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Hate Crime Victim Handles Horrifying Attack With Humor and Grace

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38981535/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001

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PORTLAND, Ore. — Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a black woman walked up to her with a cup and said: "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"

The woman then splashed acid in the cup on Storro, who stumbled in pain and fell to the ground screaming. She felt agonizing pain as the skin on her face bubbled and sizzled and portions of her blouse disintegrated.

"It was the most painful thing ever," Storro, 28, said Thursday. "My heart stopped. It ripped through my clothing the instant it touched my shirt; I could feel it burning through my second layer of skin."
But she insisted that she would not let the attack in Vancouver wreck her life, and laughingly marveled how her eyesight was spared just minutes after she bought those sunglasses.Storro said she had spinal meningitis twice as a child, which robbed her of most of her hearing.

"Oh my gosh, to be hard of hearing and blind? That would drive them nuts," she said, laughing and pointing at her parents, Joe and Nancy Neuwelt. "They have to be in the same room for me to hear them. I'm just so glad it's a miracle."
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206 comments // Hate Crime Victim Handles Horrifying Attack With Humor and Grace

  • UtopianSky
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      UtopianSky  
    • 2hellnwait:

      And the only ones who think that myth exists are morons like you.
      You are such a huge idiot that you think everyone else is as stupid as you,
      just on the other side.

      No one ever said that non-whites are never racist.
      If there are any other obvious things I need to explain to you, just ask.

    • 1 year ago
  • UtopianSky
  • 2hellnwait
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      2hellnwait  
    • UtopianSky:

      Heh, you've just made my day. . . there is nothing like a rude militant queer spewing vitriol that could more clearly define the intolerance of the progressive left. . . If you are this much of an asshole face to face as you are on-line, it would be my guess that you must find yourself picking your sorry ass up off the ground quite often.

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • cztheday:

      "The issue on this thread, of course, is that we once again get to witness the antics of the gang who couldn't shoot straight. They remind me of nothing more than the monkey cage at the zoo where the monkeys sit and fling their own excrement at each other. Here, the bunch of them together could not harness enough brain power to devine how to extinguish a match."

      I do respect an articulate rant! thanks for the laugh...

    • 1 year ago
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  
    • cztheday:

      so splashing acid in the face of another human being is considered an act of love in your book? the heading doesnt say racially motivated hate crime, it just says hate crime. in my opinion anyone who commits such a heinous act is guilty of a hate crime regardless of race.

    • 1 year ago
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