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Ex-Astronaut Planning Insanity Defense - AOL News

This is crazy? Can anyone tell me that she did not know what she was doing?

It was the gravitational pull of the moon that made her insane.....

Oh, she was crazy all right... crazy with love!

Love does make you do some strange things, and I have never heard any stranger than driving a thousand miles in an astronaut diaper.

Oh yeah!? Strange as it may sound, but the woman's lawyer said that she was not - I repeat, not -wearing a diaper during the trip.

Uh, say what!? When I traveled on I-10 in Mississippi in 1994, there were rest areas with no restrooms. And she certainly didn't want to take away a precious minute stopping to go potty even if there were restrooms.

So her lawyer made that up. Crazy, isn't it?

Oh yeah - on a full moon, too. One might think that she would have howled at the moon for whatever strange reason.

The part I don't get about the diaper... OK, I understand not wanting to stop, but what car goes 1,000 miles without stopping for gas? She HAD to stop somewhere at least once, no? And if so, why not pee while you are stopped?

It used to be that before we had the self-serve stations, a customer can always go into the restroom while the gas station attendant is pumping gas, wash the windows, and even check the oil.

Nowadays, who rarely ever sees that? If she only had no time to waste, she would have pumped her own gas after prepaying, and then be gone. She would not have cared about using the head.

No vehicle, unless it is a motorhome, could travel 1K miles without stopping for gas. And I don't know much about how far a motorhome can travel on a full tank of gas before filling up again.