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Demovictory9

(32,457 posts)
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 01:55 PM Jun 2018

"Road Rage" update women faked it! have history of faking injuries in vehicle accidents

He did punch out her window but didn't injure her

https://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 Stackhouse’s arm and knocking Mann unconscious.

But Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said most of the allegations could not be proved — and that Barbeau’s 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. “Mann’s 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.”

Here’s what is clear, according to Hummel: Stackhouse, who was leaving a carnival with Mann, pulled her car in front of Barbeau’s in a “dangerous manner,” he said. Barbeau then started aggressively following Stackhouse for more than a mile, eventually exiting his car and punching Stackhouse’s rear window, shattering it, Hummel said.

Mann got out of her car and “quickly went to the ground,” according to Hummel’s 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 OP
He must be one of those asking... saidsimplesimon Jun 2018 #1
Wait he busted thier car window and that's ok because he was ridiculed? Hope he had to pay! lunasun Jun 2018 #2
He was jailed for 11 days MichMan Jun 2018 #3
Since they dropped the charges hopefully the woman's insurance can go after him to pay for the lunasun Jun 2018 #4
If this is a scam they're pulling cyclonefence Jun 2018 #5

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
4. Since they dropped the charges hopefully the woman's insurance can go after him to pay for the
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:28 PM
Jun 2018

damage done

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)
5. If this is a scam they're pulling
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:40 PM
Jun 2018

(they have a "history&quot 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.

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