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 (eighteen years ago)

i would like to see a docudrama plz

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

SPACE MADNESSSSSS.

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

stinky

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

i would like to see a docudrama plz

Directed by John Waters

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

i would like to see a docudrama plz

"Houston, We Have A Problem"

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

astronauts be crazy.

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

Cringeworthy escapade.

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

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

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

Astronauts are trained to have a fallback position.

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

NASA psych-evaluation tests to thread

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

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

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

Attempted murder charges now.

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

10cc to thread

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

OMG, she was just sploshing.

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

pepper spray her, then poop spray

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

this is an old space camp hazing ritual

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

the Bears could've used her at QB

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

I bet her sploshing mallot was rubberised. lol!

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

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

yeah.

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

dude's been in space, wtf have you done

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

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

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

i fuckin said yeah didnt i??

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

NASAMAN

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

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

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

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

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

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

ok now I can't read this thread either.

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

hahaha

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

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

sigh

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

Pancakes aren't pets, are they?

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

Dude, where have YOU been?

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

Walking his waffles.

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

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

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

wow dude

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

better than blue 'demonstration' fluid.

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

No, I don't think so.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

Speak for yourself.

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

"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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

Alba's preparing to emigrate to his spiritual home.

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

If he was German, I could understand.

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

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

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

I now have a much different vision of Detroit.

x-post - And Alba.

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

(and came across this story quite by chance)

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

Astronaut training in Canada?

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

It is a noble goal.

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

A+

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

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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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

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

Who are you planning on stalking, Nick?

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

No no.

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

two years pass...

A happy ending. As it were.

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

think diaper girl's invited?

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

Looking for a date?

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

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 (seven years ago)

story ruint

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

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