space case

A story on the BBC website made me think something had been slipped into my coffee this morning. The title was Astronaut in 'love kidnap plot' and the description was "A US woman astronaut is charged with trying to kidnap a rival for the affection of a space shuttle pilot." And then I read the story, and things really got weird. I looked around a bit to see if others had covered this (I assumed they had), and I think the New York Times got the best single paragraph of the stories I saw:

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.
The woman came equipped for cartoon levels of violence. Rubber tubing!?
Andrew commented:
I'm not sure, but i think this was the article you were trying to link to.
on Tue Feb 6 10:14:36 2007

David commented:
Too funny - did that link not work for you? It's still working for me. Too bad about the NYT - they could be such a good newspaper, if it weren't for their lame attempts to protect content.
on Tue Feb 6 11:20:57 2007

Andrew commented:
So bizarre, the other day your link was taking me to a much abreviated version of the story, today it works just fine. I greatly appreciate NYTimes, but I agree, the content protection is hurting them more than helping.
on Thu Feb 8 09:18:28 2007

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