• As life imitates Isaac Asimov, again [a]

    From danny burstein@3:633/280.2 to All on Sun Feb 26 16:09:34 2023
    Note the "suicide" was in May, 2021, but just came into
    news coverage this week 'cuz lawsuits

    [Associated Press]

    Family sues after nuclear physicist's death in Virginia jail

    Falls Church, VA - The family of a nuclear physicist who died by suicide
    in a Virginia jail is suing the U.S. government after his psychotropic medicine was discontinued and he was denied admission to a federal medical prison.

    The lawsuit filed Thursday in federal court on behalf of Christopher
    Lapp's 16-year-old daughter alleges that a series of errors by prison officials, federal marshals, prosecutors and physicians contributed to
    Lapp's 2021 death.
    ......
    Lapp, who was 62 when he died, had multiple degrees, including a Ph.D.
    from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His father, Ralph Lapp,
    was a scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
    ....
    Lapp hanged himself in his jail cell in May 2021, roughly a month after he
    had pleaded guilty. He left a behind a note for his daughter, writing that "some bad people have been after me for a while. I have been trying to determine who they are but things are not good. It is better for everyone
    if I am not around so they can't harm others."
    =======
    rest: https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/christopher-lapp-family-sues-nuclear-physicists-death-in-virginia-jail

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  • From Mike Van Pelt@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Feb 28 09:46:27 2023
    In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.2302260505040.25986@panix3.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    Note the "suicide" was in May, 2021, but just came into
    news coverage this week 'cuz lawsuits

    [Associated Press]

    Family sues after nuclear physicist's death in Virginia jail

    Falls Church, VA - The family of a nuclear physicist who died by suicide
    in a Virginia jail is suing the U.S. government after his psychotropic >medicine was discontinued and he was denied admission to a federal medical >prison.

    Bank robbery and carjacking. That is *not* what I was expecting
    when I googled this. (He apparently had serious mental health issues.)

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  • From danny burstein@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Feb 28 09:54:28 2023
    In <ttjbs3$3c8sh$2@dont-email.me> Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> writes:

    In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.2302260505040.25986@panix3.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    [Associated Press]

    Family sues after nuclear physicist's death in Virginia jail

    Falls Church, VA - The family of a nuclear physicist who died by suicide >>in a Virginia jail is suing the U.S. government after his psychotropic >>medicine was discontinued and he was denied admission to a federal medical >>prison.

    Bank robbery and carjacking. That is *not* what I was expecting
    when I googled this. (He apparently had serious mental health issues.)

    Well, if you were bumping against the alien (as in extra
    terrestrial) mind control rings, you'd have problems, too..

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  • From Charles Packer@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Feb 28 19:52:18 2023
    On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:54:28 +0000, danny burstein wrote:

    In <ttjbs3$3c8sh$2@dont-email.me> Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> writes:

    In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.2302260505040.25986@panix3.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    [Associated Press]

    Family sues after nuclear physicist's death in Virginia jail

    Falls Church, VA - The family of a nuclear physicist who died by
    suicide in a Virginia jail is suing the U.S. government after his >>>psychotropic medicine was discontinued and he was denied admission to a >>>federal medical prison.

    Bank robbery and carjacking. That is *not* what I was expecting when I >>googled this. (He apparently had serious mental health issues.)

    Well, if you were bumping against the alien (as in extra terrestrial)
    mind control rings, you'd have problems, too..

    It turns out that this story has several rabbit holes to go down
    that I'm resisting for the moment. The mention that his father,
    Ralph Lapp, worked on the Manhattan Project seemed gratuitous,
    for example. Look him up, and you'll find that Wikipedia calls him
    a physicist, but his output of books makes him seem more like a
    journalist. One of them, "Man and Space: The Next Decade" is in
    the isfdb. As for the son, there seems to have been no news
    coverage of his offenses or prosecution before his suicide.

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  • From Paul S Person@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Mar 1 04:30:50 2023
    On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:52:18 GMT, Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 22:54:28 +0000, danny burstein wrote:

    In <ttjbs3$3c8sh$2@dont-email.me> Mike Van Pelt =
    <usenet@mikevanpelt.com>
    writes:
    =20
    In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.2302260505040.25986@panix3.panix.com>,
    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
    [Associated Press]

    Family sues after nuclear physicist's death in Virginia jail

    Falls Church, VA - The family of a nuclear physicist who died by >>>>suicide in a Virginia jail is suing the U.S. government after his >>>>psychotropic medicine was discontinued and he was denied admission to=
    a
    federal medical prison.
    =20
    Bank robbery and carjacking. That is *not* what I was expecting when=
    I
    googled this. (He apparently had serious mental health issues.)
    =20
    Well, if you were bumping against the alien (as in extra terrestrial)
    mind control rings, you'd have problems, too..

    It turns out that this story has several rabbit holes to go down
    that I'm resisting for the moment. The mention that his father,
    Ralph Lapp, worked on the Manhattan Project seemed gratuitous,
    for example. Look him up, and you'll find that Wikipedia calls him
    a physicist, but his output of books makes him seem more like a
    journalist. One of them, "Man and Space: The Next Decade" is in=20
    the isfdb. As for the son, there seems to have been no news=20
    coverage of his offenses or prosecution before his suicide.

    Perhaps he was in so deep that his very /existence/ was classified.
    --=20
    "In this connexion, unquestionably the most significant=20
    development was the disintegration, under Christian
    influence, of classical conceptions of the family and
    of family right."

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