Wednesday March 10, 2010 Submit a story for publication. Want to support Daily Rotten? Buy a membership at Pornopolis! Also: Visit the Rotten Store Splatter Island Skew Revue Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A dispute at a Lancaster movie theater during a screening of "Shutter Island" ended with someone plunging a meat thermometer into the neck of the man who complained about someone sitting near him talking on a cellphone during the show." Read article... Comments (9) Prison Fetus Gagged With Wipe Lexington Herald-Leader | Submitted by: cyran0 "The woman who gave birth to a baby in a bathroom at the Roederer Correctional Complex on Sunday suffocated the child by shoving toilet paper into her mouth, then put the baby into a trash can... When prison personnel came into the bathroom and saw blood, Cox "failed to report" that she had delivered a baby." Read article... Comments (4) Giant Shrew Toilets Evolved To Reduce Splashback BBC | Submitted by: dngrdnky "The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo... Botanists have discovered that the giant montane pitcher plant of Borneo has a pitcher the exact same size as a tree shrew's body... Instead, the pitcher uses tasty nectar to attract tree shrews, then ensures its pitcher is big enough to collect the feeding mammal's droppings." [With photo of what a shrew using a toilet looks like] Read article... Comments (6) Plegic Beaten, Stomped Down Under Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: pundit "The teenagers allegedly then stomped on Proden and hit him on the head and body with metal bars, including one from his wheelchair... The teens ran away with Proden's belongings and wheelchair, police said, but returned later -- and repeatedly -- to resume beating him." Read article... Comments (4) WiiSuicide High Score London Telegraph | Submitted by: Kragnorak "Police believe she mixed up the semi-automatic with a gun controller for the Nintendo Wii, which looks similar and which she had learned how to use from playing on the games system." Apparently she learned to aim the Wii Controller at her own chest. Read article... Comments (4) They'll Never Notice A Knifetip San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: v^_^v "San Francisco officials Tuesday ordered the shutdown of all drug testing at the police crime lab amid allegations that a former technician stole and used some of the cocaine she was supposed to analyze... While the amounts stolen were small, they were in each instance measurable, and involved cases in which suspects were arrested for selling cocaine." Read article... Comments (4) Finches: The Little Bird Bloodsport USA Today | Submitted by: fucktardmama "Tiny birds seem to be the next, albeit improbable, wave in fight-to-the-death blood sport... Twice in recent months, authorities have raided operations where finches were kept to attack each other for onlookers who bet on which birds would survive the matches... In tight-quarters matches, two males are placed in a segmented cage with a female to bring them to a frenzied state. The separation barrier is removed, and fighting continues until one bird is dead or mortally wounded. Many of the seized finches' beaks had been filed to razor sharpness." Read article... Comments (4) Pillow Smothered In Wedlock Metro | Submitted by: Joe Nagle "Lee Jin-gyu fell for his dakimakura -- a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side. In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha." Read article... Comments (6) Angry Purple Private Dick Mainichi Daily News | Submitted by: It'sallfunPubes "Kuwahara was allegedly hired by the victim's husband, who was seeking a divorce from the woman, as a "couple buster" in 2007. He falsified his identity and seduced the woman to encourage her to divorce her husband. Their relationship continued after the woman divorced her husband, however, after she found out that Kuwahara had a wife and children and that she was set up by the two men, the victim became enraged. Kuwahara reportedly strangled the woman during an argument." Read article... Comments (3) DEA Raids Marijuana Research Labs Denver Daily News | Submitted by: mcdanel "Four Colorado lawmakers are urging the U.S. Attorney General to temporarily stop Federal Drug Enforcement Agency raids on local medical marijuana businesses until the Legislature passes bills to regulate the industry... Despite a memo sent by Obama's administration in October urging law enforcement officials not to go after legal users of marijuana in states like Colorado that have permitted the drug's use for select medicinal purposes, DEA agents this year have conducted three such high profile raids in Colorado." Read article... Comments (4) Cops Charged In Katrina Shooting Coverup New Orleans Times-Picayune | Submitted by: fucktardmama "A second former New Orleans police officer has been charged in federal court in the alleged police cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings and appears to be cooperating with investigators in the federal probe into the deadly incident in the days after Hurricane Katrina... Prosecutors have called a police investigation a whitewash. In court filings tied to Lohman's guilty plea, the prosecutors bluntly noted that Lohman concluded that the four shooting victims were all unarmed." Read article... Comments (1) Female Jihadist Charged Over Terror IM The Local SE | Submitted by: YeehaPubes "Over the course of at least a year, "Jihad Jane" is alleged to have used the internet to recruit men in South Asia, Europe and the United States for terror attacks... She is also accused of recruiting women "who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe in support of violent jihad"... The indictment alleges LaRose received two messages in March 2009 from an individual in a South Asian country instructing her to kill the cartoonist, a Swede. "Kill him... this