Mickey - Did you check out the link heric posted 'way back when? I didn't say Fox "invented" the story - they repeated and blew-up what was (apparently) already an exaggerated, slanted, misleading version of the incident that appeared on an apparently questionable web-site. I'm not going to go through the three different accounts of this incident item by item to point out all the differences; you can do it: look at the version in your first post, check out the linked article, look at the latest version you posted, and compare them all. And then consider the background that Charley Noble has added.

Btw, even the version from UPI is contradictory. It opens with the white student having "tossed" a ham steak onto a table, later it has him having "placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table". One suggests a kind of contemptuous aggression, the other suggests something which could have been innocuous, even polite. One suggests an action which could have been on the spur of the moment, the other suggests an action which is much more deliberate. Which was it? Who knows? I sure as hell don't.