Monday February 08, 2010 Submit a story for publication. Want to support Daily Rotten? Buy a membership at Pornopolis! Also: Visit the Rotten Store D Is For Drowniglugglghg Seattle Times | Submitted by: GitmoPubes "A Fort Lewis soldier has been charged with assault after he allegedly held his 4-year-old daughter mostly underwater because she couldn't recite the alphabet... Officers found the girl hiding in a locked bathroom and covered with extensive bruises all over her body, including her ears." Read article... Comments (27) Molotov Man Firebombs Police Stations San Diego Union-Tribune | Submitted by: Eric "A 26-year-old man accused of throwing firebombs at several locations -- including two police stations, a school and a house -- was arrested early yesterday after a high-speed chase that started in Del Mar Heights and ended in Temecula... The chase ended when the SUV’s tires were flattened by the spike strip. Luque said the driver was throwing gas cans and other objects, including Molotov cocktails, out the window during the pursuit." Read article... Comments (14) Sniper Streak Exposes War's Jollies London Telegraph | Submitted by: TallyHoPubes "For nine hours without a break he manned a compound rooftop with a few sandbags hiding his position as he picked off the enemy. His skills were put to the test when his patrol came under fire after it moved into a compound in an area north of Lashkar Gah in central Helmand last Monday. He took up his position and waited patiently for enemy troops to appear. His victims included two Taliban shot in a ditch at a distance of about 800 yards, including one who was hit in the throat." Read article... Comments (13) Stowaway Frozen By Landing Gear CNN | Submitted by: blithe "A body was found in the landing gear bay of an airplane that arrived at Tokyo's Narita Airport Sunday, the airport announced. The man was of dark complexion and dressed in blue jeans and a red and dark blue long-sleeved shirt... Police said he possibly froze to death and suffered a shortage of oxygen at high altitude." Read article... Comments (13) Doing A Bit Of Butchery BBC News | Submitted by: scarred 4 life A man who killed his ex-partner tried to hack off her head in front of her children... "He was looking scary. Then he got a penknife out. He started to cut her throat. "It was all a blur. I was running around like a headless chicken, then he jumped off her and ran to the kitchen to grab a knife." A blood-soaked Cooper then drove to the home of his 64-year-old stepfather and attacked him with a meat cleaver.." Read article... Comments (8) Ditchy Base Colonel Shackled Macleans CA | Submitted by: ferret "The commander of one of Canada’s largest military bases is in a prison cell today, accused of murdering two Ontario women -- including a fellow service member -- and sexually assaulting two others... Needless to say, news of his arrest sent shockwaves through the Department of National Defence, where Williams seemed destined for an eventual promotion to general." Read article... Comments (9) Heartbeat Stopped In Mid-Text New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: P Ray "K was seen with Libby who, like most young people was busily texting, said Mr Smith. They ducked off the road and suddenly the texting stopped. The Crown's case was that K knocked the girl down then strangled her. After that he dragged her unconscious down to the bank of the Wairoa stream. He pulled down her pants exposing her genitalia and lifted her bra to expose a breast in an attempt to indicate Libby was the victim of rape." Read article... Comments (9) Loaded Officer Threatens Bouncer News On 6 | Submitted by: johnnyb "They felt like it was to the point where he needed to go. And we had already cut him off from drinking," said Huff, Oscar's Gastro Pub owner... Huff and a bouncer asked Fees to leave, but Fees refused. Witnesses said employees then had to "forcibly remove him from the bar." Once outside, witnesses said Fees pulled out a revolver and "pointed it at one employee's head." [BANG] Read article... Comments (8) A Rambler, Wouldn't You Say STV | Submitted by: JK "Gough was allowed to conduct his own defence in open court while completely naked. But he was found guilty of breach of the peace and contempt of court. He will now serve 180 days of his previous sentence plus 12 months for his new offence as well as three months for contempt of court." Read article... Comments (17) Uniform Components Go Missing Northampton Chron | Submitted by: Sumproduct "A cross-dresser has appeared in court charged with breaching an anti-social behaviour order which bans him from loitering outside primary schools in Northampton wearing a Britney Spears-style schoolgirl uniform... Parents walking with their children to nearby Woodvale Primary School had claimed Trigger had bent over, shown his bare thighs and indicated he was wearing no underwear." Read article... Comments (8) Alfresco Rumpy-Pumpy May Repel Tourists London Telegraph | Submitted by: ForkadorkPubes "A number of male drakes have become engaged in the "wild mob-handed mating technique" when chasing female partners in the