Quote from: lisagurl on June 19, 2009, 07:02:35 PM
Would you be as angry at a hoax? There is no, I repeat NO! evidence or proof this story is real.
We were just talking about this in chat. Although I hate to sound like the unbelieving person who has a tendency to just dismiss things until I find some kind of "proof," stories like this are sensational. It hits us at a gut level. People have weird reasons for making up stories. Post-op, 18 year old moderator is definitely possible. A murder as sensational as that one not getting one single piece of major media coverage, of no one from that town leaking anything at all to the press, is a little unlikely. I say we let a few days or weeks pass, reserve the right to be angry, but remember that this story originated from an online chat room and has not been validated by anyone with provable facts. If it's true, how absolutely horrible and completely unjust; we should be having vigils all over the world. If it is not true, what a horrible disservice to that website for not fact-checking.
I know when we get news in our chat, our site mod is very extensive about checking facts before publishing things. I really hope this is a hoax so that someone didn't die like that. I think we'll see in time what really happened. Meghan