Re: As life imitates Isaac Asimov, again [a]

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

> In <[email protected]> Mike Van Pelt <[email protected]>
> writes:
> 
>>In article <[email protected]>,
>>danny burstein  <[email protected]> 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.