breeding season, Thirsk locals said. Experts say the birds have become aggressive due to the decreasing number of females throughout the area... "This is quite a familiar scenario when it comes to ducks and when it comes to mating they are quite aggressive. It’s an interesting problem." Read article... Comments (11) Gully Dumpers Blame Each Other New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: P Ray "An intellectually disabled woman was found wrapped in sheets, wearing an incontinence nappy and weighted down by an 11kg rock... Two beneficiaries deny they committed manslaughter by assaulting Ms Joseph, causing her death... Each of the accused knew the other was abusing Ms Joseph but did nothing to stop it from happening." Read article... Comments (8) Chinese Raid Hacking Vocational School The Register | Submitted by: huhmmb "Police froze assets more than 1.7 million yuan ($250,000 dollars) in assets and seized nine web servers, five computers and a car when they raided the Xuchang city, Henan headquarters of Black Hawk Safety Net back in November... Black Hawk Safety Net offered hacker tools and Trojan software to 12,000 VIP paid-up members. Another 170,000 had signed up to the site for the reduced set of tools available to casual, non-paying members. The firm is also accused of running 'hacking for cybercrooks' courses." Read article... Comments (5) Sumi, Miga, Mukmuk, Medved London Telegraph | Submitted by: BarefacedPubes "The Gazeta Olsztynska published an image showing false bear alongside genuine Olympic mascots Quatchi, Sumi, Miga and Mukmuk to illustrate feature about Games." dickholed Read article... Comments (8) Definitely Not Getting Deposit Back Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: merrillvillain "An Antioch Township man -- found stabbed to death in his home last week -- was killed by a tenant who had started renting part of his house only a week earlier... Queen had been stabbed to death in his kitchen, then dragged into another room... A bloody butcher knife was found under his body. Another knife -- also stained with blood -- was nearby... A safe in Queen’s rural home near Antioch was found open -- and empty." Read article... Comments (35) Sunday February 07, 2010 Extra Chromosome Activates Superpower Stuff NZ | Submitted by: P Ray "Kight, 17, was born with an extra Y chromosome -- which has been linked to aggressive behaviour... Kight left a party after 1am and walked to the nearby house of a family friend. On finding the house unoccupied, he went through every drawer and cupboard of every room. He opened a gun cabinet and took two shotguns, a .22 rifle and a BB gun... About 3am Kight was driving northeast on Farndon Rd, near Clive, at speeds of up to 250kmh when he lost control of the car. He flipped the 2008 Audi station wagon several times before it came to rest more than 250 metres from the road." Read article... Comments (80) Headless Dogs Drift Downstream WTHR-TV 13 Indianapolis | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Possibly Greyhounds. There are eight animals in the water. It looks like none have heads. Heads have been removed. We'll know more once we get them out of the water..." Read article... Comments (17) Eat Shit And Confess, Witch Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: BushJaw "A woman has been tortured by her neighbours for two days and forced to eat faeces and urine before she finally gave in and confessed to practising witchcraft. "The next day they cut my skin with blades. I could not bear the torture and I confessed to being a witch just to save my life." Read article... Comments (16) Light Aircraft Kapow In Midspace Colorado Daily | Submitted by: anonymous "Three people died Saturday afternoon after two planes, one of them pulling a glider, collided midair in north Boulder, scattering debris over 115 acres of open space... Witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion at the time of the crash and seeing a fireball in the sky. A parachute drifted slowly to the ground with what appeared to many observers to be debris engulfed in flames entangled in the ropes." Read article... Comments (13) Karaoke Machines Spark My Way Gunplay New York Times | Submitted by: huhmmb "The trouble with My Way," said Mr. Gregorio, "is that everyone knows it and everyone has an opinion"... The Philippines is a very violent society, so karaoke only triggers what already exists here when certain social rules are broken... In karaoke bars where one song costs 5 pesos, or a tenth of a dollar, strangers often rub shoulders, sometimes uneasily. A subset of karaoke bars with G.R.O.'s -- short for guest relations officers, a euphemism for female prostitutes -- often employ gay men, who are seen as neutral, to defuse the undercurrent of tension among the male patrons." Read article... Comments (11) Poochbutts Freeze After Tasting Basilisk Florida Today | Submitted by: Mendo Green "A Broward veterinary neurologist first sounded alarm, Dr. Roberts said several dogs came in with paralyzed hindquarters, and he couldn’t diagnose them... The iguana carcasses litter some neighborhoods, and have been deadly