For those of you who thought the "George Zimmerman heroically saved a family from a fiery car accident" was a fraud, it turns out you were right.

Courtesy of Penigma: 

The initial report was that George Zimmerman was ‘just coincidentally’ driving by after a car accident occurred, that he leaped out of his vehicle to come to the rescue of the family of four trapped inside as the vehicle caught fire, pulling them to safety. That was followed by the claim that the family he rescued had planned a press event to thank George Zimmerman, but that they canceled due to threats from Trayvon Martin supporters. 

It appears they may have canceled the event because they did not want to be part of the fraud of making Zimmerman out to be a hero, when that story was not precisely true. 

What did occur was that an accident occurred where a car slid on it’s side into a median. People at the scene called 911, which went to the Sanford office of the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. BEFORE responding to the 911 call, News Ball.com reports that Seminole Sheriff’s Dept. Officer Patrick Rehder, a self-styled friend and supporter of Zimmerman, contacted Zimmerman by cell phone directing him to go to the accident (There is some debate about this information.) so as to appear to be a hero. News Ball.com also provides a social media screen capture of a curious statement about Rehder taking pleasure when someone gets credit for something they did not do. 

Rehder’s name appears on the accident report as the responding officer; social media shows his connection to Zimmerman. 

There were plenty of people driving by who witnessed the accident, and stopped to help the family out of the vehicle, BEFORE Zimmerman showed up, according to the 911 calls, but no ‘thank you’ press conference mentioning anyone else by name specifically was scheduled by the family, and no mention of anyone other than Zimmerman was made by the sheriff. 

Zimmerman showed up AFTER he was called by a SCSO member according to a report at News Ball.com, Zimmerman then got out of his car with a fire extinguisher (There was no fire.), and apparently left without doing anything especially heroic. You can hear the course of events here in the 911 calls; many people who were there as the accident happened stopped to get people out, and the fire and smoke problem from the calls, appeared some time after they were out of the car. As you can hear from the calls, people were out before there was a smoke or fire problem; Zimmerman did not appear to risk his life to pull anyone out of a burning car, as was claimed.

You know when this first happened my first instinct was to call bullshit on it. However I refrained from writing anything about it, because you know I did not want to the guy that ALWAYS thinks that there are conspiracies afoot. 

But as you can see my first instinct, and of course many of yours, were dead on.

I actually heard Rush Limbaugh pimp this story on his radio show and then lament the fact that the "rescued" family had  cancelled their press conference thanking Zimmerman because of threats from Trayvon Martin supporters. So that is how this is being presented to the Right Wing.

You know I have to say that the very fact that Zimmerman would participate in a stunt like this just makes him seem even more guilty in my eyes. The guy is obviously a liar, and is clearly not finished manipulating the truth even now

P.S. My hat is off to the internet sleuths who found all of this out by the way, and I suggest you follow the links and give them some well deserved traffic.