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Oklahoma Woman Is Rammed By Minivan Because She Looks Like Casey Anthony (UPDATE: Or Did She?)

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And here we thought it was only a problem to have the name “Casey Anthony.” Sammay Blackwell, a 26-year-old Oklahoma woman was nearly killed last week after a crazed convenience store customer confused her with everyone’s favorite TV star (and acquitted murderer) Casey Anthony. Pretty, young brunettes out there, now might be a time to buy some hair dye. (UPDATE at bottom)

Blackwell was at her job at a convenience store when a woman, Shireen Nalley, entered and began eyeing her suspiciously. Nalley then paid and left. However, when Blackwell tried to go home that night, she found Nalley waiting for her in the parking lot. Blackwell got in her car to drive away but Nalley chased after her, eventually ramming her car twice and causing it to flip two and a half times.

Oklahoma’s KWTV has more:

“Police chased Nalley for a while and finally arrested her for assault and battery with a deadly weapon. Nalley told police she was ‘trying to save the children.’

‘She said that I was trying to hurt babies, I was killing babies and she was going to stop it before it happened again,’ Blackwell recalled. ‘She could have taken me away from my family, my daughter.’”

Well, it’s an easy mistake to make. Blackwell does kind of look like Anthony. Sure, Anthony lived in Florida and not Oklahoma. Sure, she didn’t work in a convenience store. And, sure, she is still, y’know, in jail, but whatever.

Hmmm, it’s times like these that I kind of wish every news outlet in the country didn’t spend the past few months talking about how this women was “definitely guilty” and then the past two weeks screaming about how “Caylee didn’t get justice.” Oh well, at least everyone got good ratings, right?

So, good luck, America’s brunettes! I wish you the best and hope no one murders you! At the very least I hope, if they do, someone else is able to use your death to win their hour in all key demographics that night. At least then you won’t have died in vain.

UPDATE: Or maybe we can all hold our righteous indignation. TMZ is reporting the story is false and that the attack had nothing to do with Anthony. Still, watching the video below, it definitely seems like that’s what Blackwell and her mother are saying. Was this some kind of ingenious editing job on behalf of KWTV? Either way, we can all be kind of disgusted with the news media right now.

Watch the news report from KWTV below:

(h/t Reddit)

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  • Just4thefax

    Fact: Lefty loonies are out in Oklahoma as well. Wow they are popping out all over! Good thing the hate guns right!

  • errxn

    Ms. Blackwell should send her hospital and car repair bills to Nancy Grace.

  • Steve_27

    I appreciate her strong feeling towards this whole mess but she should at least know if the target of her rage is still in jail or not. Holy crap.

  • http://justplaythegame.us JustPlayTheGame

    Must be a daily Nancy Grace viewer..But surely, these rant tv shos don’t make crazies act..umm crazy…

  • http://justplaythegame.us JustPlayTheGame

    errxn said:
    Ms. Blackwell should send her hospital and car repair bills to Nancy Grace.

    I believe if found this woman was a daily viewer..Blckwell would then have a good case.. jus’sayin

  • Thelonious Funk

    If someone really hates Sammay Blackwell, I wonder if they would accidentally try to hurt Casey Anthony.

  • Nature Freak

    Shireen Nalley appeared to be “severely impaired on an unknown drug,” police say.

    I suspect Shireen was “banging” bigger rocks than even Charlie Sheen is capable of. If it makes Sammay Blackwell feel better, I doubt Shireen could tell the difference between Casey Anthony and Don Rickles.

  • cmdrgmh

    Good Job HLN and the Nancy Grace Crew. Are you Fracking Happy Now, you bastards.

  • 2012freedom

    cmdrgmh said:
    Good Job HLN and the Nancy Grace Crew. Are you Fracking Happy Now, you bastards.

    Let me know what that comes out as proof and I will support your comment. Until then you are just pissing up a rope. People can be stupid all on their own. Most don’t need someone else to help them.

  • BoomShakalaka

    What a crazy,crazy beotch……I’m sure Evil Beotch is proud right now….

  • BoomShakalaka

    Steve_27 said:
    I appreciate her strong feeling towards this whole mess but she should at least know if the target of her rage is still in jail or not. Holy crap.