for some dogs. They seem to be contracting botulism, an infection causes paralysis." Read article... Comments (12) Lahore Lawyers Close Ranks Asia News | Submitted by: Communist Motherfucker "The murder of young domestic worker, raped and murdered by her employer, is marred by delays and red tape. The murderer, a rich lawyer from Lahore, is getting a VIP treatment from police. Catholics and members of human rights groups have come out in support of the family and are suing the culprit." Read article... Comments (11) Urban Comforts Slashed; Tax The Churches? Denver Post | Submitted by: arduous "More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday... Water cutbacks mean most parks will be dead, brown turf by July; the flower and fertilizer budget is zero... One woman recalled an incident a few years ago as she waited for a bus. A carload of drunken men approached her until the police helicopter that had been trailing them turned a spotlight on the men and chased them off. Now the helicopter is gone, and the streetlight she was waiting under is threatened as well [to say nothing of the bus]." Read article... Comments (37) My Freedom For A Pie Stuff NZ | Submitted by: P Ray "An Auckland pie-lover has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his stepson in the neck... When police ordered him to drop his hands, the man refused to drop his pie... When police tried to lead the accused away he attempted to make a deal -- the rest of the pie, which had been left on the ground, as reward for handing himself in." Read article... Comments (15) Only One Knob Here For Twisting Buffalo News | Submitted by: general A 26-year-old Buffalo man is accused of keeping a runaway 13-year-old girl locked in his home for nearly six months and having sex with her more than 100 times... The apartment had no doorknobs, and the exit door could only be opened by using a key to two dead-bolt locks, according to a police report." Read article... Comments (18) Burqa-Boys Hit Post Office Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: BushJaw "Two burqa-wearing robbers have held up a French post office using a handgun concealed beneath an Islamic-style full veil. Officials said postal office staff let the pair through the security double doors of the banking branch near Paris, believing them to be veil-wearing Muslim women... France is seeking to restrict use of the head-to-toe Islamic veil on the grounds it is incompatible with French values, after a parliament report called for a ban in schools, hospitals, government offices and public transport." Read article... Comments (19) Attack! Of The Synthetic Immortal Parasites The Raw Story | Submitted by: ferret "BioDesign eliminates the randomness of natural evolutionary advancement primarily by advanced genetic engineering and molecular biology technologies to produce the intended biological effect," the DARPA document states. The agency says it wants to develop "a robust understanding of the collective mechanisms that contribute to cell death" so as to "enable a new generation of regenerative cells that could ultimately be programmed to live indefinitely." Read article... Comments (9) Power Station Explosion Rattles Nutmeggers Hartford Courant | Submitted by: dd u feel th@ goyl "Homeowners as far away as Mystic said the 11 a.m. explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems power plant on River Road created a shock wave so intense they mistakenly thought the central part of the state had experienced an earthquake. Rescue officers worked throughout the day in an effort to prepare a casualty list. Middletown officials confirmed at least five dead and dozens injured." Read article... Comments (7) Rude Shovelman Refuses To Dig Titties News On 6 | Submitted by: johnnyb "The man walked into Night Trips at about 10:25 p.m. brandishing a large shovel. Police at the scene said the man started swinging the shovel at people in the club until he was stopped by club security. Night Trips bouncers subdued the man in the parking lot outside the club." Read article... Comments (13) Thne Drinks are On Me Buffalo News | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "A 39-year-old man known to her broke into her home early Saturday morning and poured a bottle of rum on her. The suspect then allegedly took off his clothes and climbed into the bed. The woman told him to get out, and the man put his clothes back on and left out the side door of the home." Read article... Comments (217) Saturday February 06, 2010 Frazzled Executive Slays Son In Dream New York Post | Submitted by: azdollarbill "A wealthy pharmaceutical exec -- distraught about an imaginary upcoming divorce and custody battle -- murdered her 8-year-old son and tried to kill herself yesterday in a deluxe suite at the Peninsula Hotel on Fifth Avenue, officials said... Jordan was discovered barely conscious, slumped on the floor, "babbling incoherently"... The $1,175-a-night room was littered with pill bottles and "thousands" of loose pills and scattered documents -- including a suicide note penned by Jordan, who is believed to have a net worth of about $100 million." Read