is what i say to u... Kill [him] in a way that the whole Kufar world get frightened." Read article... Comments (2) Climb On Up Upon My Tabernacle Der Spiegel | Submitted by: Warren Jeffs~abottom~ from his prison cell "New allegations of abuse by members of the Catholic Church are emerging every day. One Berlin attorney, who has been engaged by the Jesuits to handle abuse cases, has counted 12 suspects and 120 victims in the space of only three weeks... Bishop Bode wants all the 14 victims, who at the time were altar boys and children preparing to receive their first communion, to forgive and forget. The priest involved, Father Alois B., got off with only a probation sentence." Read article... Comments (1) Pope Ratzinger's Slap-Happy Brother Bishop BREITBART | Submitted by: Bishop Ric Williamson ~fuckin~ w/ Je_sus^2 "[Bishop] Ratzinger said a facial slap, was the easiest reaction to failure to perform on a child's part. How hard it was varied greatly, depending on who administered it... He said he had administered corporal punishment himself: "At the beginning I also repeatedly administered a slap in the face, but always had a bad conscience about it." Read article... Comments (1) Rep. Massa's Beefcake Rhapsody Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: anonymous "Now they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yeah, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me..." Massa said that his time in Congress had exhausted him, and that he was leaving to spend more time with his family. He compared his behavior with male workers in his office to the time he had spent in the Navy, producing pictures of men wrestling from his Naval Academy yearbook. "That looks like an orgy from Caligula," he said of the photos." Read article... Comments (2) Scotus To Rule On Funeral Decorum Breach Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: arduous "Notwithstanding the distasteful and repugnant nature of the words being challenged in these proceedings, we are constrained to concluded that the defendants' signs are constitutionally protected," the appeals court said. Snyder's family appealed to the Supreme Court, saying the protests had "tarnished" their son's funeral... The court announced it had voted to hear the appeal in Snyder vs. Phelps and to rule on whether the right to free speech extended to the right to intrude on a solemn ceremony. The justices will hear arguments in the case in the fall." Read article... Comments (2) Pedal To The Floorboards, Milkman Begone STV | Submitted by: JK "A furious lesbian who broke her [deep breath] lover's ex-husband's sister's boyfriend's legs by deliberately mowing him down in a car was jailed on Tuesday... As the milkman waved the lighter above his head, Henderson put her foot on the accelerator and sped towards him. "She mounted the kerb and struck Mr Craven with the front end of the vehicle, pinning him against the railings." Read article... Comments (1) Number One Only, Please WBBM-TV 2 Chicago | Submitted by: anonymous "Sculptor Clark Sorensen has created a new urinal called George W. Flush, a likeness of former President George W. Bush with an oversized head and a wide open muhhhhhhhhhhhh Read article... Comments (3) Tweaker Certainty: The TV Is Watching TwinCities.com | Submitted by: cyran0 "Perez, 39, admitted that in 2006 he created a hole through an adjoining closet to videotape his wife at their Princeton home. They were getting divorced. He alllllso told police he was on meth at the time. "We weren't having sex anymore, and I did that for me, nobody else." Read article... Comments (1) Giant Corpse Birds Build Nest San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: v^_^v "They are, of course, giant corpse-munching vultures, but wildlife biologists could not be more thrilled if they were Romeo and Juliet. The lovers in this case are California condors and together they have built the first condor nest in the Pinnacles in more than 100 years... Once widespread across North America, the condor has declined precipitously since the 19th century when they were hunted and poisoned with the lead shot that was often left in meat they scavenged." Read article... Comments (1) Corey Haim Dead Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: larry "Actor Corey Haim, who was living with his mother and helping her in a tough breast cancer battle, reportedly was alive when paramedics arrived but apparently died while enroute to the hospital early Wednesday. Long known for his own struggle with prescription medications, the Lost Boys actor reportedly had been battling the flu and taking a combination of meds to deal with that." Read article... Comments (4) Let Me Free Myself Wire Services | Submitted by: Ferret "An Ohio death row inmate has been placed on suicide watch after overdosing on prescription pills two days before he was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection... Reynolds' execution has been rescheduled for March 16." Read article... Comments (24) Tuesday March 09, 2010 Oversized Novelty Exam Suicide Mirror | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "A window cleaner died after stabbing himself in the groin repeatedly with a jumbo souvenir pencil... When police broke into his house they found Mr Burton lying on his back, wearing only his underpants. The room was splattered with blood and music was still playing on his stereo. The giant blood-covered pencil was beside him." Read article... Comments (27) Cannibal's Occult Powers Come Up Short The Jakarta Globe | Submitted by: furpo "A scavenger in Batam has confessed to killing an acquaintance and eating his organs in an effort to gain mystical powers... "I hit his head with a jackhammer and I waited for half an hour until I was sure that he was dead before I cut his stomach and took out his heart and liver... I'm sorry for killing him," he told SCTV on Monday, adding