By Stone Martindale Nov 19, 2007, 22:30 GMT
The Smoking Gun has obtained the legal restrining order (15 pages) that was filed by Bill Nye of "The Science Guy" fame to keep a woman at bay, someone the television personality appears to have married last year.
02/20/2007 - Bill Nye - © David Gabber / Photorazzi
Blair Tindell trespassed in Nye's flower bed during the night, and the raid has prompted Bill Nye the Science Guy to obtain a temporary restraining order against her.
Nye, 51, got a restraining order against Tindall, who admits that she poured weed killer in the garden of the Los Angeles home she once shared with Nye.
According to a Los Angeles Superior Court filing by Nye, Tindall, dressed in black, appeared in his backyard at 11:30 PM on Labor Day, and "fled on foot when I called her name."
Tindall allegedly dropped two large bottles that had been "filled with some sort of solvent" and "may have been emptied on my garden from which I get food produce."
In a second filing, Nye reported that the herbicide is "quite toxic" and claimed that he feared Tindall might have squirted him in the eyes with it had he been closer to her.
Tindall, a 47-year-old writer, described the flower assault as a "foolish, sophomoric act of poor judgment" that came in the midst of her having a series of personal and family problems.
The Smoking Gun reports that during a November 13 declaration, Tindall strongly denied being a threat to Nye, whom she accuses of "emotional cruelty."
Nye, she stated, proposed marriage less than three months after meeting her in late-2005, and the pair appeared to have been wed last February in an impromptu ceremony officiated by celebu-Pastor Rick Warren.
Tindall noted that their marriage license was returned as invalid.
Nye then ordered her not to move into the Studio City home they had just purchased.
The "faux marriage," Tindall added, left her bereft and led to the "dreadful moment" in the garden of "a man who no longer loved me."
Nye and Tindall are next due in court December 20 in connection with the restraining order application.
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