Police said a 22-year-old man was charged with filing a false report about a hate crime. Floyd Elliott, of Independence, told police that on Dec. 14, two subjects attacked him in the parking lot of his apartment complex.
He said the attackers cut him in the stomach, branded him with a hot knife, and
attempted to carve the word "Fag" on his forehead.
Investigators were suspicious about the report because the head carving was backwards, as if done while looking into a mirror.
Later, Elliott admitted to police that the injuries were self-inflicted. He said he falsely reported the attack to increase the police presence in his neighborhood.
Now, the poor guy will have a scar with the carved name "FAG" spelled backward on his forehead from now on. Call it a badge of honor...in his ability to spell things backward while looking in the mirror. What people will do just to get attention by committing a crime. For whatever reason, people who do these sorts of things need to get their heads examined. I'm sure this strange story will come up in one of those "Stupid Crimes" books.
3 comments:
Right Gindy. Tacking on a "hate crime" as an additional charge carry unprecedented ramifications for future soon-to-be-thought-police and government officials. A crime is a crime. But everybody loves to be Politically Correct these days. Not me.
Not you? Please. It was you who insisted to be HoH instead of being Deaf.
What a hypocrite.
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Actually, it's calling oneself "D"eaf is being P.C. and that anything less, by a person's own choice, is also being P.C. HoH describes my condition exactly as it is. I'm a person who is hard of hearing. Nothing hypocrite nor P.C. about it.
Keep trying.
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