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Now doubts arise over Brian Williams' story about being mugged at gunpoint in his quiet childhood suburb where kids 'walked alone at night'
Locals in Red Bank, New Jersey, are questioning the credibility of claims by Brian Williams that he was threatened at gun point in the 1970s
According to a regularly repeated Williams tale, he was selling Christmas trees as a young man when someone 'stuck a .38-caliber pistol in my face'
Residents say the claims sound unlikely as Red Bank is a quiet suburb which was very safe in the 1970s
'I find it hard to believe anyone was held up in this area in the '70s. It was very safe,' said one local
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2944887/Residents-Brian-Williams-hometown-rubbish-claims-mugged-gunpoint-quiet-New-Jersey-suburb-kids-walked-night.html#ixzz3RCnxU0d4
Kingofalldems
(38,454 posts)Anyway they could have searched police reports if they wanted to debunk this story.
What some guy says is not evidence.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)What's the frequency Kenneth?
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)Brian took the blue pill.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)And I was raped with a gun to my head.
Not going to question his story just because people think it's a quiet little suburb.
Chemisse
(30,810 posts)Everybody there was good and kind; nobody was mentally ill, there were no drug addicts, and the whole town was fenced off from the world so nobody could've driven in from out of town and scared a young boy.
I think this is called 'piling on.'