article... Comments (36) Teenaged Bullfighter Stabs Six San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: huhmmb "After skillful cape-work, he finished off the bull with a single deathblow from his sword, sliding it into a spot where it severed the beast's spinal chord. With the rest of the bulls he needed around three stabs... For the fifth bull, he was awarded the animal's severed ears, one of the bullfighting world's prizes for a job well done. He took a slow victory lap around the ring, showing the organs to the crowd." Read article... Comments (22) Outraged At Puberty, Gunman Blasts CNN | Submitted by: spacecadet "I was walking down the hallway and just saw a whole bunch of kids start screaming and running, telling me there was a gunshot, [that] there was a kid that got shot in the ninth grade"... "It was some discussion about gang-related things and the shooter just got fed up with it"... The school went into lockdown until 3 p.m., leaving panicked parents outside, unable to pick up their children." Read article... Comments (12) Crappy Police Databases Boost Revenue Independent | Submitted by: the laughing policeman "Police are using controversial car-surveillance technology aimed at catching criminals and terrorists to target members of the public in order to meet government performance targets and raise revenue... The UK's soft-crime initiative is now a multimillion-pound industry: parking fines levied last year totalled £330m, with another £100m from speed cameras. These numbers are expected to grow, along with fines for a burgeoning range of offences for everything from overloading wheelie bins to feeding the ducks. Some 200,000 spot fines for these garnered £12m last year." Read article... Comments (16) Fake Nun Kidnaps To Argentina CNN | Submitted by: Capt. Corpus_De_Montezuma "The child's parents said they know Caballero as "Sister Mary," but officials of the Catholic diocese of Orlando told CNN that Caballero is not a nun and is not part of the diocese... "She tried to purchase the child, and used threats and intimidation against the parents to have control and access to the child. She threatened to deport them and report them to DCF..." Read article... Comments (10) Ex-Boyfriend Posts "Rapist Wanted" Ad Buffalo News | Submitted by: anonymous "Authorities say a Wyoming woman was assaulted at her front door, raped at knifepoint in her living room and left bound on the floor, and they say one of the men charged in the brutal attack claimed that he thought it was invited... A few days before the Casper woman was raped, she had complained to the Sheriff's Department that someone had made a false Craigslist posting about her, including photographs and personal information. The ad read, Need a real aggressive man with no concern for women, authorities said." Read article... Comments (21) Covert Soldiers Die In Pakistan Bombing London Times | Submitted by: sorrow "The discovery of the dead US soldiers revealed that America’s shadowy war in Pakistan not only involves drones but also small cadres of special operations soldiers... The three US soldiers, who have been described variously as special operations forces and civil affairs troops, were killed when their convoy was bombed as it travelled to the re-opening of the school. More than 100 were wounded, mostly schoolgirls." Read article... Comments (22) Disillusioned Patricide Faces Life WISH-8 TV | Submitted by: Effect "An Indianapolis man who pleaded guilty to the gruesome murders of his mother and grandparents will spend the rest of his life in jail... The bodies were first discovered buried in concrete beneath the basement of the victim's home... Stabbed his mom, bludgeoned his grandfather with a hammer, and choked his grandmother with a plastic bag." Read article... Comments (10) Far Away, Some Gangsters Dismembered The Star MY | Submitted by: beomilf "A heated exchange of words during Thaipusam is believed to have led to a gang fight in Taman Wangi where three victims had their arms chopped off... In an unrelated case, police are looking for a 15-year-old who is believed to be involved in the murder of a pisang goreng (banana fritters) seller here." Read article... Comments (10) Far Away, Killer Chops Up Family Trinidad Guardian | Submitted by: lazy "When I got there, I saw my wife, Alicia James, lying in front of the house. She was covered with a white sheet. When I removed the sheet, there were chop wounds to her back. There was blood leading to the garage, she appeared to be dead... I saw a stab wound to the left side of my son's neck. I then saw my daughter, Giselle, lying on her back in the garage, and she appeared to be dead. Read article... Comments (12) More Cocaine Cut WIth Bug Powder TIME | Submitted by: poetboy "Where is it coming from? According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, levamisole has become increasingly popular as a "cut," or diluting agent, in cocaine and possibly some heroin. It is now found in 70% of all cocaine seized in the U.S... Some of Graf's patients waited months before seeking help, as patches of painful, blackened skin continued to grow -- and