Astronaut Arrested for Attempted Kidnapping

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i think she pretty much ruined her career. she has kids, and she likely ruined her marriage and hurt her kids.
 
Sigh. You just know that Jay Leno and the other late-night comedians are going to get a lot of mileage out of this one.
 
Hmmm… the Tonya Harding of space?

Well let’s face it:

A. Strapping yourself to a 6 story tank of rocket fuel and being hurled into orbit with nothing but bathroom tiles and tin foil built by the lowest bidder between you and hard vacuum, cosmic rays, and temperature swings of hundreds of degrees does not immediately suggest mental stability to me.

B. The heart and the genitals outvote the brain two to one on most days.

C. It’s about time we got a little spice to our space program. Enough of these clean-living, role model types. In the 60’s Shatner wrestled greened skinned alien women and we went to the moon…coincidence? I don’t think so. Maybe we could get “Big Brother: ISS” or “Survivor: Mars” I hate to see it come to this but if it gets the tax payers interested in space again and gets the budget flowing…… sometimes a geek’s gotta do what a geek’s gotta do. 😉

Seriously though a real tragedy for all involved.

If only it weren’t so funny.
 
did i hear right that she has just been charged with attempted murder?:eek: thought i just heard it on CCN??:eek:
 
Yes. I think that is one of these cases where the police just throw the book at someone. Remember Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos nuclear scientist? They charged him with everything and had him in solitary confinement for nine months. Then the government’s case totally fell apart.

I have begun to think that in many “crimes” the real problems are mental health ones. But our society is in the dark ages on how to deal with them. In that sense we are NOT a very Christian nation.
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mozier said:
Sigh. You just know that Jay Leno and the other late-night comedians are going to get a lot of mileage out of this one.
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Yep:thumbsup: “Houston, we have a problem.” Jay Leno
 
steveandersen said:
C. It’s about time we got a little spice to our space program. Enough of these clean-living, role model types.
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I don’t know that this type of publicity is gonna do an awful lot of good for the Space Station program though :nope:

I agree there are some really funny aspects. Just the idea that she would drive 1,000 miles non-stop across country to get revenge on someone - surely since the woman was a co-worker she’d be back in Houston sometime? Could she really not wait?
 
I am very concerned that Lisa Nowak is running around a free woman. I think she is a danger to herself and others, and desperately needs to be in a mental hospital.

A $25,000 bond is rather light for this.

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ElaineMomNC said:
I am very concerned that Lisa Nowak is running around a free woman. I think she is a danger to herself and others, and desperately needs to be in a mental hospital.

A $25,000 bond is rather light for this.

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You are so right about the need for her to be in a mental hospital. I don’t think she is a threat to anyone but herself. The other woman lives in Florida and has a restraining order and Capt. Nowak has one of those court mandated tracking devices on her ankle. The charge of attempted murder may be a real stretch. Perhaps even the attempted kidnapping. We put so many things in the law enforcement arena that should be mental cases. Mental patients can be separated from society to protect people. Sadly, in most cases the sick person is so poor that they just get run through the court system and sent to prison.
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ElaineMomNC said:
I am very concerned that Lisa Nowak is running around a free woman. I think she is a danger to herself and others, and desperately needs to be in a mental hospital.

A $25,000 bond is rather light for this.

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She’s not ‘running around’ - she is fitted with a GPS tracking device, her whereabouts are known at all times. There is no indication that she is a danger to anyone apart from her intended victim, who is presumably, along with Nowak herself, under police protection/surveillance.
 
I ran into this article off the Drudge Report web site.

apnews.myway.com/article/20070207/D8N566SG1.html

At the end it says, "Jon Clark expressed hope that Americans would empathize with Nowak, rather than condemning her. “Obviously, she had some things that didn’t go well,” he said. “Any of us could be there. All of us have a dark side.”’

!!!?? Why do people say this? It’s one thing to sympathize and empathize. Its another to excuse, and say we could all do the same thing. I sure hope it is not true that any of us could be there. Not me. Isn’t this what true character is all about? This career must take an extremely ambitious, competitive character, and the effort must be consuming, and take a heavy toll all around, but still, wouldn’t most of us stop short of kidnapping or murder??!! I think most of us would have stopped short long ago, and chose the husband and three kids over space.

Here’s another thought I heard on talk radio this week. Is this the desctruction of one of America’s last pure role models - the astronaut? Is it only a matter of time before all role models are torn down by the media? Is the “role model” idea a thing of the past?
 
Painter1 said:
Here’s another thought I heard on talk radio this week. Is this the desctruction of one of America’s last pure role models - the astronaut? Is it only a matter of time before all role models are torn down by the media? Is the “role model” idea a thing of the past?
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The media didn’t “tear her down”, she tore herself down.
 
LilyM said:
She’s not ‘running around’ - she is fitted with a GPS tracking device, her whereabouts are known at all times. There is no indication that she is a danger to anyone apart from her intended victim, who is presumably, along with Nowak herself, under police protection/surveillance.
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Besides the fact that the media are camped out on her front lawn right now and she and her family are inside with all the blinds drawn. I doubt she’ll be “running” anywhere for a while.

If she’s having emotional or mental problems, frankly I’d think the media are making them worse right this very moment.
 
Jake_Connor said:
The media didn’t “tear her down”, she tore herself down.
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Well, here behavior by itself destroyed her career, plus the fact that it would be reported nationally because she is a public figure. But how big a story is it? It’s getting as much or more airtime as the day’s events in Iraq.

Check out this from Steven Dubner’s Freakonomics blog.
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I realize the story represents a sort of perfect storm of media stickiness — a female perp *and *a female victim, lust, revenge, NASA, pepper spray, and of course the *diaper *– but I have to confess that I am overwhelmed that this has become such a round-the-clock story. Who cares, and why? They were even talking about the story on the two ESPN shows I saw pieces of last night (SportsCenter and Pardon the Interruption); in each case, the anchors sheepishly acknowledged that the story had zero to do with sports but … they simply couldn’t resist. But why? Forgive me if I’ve got a thick skull on this one, but can anyone explain why this story has blown up so big and so fast?
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Some of the responses he got were interesting, everything from “slow news day” to “we love to tear down our heroes to make ourselves feel bigger.”
 
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