that he had not gotten "any power at all" from the ritual." Read article... Comments (6) Quack Asses Filled With Caulk AOL News | Submitted by: I Won A Math Debate. At least six women in New Jersey who hoped to plump up their backsides have ended up hospitalized with infections, after a bogus doctor injected their derrieres with a mixture of silicone, petroleum jelly and, perhaps most hazardous, household caulk... A hospital source told the Post their backsides are so cratered and lumpy, they resemble "moonscapes". Read article... Comments (26) Pornography Cures Society's Ills The Scientist | Submitted by: Veggie "But what do the data say? Over the years, many scientists have investigated the link between pornography (considered legal under the First Amendment in the United States unless judged "obscene") and sex crimes and attitudes towards women. And in every region investigated, researchers have found that as pornography has increased in availability, sex crimes have either decreased or not increased." Read article... Comments (32) Centenarian Witch Sprouts Devil Horns Daliy Mail | Submitted by: cracker666 "An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat's... Grandmother Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, began developing the mysterious protrusion last year... Since then it has grown 2.4in in length and another now appears to emerging on the other side of her forehead." [Photo of what a human horn looks like] Read article... Comments (15) Newborn Mutant's Tumor Tail Ananova | Submitted by: anonymous "The little girl, called Hong Hong, was born with the tail but it had since doubled in size, reports the Anhui Market Daily... X-rays had shown that the tail was connected to a fatty tumor within the spinal column." [Photo of what a human tail looks like] Read article... Comments (14) Knife-Wielding Maniac Holds Up Bodega Chicago Breaking News | Submitted by: Nobody "A man wearing a Freddy Krueger mask and holding a machete in one hand and a Bowie knife in the other hand robbed an Oak Lawn store Sunday evening, police said today.. "The clerk actually said, You're joking, right? and the guy says, No, I'm serious." Read article... Comments (11) TPed Frat Initiate Catches Fire Lexington Herald-Leader | Submitted by: cracker666 "Dunn, 19, allegedly struck a match, setting ablaze the toilet paper-wrapped victim... The victim was engulfed in flames up to his shoulders; he fell to the floor and began rolling to extinguish the flames. The floor caught fire, and Dunn tried to stomp out the flames." Read article... Comments (8) Unwilling Skydiver Thrown From Plane London Telegraph | Submitted by: Veggie "Miss Butler told her mother she was last to jump in her group... "Apparently she noticed problems with the three who went before, some of their parachutes were getting tangled as they fell. She said she asked to return to the ground and the plane circled a second loop as she refused to go. In the end, she said, they pushed her out." Read article... Comments (11) Gourmet Cheese From Mother's Milk New York Post | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell "Chef Angerer is letting diners at Klee Brasserie munch on cheese made from his wife's breast milk... Breast milk doesn't curdle well due to its low protein content, so a little cow milk has to be added to round out the texture... "It tastes like cow's-milk cheese, kind of sweet." Read article... Comments (12) Gold Farmer Clientele Forced To Panhandle San Francisco Examiner | Submitted by: Veggie "A seemingly straight-laced and somber middle aged man walks by the two. The sort of man who otherwise appears to be involved in no form of video gaming and possibly no form of fun. Without stopping, the man asks the beggar, "horde or alliance?" Alec answers him, "horde." The man stops and fishes in his pocket for a moment, then produces a bill and places it into the basket." Read article... Comments (12) Online Vigilantes Lack Precision Daily Mail | Submitted by: Veggie "A father is living in fear for his life after he was wrongly accused of being Jon Venables... More than 2,000 people joined the group vowing to track him down and wreak revenge for the murder... Mr Calvert was first forced to deny the rumours five years ago, and had to move house several times. But in the wake of Venables' return to prison the accusations have resurfaced." Read article... Comments (7) Cypriot Body-Snatchers On The Loose Guardian | Submitted by: artemisia "The missing corpse of the former Cypriot president Tassos Papadopoulos has been found, three months after it was taken from his grave in a raid that horrified the divided island... In what police described as highly organised crime, the body snatchers shifted a heavy marble slab encasing the tomb and dug through several feet of earth to reach the corpse before covering their tracks with lime." Read article... Comments (4) Corpse-Lovers Of Zamboanga ABS-CBN News | Submitted by: furpo "A number of female corpses have been removed from their destroyed graves here, which authorities believe were abused by a group of necrophiliacs. About 5 dead bodies have been discovered in two cemeteries in Barangay Mercedes since October... Just recently, a corpse of a female teacher was found hanging upside down from her own stockings tied to a nearby post. Authorities said the victim's underwear was also removed and was placed on her head." Read article... Comments (7) Out, Out, Damned Spot Herald Sun | Submitted by: PainterPubes "Just hours after stabbing a prostitute to death in his lounge room, a man painted over her blood stains with white paint... Police found Ms King's naked body hidden under Mr Potts' bed... She had been stabbed twice, with one wound extending from her lower chest to her liver and another between her shoulder blades." Read article... Comments (5) QP Goes Into How Many Years? Life Tyler Morning Telegraph | Submitted by: Veggie "A Smith County jury found a Tyler man guilty on Thursday of possession of less than five pounds but more than four ounces of marijuana in a drug-free zone; the man was sentenced to 35 years confinement in prison... The man's criminal record included two felonies from more than twenty years ago. "Wooten pulled bag after bag from his pockets like one of those clowns you see -- and in the driver's seat of his car was a big bag and digital scales." Read article... Comments (22) Toefl Specialist Charged In Visa Scam Wire Services | Submitted by: M. Atta, sufferin'~ "Investigators say Higgins was the leader of a ring that helped more than 100 foreign students illegally obtain U.S. student visas over past several years. Higgins does not hold a college degree... "If he was taking an exam, he was getting approximately $1,000 to $1,200. If he was attending classes, it was obviously a little bit more." In one case, a blond woman working for Higgins was allowed to take an exam using a fake ID that paired her photo with a man's Arabic name." Read article... and This article... Comments (6) Another Attempt At A National ID Card Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: anonymous "Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain... Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker." Read article... Comments (26) Supply Side Arrests Provide Trickle-Down Justice WABC | Submitted by: ScortchDearth "Officer Polanco says One Police Plaza's obsession with keeping crime stats down has gotten out of control. He claims Precinct Commanders relentlessly pressure cops on the street to make more arrests, and give out more summonses, all to show headquarters they have a tight grip on their neighborhoods... "They have to meet a quota. One arrest and twenty summonses," said Officer Polanco." Under the policy, teenage minorities are easy meat. Read article... Comments (12) Swedes Prank With Frosty Pricks The Local SE | Submitted by: Pubeend "The self-professed officer revealed that he and his cop buddy "bell-ended the door handles, window buttons, gear stick, steering wheel, stereo buttons and the police radio buttons, as well as the receiver used to talk to the operations room." The practice of bell-ending, or ollning, involves a man touching an object with his glans and has established itself as a recurring form of practical joke in Sweden. The term comes from ollon, the Swedish word for glans." Read article... Comments (133) Monday March 08, 2010 Hold-Out Grandmother Buried Alive Telegraph | Submitted by: ditchley "Wang Cuyun was attempting to prevent a demolition team from knocking down her house when she was allegedly beaten by a worker with a wooden stick and then pushed into a ditch that had been dug around the property. A bulldozer then covered Mrs Wang with earth, burying her alive. By the time her relatives dug her up, she was dead." Read article... Comments (35) Footballer Impaled By Court Plank Wire Services | Submitted by: Veggie "Rocha Costa, 23, died Sunday of a of a hemorrhagic shock caused by a piece of floor plank that injured his leg and a portion of his intestine when he went down legs-first to try and get the ball off a rival during a friendly match between Guarapuava Sporting Athletic Club and and Palmeiras Jundiai." Read article... Comments (14) Pearls Dangle From Royal Spaniel New York Daily News | Submitted by: Just one of the Pope's rent-boys~ "The would-be future queen of England had to search through dog poop after her cocker spaniel ate a pair of pricey pearl earrings given to her by Prince William... Otto eventually produced the evidence of his guilt, but the earrings were damaged beyond repair." Read article... Comments (21) Homophobic State Senator Comes Out NBC Los Angeles | Submitted by: ditchley "Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) said he felt compelled to address the rumors: "I am gay. And so, those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long." The statement comes just days after Ashburn, who has a history of voting against gay rights legislation, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving near the state Capitol. A Sacramento television station reported that he was at a gay nightclub prior to the arrest." Read article... Comments (62) Gratuitous Police Car Crotch Shot Courthouse News | Submitted by: ditchley "The officer left her alone in the squad car and she "tried to get her handcuffs from behind her back to the front... During this process, plaintiff inadvertently exposed her genitals when the handcuffs reached around her pants. [The officer] took advantage of plaintiff's compromising position by photographing her genitals, then uploaded the pornographic photo to a law enforcement database." Read article... Comments (16) Token Head From Sexless Marriage Herald Sun | Submitted by: KnibblyPubes "The husband cut off his wife's head with a kitchen knife because she refused to have a child with him... Cousin allegedly told police that his wife had refused to have sex with him during their marriage because she was afraid any child would be born with multiple sclerosis." Read article... Comments (12) Rocker's Girlfriend Smacked With Guitar New Orleans Times-Picayune | Submitted by: epsas_ "Investigators said Brooks and his girlfriend got into a shouting match Wednesday about 3 a.m. at her home. At some point, he grabbed a guitar and smashed it into the side of her head, causing a 5-inch cut... The woman told police she tried to run out of the home through the front door, but Brooks grabbed her and threw her to the floor. Brooks reportedly stood over her and said, "I'm sorry, but I'll have to kill you because you'll send me to jail." Read article... Comments (21) Bargain Contract Too Good To Be True New York Post | Submitted by: azdollarbill "An upper-crust Long Island hausfrau accused of hiring a hit man to off her hubby