    So you appreciate attempted murder on a woman declared innocent in a court of law huh…wow…remind me to not respect you ever again dude…thanks dumbass.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lars-Svensen/100001028197161 Lars Svensen

    The devil is dancing with Nancy Grace tonight! Her demented rants have produced the desired result. Thank God, Mrs. Blackwell wasn’t seriously hurt. Can her attack be described as an attempted lynching? Can she sue HLN?

  • Steve_27

    BoomShakalaka said:
    So you appreciate attempted murder on a woman declared innocent in a court of law huh…wow…remind me to not respect you ever again dude…thanks dumbass.

    No, I only meant I understand why she may have been so mad at seeing a baby killer walk free. Never implied she should try and kill her or that it would the right thing to do. And was mostly just goofing on how Casey couldn’t have been Sammay because she is still in jail.

    No need to apologize for calling me names while misunderstanding my post. I think your an assh@le anyway.

  • Steve_27

    errxn said:
    Ms. Blackwell should send her hospital and car repair bills to Nancy Grace.

    JustPlayTheGame said:
    Must be a daily Nancy Grace viewer..But surely, these rant tv shos don’t make crazies act..umm crazy…

    cmdrgmh said:
    Good Job HLN and the Nancy Grace Crew. Are you Fracking Happy Now, you bastards.

    BoomShakalaka said:
    What a crazy,crazy beotch……I’m sure Evil Beotch is proud right now….

    If I am to understand you guys correctly, you are implying that the universal rage that Casey most likely killed her kid and beat the rap is Nancy Grace’s fault? I think she killed her kid and beat the rap and haven’t seen or heard Grace EVER! If this is the case, well you guys are just complete morons. It’s actually quite amazing.

  • 2012freedom

    Lars Svensen said:
    The devil is dancing with Nancy Grace tonight! Her demented rants have produced the desired result.

    Did I miss the part about the crazy lady having a “I love Nancy Grace” bumper sticker?

  • Nationman

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Lefty loonies are out in Oklahoma as well. Wow they are popping out all over! Good thing the hate guns right!

    except oklahoma votes overwhelmingly republican! lololololol

  • Nationman

    Steve_27 said:
    If I am to understand you guys correctly, you are implying that the universal rage that Casey most likely killed her kid and beat the rap is Nancy Grace’s fault? I think she killed her kid and beat the rap and haven’t seen or heard Grace EVER! If this is the case, well you guys are just complete morons. It’s actually quite amazing.

    I think what’s understood is how much money the entertainment news media industry made off of this case. Why was it being covered in the first place? there are definitely cases that involve this kind of thing but we were made aware of it because the media was allowed into the courtroom. People are going to say i’m pulling the race card in this instance but I honestly don’t think they would’ve covered it had casey anthony and/or her child been nonwhite.

  • huntingtonbeachboy

    The news report calls its ” Mistaken Identity ” . Its called “really stupid person” who should be locked up.

  • david r

    Hmmm, it’s times like these that I kind of wish every news outlet in the country didn’t spend the past few months talking about how this women was “definitely guilty” and then the past two weeks screaming about how “Caylee didn’t get justice.” Oh well, at least everyone got good ratings, right?

    No way any of this gets laid off on Nancy Grace. The woman sounds like the product of very poor parenting, or she is non compos mentis. I blame Obama. He is as much to blame as Nancy Grace. Better yet, I blame Bush. That one gets little push back on this site.

  • timcajun

    Just4thefax says:
    Fact: Lefty loonies are out in Oklahoma as well. Wow they are popping out all over! Good thing the hate guns right!
    …………………………………..
    Fact: your hate can’t be controled! True “tea” scum spew! I don’t know this women was a rightwing zealot, filled with “tea” hate and fake moral values! How would you know if she leaned left?

  • 2012freedom

    david r said:
    No way any of this gets laid off on Nancy Grace. The woman sounds like the product of very poor parenting, or she is non compos mentis. I blame Obama. He is as much to blame as Nancy Grace. Better yet, I blame Bush. That one gets little push back on this site.

    At least more people know who Bush is. LOL.

  • stephenpyle

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Lefty loonies are out in Oklahoma as well. Wow they are popping out all over! Good thing the hate guns right!

    Sorry, I think I’m the only “lefty loonie” in Oklahoma. I can’t remember a woman that females have despised more than Casey Anthony. Ever.

  • ProudCanadian

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: Lefty loonies are out in Oklahoma as well. Wow they are popping out all over! Good thing the hate guns right!

