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Police reportedly probe Stephen Hawking assaults
Reuters
| January 19, 2004
Posted on 01/18/2004 6:44:23 PM PST by HAL9000
LONDON (Reuters) - Police are investigating a series of alleged mysterious assaults on disabled top scientist Stephen Hawking, the Daily Mirror has reported. The paper said on Monday detectives wanted to question Hawking, a Cambridge University professor and author of the best selling "A Brief History of Time", about a number of minor injuries he had recently suffered.
"The family are worried sick. They've been suspicious for some time that someone has been harming Stephen," an unnamed source told the paper.
A spokesman for Cambridgeshire police said he could neither confirm or deny the Mirror story.
The world famous physicist is confined to a wheelchair after contracting motor neurone disease, a muscle-wasting condition, while at university. He can only speak through a computerised voice synthesiser.
Hawking, 62, achieved international prominence in 1988 with "A Brief History of Time" which examined the origin of the universe.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: hawking; physicist; physics; stephenhawking
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:44:23 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
What the heck?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:45:08 PM PST
by
visualops
To: Physicist; RadioAstronomer; longshadow; VadeRetro; Junior
Ping.
To: HAL9000
not that much info
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:46:06 PM PST
by
cyborg
(feed marmite to the prisoners and they'll never go there again)
To: HAL9000
Some problem establishing a timeline?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:46:30 PM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: HAL9000
How sick is this?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:46:36 PM PST
by
Vermonter
To: HAL9000
I wonder if that's the guy who wrote "A Brief History of Time"?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:48:06 PM PST
by
kingu
(Remember: Politicians and members of the press are going to read what you write today.)
To: HAL9000
If someone has been harming Stephen Hawking, that scumbucket needs to have their ass kicked!!!
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:49:26 PM PST
by
Momaw Nadon
(Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
To: PatrickHenry
mysterious assaults What kind of sick animal assaults a disabled person?
To: HAL9000
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:49:37 PM PST
by
smith288
(Secret member of the VRWC elite forces)
To: HAL9000
Sounds like time travellers openin' a can of whoop ass because he can't keep his yap shut...
To: HAL9000
This is a bizarre story and many details are missing. What makes them think this scientist has suffered injuries and if he has, why hasn't be been protected? Hope to hear more on this story...
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:53:18 PM PST
by
Peach
(The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: HAL9000
Has he been questioning General Clark's patriotism again?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:54:42 PM PST
by
reed_inthe_wind
(I reprogrammed my computer to think existentially, I get the same results only slower)
To: HAL9000
"Police reportedly probe Stephen Hawking assaults"
They need to track down this Hawking guy and put him behind bars where he belongs!
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:54:44 PM PST
by
zook
To: Vermonter
Last time I saw him speak, he was like a crab in a cage, speaking through a voice reproduction device, I wish I had his mind.
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:55:29 PM PST
by
Little Bill
(The pain of being a Red Sox Fan.)
To: HAL9000
Is Mr. Hawking independent enough, with his severe disabilities, to spend much time alone? I know he has quite a fancy chair that he spends time in, and can get around in, but how much and how far?
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:55:53 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Send a message to the Democrat traitors--ROCKEFELLER MUST RESIGN!)
To: billorites
Some problem establishing a timeline?LOL
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:56:03 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm *NOT* always *CRANKY.*)
To: HAL9000
Very Strange
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:56:29 PM PST
by
nuconvert
( "It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.")
To: HAL9000
Maybe somebody is blackmailing Hawking, threatening to reveal his identity as a cat burglar.
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:56:52 PM PST
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: kingu
In believe there was a brief reference to that some where in the article... I can't remember though.
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posted on
01/18/2004 6:56:57 PM PST
by
Stars N Stripes
(My baloney has a first name, it's h o m e r, my baloney has a second name it's h o m e r .......)
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