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Oh. Whew.
We ask for a poster of intelligence, sobriety and wit, they send us a comedian.
Here’s how to make a Halloween space helmet for the tin-foil hat type:
Inflate a large balloon. Wrap it in several lawyers of tin-foil, and sculpt tin-foil helmet features onto it. Pop the balloon, insert head, profit!
Sometimes a lot of things in life remind one of an enema.
Where does the steel mallet and knife with 4-inch blade fit into the enema? Never mind, don’t answer that. 
(For what it’s worth, I don’t think they’re going to get the attempted murder charges to stick, either. Maybe something lesser.)
Attempted colostomy.
Nor I, but it’s in the collective consciousness by now. Psycho hosebeast mistakes a casual shag at a conference hotel for an expression of true love, ignores the inconvenient fact that the casual shagster has a wife and family, stalks him to hell and back, at one point kills the family pet rabbit and shoves it into a stewpan to pay the male love interest out for his inattention.
IIRC this is the casual shagster’s one lapse from fidelity.
Well, that’s not how it works. They catch you jaywalking, they charge you with conspiracy to blow up a bank or something, so you’ll plead down to what they really want. Or if you’re a crazy, cock-hungry astronaut vixen, they charge you with murder, so you’ll plead down to “crossing state lines with intent to inflict colostomy in the second degree.”
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Hmmm. Tin-foil lawyers?
I did get called a tin soldier once, but I rode way…
Why does everyone think she’s crazy?
I admit it was a crazy thing to do but does anyone think she really went insane? She stalked the women for months. I don’t think the insanity defense will work because she had the whole thing planned.
If someone stalked me, followed me for 900 miles with a knife, mallet, tubing to tie me up and plastic garbage bags I’d think she was going to kill me.
Her actions demonstrate that she is/was Not Right In The Head. You can almost see the toys in the attic in her mugshot.
She is clearly waaaaaay crazy.
That doesn’t mean diddly-squat in terms of an “insanity defense,” though – it’s clear that she knew that her actions were wrong, what with the disguise and attempt to evade. No pass for simply coming unglued; an insanity plea is a very narrow escape route, and her crazy ass isn’t anywhere close to getting through it, unless she can convince a jury of something like she thought her rival was Osama bin Laden and she was on a secret mission sanctioned by John Ashcroft and Carol Burnett to intercept him at the airport and render him to the Free Republic of Mare Tranquillitatis for trial-by-vacuum.
Step one: Drive to Florida wearing a diaper and spray her with pepper spray.
Step two: Not really sure on the details
Step three: He loves me and we live happily ever after
Yup. Truly gone fishing.
I would be terrified to ask what kind of life one led that would have one be reminded of an enema by ‘lots of things’ :eek:
She’s clearly unbalanced, but while I’ll defer to contrariant opinions of our jurist members, I feel pretty confident that she doesn’t meet the legal definition of insane. (I suspect that she doesn’t meet the clinical definition of any psychosis, either, but lacking further details about her mental state and prior actions it’s impossible to tell.) A lot of people hit a period in their life when they realize that they aren’t going to [del]achieve a significant management position[/del] [del]be an astronaut[/del] win the Nobel Prize and quietly or not-so-quietly break down; usually this results in a divorce, an affair, or an ostentatiously expensive sports car, or some combination thereof, with accompanying legal and emotional troubles, but this woman took it to a whole 'nother level, with fairly elaborate planning and premediation, which speaks both to her desperation and a lack of qualification for legal insanity.
If she’s lucky, she’ll get a medical discharge from the Navy instead of a dishonorable one. I don’t see any way, short of some kind of unexpected plea bargin, that she’s going to avoid jail time. Even if the police totally bungle confession and evidence collection there’s still an essentially unavoidable fact of the actual attack, and signficant evidence pointing toward further acts. All joking aside, it’s really a tragedy that this woman–clearly an intelligent, motivated, and frankly (when she’s not in mugshot after a 900 mile journey and attack) pretty attractive–has essentially ruined her life over this. I wonder what this guy has, or more to the point, what she lacks in her life that drove her to this extreme.
Yeah, I’m not clear why the judge decided to levy her with such an insignificant bail. This was clearly more than an impulsive assault; the trash bags and the mallet are particularly worrysome. (What the hell was she going to do with a mallet?) If I were the target I’d be in court demanding that she be kept in jail until trial. I don’t see a charge of attempted murder as being out of order.
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I saw an interview with a retired NASA shrink yesterday who suggested she also should be investigated for a physical cause of her off-the-rails behavior, such as a tumor or something else significant like that. It’s certainly a better explanation than anything else I’ve seen.
Would insane behavior taken as a result of a brain tumor classify as legally insane even if there was careful plotting and planning involved that normally would suggest a level of competency?
I’ve often wondered if the police have someone whose job is to make you look as hideous as possible for your mugshot. An anti-beautician, if you will. They could arrest Jennifer Lopez, and her mug shot would make her look like a 45-year-old crack whore.
I would hope so! Do you have a link to this interview online? I’d like to read/watch it myself. I hadn’t thought of brain tumors, but what if it is? There is something here we aren’t privy to, that’s for sure, IMO.