lamented she could only afford to maim him -- but then was thrilled to learn she could whack him at a bargain-basement price of just $20,000... Susan was busted Thursday after authorities secretly recorded her negotiating with the "hit man" -- actually an undercover cop." Read article... Comments (14) Nigerian Violence Perpetuates Itself BBC News | Submitted by: fucktardmama "Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in Nigeria's Plateau State in clashes between Muslims and Christians... Villages had been attacked by men with machetes who came from nearby hills... Jos has been under a military curfew since January when at least 200 people died in clashes between Christians and Muslims.... The situation is exacerbated by Nigeria's system of classifying its citizens as "indigenes" and "settlers". The Hausa-speaking Muslims are classified as "settlers" even if they have lived there for generations and have no knowledge of their "home" region." Read article... and This article... Comments (14) Dozens Dead In Turkey Quake Christian Science Monitor | Submitted by: ditchley "People were sleeping in their mud-brick houses when the 6.0-magnitude quake struck at 4:32 am local time, killing 51 villagers... "Everything has been knocked down, there is not a stone in place." Read article... Comments (11) Palin Enjoyed Benefits Of Canadian Health Care Globe & Mail | Submitted by: Veggie "The vocal opponent of health-care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse: "We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?" Read article... Comments (28) Bank Robber Puffs Dye Pack Post Tribune | Submitted by: merrillvillain "A witness watched Wednesday as a car pulled away from the Centier Bank -- and a cloud of red smoke began to billow from the vehicle... During interviews, police said, Campbell admitted to robbing Centier Bank on Wednesday. He also admitted to robbing 11 other banks in Northern Indiana and Michigan, including in Warsaw, Plymouth, Hebron, Rensselaer and Chesterton." Read article... Comments (126) Sunday March 07, 2010 Threesome Bound To Suicide Pact Herald Scotland | Submitted by: ditchley "Two men and a woman have died after plunging from the 15th floor of a Glasgow tower block in an apparent triple suicide pact... The three adults, who were tied together, were found by a concierge yesterday morning lying at the base of the Red Road flats in the Springburn area of the city." Read article... Comments (19) Iceland's Promising Media Protection Law Al Jazeera English | Submitted by: v^_^v "Iceland is making bid to bring together some of the most progressive media laws from around the world to create one holistic law that will position the north Atlantic country at the forefront of the battle to protect journalists, whistle blowers and their sources from legal action." [Video report] Read article... Comments (6) Hokum Providers Hide Behind UK Libel Law Guardian | Submitted by: ditchley "Simon Singh, science writer and co-author of a book about alternative medicine, provoked a libel suit from the British Chiropractic Association ... whom he accused of supporting "bogus" treatments for children... A staggering one in four chiropractors in Britain are now under investigation for allegedly making misleading claims in advertisements, according to figures from the General Chiropractic Council." Read article... and This article... Comments (17) Boy Genius Beaten By Little Girl Washington Post | Submitted by: anonymous "Karl Rove's partisan bloodlust flowered early. At age 9 -- and already a political nerd -- he became a spirited supporter of Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential smackdown against John F. Kennedy. So intense was his devotion that he landed a coveted Nixon bumper sticker and displayed it proudly on his bicycle basket -- until a little girl in his neighborhood who favored JFK beat the stuffing out of him, bloodying his nose and ego." Read article... Comments (18) A Hybristophile's Dream Job Austin American-Statesman | Submitted by: arduous "The jury that will soon decide whether convicted killer Milton Dwayne Gobert gets the death penalty learned Thursday that since Gobert's 2003 arrest he has wooed at least two female Travis County jail officers into forbidden romantic relationships... One of the officers testified that after the start of Gobert's trial last week, she gave him a cell phone so when he called her from jail, their conversations would not be recorded." Read article... Comments (14) Teacher's Proxy Supervises Blowjobs London Telegraph | Submitted by: 'Staffa "During the second sex session, the teenager noticed a video camera was switched on and pointing at the bed. He scrolled back through the footage and saw his teacher setting up the camera and positioning it in the bedroom. When confronted by the pupil, his teacher apologized and claimed it was joke, but on their return the boy reported him." Read article... Comments (10) Overwork Built Kleen Energy Boneyard New York Daily News | Submitted by: Sittin' back, countin' profits "A federal agency investigating a power plant explosion in Connecticut that killed six workers last month says some workers were putting in long hours and they're looking into whether fatigue played a role... Dobratz, whose father was killed in the blast, said last month his dad had told him he had been working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for six months." Read article... Comments (8) Hungry Pups Fend For Themselves New York Daily News | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "Two pugs feasted on the flesh of their owner for two weeks after he died... Feeding on the corpse would be normal behavior for dogs left without food or water for such a long time." Read article... Comments (12) American Al Qaeda Operative Arrested Wire Services | Submitted by: Heronmys Laverne, polka_master "An operative of