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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Road Rage" update women faked it! have history of faking injuries in vehicle accidents
He did punch out her window but didn't injure herhttps://www.democraticunderground.com/100210696986
Charges were dropped against a man accused of hurting two women in a horrific road-rage attack after Oregon prosecutors found too many holes in the victims stories and that they had a history of apparently faking injuries in other vehicular incidents.
Jay Allen Barbeau, 49, was arrested June 1 after Megan Stackhouse, 34, and her fiancée, Lucinda Mann, 26, told officers in Bend that he attacked them after their Kia Soul cut him off in traffic. Stackhouse had claimed that she pulled over to let Barbeau pass them, but the imposing, 5-foot-8, 245-pound man instead smashed their rear window before breaking Stackhouses arm and knocking Mann unconscious.
But Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said most of the allegations could not be proved and that Barbeaus 11-day stint in jail and the national ridicule he endured for the road-rage attack was a just punishment.
I have no confidence in the credibility of Mann and Stackhouse, Hummel said in a statement. Manns claimed injuries in the Barbeau case were debunked by the medical records. While Stackhouse did suffer a broken bone in her wrist, there are competing claims as to how her injury occurred and based on her lack of credibility, I cannot stand by her version of events.
Heres what is clear, according to Hummel: Stackhouse, who was leaving a carnival with Mann, pulled her car in front of Barbeaus in a dangerous manner, he said. Barbeau then started aggressively following Stackhouse for more than a mile, eventually exiting his car and punching Stackhouses rear window, shattering it, Hummel said.
Mann got out of her car and quickly went to the ground, according to Hummels statement.
Mann said she was thrown to the ground by Barbeau and suffered serious injury, Hummel said. Medical records contradict her claim.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/12/charges-in-road-rage-attack-dropped-over-terrible-lie/
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"Road Rage" update women faked it! have history of faking injuries in vehicle accidents (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Jun 2018
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Wait he busted thier car window and that's ok because he was ridiculed? Hope he had to pay!
lunasun
Jun 2018
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saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)1. He must be one of those asking...
Are you my mother? Pitiful, angry human in need of some intervention. imo
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. Wait he busted thier car window and that's ok because he was ridiculed? Hope he had to pay!
MichMan
(12,002 posts)3. He was jailed for 11 days
lunasun
(21,646 posts)4. Since they dropped the charges hopefully the woman's insurance can go after him to pay for the
damage done
cyclonefence
(4,483 posts)5. If this is a scam they're pulling
(they have a "history" it's a fucking dangerous one. Sooner or later, someone they cut off in traffic is going to have a gun.
ETA don't know why that smilie popped up.