Iām sorry but I donāt think this story is true.
Iād like to believe itās true! Trust me! Iād love a nice feel good story to make me feel good about the human race, but sadly, there are way too many things wrong with this story.
Either you were headbutted by a man with the smallest head in the world, or a Legoman. Your āblack eyeā should be swollen, your eyelids should be somewhat closed and your temple on the side of your head should be swollen too. A black eye is a serious thing, man. Your body doesnāt let that slide. I know people whoāve hit their eye and within an afternoon itās ballooned up.
The purple around your eye is the most suspicious part. Blood vessels donāt really adhere to one singular colour. There are yellows, reds, violets, and finally, purples. Your black eye looks like a very bad make up job.
You claim that the police got DNA from the headbutt to your nose. Iām not well versed in the practise of forensics, and I bet not a lot of people on Tumblr are, but a few things immediately stand out from your story:
Your nose (and in extension, your face) goes through a lot of contaminates every day. Your face is exposed to the elements. Now, say you did have DNA on your face, whoās to say that wouldnāt be rubbed off by the rain? Or the wind? Or when you take off your clothes? How much DNA can you REALLY swab from a headbutt? Donāt you wear make up? Wouldnāt that contaminate it?
Why are the police getting a DNA sample if there was a witness right there? Surely a witness is enough to convict this guy? DNA samples are also really expensive, and take a lot of time! Why would they use on you when there are rape cases, murder cases, etc.
If you got hit in the nose, and this is my main point, wouldnāt you touch where youād been hit, and therefore rub the DNA away? I donāt know about you but if I got hit, I would touch where I got hit to protect it. Itās a natural instinct.
Looking at your previous photos, the most jarring thing occurs.
The top photo is taken merely FIVE DAYS after your broken nose post. Now, Iām pretty sure youāre not Wolverine, and you canāt heal a broken nose within five days.
As you can see, Iāve placed the broken nose picture over a recent one, and there is honestly no difference in your nose.
For something so prominent, it looks exactly the same. Where are the bandages? Where are the plasters? Youāve apparently broken your nose! Whereās the medical attention?Ā
I donāt like the look of your court letter.
Why is such a serious document scrunched up so much? Thatās a legal document that you need to keep hold of in your records, why does it look like youāve ran it through your pocket a hundred and fifty times?
Thereās also no official seal, and no signature on the document, which meansā¦
Anyone couldāve written this.
Fire up Microsoft Word, select Helvetica, and off we goā¦
I understand you live in Weston Super Mare, and I know itās a rough area, but stillā¦
Youāve linked newspaper articles that are related to you.
But, why are the police appealing for witnesses? If they have his DNA, if the woman in question was right there, if you were right there, they have enough to convict him. Thatās two witnesses and straight up DNA evidence, right?
Then again, the newspapers youāre in arenāt exactly the BBC. You can submit stories to them with little to no evidence.
After talking to my medical student friend, she has the following to say on your āinjuryā. Please bear in mind that sheās going to become a doctor one day and has far more training that you and I.
Me: Is that a real black eye?
Her: No, not at all! It would be swollen. Not as even in colour, they start out red. Her nose is def not broken, sheād probably have two black eyes if it was. Bruises start red because itās blood pooling, then as the iron in the blood changes it turn bluish black, then green, then yellow āØand not all at the same time - you get varying stages of colour. She wouldnāt even be able to open her eyes if someone headbutted her and broke her nose.
So, there we go. Someone who will one day look after us all, and reads medical books has deemed this a fake injury, nice one.
But letās move on from what is, or what isnāt and onto the post itself.
Look, I get it. Youāre a feminist, you want to fight for womanās rights, you want to take down us men because we rule the world or whatever, but your post reeks of āWomen are weak, I just stood up for a woman! Iām a woman! I fight! Men shouldnāt hit women! I sacrificed my body to prove a point!ā
Hereās a much better message you could send to the world:
āHow about no one hits anyone?ā
Itās all well and good saying women shouldnāt hit men, but if Tumblr has taught me anything itās that gender is entirely fluid and therefore the bodies we find ourselves in may not be the ones that we wanted, and as a consequence, a woman hitting a man may actually be a woman identifying as a man hitting a man and now weāre onto a huge debate onto who is what in what body doing what with who, but let me focus:
This story is false. The injury isnāt real. Iām highly doubtful of the events in question, and even if they did occur, screwing up your court letter and lying about what the police can do is not the way to make a name for yourself.
Surely preaching equality through, āCan we all just not hit each other?ā Rather than, āMen are pigs and they hit women!ā would be a better way to go, but then again, you did put make up on your face and fabricate a whole storyā¦