some continued to use cocaine despite learning that it caused their immune problems and that they could require plastic surgery to avoid permanent disfigurement." Read article... Comments (241) Friday February 05, 2010 Bad Bird Firebombs Office Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: BushJaw "A man accused of firebombing a Darwin insurance office has appeared in court barefoot and handcuffed this morning wearing a mask over his mouth and netting over his hair. The 45-year-old man, known only as Bird, appeared in the Darwin Magistrates Court, charged with nine counts of attempted murder, as well as arson, intent to cause explosion and reckless endangerment of life charges... A cream-coloured mask was wrapped around his mouth and neck, and fine black netting covered his eyes and short brown hair." Read article... Comments (16) Uncredentialed Quack Pokes Patients San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: BushJaw "Children were told they had cancer, adults were taken for thousands of dollars... From 2004 to 2007, prosecutors say, Andersson misdiagnosed several children as having skin cancer. He allegedly injected some adult patients with Interferon, a drug normally used to treat hepatitis C, for various skin problems. He poked others with a needle as a supposed cure for varicose veins." Read article... Comments (13) Stripped Down To The Toilets Life | Submitted by: anonymous "Rigorous, for-profit scavenging occurs in virtually every single abandoned building in Detroit -- until there's nothing left to pry, cut, wrench, or burn and carry out of the place. "From this one, church people have lifted masonry detailing, the marble baptismal fountain, gigantic radiators, as big as a man and weighing one or maybe two tons. I find it fascinating how similar places of worship look when they are stripped of the details that usually distinguish and differentiate them." [Submitter's daydream: this is probably what it will look like after nuclear war.] Read article... Comments (67) Trizzizzlinning Spacebook Flight Captain Snagged Buffalo News | Submitted by: R2xman "It was due to your diligence in keeping us informed that now you are under arrest," Capt. Richard Podgers, chief of detectives, coolly typed into the box on the webpage... The perp faces charges of driving while intoxicated, improper lane use, failure to keep right and unlawful possession of marijuana... Crego writes that he majored in "Buss. Mgmt." at Niagara County Community College and minored in "Cuttin' Class"; he writes he graduated from Lockport High School in 1988, majoring in "art" and minoring in "lunch." Read article... Comments (14) Pimpish Rev Sucks Lifestyle From Parish WFAA-TV 8 Dallas | Submitted by: Porta "He's splashy and hip; his message contemporary and cool. His marketing is tops in the world of mega-evangelism, making huge waves with his sermon in 2008 titled Seven Days of suhhhhhhhhhhhh With Brewer's help and a complex series of business creations and transactions, Young is now jetting around the country in a French-made Falcon 50 private jet; estimated value, $8.4 million... "They've been given a, uh, very special duty, and they they get benefits for getting that special duty, such as tax exemptions, charitable contribution deductions." Read article... Comments (14) Mom Shoots Son's Dong Off Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Submitted by: Guitarrrrrrrrded "A 21-year-old man whose mother shot him in the groin Thursday night told police he was trying to be funny by wearing a ski mask and pretending to rob her... The man said he pretended to rob his mother behind their house as she returned from shopping about 9 pm... His mother drew a .357-caliber revolver and fired several shots, hitting her son at least twice... The gun's serial number had been obliterated." Read article... Comments (22) Cocaine Bump Party Death Spiral Canoe | Submitted by: onymous "The confrontation began after the husband exchanged intimate photos of themselves with another couple... The confrontation took place in several rooms of their Sarnia home, including the kitchen, where the couple faced each other holding knives. At another point they were in a jacuzzi together... The neighbour testified he heard shouting and saw the couple, whom he vaguely knew, wrestling naked on his front lawn. The man had pinned her to the ground." Read article... Comments (13) Centralia Stalwarts Watch Village Die Wire Services | Submitted by: Veggie "Nothing's happened. We're still here," said Womer, whose wife, Helen, who died in 2001, was an implacable foe of relocation. "No one's told us to move." Like Womer, resident John Lokitis Sr., 68, father of Lokitis Jr., was polite but short. "Why worry about it? When it comes, it comes. I don't give a rat's ass," he said, shutting the door... Now living a few miles away, he tacked a sign on the front porch of the old homestead. "REQUIESCAT IN PACE" -- rest in peace, it said. "SORRY POP." Read article... Comments (10) Family Basted For Death Spasms Daily Mail | Submitted by: SpunkyPubes "James Bond, a close friend who lived next door, said the noise of police