[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] *Lamar Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson believed she was the victim of a hate crime after discovering a yellow, sticky substance on the hood of her car
*Police investigated after McPherson filed a report, as material was also found on her husband's car in the South Carolina town
*Cops later launched a probe and found that the substance was 'pollen'
*Before the probe McPherson said she was grateful the alleged culprits 'didn't take our lives' and hoped 'they would be identified and prosecuted'
A mayor believed she was the victim of a hate crime after finding a 'sticky, yellow substance' on her car which later turned out to be pollen. No one else in town was effected. It was only her.
Police investigated the claims made by Lamar Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson, who reported that someone sprayed her 2017 Symphony Silver Hyundai Elantra Sport with a residue outside their home on February 7. Sure they did.
The Mayor of the South Carolina town also claimed her husband’s soft-top 1998 Buick Roadmaster had been sprayed with a substance which 'got in all of the grooves' of the gray sedan. "You know how hard it is to get that stuff out? Whatever that stuff is. It's probably poison. I just know it is."
Newsweek reported that McPherson had returned to her home and claimed her husband "went out to the car to get some things out of the garage. He says, "Somebody's painted your car!."' "Damn, woman! Lookidat! We been spray concreted!"
It was a 'grainy substance' like industrial spray foam used to patch concrete and 'looked like little pebbles', McPherson said. "I seen dat stuff before! Dey spray it on nooses and stuff!"
In a statement to WPDE-TV before police investigated the incident, the mayor said: 'During the 70s, crosses were burned in the yard of our home when my mother was involved with the civil rights movement. "Dey wuz sprayed wid dat kind o' stuff, too! Went up like torches!"
'Again, we are grateful the person or persons did not try to take our lives but the culprits will be identified and prosecuted. "We escaped a unknown dee-mise by the skin of our teeth!"
'Love conquers hate and my husband and I refuse to be intimidated by those who perpetrated this act of vandalism which I classify as an act of hatred.' "Dat's right! We are Spartacus too!"
#1
Confirmation bias: the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs.
Posted by: Herb McCoy ||
03/07/2019 2:04 Comments ||
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#2
Local honeybees have put out a contract on da maya for pollen theft.
#3
Yes #1. I understand this thought process was minor among our general population of the 50's but today as we can see daily clearly it has morphed dramatically.
#4
...I live about 75 miles from Lamar. It's one of those places that's not much more than a wide spot in the road, and like so many others here in SC, tends to turn out the occasional politician whose opinion of themselves is far out of proportion to their actual importance.
The pollening is a yearly (and sometimes nearly year-long) natural event down here. If Her Honor says she didn't know what it was, then she ain't fit to run an ice cream stand, much less a small town.
That, or she was lying through her teeth.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
03/07/2019 6:27 Comments ||
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#5
When gentleman flora come callin'
Their manners are often appallin':
Before they say, "Hello!"
Y'all's stuff gets all yellow.
By golly, those oaks are, well, gallin'!
#6
Either she hasn't lived in South Carolina very long or she's very much wanting to be a victim.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
03/07/2019 7:33 Comments ||
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i will go with wanting too be a victim. It seems too be the in thing nowadays
Posted by: chris ||
03/07/2019 8:09 Comments ||
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#8
It is an old story. Plants and animals have been at war for millions of years. They can't run away when we try to eat them so they fight back with pickers, thorns, chemicals, and coating our cars with pollen and sap.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] *Lamar Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson believed she was the victim of a hate crime after discovering a yellow, sticky substance on the hood of her car
