Astronaut in 'love kidnap plot' [With photos]

BBC ^ | 06FEB07 | BBC

[fivecatsandadog]

Police say astronaut Lisa Nowak drove 900 miles wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to go to bathroom before confronting suspected romantic rival.

now that's really sick.

This incident could be the subject of an interesting study: the effect of space travel on latent psychoses.

[dennisw]

She's not mentally ill. She's in ruv with an astronaut who has an old school crew cut like I haven't seen in years

[dennisw]

This incident could be the subject of an interesting study: the effect of space travel on latent psychoses.

Could be something in that Van Allen Belt that hit her

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

A better looking astronaut

[prairiebreeze]

mental illness. I'm wondering about substance abuse

Possibilities too.

[prairiebreeze]

Mornin' NY! As somebody else remarked, no man or woman is worth this.

[SIDENET]

She so crazy!

[familyop]

"You've come a long way baby"

Yeah, things have changed so much!


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

 Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
 Hysteric.] (Med.)
 A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
 in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
 exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
 so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
 the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
 paroxism or fits.
 [1913 Webster]
 
 Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
 the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
 and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
 throat. The affection presents the most varied
 symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
 diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
 alone. Hysteric

[mylife]

[Rte66]

Evidently it isn't. We've been on this one quite a while and it's not listed in your links:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779787/posts

[Williams]

She was smart enough to wear a disguise, bring knife, rope, pepper spray, fake rifle, rubber hose, and wear diapers to avoid stops so she wouldn't be recognized on the way.

She's smart enough to say she didn't intend to harm the other woman. It's pretty clear she intended to kill her.

[from occupied ga]

Police said Capt Nowak drove 1,000 miles (1,600km) from her home in Houston to Orlando International Airport, wearing a nappy to avoid a toilet break.

I want to know how she avoided a refueling break.

[familyop]

"Search is indeed working"

That's nice. The article posted above is a different article by a different newspaper.

[4yearlurker]

From the looks of that picture,she is definitely in outer space.

[fivecatsandadog]

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I want to know how she avoided a refueling break.

She's obviously no rocket scientist. (But she was close.)

[familyop]

News of the weird does have legs, doesn't it.

"3:57:57 AM PST · 34 replies · 942+ views"

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[familyop]

Wow. (Stats so far on the piece posted above).

"On 02/06/2007 3:57:57 AM PST · 36 replies · 1,016+ views"

[CometBaby]

A woman who is used to getting what she wants with an ego that needed feeding.

She was obviously obsessed with getting what she wanted. What I found interesting is that she categorized it as "more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship".

That is the description of a friendship, not a love affair. Sounds like a fatal attraction to me. Scary woman.

[pissant]

Not all idiots are mentally ill. Just mentally deficient.