    You truly are the biggest moron on this site, and that’s saying a lot. What does this have to do with her political affiliation, which isn’t mentioned? Not everything is politically motivated, you stupid tool.

  • Steve_27

    Nationman said:
    I think what’s understood is how much money the entertainment news media industry made off of this case. Why was it being covered in the first place? there are definitely cases that involve this kind of thing but we were made aware of it because the media was allowed into the courtroom. People are going to say i’m pulling the race card in this instance but I honestly don’t think they would’ve covered it had casey anthony and/or her child been nonwhite.

    It’s been like that forever. Some cases get covered, some dont. I used to work the streets and coudn’t believe how some of the stuff I came across didn’t even get a mention on the news. It’s a mistake to think too much into it. There’s simply that much evil going on out there, some will get picked up, some wont.

  • Steve_27

    timcajun said:
    Just4thefax says:Fact: Lefty loonies are out in Oklahoma as well. Wow they are popping out all over! Good thing the hate guns right!…………………………………..Fact: your hate can’t be controled! True “tea” scum spew! I don’t know this women was a rightwing zealot, filled with “tea” hate and fake moral values! How would you know if she leaned left?

    I didn’t agree with that comment either but it’s got nothing to do with a Tea Party, slow down there guy.

  • CRW

    It’s idiots like this who make the rest of us vigilantes look bad.

  • 2012freedom

    ProudCanadian said:
    You truly are the biggest moron on this site, and that’s saying a lot.

    I’m just curious; are you not allowed on Canadian websites? There is a really good one called Canada Free Press. You might learn something if you head on over there.

  • Nature Freak

    This article has nothing to do with Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, or Conservatives.

    Shireen Nalley is beyond labels. I doubt this lady is ever coming back to reality.

  • moriarty70

    2012freedom said:
    I’m just curious; are you not allowed on Canadian websites? There is a really good one called Canada Free Press. You might learn something if you head on over there.

    You mean the site that barely talks about Canadian media/politics and current features an article on their front page that has Obama dressed as Hitler and implies that he’ll use the News Corp. hacking issue to take absolute power? Somehow they paint News Corp as the only thing keeping the Dems from becoming the Thrid Reich.

    You know what, I did learn something… We’ve got the same brand of paranoid crazy up here in Canada as you have in the States.

    Here’s the story for reference: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/38477

  • MerryMarjie

    I’m really beginning to fear for the sanity of America when incidents like this occur. Was this just a drug-addled happening or did the woman really think Casey Anthony is alive and well and living in Oklahoma? When you read opinions on the Internet in which every other word is misspelled, when coherency and logical thought are superseded by repetition of comments delivered by TV and radio blowhards, when no independent research is done on outrageous statements, you begin to think there are way more morons in the country than had been assumed. Critical thinking should be taught in school instead of the incessant and pointless testing, testing, testing. Young people today know how to take multiple choice quizzes but can’t venture a guess at how investigation plus facts equal truth. Life is not a series of A-B-C-D choices, sometimes you have to THINK.

  • timcajun

    Steve_27 says:

    I didn’t agree with that comment either but it’s got nothing to do with a Tea Party, slow down there guy.
    …………………………………………………
    I don’t get the slow down after what that moron said, but you’re right it doesn’t have anything to do with the tea party, “as I already said”! Lets tell the right person to slow down!

  • errxn

    Steve_27 said:
    If I am to understand you guys correctly, you are implying that the universal rage that Casey most likely killed her kid and beat the rap is Nancy Grace’s fault? I think she killed her kid and beat the rap and haven’t seen or heard Grace EVER! If this is the case, well you guys are just complete morons. It’s actually quite amazing.

    Why don’t you just go ahead and throw Jon Bershad in there as well, since you obviously missed the entire end of the article? And go find a f$cking sense of humor while you’re at it, douchebag.

  • MrTPar_taY

    She’s like a Republican being attacked by the Obama goons!

  • 2012freedom

    moriarty70 said:
    You know what, I did learn something… We’ve got the same brand of paranoid crazy up here in Canada as you have in the States.

    Funny, I was thinking the same thing about Canada.

  • WillP

    What a complete moron. So somehow Casey Anthony was just acquitted for murder in Florida, but she somehow immediately managed to start working at a convenience store in Oklahoma. You have to believe the attacker has mental health problems.

  • BoomShakalaka

    Steve_27 said:
    No, I only meant I understand why she may have been so mad at seeing a baby killer walk free. Never implied she should try and kill her or that it would the right thing to do. And was mostly just goofing on how Casey couldn’t have been Sammay because she is still in jail.

