Astronaut drives 900 miles in diapers

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An astronaut drove 900 miles and donned a disguise to confront a woman she believed was her rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot, police said. She was arrested Monday and charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts...

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.

Astronauts wear diapers during launch and re-entry.

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like to see a docudrama plz

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:26 (seventeen years ago) link

SPACE MADNESSSSSS.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

stinky

― jimbo (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like to see a docudrama plz

Directed by John Waters

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 06:56 (seventeen years ago) link

is this some weird tie-in with that billy bob thornton movie?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 08:00 (seventeen years ago) link

But I would drive 450 miles
And I would drive 450 more
Just to be the woman who drove 900 miles
while pissing in the diapers that I wore

― bobby bedelia (van dover), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow.

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.

I don't know about you guys but handwritten directions to my address an an opened package for a buck knife is kind of not what I want in other people's cars.

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like to see a docudrama plz

"Houston, We Have A Problem"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:24 (seventeen years ago) link

astronauts be crazy.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link

looks like she's still wearing the diaper here:

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/070206/480/wxs12102060221&g=events/us/020607astronautcharg;_ylt=AgHAtAT8DG6AgYbb7HX1EaxH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3bGk2OHYzBHNlYwN0bXA-

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

err, here:

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070206/capt.wxs12102060221.astronaut_arrested_wxs121.jpg?x=180&y=239&sig=KKg5iTPuEiGAZFgKhM3Jeg--

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Cringeworthy escapade.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't get the diaper. She had to stop for gas anyway, right?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Astronauts are trained to have a fallback position.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

NASA psych-evaluation tests to thread

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I noticed how they didn't mention the diaper on NPR this morning.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Attempted murder charges now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

10cc to thread

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I so wanted to start a thread on this because of the diaper thing, but I've been starting too many threads and I knew it was a matter of time, anyway.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

You could have started the thread before lurky if you were wearing diapers in order to skip bathroom breaks.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Awesome story. Imagine the brain-bending desperation of the woman with "a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags" in the back of her car and a hastily scrawled address clutched in her twitching fist. Imagine her driving 15 hours to meet her love-rival in mortal combat -- WEARING A FUCKING DIAPER SO SHE WON'T EVER HAVE TO FUCKING STOP.

Goddam. That's true grit right there. She's a goddam inspiration.

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

any predictions on what her explanation for the items in the back of the car will be? perhaps she was going to heap burning coals upon her rival's head by weatherizing her home?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

it sounds like she was going to construct a makeshift tent in which they could hash out their rivalry7

― roger goodell (gear), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG, she was just sploshing.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

she was collecting poop in the diaper to siphon into the car window of the other woman

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

pepper spray her, then poop spray

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

She had the knife, the rubber tubing, the garbage bags. Only amateur sploshers wear diapers though. Noob!

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

this is an old space camp hazing ritual

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

a $600 kegger. garbage bags for cup pickup the next morning. tubing for beer funneling fun. mallet and knife in case she needs to murder someone.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

diapers so she didn't have to stop drinking to piss constantly after "opening the flood gates"

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

the Bears could've used her at QB

― lk (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I bet her sploshing mallot was rubberised. lol!

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/portraits/astronauts/oefelein.jpg

yeah.

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

dude's been in space, wtf have you done

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://petsinuniform.com/images/pancakes.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i fuckin said yeah didnt i??

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude looks like a cross between Steve Carell and Tony Shalhoub.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

NASAMAN

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.petsinuniform.com/images/pancakes.jpg

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.petsinuniform.com/images/pancakes.jpg

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

ok now I can't read this thread either.

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha

(sorry cutty, totally didn't see yr post)

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

sigh

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.petsinuniform.com/images/pancakes.jpg

i want to do it too

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.petsinuniform.com/images/pancakes.jpg

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Pancakes aren't pets, are they?

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, where have YOU been?

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Walking his waffles.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/2233/diaperqr5.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

wow dude

― Allyzay doesnt get into the monkeys or vindications (allyzay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I have never before found syrup to be so offensive.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

better than blue 'demonstration' fluid.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I don't think so.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, not unless you're planning on eating the diaper afterwards.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Kinda puts you off blue raspberry sno-cones tho.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Speak for yourself.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

"you told me i was the only girl you'd had sex with in space! she is so dead."

