02.07.07
Did ya hear the one about the female astronaut and the diapers?
Give me a break. Nobody would ever have believed the story. It’s too crazy to be a good joke, and certainly too weird to base a movie on. This story makes the strangest of us look oh so so normal. News story, for those who somehow missed it.
I don’t want to look at the whole thing. We’ll ignore all the bizzarro stuff and cut right to a question I’ve thought about before, a question based on an observation I have made numerous times concerning cases of assault, murder, and the intention thereof.
Police said Nowak told them that she only wanted to scare Shipman into talking to her about her relationship and didn’t want to harm her… An officer reported following Nowak and watching her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. Police 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.
WTF? How does a supposedly intelligent person convince herself that she was carrying a deadly weapon for purposes other than violence? Is it some defense mechanism in the brain that convinces them that they weren’t actually plotting out a murder, so if the other person does get killed or injured (as anybody else in the world might have predicted might happen), that they are not to blame?
I remember Amy Fisher saying this same thing. She brought the gun to Joey Buttafuoco’s wife’s house to show it to her, so she would know she meant business. Somehow it went off, but she wasn’t to blame…
Even back then it wasn’t the first time I’d heard that same claim. I still don’t understand how a person can so delude him or herself, while anybody in the world would be able to say, “Bad idea, dude.”
A woman fighting another woman for control of a man – whether he wants her or not – or a man fighting to control a woman.
You got me.
Now for a little fun.