    No need to apologize for calling me names while misunderstanding my post. I think your an assh@le anyway.

    How the f*** do you know if she’s a “baby killer” anyway, you twit?

    Oh right….Nancy told you huh?…..

    Good thing you don’t want me to apologize dude, cause I sure as hell don’t intend to.
    You know exactly what you meant when you said you ” appreciate her strong feeling towards this whole mess but she should at least know if the target of her rage is still in jail or not.”

    Don’t BS me man…we both know what you meant, and you’re the assh@le…
    I may be a clown,but at least I got common sense,which doesn’t seem to be your case.
    Dumbass vigilante redneck….you got nothing,you’re not even honest enough to admit it.
    Hell with you.

  • Simba

    MerryMarjie said:
    I’m really beginning to fear for the sanity of America when incidents like this occur. Was this just a drug-addled happening or did the woman really think Casey Anthony is alive and well and living in Oklahoma? When you read opinions on the Internet in which every other word is misspelled, when coherency and logical thought are superseded by repetition of comments delivered by TV and radio blowhards, when no independent research is done on outrageous statements, you begin to think there are way more morons in the country than had been assumed. Critical thinking should be taught in school instead of the incessant and pointless testing, testing, testing. Young people today know how to take multiple choice quizzes but can’t venture a guess at how investigation plus facts equal truth. Life is not a series of A-B-C-D choices, sometimes you have to THINK.

    I agree. I have long thought that the American public, (honestly, you can say the same about most of the population worldwide), has become a bunch of know-it-all know-nothings.

    Unfortunately, for Americans, the majority of our teachers, backed by the unions, are mostly concerned about their benefits packages, pay scales, and tenure. The fact that they have managed to dumb down the population doesn’t matter to them at all. They are more interested in “Social Issues” classroom instructions than they are about academics. Ask any high school student a series of History questions, heck, ask college students History questions, they fail. Give them a math question, and they have to get out a calculator to solve it. They cannot make change when serving you, until the cash register computer screen tells them how much to give you. Spelling, fuhgetaboutit… Grammar, what is that? We don’t need no stinking grammar.

    Thank the teachers/politicians/unions for the demise of the intellect of our citizens.

    As for this woman, Nalley, she is a lunatic. She will get off, temporary insanity plea forthcoming.

  • Obeezy

    As ,much as i despise Nancy Grace, This woman was a nut plain and simple. And as much as it pains me to say it.. Blaming Grace, they vulgar harpy she is, is just like the people that blamed Sarah Plain for what happened in Arizona…. Some people are just trash

  • redleaf

    What this story needs is a good old phone hacking.
    RUPERT! GET IN THERE AND TAP THOSE PHONES!
    YOU’LL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS!

  • Spike1

    The media should be held responsible for any injury or damage to anyone or their property. They caused the problem and they should be liable. Freedom of the press only goes so far, when it causes innocent people to be attacked the media should be responsible for all damages. The media has exploited the story and made money on someones elses tragedy.

  • LAPhil

    Lars Svensen said:
    The devil is dancing with Nancy Grace tonight! Her demented rants have produced the desired result. Thank God, Mrs. Blackwell wasn’t seriously hurt. Can her attack be described as an attempted lynching? Can she sue HLN?

    Sure, blame Nancy Grace. Lars, you are without a doubt the most consistently stupid poster I’ve ever seen.

  • LAPhil

    Spike1 said:
    The media should be held responsible for any injury or damage to anyone or their property. They caused the problem and they should be liable. Freedom of the press only goes so far, when it causes innocent people to be attacked the media should be responsible for all damages. The media has exploited the story and made money on someones elses tragedy.

    It’s not the fault of the media. The person who did this was either stupid or insane or possibly both. You can’t prevent this by cracking down on media coverage.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=612587511 Stephen L.Allen

    Well you know all us whiteys look alike.

  • Anonymous

    Um, is there a reason behind this? You have the original story, and the, I’m assuming, proof the story was bogus. Why would you bother posting news about nothing?

  • http://www.facebook.com/chrisgreene19 Chris Greene

    @Jayson2 – They went back and edited the story (UPDATE:) after they found out that the story was bogus.  And actually, TMZ is wrong – the police report DID say that she was attacked because of that, and there’s even video footage of her mother saying that.

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