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To: HiTech RedNeck
This run-in happened years after Turing left the service, didn’t it?

Yeah, the way it was portrayed in a biopic was that a guy he effectively trolled, burgled him after the tryst.

Turing went and reported it...when buggery was still illegal.

He eventually committed suicide by spreading cyancide on an apple, climbing into bed, and biting into it.

A math professor I had said Turing was a pretty strange dude. One day during the war, Turing refused to work because he missed some sort of kids show on the Beeb. They had to get his mother to call and tell him Basil the Clown, or whomever, made it safely through that day's show.

12 posted on 04/16/2016 8:24:26 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

Some suggestion he had Asperger’s.


28 posted on 04/17/2016 2:16:12 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: Calvin Locke

The guy he had sex with not only burgled him, but also tried to blackmail him. That is why he reported the matter to the police.

Given that he cracked ENIGMA (which undoubtedly saved Britain’s ass) it’s a shame that the punishment was still either chemical castration or prison (where gays were treated like paedophiles in those days).


32 posted on 04/17/2016 7:01:08 PM PDT by Go_Trump_2016
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