# Don't mess with  the nurse.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-the-nurse/372969>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 16, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-the-nurse/372969 "2006-09-16T16:26:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-the-nurse/372969/1 "2006-09-16T16:26:52Z")

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An [amazing story](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060916/ap_on_re_us/intruder_killed) from Orgon.

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> PORTLAND, Ore. - When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
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> Neighbors praised the woman for her bravery, and investigators said they believed the dead man — Edward Dalton Haffey — was burglarizing Kuhnhausen’s home. But after an investigation, police now say the intruder Kuhnhausen strangled was apparently a hit man hired by her estranged husband — Michael James Kuhnhausen Sr. — to kill her.
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> Kuhnhausen and his wife were in the process of getting a divorce, and she told officers “her husband was distraught about the divorce and wanting to reconcile but that she was insisting on the divorce,” the affidavit states.
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> A background check showed Haffey had served lengthy prison terms for conspiracy to commit aggravated murder and convictions for robbery and burglary.
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> Inside a backpack Haffey left at the scene was a day planner with “Call Mike, Get letter,” scribbled on the week of Sept. 4, the affidavit said. Michael Kuhnhausen’s cell phone number was jotted on the inside of a folder, it said.

Sounds like the husband is in BIG trouble, although he is, of course, denying any involvement.

Also sounds like he picked a pretty poor hitman.

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**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-the-nurse/372969/2 "2006-09-16T16:35:15Z")

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Already been done.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387448&highlight=nurse+ratchet](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387448&highlight=nurse+ratchet)

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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-the-nurse/372969/3 "2006-09-16T16:39:58Z")

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> [@Amp](#):
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> Already been done.
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387448&highlight=nurse+ratchet](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387448&highlight=nurse+ratchet)

Jesus H. Fucking Christ.

I searched using all the names in the story, and none came up. Why can’t people actually post a quote from the fucking story so that searches will be of some use?

Mods, could you close this thread?

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**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-the-nurse/372969/4 "2006-09-16T16:49:43Z")

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I just reported it so that they’d see your request.

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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-the-nurse/372969/5 "2006-09-16T17:31:40Z")

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> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#):
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> I just reported it so that they’d see your request.

Thanks **Ginger**.

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-mess-with-the-nurse/372969/6 "2006-09-16T18:00:54Z")

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i was just passing through, I’ll close this thread.

Lynn