UPDATE: The Pittsburgh Caper: A Strange Hoax

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
October 23, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/366/pittsburgh-caper-strange-hoax

Excerpt:

So, the Pittsburgh Caper appears to have been a total hoax. Mea culpa, mea culpa, for following the blogospheric herd in order to be on top of what seemed to be a breaking story. What can I say? As my readers know, I kept updating the story.

Now, we have a "break" in that story. There is no photographic evidence of a crime at or near that ATM machine. There have been "inconsistencies" in her story. And, now, Texan Ashley Todd has confessed to making up the story.

For all you hard-hearts and women-haters, let me note that this kind of bid for attention, one that includes self-mutilation, does not necessarily mean that nothing happened.

It may mean that nothing happened the night of October 22nd. No, I'm not going to go there. I will in the future but I can't right now, no time.

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