The mommy blogger, pink ribbon story just got weirder.

[Baitball Blogger]

I need to run out to do an errand. If this story ends up to be false, feel free to lock this thread

Mommy blogger who wrote viral 'Walmart pink headband' post Baker Acted in Central Florida

A mommy blogger whose post 'What happened when my son wore a pink headband to Walmart' went viral on the Internet last weekend was Baker Acted after making suicidal comments to deputies, according to a Lake County Sheriff's Office report obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

On Aug. 2, the blog post, written under the byline Katie Vyktoriah, was published on the Huffington Post website and quickly went viral.

The Sheriff's Office report identified the blogger as Kathleen Carpenter.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-mommy-blogger-baker-acted-after-viral-walmart-p-20130806,0,667022.story

[frazzled]

1. The postmodern condition of truthiness on the Internet

What are we to believe or disbelieve anymore? Who knows. I believe nothing and everything (but more nothing).

There are a lot of crazy people out there, and the crazier the story, the more we seem to pay attention to it. This encourages crazy stories. It's not just the Internet either; I'm still troubled at losing faith in one of my favorite radio shows, This American Life, for having believed Mike Daisy's China story without ever corroborating a single fact. Indeed, it was fiction. This has left me not knowing what to believe or disbelieve anymore.

The line between truth and fiction is being increasingly burred in our lives. Oh well, I think I'll go watch a real fictional movie, which I positively know to be fiction.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. What is amazing me about this incident and the story of the other blogger

who claimed that google searches resulted in an investigation, is how readily their stories go viral. While some of us who have done meticulous research and have supporting documents to back our positions get completely ignored.

What a strange world we live in.

[frazzled]

5. Yeah, it's almost an inverse relationship

Writers who present these lengthy, substantive, and disimpassioned analyses are ignored while 140 words of purple prose in some tweet go viral.

Here on DU, people are made fun of who try to research and document a topic with facts ... while a (propaganda) story from a Russian-government outlet gets reposted a thousand times.

It makes you want to give up, doesn't it.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. What you end up doing, is writing for all the right reasons.

You document the events in order to gain control over the things that happened to you. And then you make a promise to yourself, that once it's done, you'll move on.

If you're lucky, maybe it will help someone else down the road who will someday face the same adversity. Maybe they will be able to overcome the problems faster because of the things they read in your account.

Really, that's all one can hope for when you're the first one through.

[KurtNYC]

9. Winston Churchill said famously: "A lie can get halfway around the world before

the truth can get its pants on." (and I love that quote)

Strange indeed.

[LeftyMom]

3. It was rather obvious from her blog that she's a loon.

Poor kids. :/

[tammywammy]

6. Her whole story sounded fishy from the beginning.

She doesn't sound well, I hope she gets help if it's needed.

[Common Sense Party]

7. I believe EVERY word she wrote, because she clearly described the redneck as having

a 'fug' and a 'pong' about him.

That level of detail proves she is being truthful.

[theHandpuppet]

8. Okay, I'm an old geezer and clearly out of touch

What's "fug" and "pong"?

[Common Sense Party]

10. We must both be out of touch. My best guess is this was a creative writing assignment

that went viral, and she was working her thesaurus hard:

I could smell the fug of cigarette smoke surrounding him, and there was a definite pong of beer on him.

[OneGrassRoot]

13. I'm clueless as well, so I looked it up:

Both seem to be British slang terms. You may be correct about the creative writing assignment.


fug: A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.

pong [pɒŋ] Brit informal n

a disagreeable or offensive smell; stink

vb (intr) to give off an unpleasant smell; stink
[perhaps from Romany pan to stink]

pongy adj

[LittleBlue]

12. Called it. She's crazy

Her story stinks of horse manure.

I hope someone stable is looking after her children.