Even Michelle Malkin is calling hoax on this one:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23...awfully-weird/
This is why one cannot get too hysterical about news reports, since so many of them turn out not to be true.
I knew it was for shit when I read the allegation that it was a black man wearing a wifebeater in 45 degree weather. No black man, sane or insane, would do that.