Kudos to former MIT professor John J. Donovan, Sr. for demolishing the old stereotype that engineering professors lead dull, boring lives. A May 4, 2006 Associate Press report explains:
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? A former professor and millionaire businessman was indicted Thursday on charges he falsely claimed to have been shot by a gunman outside his Cambridge office late last year.
John J. Donovan Sr. was charged with one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report about the Dec. 16 shooting. Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley said Donovan, who has been embroiled in a range of bitter disputes with his family, originally told police he believed his son James arranged the shooting.
“The entire event was fabricated and staged,” Coakley said. Coakley said she believes Donovan, who was a gun owner with experience handling a weapon, shot himself, though authorities said there was a possibility he asked someone to shoot him….