The feeling I get is Broomstick puts her own spin on things.
Say someone approaches her and in public and says something stupid and braindead but well meaning, like it is so nice you stand by your husband instead of leaving him.
This becomes someone told me I should dump my crippled husband.
I salt my lethal legumes… WITH MY TEARS!
You think?
I don’t think it even has to be that egregious. More like:
“I think it’s admirable that you have sacrificed so much to care for your husband. He’s an extremely lucky man.”
“What am I supposed to do, load him into a shopping cart and wheel him down to the river and abandon him? I’ve flown airplanes! Now I can’t even afford toilet paper! How would you like trying to eke out a living on $42 a month? Huh? You know what we had for dinner last night? Dirt from the backyard, that’s what! I’ll have you know that I…”
(sotto voce) “Ok, I think I’ll be going now.”
Here’s Broomstick’s latest:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18861765&postcount=50
Somehow this story of a flag-waiving Muslim man who was gunned down in cold blood in front of his family by a bigot must not have been important enough to make the headlines, so I guess we’ll have to take her word for it.
Lol. Lying is cool if it’s from your tribe?
Thanks. It looks like the incident happened in 2006, but Broomstick stated that it happened in 2002 to make it appear more plausible that it was some sort of payback for 9/11.
Also note that it was a simple robbery with absolutely no evidence to suggest that it a hate crime at all, but Broomstick stated that he was shot by a bigot.
From the article running coach linked and quoted above:
At this point, I’m not sure my brain would correctly recall which hate crimes occurred immediately in the wake of 9/11 and which occurred following the five year anniversary. They’re both “a while ago” now. It seems like an easy, honest mistake to make.
Again per the linked article, the family of the victim believed it was a hate crime because of the timing of the incident and the fact that not all of the available money at the scene was taken. Whether it actually was a hate crime, it was certainly a plausible hypothesis. Given the attention given to the 9/11 anniversary and the hate crime theory mentioned in the article, it is not at all strange that a member of the community would recall it as a hate crime.
The thing is, she can’t keep her stories straight.
The link that she provided, in the very same post, said the victim was found by his employees, not his family.
Her connection to reality is tenuous, at best.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=18863940&postcount=68
Its more like you can’t get your personal attacks to stick. Weak Sauce / Boo-Hoo.
Yeah, he should ‘get with the program’ of ganging up on the person you want, right Blofeld? :dubious:
Since you’re obviously impaired, here’s how her story went down:
Broomstick: Flag-waving, American, Muslim shot down in front of his family!!!
Broomstick Part 2: I was wrong in one detail, he wasn’t shot in front of his family, his family found him. Here’s a link.
Broomstick’s Own Fucking Link: He was found by his employees.
She is full of shit, as usual.
Broomstick takes a fact from over there, another from around the corner, adds a little flavor, stirs until blended and relates it as a personal event. It’s not like everyone doesn’t realize that, and accepts it as fair to middling fiction. Seriously, I doubt Herman Melville ever and an encounter with a white whale either, but I enjoyed reading about it. Broomstick just has lots of white whales in her closet to write about.
More evidence that it was a hate crime is detailed in a 2009 article.
The shooting occurred the day after the fifth anniversary of 911, and a day after local law enforcement and FBI participated at a prayer service at a local mosque. A little over $150 of cash was stolen while banded stacks of cash were left untouched in an office desk which had it drawers opened. Local police did not cooperate with America’s Most Wanted, suggesting to me that they don’t want the attention the hate crime moniker would attract.
Yeah well, see what tiny details you can correctly remember* 8 years after.* The odds say you will get more wrong that she did. * Everyone’s* memory is crappy.
It did not. The very cite you linked to above says he was killed on Sept. 9, 2006.
Lots of random calendar days will be in the vicinity of some particular anniversary of 9/11. That’s hardly proof that it was a hate crime.
Great Og on a pogo stick how is this thread still going?
Obviously impaired… because I don’t agree with the grand assumptions of an Obvious Troll like You!?
If you want a second opinion, since its The Pit, You’re An Asshole, Too.
That’s an awfully small trophy point, but if it’ll get you back under your bridge, TROLL, you go have fun with it. Its close enough for Normal people after 8 years.
Your big contributions recently are picking on Ambivalid & Whining about Crapital Gains Taxes.
You’ve Got A Lotta Damn Gall to be calling ANYONE else “full of shit as usual”.
Oh, Hold the Phone! Another butt-hurt MBA Conservative thinks that trains them to practice medicine? Color us all shocked, “Dr. D’Anconia”. :dubious:
It wasn’t locked. It should be though.
I’m not talking about her memory of eight years ago, she contradicted herself in the same gosh darn post!
“His family found him, here’s a link to more information”.
Her own link said that the employees found him.
Wow, you’re dumber than Dr. Deth.
It wasn’t eight years, it was all in one fucking post, #68 of the thread in question.
I never said a word to, or even about Ambivalid, and I never complained about the Capital Gains Tax.
Cite where I said either one (which you’ll get wrong, because such cites don’t exist), or SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Boo Boo Foo recently started a Pit thread about Ambivalid – perhaps you are mistaken about this claim? Or perhaps I failed to notice another instance involving Ambivalid, one in which D’Aconia was picking on him? And I also missed the Capital Gains thing–was that another mistaken identity? Or was it my miss?