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The Alabama shooter was charged with assault in 2002

As usual, she was allowed to walk.

She punched out another woman at IHOP because the other lady got the last booster seat. As she demanded the seat she screamed "I am Dr. Amy Bishop" (... the Lord of La Mancha?)

I regret to say that I did not make this up, except the La Mancha part.

The sad thing is that she was obviously turned down for tenure not because she was a poor teacher or researcher, but because she was a very bad human being. Her colleagues were proved to be 100% correct in that assessment. Obviously they didn't want to work with her for the rest of their lives. Sadly, three of them did.

Find more fascinating background here. Examples:

About the 1986 murder of her brother: "She told police she thought she had ruined the kitchen, but did not realize she had hit her brother. She said she ran away and thought she dropped the gun, which went off a third time. She did not remember anything else until she was taken to a police station. But police and witnesses say she fled with the gun to a car dealership, where she pointed it at employees and demanded a getaway car. She told them her husband was going to come after her and she needed to flee."

About her novel: "Anderson also said his wife had been writing a novel at the time that was reviewed by law enforcement. The Boston Globe, citing a law enforcement source it did not identify, reported that it was about a woman who had killed her brother and was hoping to make amends by becoming a great scientist. But Anderson said the novel was not autobiographical. 'It was just a novel. A medical thriller is the best way to describe it,' he said."

About the Alabama shooting: "Joseph Ng, an associate professor who worked with Bishop in the biology department, was in the cramped faculty conference room when gunfire erupted Friday afternoon during a monthly meeting. About a dozen teachers and staff members were sitting elbow-to-elbow at a long table when Ng heard the 'pop-pop-pop' of a 9 mm handgun. He watched several of his colleagues go down, starting with the ones close to Bishop. He and the rest of the survivors dived under the table desperate for cover. Three people were wounded. Within seconds, the shooting stopped. During the lull, Debra Moriarity, a biochemistry professor, scrambled toward Bishop and urged her to stop, he said. Bishop aimed at Moriarity and attempted to fire but the gun did not go off. Moriarity then led the charge that forced Bishop out the door into a hallway. Her colleagues barricaded themselves in the room, and Bishop was arrested moments later outside the building. 'Moriarity was probably the one that saved our lives. She was the one that initiated the rush,' Ng said. 'It took a lot of guts to just go up to her.'