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Vegas Dave

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Turns out us Americans aren't the only crazy ones, Pucky :nope:

http://www.aolnews.com/article/acid-attack-victim-could-hear-her-skin-sizzling/19620043

"(Sept. 3) -- A Vancouver, Wash., woman attacked with acid on her way to a Starbucks coffee shop says she could feel her face sizzling as her skin began to burn.

"It was the most painful thing," 28-year-old Bethany Storro told reporters. "My heart stopped. I almost passed out. Once it hit me, I could actually hear it bubbling and sizzling on my skin."

Storro was getting something out of her car outside a Starbucks on Aug. 30 when she saw a woman, around her own age, standing before her and heard the chilling words that would change her life: "Hey, pretty little girl, want to take a drink of this?"

Then, inexplicably, the woman threw a cup of acid-like liquid in Storro's face, sending her screaming out in pain in the middle of the busy street. Passers-by rushed to her aid and called 911.

Storro had just moved to Vancouver, just north of Portland, Ore., to be with her parents after living in Idaho. She said she had never seen her attacker before that day. Police say the bizarre and horrific acid assault -- far more common in other areas of the world -- appears to be random. There are so far no suspects, and the motive remains unclear."
 
And now it turns out the whole thing was a hoax and this whackjob threw the acid in her own face.

So in terms of where we stand with the stereotypes and broad generalizations, I guess Americans aren't so bad in a throwing-acid-on-each-other sense, however they are worse in terms of throwing acid on themselves.