by Deputy Diva

UPDATE:  10/24/08 – She CONFESSED to lying!

Lynn reported yesterday on Ms. Ashley Todd, who claimed that she was attacked by a large 6′4″, 200 lb. black man because of her McCain bumper sticker.   I added the update that Pittsburgh police were apparently skeptical of her ’story’ as a number of things don’t seem to quite add up. 

Coupled with the fact that Ms. Todd has a very neat and backwards shallow “B” carved into her face and comments have surfaced in other media outlets that even her ‘black eye’ appears to be fake.  Salon.com reports:

The alleged attack happened Wednesday night, at a local ATM. Todd says her assailant came up behind her while she was using the ATM, put a knife to her throat and demanded money, and that she gave him $60. But then, Todd says, the robber saw her bumper sticker and attacked her, punching her in the back of the head and knocking her down. Todd told police that the man continued to punch and kick her, saying he’d teach her a lesson for supporting McCain. In a later interview, she added that he said, “You are going to be a Barack supporter.” According to Todd, he then sat on her chest, pinning her hands with his knees, and used a dull knife to scratch the letter “B” into her right cheek. WTAE, a local television station, reports that this occurred outside the view of the bank’s security cameras.

Todd reportedly claimed that she is from Texas and therefore not familiar with the Pittsburgh area.  As such, she stated to authorities that she then drove to a friend’s house nearby and from there, she called police.  The responding officer then followed her and her friend until they found the scene of the alleged attack.

What is interesting to note though is this is not the first time that Ms. Todd has been involved in an election -related incident.

Earlier this month, she posted to YouTube a video she shot of a janitor at New York’s Queens College. In it, she says, “This janitor took down all of my signs … and tore them apart … I am really perturbed. He closed off the bathrooms and is making it very hostile.”

Salon.com further reports that Todd’s myspace page under the alias “Italian Pajamas” makes the following pretty damning statement, “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her cloths off, but its better if you do.” 

Click HERE to view her myspace page.

And now take a deep breath for THIS…. Diane Richard, a spokesperson for Pittsburgh police reportedly states:

 Todd now says she isn’t sure if it was her bumper sticker that enraged her alleged attacker or a campaign button she wore on her jacket. (Separately, the Post-Gazette reports that she did not originally tell police about the bumper sticker at all.) She has also reportedly added new details to her story.

Todd is also now claiming that she lost consciousness during the attack and was sexually assaulted by the unknown ‘black’ assailant.

In light of all of these new revelations and developments, investigators plan to administer a polygraph test to Todd, because her statements conflict with evidence from the scene where she says the attack occurred.  SOURCE

Stay tuned….