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As I said yesterday, I think the whole story around the McCain volunteer's mugging and "mutilation" is very weird, but not the sort of thing I want to speculate on. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, however, suggests police are increasingly skeptical:
Pittsburgh police detectives for the second time last night interviewed a John McCain campaign volunteer who told them she was mugged and the letter B cut into her face following a robbery in Bloomfield on Wednesday.Police said Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas, reported that the attack happened about 9 p.m. after she withdrew $60 from an ATM at Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street.She said a man armed with a knife demanded her money. She gave it to him, then began walking to her car, which had McCain stickers on it. She told police that although the robber had moved away from her, he became agitated when he saw her car, punched her in the back of the head, pushed her to the ground and carved a B into her face."This is what she's telling police," police spokeswoman Diane Richard said. "We can't substantiate it at this time."Ms. Todd told police during at least five hours of questioning last night that her attacker said to her, "You are going to be a Barack supporter." She told police the man then sat on her chest, pinning both her hands down with his knees and used what she believed was a dull knife with a roughly 5-inch blade to carve the B.[...]When Ms. Todd reported the incident, "nowhere did she say to the officer that [the assailant] made reference to the bumper sticker. I don't know how she came to the conclusion that he noticed the sticker," Cmdr. Ross said.Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reports that "Police planned to administer a polygraph test to Ashley Todd, 20, because her statements about the attack conflict with evidence from the Citizens Bank ATM where she claims the incident occurred." That's via Michelle Malkin, who says this story "smells awfully weird."