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link

based on that classic mugshot, i nominate kim delaney to play her in the Lifetime made-for-tv movie

― bobby bedelia (van dover), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the blend of moral outrage and hilarious punning on the third user comment here

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Nowak intended to discuss Oefelein with Shipman and that the BB gun was going to be used to “entice” Shipman to speak with her, police said.

I want to know if "entice" was actually the word Nowark used.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't get the diaper. She had to stop for gas anyway, right?

maybe not:

http://z.about.com/d/space/1/0/T/A/colorpage11.gif

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

My fave slice of the NY Times' page 1 story:

Many inside and outside the space agency are wondering how the problems of Captain Nowak, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1985 and served in the Navy before joining National Aeronautics and Space Administration, were not detected before this. Many are also wondering whether the “Right Stuff” image of astronauts has been tarnished, or if that image somehow confused technical excellence with emotional stability.

Just conjures up several technically excellent ppl I've run across.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Remember, Nasa aren't saying she necessarily has to stop being an astronaut:

“It’s too early to speculate on what actions we’ll take, but now her status with us is unchanged,”

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

What are you doing reading the Free Press? It's awful.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Alba's preparing to emigrate to his spiritual home.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

If he was German, I could understand.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I'm not a regular reader. I was just googling astronaut diapers.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I now have a much different vision of Detroit.

x-post - And Alba.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

(and came across this story quite by chance)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://truecrimeblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/love-among-astronauts.html

This one links to a lot of information, it is such an odd story.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

There's been no mention of Lisa Nowak having any mental illness in this story, and there may never be one, but when I saw her haggard face in a mugshot and compared that to the attractive, all-American astronaut seen here, I had to wonder.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Astronaut training in Canada?

"Yes, it resembles the frozen void of outer space perfectly."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just googling astronaut diapers.

I would like to send this sentence back in time to pre-internet days.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

It is a noble goal.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/382801181_b59b3f8ea2.jpg?v=0

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

A+

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't get the diaper. She had to stop for gas anyway, right?

dude if you fart you don't need to go to the loo nor wear diapers.

ah you mean gaaas. okay.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Pretty good timing for Channel 4's "Erotomania" documentary - which was on last night! Did anyone see it?

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/mind/wwr_manic.html#eroto

Erotomaniacs usually focus their attention on those with high social status, quite often celebrities or public figures. They also go for people who have shown them kindness or helped them in some way – for example, a doctor. And they do more than innocently daydream about the object of their desire. They fabricate a whole relationship with that person, going in to great detail. They believe that they will be with that person one day and won't accept rejection. Simply unable to recognise that the person doesn't share their feelings, they assume that someone else must be manipulating the person they love or doing something to prevent them being together. (For example, they might think 'His wife made him get that restraining disorder, he really wants to be with me.')

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I recorded it on my Humax because I am very interested in erotomania.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Who are you planning on stalking, Nick?

― Probability Smear Of Possible Quantum Katehood (kate), Thursday, 8 February 2007 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link

No no.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 8 February 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

A happy ending. As it were.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 July 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link

think diaper girl's invited?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 17 July 2009 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Looking for a date?

― http://i28.tinypic.com/4ux79e.gif (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 17 July 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

just fyi she didn't actually wear any diapers

Orlando Detective William Becton was the first to discover the diapers when he opened a trash bag inside Lisa Nowak's car and found two used diapers. In his charging affidavit he wrote, "… I then asked Mrs. Nowak why she had the baby diapers. Mrs. Nowak said that she did not want to stop and use the restroom, so, she used the diapers to collect her urine."
Detective Becton secured plenty of evidence from the car, but did not photograph or collect the two used diapers from the back seat of Nowak's car, or the "twenty to thirty unused diapers" that he found in the trunk. This omission allowed some wiggle room for Nowak's lawyer.
It took four months, but on June 29, 2007, Nowak's criminal attorney, Donald Lykkebak, told members of the press that the diaper story was inaccurate.
''The biggest lie in this preposterous tale that has been told is that my client drove from Houston, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, nonstop, wearing a diaper. That is an absolute fabrication. There were toddler-size diapers in her car when she was arrested, but they were several years old," Lykkebak said.

― del griffith, Sunday, 22 April 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link

story ruint

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 22 April 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link

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