This is truly a strange and mysterious story. It seems that Navy SEAL Chris Heben was somehow shot by someone. But, who did it? Mr. Heben doesn't seem to know, so he has decided to make up stories about it. First, he said it was three "black racist men" who shot him. That story has not worked out for him, so now he says it's folks trying to avenge the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Ohio police have charged Mr Heben with providing false information to the police.
From The New Civil Rights Movement:
FOX News called him a hero, but former Navy Seal Chris Heben has been charged with falsifying a report that racist black men shot him.
Chris Heben is a former Navy Seal who appears to be having a difficult time letting go of his glory days in the service. He sells Seal Team gear, offers security services and gives motivational speeches encouraging people to "dominate". I'm not crazy about the domination theme, I'm more of a "share the land" girl myself, but hey, everybody has to make a living, and he's doing what he loves. I respect that.
Heben wows them at Tea Party gatherings and makes regular appearances on Fox News giving the "Navy Seal Perspective". He thinks Hillary is responsible for Benghazi; we should have let P.O.W. Bowe Bergdahl rot; and he has a photo of President Obama (right) surrounded my Mideastern terrorists on his Facebook page.
Heben told Bath County, Ohio, police that he was out to do a little light shopping when he exchanged angry words with three black men who almost hit him in the parking lot of a Mustard Seed grocery store. He claims one of the men shouted, "You got a big mouth white boy. You need to learn some fucking respect," and then shot him in the stomach.
In Chris Heben's version of this story, he did a "physical assessment" and decided he was "still functioning," so instead of calling for help, he staunched the bleeding so he could chase his assailants' fancy gray sports car through the streets of Bath County, until he began losing consciousness. At that point, he pulled into a fire station, and was transported to the hospital.
The story made Heben an instant celebrity with the Fox News crowd, who called the attack a "racial hate crime" and elevated Heben to hero status. But while he made the rounds of the right-wing news shows (and CNN) telling his glory tale about how a car full of racist black men shot him, the police were investigating his story. Last week they charged Chris Heben with making a false police report and obstruction of justice.
Interestingly, Heben seems to have anticipated that the racist black shooter story wasn't going to hold up. He was going to need another explanation. So Heben confided to World Net Daily that, upon reflection, he now thinks the attack was Al Queda revenging the death of Bin Laden by targeting a Navy SEAL.
Of course there is still an unsolved mystery. Who shot Chris Heben? Was it an accident? Was it self-inflicted for the sake of publicity? Was it by someone Heben is trying to keep out of trouble? Or was he just an ordinary crime victim who couldn't admit all his guns and training didn't help him?
And, also
Raw Story
What are your thoughts about what happened?
UPDATE:
Here's a video of Mr Heben.