UPDATE: The Pittsburgh Caper: A Strange Hoax

October 26, 2008, 8:10 pm
  


 



By Phyllis Chesler

So, the Pittsburgh Caper appears to have been a partial or 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. … (Continue reading…)

      


© 2008 Phyllis Chesler. This article was originally posted on Chesler Chronicles. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit this work, but you may not alter or transform it. You must attribute this work to the author.




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