{"id":305,"date":"2005-05-28T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/28\/scorned-scientist-believed-behind-biza"},"modified":"2005-05-28T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T17:46:40","slug":"scorned-scientist-believed-behind-bizarre-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/28\/scorned-scientist-believed-behind-bizarre-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Scorned Scientist Believed Behind Bizarre Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5203'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/mdscience.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" align=\"left\">NEW<br \/>\n        YORK &#8211; The Dowbrigade has learned, from his confidential but strategically<br \/>\n        placed sources, that the current unprecedented cold,<br \/>\n        rainy weather affecting the Boston area may not be an entirely natural<br \/>\n        phenomena.\n      <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Reports out of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bt.cdc.gov\/\">CDD<br \/>\n          National Emergency Preparedness Center<\/a>        in Washington, and<br \/>\n          confirmed by a a highly placed official in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nws.noaa.gov\/\">National<br \/>\n        Weather Service<\/a> on condition of anonymity, suggest that a lovelorn<br \/>\n        physicist, long-time resident of Cambridge, may be affecting the weather<br \/>\n        in an attempt to get back at the woman who left him for her Pilates instructor.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The individual in question has not been officially named<br \/>\n        as a suspect in the bad weather, but is rather being referred to as &quot;a<br \/>\n        person of interest.&quot; According to sources at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\">MIT, <\/a>where<br \/>\n        he is believed to have graduated from, he has been identified as Percy<br \/>\n        Farquand. His current whereabouts are unknown.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Farquand, described by MIT officials as &quot;One of<br \/>\n        the most brilliant undergraduates we have had on campus in 50 years,&quot; graduated<br \/>\n        in the late 1990&#8217;s with a double major on meteorology and geomagnetism<br \/>\n        and immediately went to work for the US Government, first with NASA and<br \/>\n        then the top-secret NIA.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">According to Filbert Cunningham, who described himself<br \/>\n        as &quot;a close personal friend of Percy, before he went off the deep<br \/>\n        end,&quot;<br \/>\n        Farquand&#8217;s long-time girlfriend, an exotic dancer from Danvers, accompanied<br \/>\n        him to Houston, and later to an &quot;undisclosed location&quot; near<br \/>\n        a classified military base, but she eventually grew bored, and frustrated<br \/>\n        by the separation<br \/>\n        from her friends. Eventually, she left Farquand and moved back<br \/>\n        to Boston.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Friends and acquaintances date the separation as the<br \/>\n        point at which the brilliant young researcher became dangerously estranged<br \/>\n        from reality.<br \/>\n        &quot;He would call at all hours of the day and night,&quot; according<br \/>\n        to the young woman&#8217;s roommate. At first he was polite, but then he<br \/>\n        started threatening to do things I didn&#8217;t understand. He was talkin&#8217;<br \/>\n        crazy, but all scientific-like.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">After repeated attempts to convince his ex to return<br \/>\n        to his side, Farquand began threatening not only the woman and her family,<br \/>\n        but the entire city of Boston and the New England region. &quot;You&#8217;re<br \/>\n        going to be sorry, it&#8217;s all your fault, you don&#8217;t know who you are dealing<br \/>\n        with here,&quot; he reportedly ranted, &quot;I can PUT OUT THE SUN. I<br \/>\n        can CANCEL SUMMER!&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It is unknown how Farquand is managing to affect the<br \/>\n        weather on such a massive scale, but his last known research was dealing<br \/>\n        with using Super-Magnets to create localized anomalies in the Earth&#8217;s<br \/>\n        magnetic<br \/>\n        field.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Meanwhile, military sources report that Farquand is<br \/>\n        AWOL from his latest security-related research position in a classified<br \/>\n        army base. Rumors have placed him everywhere from Goa to Sri Lanka to<br \/>\n        Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The object of his unnatural desires, a 24-year-old from<br \/>\n        Easter Island, has been &quot;sequestered&quot; by authorities hoping<br \/>\n        to convince Farquand to ease up on the Northeast.&nbsp; She has reportedly<br \/>\n        agreed to relocate outside of New England, but refuses to apologize<br \/>\n        or return<br \/>\n        to the &quot;mad<br \/>\n        scientist&quot;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&quot;That man  crazier than a vampire bat on crack<br \/>\n        cocaine. No way am I going back to that pathetic geek.&quot; In addition,<br \/>\n        she is supposedly demanding a sizable &quot;re-settlement&quot; payment<br \/>\n        from the federal government, which is hoping that at least removing her<br \/>\n        from<br \/>\n        the region<br \/>\n        will remove<br \/>\n        Farquand&#8217;s motivation for wreaking weather havoc. Improving weather during the next few days would be an indication that the Federal strategy has worked, for the time being at least. Meteorologists across<br \/>\n        the region are standing by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; The Dowbrigade has learned, from his confidential but strategically placed sources, that the current unprecedented cold, rainy weather affecting the Boston area may not be an entirely natural phenomena. 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