BURN NOTICE

This story is making all the rounds on the gay blogs. A University of North Carolina student, Quinn Matney, reported to police that he was attacked by a man. The man branded Quinn with some object, causing severe burns, while spewing anti-gay epithets.

Quinn managed to get a punch in and escaped. UNC is reporting this as a hate crime to the Feds.

As the freshman took a walk on South Campus at about 3 a.m. on April 4, he said he ran into an acquaintance on the Craige Residence Hall footbridge. As the two spoke, a man sitting at a nearby picnic table stood up and grabbed him by the wrist, he said.

“Here’s a taste of hell you f—-ing fag,” Matney remembered the man saying.

The man branded Matney, who is gay, on the left wrist with an unidentified object, causing third- and fourth-degree burns that damaged three nerves and a tendon, leaving the freshman with no feeling in his thumb and limited mobility in his index finger, he said. Matney said he tried to pull away — but the man didn’t let go until he received a hard punch to the face.

Matney said he then walked away quickly, trying to distance himself from the man and his two friends, who both appeared drunk...

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