Police Probe 'Assault' on Scientist Stephen Hawking

LONDON (Reuters) - British police are investigating an alleged assault on scientist Stephen Hawking, the disabled cosmologist and author of the best-selling "A Brief History of Time."


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Detectives want to question Hawking about a number of minor injuries he recently suffered.


A Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman said Monday detectives were probing allegations that the university professor had been assaulted.


"Police are investigating an allegation of assault on a 62-year-old man from Cambridge," the spokeswoman said, declining to give further details.


Hawking, Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, is confined to a wheelchair after contracting motor neurone disease, a muscle-wasting condition, when he was 21. He can only speak through a computerized voice synthesizer.


The Daily Mirror reported Monday that Hawking's three children feared he might be the victim of someone suffering from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a disease where sufferers harm others to draw attention to themselves.


"The family are worried sick. They've been suspicious for some time that someone has been harming Stephen," an unnamed source told the newspaper.


The inquiry was triggered when nursing staff contacted police last summer after the professor was left stranded in his wheelchair in the garden of his home on the hottest day of the year and suffered severe heatstroke and sunburn, the Mirror said.


Hawking, 62, achieved international prominence in 1988 with A Brief History of Time, which examined the origin of the universe and was translated into 30 languages.




I hope the assaulter is proud:

Ha, you may be the most brilliant mind of this generation, but I am totally kicking your arse
[Stephen Hawking voice] Bring it on, bitch[/Stephen Hawking voice]

 

I think it was Eminem in a rap war against MC Hawking.

 

[STephen Hawking voice]Bring it on, Marshal. I will kick your sorry detroit ass all over the east coast, mah fah[/stephen hawking voice]

 

[Stephen Hawking voice]I banged your wife. Bling Bling.[/Stephen Hawking voice]

 

[stephen hawking voice]she begged me for more, and I slapped the ho like the pimp I am[/stephen hawking voice]

 

[stephen hawking voice]Fo shizzle ma nizzle, badizzle[/stephen hawking voice]

 

If someone did assault him, it's pretty sad to think that they're only able to take on someone in a wheelchair who can barely move.

 

You forgot to do the impression, triglobite.

And where is AYBABTU? He loves his MC Hawking.

 

Perhaps the person assulting him was also in a wheel chair?

 

well, it did say he may suffer from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, where one kicks their own buttocks.

but, the only kind of person i think who would assault him is one of those religious people who totally despise the idea of scientific thought

 

[stephen hawking voice]Pimpin' ain't easy but somebody gotta do it[/stephen hawking voice]

 

Perhaps the person assulting him was also in a wheel chair?

[Cartman voice] Cripple Fight!!![/Cartman]

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[Stephen Hawking voice]My milkshake is better than yours[/Stephen Hawking voice]

 

It's the Wife doing it. (allegedly)

See my SC post for a NC-17 version of this entry.

UKS

 

Actually, Munchausen by Proxy involves hurting someone else. When you hurt yourself, it's just plain Munchausen Syndrome.

 

Stephan needs that automatic boxing glove he had in the episode of the Simpsons...


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"well, it did say he may suffer from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, where one kicks their own buttocks."

No, Munchausen's By Proxy usually affects caretakers who are looking for attention by harming patients or those they are supposed to be taking care of. Ergo, someone in charge of Hawking may be doing this as Hawking is unable to do it on his own.


but, the only kind of person i think who would assault him is one of those religious people who totally despise the idea of scientific thought.

Not so. If it is indeed Munchausen's, then it's a caretaker of some sort with some deep seated psychological issues. Also, very few religious people see science as some sort of threat to their faith.

 

Sorry my post was so loud.

 

aye, i read the definition of that too fast.

and i said the religious thing out of context that he was assaulted outside of mucnchausen's

 

I thought, typically, Munchausen Syndrome was een in parents who made their children ill or harmed them order to get pity and attention from people? I didn't think it there were any adult on adult cases? Or it could be a case that only the child cases get any real press.

 

[stephen hawking voice]Yo MC Bustanut. The cool points are out the window, I'm all twisted up inside, dawg.[/stephen hawking voice.

 

This is very sad. I just bought one of his CDs.

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AYBABTU?

 

[robot voice]I just wanted to update this story. I've been arrested for opening up a can of two-wheeled whoop ass on that low-down perp.[/robot voice]

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[stephen hawking voice]d00d, I'm so jackin' you up.[/stephen hawking voice]

 

Hmm. This almost qualifies for a new entry in the CURSE of the SIMPSONS THREAD.

Maybe later, though.

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