Astronaut in bizarre kidnap plot in Florida courtQUOTE (Reuters)
A U.S. astronaut accused of trying to kidnap a woman she considered a rival for another astronaut's affections made her first court appearance in Florida on Tuesday. Lisa Nowak, who drove across the country on her mission wearing adult diapers so she would not have to stop to urinate, was arrested on Monday on charges including battery and attempted kidnapping, according to police in Orlando, Florida.
Pepper spray: check
Rand McNally Roadmap: check
Astronaut pants: check
Hit it.
Jimbo
Feb 6 2007, 4:15 pm
Reminds me of that old Billy Connolly sketch - these are the very fellas for me!
Johnny English
Feb 6 2007, 4:17 pm
Just wondering if
www.diapersforbonkersamericanastronauts.com is taken? Could be my next big venture on my new free website.
One small nappy for man, one big nappy for mankind.
Jimbo
Feb 6 2007, 4:20 pm
Detailed account...
NASA astronaut attempted to kidnap romantic rival in love triangle with fellow astronautQUOTE
Last summer, astronaut Lisa Nowak was soaring 220 miles above Earth, floating in the rarefied air of the international space station. The 43-year-old robotics specialist was in quite a different place Monday night: A dingy jail among suspected drug dealers and prostitutes, where she awaited a scheduled court appearance Tuesday.
Johnny English
Feb 6 2007, 4:27 pm
QUOTE
An officer reported following Nowak and watching her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. Police also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said.
Sounds like it was gonna be a fun weekend?
perdido
Feb 6 2007, 4:31 pm
Or a typical TT Tuesday.
Will you be selling that as a"Talk to a fellow astronaut about a guy" kit ?
sarabyrd
Feb 6 2007, 4:38 pm
I blame it on the lack of oxygen in the warehouse where they staged the "mission" she was supposed to have been on.
Elfenstar
Feb 7 2007, 11:25 am
Link to quote belowQUOTE
...Oefelein piloted the space shuttle Discovery in December. He has two children and began his aviation career as a teenager flying floatplanes in Alaska, according to a NASA biography. He studied electrical engineering at Oregon State University
go beavs!
Punchbear
Feb 7 2007, 11:28 am
QUOTE (sarabyrd @ Feb 6 2007, 4:38 pm)
I blame it on the lack of oxygen in the warehouse where they staged the "mission" she was supposed to have been on.
But, she
was on a mission. Only thing missing from her bag-o-tricks was a blowtorch and some lead pipes to get medieval on her rivals ass.
eurovol
Feb 7 2007, 12:04 pm
I'll bet she actually worked at the Nasa Post Office and wasn't an astronaut at all. "Bitch Went Postal" doesn't make for a good headline.
Yeti
Feb 7 2007, 12:05 pm
"Astronaut goes lunar" is better ?
Memo
Feb 7 2007, 12:54 pm
QUOTE (Jimbo @ Feb 6 2007, 4:15 pm)
Reminds me of that old Billy Connolly sketch
You mean
this?
Actually sending them into space is a good idea, it's using the NASA funds to bring them back that should be questioned.
Guess my psychopath instincts are off, but I can't imagine what she was planning to do with the 4' of rubber tubing?
A four inch folding knife and rubber tubing, diameter and length unspecified.
Some psychopath you'ld make.
NYT specified 4 feet of rubber tubing. Possible uses in murder plot still a mystery.
Keydeck
Feb 7 2007, 1:48 pm
Depending on how flexible it is you could use it to tie someones hands and feet. I read about it in "The Boys Book of Kidnapping".
Or use it siphon some fuel out of your car and set the person alight...assuming your car doesn't have one of those little restrictor things which stops you inserting the tubing.
Also useful for beating people without leaving longterm marks, depending on the type of rubber tubing.
Or so Keydeck said the last time I met him.
Moonboot
Feb 7 2007, 1:54 pm
in theory it could also be used to syphon the wee & poo mixture out of her nappies, ready for re-use.
In combination with the garbage bags and a flight suit this could be a good Fasching outfit.
parnell
Feb 7 2007, 1:58 pm
...uh did Keydeck tell u that too ?
seems to get around a lot that fella...
Tisn't the getting around that's the problem, it's the stuff he carries with him.
Katrina
Feb 7 2007, 2:01 pm
Rubber tubing is good gear, I guess, for kidnappers.
You could bury someone and use the tubing as a breathing pipe to the surface (like was the plan with that kid in Frankfurt-Niederrad, erm, yeah Jakob von Metzler? That family lived down the street from me when I lived in FFM so I remembered that). Indeed, putting a rubber pipe down someone's throat could keep an airway open if they started to panic - an entirely reasonable reaction to being kidnapped, no doubt.
Or as a feeding pipe to a crate? Or waste pipe out?
Alternatively, you can whip people with rubber pipe, that could bloody sting though.
Yes, I watch too much TV. Especially CSI.
Punchbear
Mar 3 2007, 1:11 am
Fired? How can NASA fire such a brave women? QUOTE
Nowak's dismissal did not reflect the space agency's belief in her guilt or innocence, NASA officials said. The agency said it lacked an administrative system to handle the allegations because Nowak is a naval officer on assignment to NASA, rather than a NASA civil servant.
If Nowak were a civil servant, NASA would have the choice of placing her on administrative leave, leave without pay or indefinite suspension until the charges are resolved, said NASA spokesman James Hartsfield in Houston. But because she is an officer, those options are not available.
Nowak, a Navy captain, instead will return to the military.
djcrazy
Mar 8 2007, 5:24 pm
She's been framed by the American administration because she was about to come clean on UFOs and zero-point energy fields. Zero-point energy means no more money for Mr. Texa$ Oil in the White House or his friends the House of Saud.
She's no more guilty of those charges than I am.
NASA has fired Bill Oefelein now as well. Seems his behavior instigated the madness. He was playing them both. Chatting with Nowak on a cell phone he gave her while spending the weekend with Shipman. Perhaps his dick will shrivel up and fall off now.
perdido
May 26 2007, 8:01 am
Wow. Did we really land on the moon? DW I demand an answer!
Hutcho
May 26 2007, 8:38 am
QUOTE (djcrazy @ Mar 8 2007, 6:24 pm)
She's been framed by the American administration because she was about to come clean on UFOs and zero-point energy fields. Zero-point energy means no more money for Mr. Texa$ Oil in the White House or his friends the House of Saud.
She's no more guilty of those charges than I am.
haha.. this is quality.. even taking into account its you that has said this, this is still crazy.. you truly are a nut case. If she wanted to come out about UFO's, she has the perfect chance now that the world know's who she is. Fact is, she is just a nutter than tried to kidnap someone..
Where you come up with this shit, I'll never know..
perdido
May 26 2007, 8:55 am
She was crazy?
Breaking news:
Charged Nasa woman 'had no nappy'.
QUOTE
A former US astronaut accused of trying to kidnap a love rival did not wear a nappy during her long drive to confront the other woman, her lawyer says.
The lawyer for ex-space shuttle crew member Lisa Nowak said widespread claims she had worn a nappy to avoid toilet stops were false and damaging. (...)
"It holds my client up to ridicule," Mr Lykkebak said.
"It jeopardises our ability to get a fair trial when the client is the butt of jokes."
(my emphasis, needless to say)
eurovol
Jun 29 2007, 9:39 pm
Didn't she already confess to wearing a diaper? I don't get it?
IIRC at the time she did. I suppose the lawyer is simply trying to make her look a bit less ridiculous - if so, he should choose his words more carefully!
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