Feline Warrior

Okay, the true headline is: Ex-astronaut’s lawyer says diaper tale is “big lie” - Yahoo! News

Even better than that, her attorney says the diaper story is hampering Nowak’s chances of a decent trial. Here, read it for yourself:

“The attorney for former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak said on Friday his client’s right to a fair trial is being jeopardized by a “big lie” that she wore a diaper during a nonstop 950-mile (1,530-mile) drive to confront a romantic rival.”

Other favorite quotes:

“The media has repeated this preposterous and scandalous story that she drove from Houston to Orlando nonstop wearing a diaper,” attorney Donald Lykkebak told reporters outside an Orlando courtroom.

and:

“It holds my client up to ridicule. It jeopardizes our ability to pick a jury. It jeopardizes our ability to get a fair trial when the client is the butt of jokes.”

(Forgive My Beavis & Butthead-ishness, but I couldn’t resist.)

According to the Orlando Sentinel on February 6th: “Police seized two wet diapers from Nowak’s car which she said she used rather than stop on her 1,000 –mile drive to Orlando.”

Nowak also carried certain items necessary for carrying out her crime: “wig, trench coat, make-up, trash bags, knife and what appeared to be “ammo 9″ according to an arrest report.

Nowak was arrested on February 6 in Orlando, FL on charges of assaulting and trying to kidnap Air Force captain Colleen Shipman. Shipman was apparently the girlfriend of Space Shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein, with whom Nowak said she was (also) involved. This was indeed a bizarre love triangle, but not melodic and dance-able like the New Order song.

And by the way, according to NASA news at MSNBC, the Navy “expects to assign Oefelein to the Naval Network Warfare Command in Norfolk, Virginia” in June.

Here is the breakdown of the case, timeline and other details included. I just don’t see how the diaper part makes it any more embarrassing or ridiculous.