Space - The Romantic Frontier?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Either it looked like a real gun, or she was going to rely on the "lodging under the skin and causing a nasty infection!" effect...

Man, what happens when people who are old enough to know better, not too young to care -- and still don't...

[monster]

When she found out that Shipman was flying to Orlando from Houston, Nowak decided to confront her, according to the arrest affidavit. Nowak raced from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to urinate, authorities said.

During a check of the parking lot, an officer followed Nowak and watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. They 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.

Inside Nowak's vehicle, which was parked at a nearby motel, authorities uncovered a pepper spray package, an unused BB-gun cartridge, latex gloves and e-mails between Shipman and Oefelein. They also found a letter "that indicated how much Mrs. Nowak loved Mr. Oefelein," an opened package for a buck knife, Shipman's home address and hand written directions to the address, the arrest affidavit said.

So on the one hand she made a spur-of-the moment decision to "race" to Orlando, time being so tight that she didn't have time to stop and pee, and yet on the other hand she had time to get all that junk together and formulate some sort of plan -including the "oh yes it'll save time if I wear a diaper, now where did I put them" part of the scheme.

Could she have had all the stuff and the plan ready and was just waiting for an opportunity?

Or is she just completely and uttely off her rocker? In which case charges should be level at the shrinks who OK the astronauts. One rarely suddenly goes this nuts -it takes time.

Strange days.

[Hippikos]

Looking at her pic and the story, it looks like the lady is borderline maybe psychotic and for sure in dire need of medication and psychiatric treatment. A very sad case for all involved.

[Trilby]

"You won't see me wearing diapers for love" would be a great sig.

I'm gonna yoink it.

Death by BB gun would sucketh much!

[glatt]

So if you were her, what's next? You've got the ankle bracelet, but you are free. Your husband(?) comes to pick you up. What can you possibly say at that point to him? If you were her husband, would you stand by your partner? Or kick her out of the house? If you were her, would you try to move forward or just kill yourself? Do you show up at work like nothing had happened? Will NASA put her on leave? Fire her? Find some back room job for her? She's got to know she's going to prison for some amount of time. Maybe she's hoping it will be just a couple years, and she'll come out with a shawl knitted by one of the other prisoners?

Her poor fucking family.

So many freaking questions. Inquiring minds really want to know.

[Clodfobble]

I read one article that said she and her husband were separated a few weeks before this happened.

But personally, no, I couldn't get past my spouse doing this, because if they could rationalize killing someone else who got in the way of their newfound love, I would never be able to trust that they couldn't rationalize killing me too. Either way, I bet she pleads insanity.

She lost it... people can get past it.

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