Richard said after a second interview, Todd also was not as definitive about the assault or the motives behind it, nor could she say for certain whether the robber took $60 from her as she initially reported but maintains is missing.

Todd took a polygraph test late Thursday or early Friday after police heard the inconsistencies, Richard said.

'There were major changes in her story" before and after the polygraph test, Richard said. As for the wound on her cheek, "it's very shallow, it's more of a scratch."

Richard would not say whether police doubt her story, but told FOX News that no evidence yet indicates Todd was at the ATM where she claims the assault took place. Early reports say Todd claimed she was working at a nearby phone bank before she dropped by the ATM. Richard said Todd is staying with a male friend who lives down the street from the ATM.

Richard said the police department continues to investigate the report and takes it "very seriously." Police are reviewing surveillance footage and searching for witnesses. She said Todd is still considered a "victim" of an assault, and she noted that victims often tend to forget details of situations that happen to them under duress.

The area at Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street where the attack allegedly took place is heavily traveled in the daytime, full of traffic, pedestrians, restaurants and stores. On Friday, Pittsburgh detectives were canvassing the area looking for witnesses. One detective told FOXNews.com that they had talked to a few people but got "nothing solid."

Ethan Eilon, executive director of the College Republicans National Committee, told FOX News Todd was volunteering through his organization and that she had taken a year off to work on the campaign.

He said that Todd's attacker became enraged when he saw she had the McCain bumper sticker, and yelled, "You are one of those McCain people."

Todd received a call from the Republican presidential nominee and has spoken with her family. Barack Obama's local campaign team also issued well-wishes to the Texas resident.

Police say Todd initially refused medical attention, though FOX News was later told she went to the hospital Thursday.

Several blogs and message boards, including on one of Todd's own Web pages, are skeptical at best about Todd's story, arguing the details are fishy.

"There's just a lot of unanswered questions," one source familiar with the investigation told FOXNews.com. "The story just sounds very bizarre."

FOX News' Judson Berger and Carl Cameron and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

[Beachcomber]

I'm curious though why I didn't see this story until her credibility was being questioned. My far-right cousin sent me the original story and I didn't see it on any news sites, yet her credibility is at stake and it's front page news. No bias there...

[reason]

I heard about it, so it was in the news. Coworkers were discussing it yesterday as if it were fact. It was important that both campaigns contacted her.

KDKA.com has the latest: She admitted she made it up.

The College Republicans released the pic of her. I wonder if they were in on the scam. I just can't believe she walked around with a lightly scratched backwards "B" on her face and didn't stop to think people would question that.

The chick is a retard. This is noteworthy news.

[Beachcomber]

What about the New Yorkers voting in Ohio knowing it was illegal because they were already registered in New York? Democrats. Not making front page news either.

Actually I am so sick of BOTH parties I would like to see every incumbent in the House and Senate lose their seats and a 3rd party candidate for POTUS win, I don't even care which one. Now THAT would be a message even the thick skulled politicians who have been screwing us for years might understand.