Different causes inspire different people to write donation checks. For some, it’s a political candidate who promises to change the status quo. For others, it’s a charity organization that’s helping the least among us. And for yet others, it’s a woman who claims that a perfect stranger splashed her face with corrosive acid and then took off. If you are in the latter category, you’ll soon be getting your donation back.Bethany Storro, the now infamous and severely disturbed Vancouver woman who made up a story about an imaginary black woman who doused her face with acid, then disappeared, will see the $28,000 raised in her name go back to the people who donated it to her. KATU reports Tuesday that Riverview Community Bank, which set up the donation account after the hoax was reported in August, agreed to give back the money.Before the tale was exposed as such, Storro apparently managed to spend about $1,500 of her haul on nice dinners with her parents, some clothes for herself and an laser facial peel (wait, didn’t the drain cleaner she rubbed on her face peel it enough?).Whatever the case, the woman won’t have a nest egg to look forward to when she gets out of the mental institution she was ordered to live in while she awaits a trial for fraud.
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