Al Qaeda believed to be an American was arrested in the sprawling southern city of Karachi in recent days by Pakistani security officials... Initial reports seemed to have confused him with Adam Gadahn, a California native who has been a Qaeda spokesman and often appears on videos calling for strikes against targets in the United States." Read article... Comments (7) Prison Guard Squirted With Tit Milk New York Daily News | Submitted by: syd1138 "A western Kentucky woman, already in jail for alcohol intoxication, gets into more trouble for assaulting a deputy in an unusual way... Investigators say the damsel was changing into an inmate uniform when she sprayed breast milk into the face of a deputy." Read article... Comments (122) Saturday March 06, 2010 Memento From A Beheading Bild | Submitted by: PartialPubes "The killer had carried out the beheading on Fatma N. in a bedroom before running through the rooms of her four children and fleeing with the head. Police have been hunting for the murderer for over a month without trace. Now the dead victim's distraught husband Nari N. has begged: "Give me my wife's head back and let her rest in peace!" Read article... Comments (20) Facebook Prehistory: Never Trust A Harvard Boy Business Insider | Submitted by: v^_^v Friend: So have you decided what you're going to do about the websites? Zuckerberg: Yeah, I'm going to fuck them Zuckerberg: Probably in the year Zuckerberg: *ear Read article... Comments (24) Disinfo Homeschool, Courtesy Bob Jones University Press San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: v^_^v "Two of the best-selling biology textbooks for homeschoolers stack the deck against evolution: "Those who do not believe that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God will find many points in this [biology textbook] puzzling... Christian worldview ... is the only correct view of reality; anyone who rejects it will not only fail to reach heaven but also fail to see the world as it truly is." Read article... Comments (45) Armed Robbers Reap Poker Jackpot The Local DE | Submitted by: Hitler's Zweite Ei "Armed robbers on Saturday struck at Germany's largest poker tournament, stealing hundreds of thousands of euros in prize money and injuring gamblers, police said... Six robbers armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and grenades made off with €800,000." Read article... Comments (13) Dead Recluse Holds Easter Egg Hunt Stuff NZ | Submitted by: kiwidude "Police have finished making safe up to 50 suspected bombs booby-trapped at a dead pensioner's home in southern Sydney. The devices were discovered throughout the home, inside a car on the driveway and on a gas meter. The one in the car consisted of a pressure switch on the front seat connected to canisters and wires." Read article... Comments (13) Inner Carpenter Comes Out AZ Central | Submitted by: roadkillchef "Devault screamed, clawed, bit and fought against her husband of nine years as he allegedly choked and raped her... Walking back from the bathroom, Devault said she snapped. She grabbed a hammer from a bedroom table near her sleeping husband, and... "I said, You don't own me, and I just hit and I, I hit with both hands and it -- and I just kept hitting him. I didn't mean to kill him. Really, I didn't. I hit him and I didn't mean to. It was a bloody mess. Tired. Just tired." Read article... Comments (33) Loose Prescription Pad Dispenses Death Wire Services | Submitted by: Mad Henry, touching himself down there...again! "The Schneiders were arrested in 2007 on charges they unlawfully prescribed drugs, overbilled for medical services and committed money laundering. The government alleges that from 2002 through 2007, Schneider Medical Clinic patients who died of drug overdoses accounted for 18 percent of all such deaths in Sedgwick County and surrounding areas." Read article... Comments (7) Bear Snaps Up Finger Sandwich Green Bay Press Gazette | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "An Asiatic black bear at Lincoln Park Zoo bit off four fingers from the hand of a 47-year-old woman Friday after she went past barriers and tried to feed the animal... Her boyfriend tried to pry the bear's mouth off her hand and also was bitten." Read article... Comments (25) Bullets Fly At Roller Rink Post Tribune | Submitted by: merrillvillain "Eight teenage boys suffered gunshot wounds late Friday as they exited a popular Gary skating rink after attending a concert... "All chaos broke loose." Read article... Comments (25) Bitch Killer's Auto De Fe New York Daily News | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "A blond beauty who bravely fought off a rapist in Central Park six years ago fatally shot her boyfriend before torching their New Jersey home and then killing herself... Investigators identified the pair's remains Friday, but it was still unclear what led to the shootings." Read article... Comments (12) Jersey Whore Amateur Pornosec Travails Esquire | Submitted by: v^_^v "A porn star is in many ways an athlete, and athletes get injuries. She had a gruesome one. The veteran actress suffered an anal tear that led to drug problems and weight gain -- "I'm Italian, so eating is natural to me" -- taking her out of the game for two years." Read article... Comments (14) Vulva Shaved During Car Crash Keys News | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "A two-vehicle crash Tuesday was caused by a 37-year-old woman driver who was shaving her bikini area while her ex-husband took the wheel from the passenger seat... "She said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be ready for the visit. If I wasn't there, I wouldn't have believed it. About 10 years ago I stopped a guy in the exact same spot ... who had three or four syringes sticking out of his arm. It was just surreal and I thought, Nothing will ever beat this. Well, this takes it." Read article... Comments (19) Pope's Canonization On Shaky Ground Guardian | Submitted by: artemisia "It was the miracle that set Pope John Paul II on the road to sainthood and provided faithful followers with proof of his holy powers. But hopes that the former pope's canonisation would be fast-tracked by Sister Marie Simon-Pierre's recovery from Parkinson's disease have been set back by reports that the French nun has fallen ill again." Read article... Comments (8) Fish Rain On Outback Village Daily Mail | Submitted by: v^_^v "Hundreds of spangled perch bombarded the 650 residents of Lajamanu... "These fish fell in their hundreds and hundreds all over the place. The locals were running around everywhere picking them up. The fish were all alive when they hit the ground so they would have been alive when they were up there flying around the sky." Read article... Comments (9) Antarctic Glacier Vomits Blood Atlas Obscura | Submitted by: ditchley "This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys... Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes." Terror bacterial colony from the mountains of madness! Read article... Comments (18) Housefront Transported To Panama Buffalo News | Submitted by: r2xman "Nearly two years ago, 14 University at Buffalo graduate students detached the front of a 2-story house at 15 S. Putnam St., turned it on its side and reattached it to the frame... "The house is completely gutted and really is an eyesore. The owner hasn't done anything with it, and if she was going to do something, she would have done something by now." Read article... Comments (201) Friday March 05, 2010 Art Disturbs Milquetoast Church Exhibit Houston Chronicle | Submitted by: v^_^v "The elders at Ecclesia Church were expecting something tame from Jackson Potts II for their annual Stations of the Cross art display... Instead, the 10-year-old produced a photo of his kid brother being beaten by a police officer. Jackson says it's a modern-day interpretation of Roman soldiers beating Jesus. Church elders declined to display it in the church's art gallery." [What a photo] Read article... Comments (35) Chinese Express Mastery Of Glorious Lulz New York Times | Submitted by: ditchley "The human-flesh search crossed over to other Web sites, then to the mainstream media -- so far a crucial multiplier in every major human-flesh search... Most of Wang's private information was revealed: cellphone number, student ID, work contacts, even his brother’s license-plate number. And then the hazing began... "The idea that you manage the local bureaucracy by sicking the masses on them is actually not a democratic tradition but a Maoist tradition." Read article... Comments (16) Virtual Children More Fun To Raise Asia One | Submitted by: ratass "Online game addiction in Korean society has gone far beyond a mere social nuisance, resulting in accidental deaths and even murders. The police on Wednesday detained a married couple who, seriously addicted to internet games, left their three-month-old daughter to starve to death last year... The game which stole their attention away from their baby was ironically a role playing game in which they raised a virtual character of a young girl." Read article... Comments (16) Marine Murdered By Pentagon-Paid Opium Thugs The Raw Story | Submitted by: ferret "These men are armed to the teeth and supposedly here for our protection. We have been shot at by the contractors on several cases before this incident. We have been told to refrain from returning fire and attempt to identify ourselves as Marines so they stop shooting... They are also drug abusers. The shooter was found to have copious amounts of wet opium on him shortly after the shooting... A mix of drugs and gray areas of loyalty between U.S. forces and Taliban seems to be the motivation behind the shooting." Read article... Comments (15) Cowschwitz Drowning In Feces Washington Post | Submitted by: Toodles Pookie "Animal manure, a byproduct as old as agriculture, has become an unlikely modern pollution problem. The country simply has more dung than it can handle: Crowded together at a new breed of megafarms, livestock produce three times as much waste as people, more than can be recycled as fertilizer for nearby fields... "I don't want to be the Poop Lady," said Phillips, who got into environmentalism because she loved to surf Ocean City's beaches. "But, you know, somebody had to talk about this. It's like this dirty little secret." Read article... Comments (21) Arctic Methane To Hasten Warmageddon Discovery | Submitted by: Bort "But the research team's observations showed that the permafrost submerged on the shelf is perforated and leaking large amounts of methane into the atmosphere. More than 80 percent of the deep water and more than half of surface water had methane levels around eight times higher than found in normal seawater, according to the study published in the journal Science." Methane in the atmosphere is of course, far worse a problem than mere CO2. Read article... Comments (27) Lap Dances Analyzed Individually Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: epsas_ "An attorney representing another defendant has claimed that investigatory reports show one undercover officer spent at least $16,835 buying more than 130 lap dances without making a single arrest." Read article... Comments (19) Failed Stripper Turned Arsonist Convicted ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: ferret "Authorities say the attack took place after the two women got into an argument outside the Babes & Beer bar, where Busby worked as a dancer... The two women had been arguing when Theriault-Odom doused Busby with gasoline from a soda bottle and set her ablaze at the Tarzana club... Theriault-Odom apparently had been refused a job as a dancer at the club." Read article... Comments (15) Women And Children First Wire Services | Submitted by: pundit "Sixty-three people, all of them women and children, were crushed to death in a stampede on Thursday at a temple in northern India where a crowd had gathered for a religious festival... The stampede was triggered when an under-construction gate collapsed on the crowd as people surged forward to collect free food and clothes from a local holy man in northern Uttar Pradesh state." Read article... Comments (17) Religious Pamphleteers Cry: Blame The Victim Tri-Cities | Submitted by: anonymous "Nineteen-year-old Canter handed three burgers, fries and milkshakes to a car-load of Tuesday afternoon customers at the Hi-Lo Burger's drive-though window. A lady sitting in the backseat leaned forward, between the two men in front, and handed her a leaflet: Women & Girls it said across the top. "Even though nothing is showing, you’re being ungodly," Canter recalled the woman telling her. "You make men want to be sinful." "I just asked if she needed any salt, pepper or ketchup," Canter said. "I mean, how do I respond to that?" Read article... Comments (46) Girl Attrits From Would-be Triple Suicide Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by: L. Uvsteenblondepuhhhhh "On Thursday morning, Vanessa Dorwart and Gina Gentile, 16, were killed instantly by a high-speed Acela Express train from Boston to Washington. The girls stepped onto the tracks to carry out a suicide pact... What happened next, Kimberly Dorwart describes as "adding insult to injury." Text messages with varying accounts of what transpired spread like wildfire throughout the community." Read article... Comments (19) Hungry Escalator Nibbles Young Toes WBBM-TV 2 Chicago | Submitted by: Incubus "That's what happened to young Anthony, who had come to Midway Airport with his parents. Holding his mother's hand, riding down this escalator which didn't have those brushes... About a third of the way down, Anthony's sneaker caught between the stair and the side, and literally ripped apart; the steel stair then cutting into his foot." Read article... Comments (12) Papal Boy Procurement Plan Gay News Watch | Submitted by: ferret "One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in St Peter's Basilica have been implicated in a gay prostitution ring, in the latest sexual scandal to taint the Vatican... "In one wiretap from last December, Renzi is heard explaining the rules of engagement: "You'll get up to 2,000 euros... Do not touch his balls. You need the money. Put on some music, swallow a Viagra, and adelante!" Read article... and This... and This... Comments (15) The Sweet Life Of Juche Tyrants Wire Services | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Kim Jong Ryul, who spent 16 years under cover in Austria, also described how the "great leader" and his son and successor Kim Jong Il spent millions pampering and protecting themselves with Western goods -- everything from luxury cars, carpets and exotic foods, to monitors that can detect heartbeats of people hiding behind walls and gold-plated handguns." Read article... Comments (13) Lone Gunman Assaults Pentagon Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: ditchley "The sole suspect in Thursday's Pentagon shooting died from the wounds he received in gunfire exchange with police, deepening the mystery surrounding the failed assault on the Defense Department's sprawling headquarters... The incident began when Mr. Bedell emerged from the Pentagon subway station Thursday evening and made his way to a nearby guard post. When the officers asked for his identification, Mr. Bedell pulled out a semiautomatic handgun and started shooting." Read article... Comments (11) FBI Flush For Informant Hal The Raw Story | Submitted by: ferret "Turning informant on your fans can be lucrative, if you're a shock jock by the name of Hal Turner. Amid a trial where Turner faces criminal charges for making threats of violence against public servants, he disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation paid him "in excess of $100,000" over a five-year period." Read article... Comments (7) Free Face Tat For The First Caller London Telegraph | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "He was set upon by a group of men who hit him with a baseball bat, kicked and punched him, before holding him down and using a tattoo gun to etch the word Dog onto his skull." Various literary parallels are supposed: "However, police have denied that the book could have inspired the attack because the suspects "aren't the reading type." Read article... Comments (6) Draino Clears Clogged Schoolyard WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: Incubus "The mother of a student on Detroit's southwest side is defending her son he was charged with discharging a so-called "Drano bomb" inside the building. "He can't even make Kool-Aid. So how is he going to do something like that?" The explosive device, made of household cleaning chemicals, went off in the hallway of the building at about 8:30 a.m., sending fumes into the air." Read article... Comments (13) Electrodick Followup: Pissing Was Coincidental Wire Services | Submitted by: conculcate "The results Wednesday showed 50-year-old Messenger touched the wire with his left hand and the current shot through his body to his feet. He may have been urinating at the time but it had nothing to do with his death." Read article... Comments (7) CBS Desperate To Showcase Dick Zits Courthouse News | Submitted by: ferret "A patient claims the producers of CBS TV show The Doctors tricked him into appearing before a live studio audience to undergo laser surgery for pearly penile papules, then broadcast his penis operation without his consent... Producers shoved a bunch of release forms in front of him and persuaded him to sign, Bowling says. After that, the producers escorted Bowling onstage in front of the live audience, he says." Read article... Comments (250) Daily Rotten Archives..