Psych Major
-"Some people call me the space cowboy, some call me the gangster of love..."-
Astronaut Lisa M. Nowak is a little obsessive. "Lisa Marie Nowak, Astronaut, drove all night from Houston to Orlando, wearing diapers so she would not have to stop, to kidnap her rival for the affections of another Astronaut. She was caught at MCO wearing a trench coat and wig and had a knife, BB pistol, rubber tubing and plastic bags, reports show. Once U.S. Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman arrived, Nowak followed her to the airport's Blue Lot for long-term parking, tried to get into Shipman's car and doused her with pepper spray." Nowak has been charged with attempted kidnapping, battery, attempted vehicle burglary with battery and destruction of evidence. She's being held without bail. (Boing Boing)
-How filthy lucre gets filthy-
A croatian man in the town of Split was arrested after urinating on an ATM that ate his card. Angry that he couldn't get more beer money, he then climbed onto a garbage bin, dropped his pants, and was preparing to "to leave a deposit of his own on the machine" when police arrested him. (Metro)
-Yeah, good luck with that...-
Disgraced evangelical preacher Ted Haggard is leaving the new Life Church "to pursue master's degrees in psychology." Considering that Haggard's problem isn't so much that he's gay as it is that he's nuts and in denial, that ought to go real well. (Associated Press)
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