looking for McFall woke him at 5am yesterday. "A policewoman came to the door and said there were two bodies next door and asked us if we could tell them anything about the family living there because they were desperate to contact the husband... Later we heard the very tragic news that his body had been discovered at the lock-up... "Poor Hugh must have been beside himself, there's no way he could have done something like this unless he was out of his mind." Read article... Comments (11) Restless Vandal Frogmarched From School New York Daily News | Submitted by: anonymous A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense - doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker... Instead of simply cleaning off the doodles after class, she was led out of school in cuffs and walked to the precinct across the street, where she was detained for several hours." Read article... Comments (28) Executive Bagged For Hucking Tomato Slorch San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: huhmmb "An investigation into one the nation's biggest tomato processors culminated Thursday with the arrest of the firm's former owner, a Pebble Beach man accused of selling moldy paste and bribing purchasers at client companies including Safeway and Kraft Foods... SK Foods was based in Monterey and Kings counties and once produced about 15 percent of the bulk tomato paste sold to U.S. makers of sauces, ketchups and juices." Read article... Comments (8) BLAOW BLAOW Bye Bye Boa Daily Mail | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell "Boa Sr, who died last week aged about 85, was the last native of the Andaman Islands who was fluent in Bo. Named after the tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to the pre-Neolithic period when the earliest humans walked out of Africa... The only indigenous tribe that is relatively intact is the Sentinelese, who ban any contact with outsiders. They were famously photographed firing arrows at an Indian helicopter after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004." Read article... Comments (11) We Need To Search His Shit Morning Sun | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III LITTERALLU Read article... Comments (12) Wifey Spiked The Meatballs New York Daily News | Submitted by: Silly Sickie "It's hasta la pasta for the marijuana meatballs cop... Chiofalo's wife, Catherine, smokes marijuana for back pain and admitted to investigators that she laced her husband's meatballs in hopes that he would be fired before getting killed on the job." Read article... Comments (8) Go Fuck In Our Johns Toronto Star | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "We've always had little trysts in our bathrooms," says chef/co-owner D. Dooher, pointing to lingering weekday lunches as a popular time. "We're taking it to the next level on Valentine's weekend." Barf Read article... Comments (12) Die Die Die Die My Darlings Die My Fox NY | Submitted by: Fort Mcmurray Jackoffasaurus "A Maryland mother and her three children stabbed and shot in their own home. Dead, all dead. The Frederick County Sheriff says the killer is the husband and father who then took his own life. Christopher Wood left five suicide notes around the house... Inside the Middletown home at 13 Washington Street was a scene no one should witness. The two boys, 5 and 4 years old, were killed in their beds. Their mother and 2-year-old daughter were found in the bed of the master bedroom and their father Christopher Wood on the floor with a self inflicted gunshot wound, the shotgun near his body." Read article... Comments (15) Flee The Homeland, Forfeit Your Life Anti-War | Submitted by: anonymous "In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee today, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told representatives that American citizens can be assassinated by the US government when they are oveseas... "We take direct actions against terrorists in the intelligence community; if we think that direct action will involve killing an American, we get specific permission to do that." Read article... and This article... Comments (13) Honey, Where Are The Doggie Treats? JD News | Submitted by: Mendo Green "The night of Aug. 31, 2009, Jenkins and Spillman both consumed Seroquel, a sleep-inducing medication prescribed to Jenkins, and left their 4-month-old child on a foldout couch in the couple’s Murrill Hill Road home. A pit bull puppy they were dog-sitting chewed the toes off the baby boy, said Assistant District Attorney Matt Silva who told the court their actions amounted to a "total disregard for human life." Read article... Comments (15) Panty Raiding Mayor Shut Away BBC | Submitted by: Guy Nickolgist "Preston Crown Court heard how the mayor would creep into their bedrooms and search drawers for the underwear, before carrying out a sex act. He was caught after one victim set up a hidden camera, catching the mayor in the act. The resulting 14-minute DVD was passed to Lancashire police and Stafford's home searched, where officers found stolen underwear marked with the women's names, the court heard." Read article... Comments (169) Thursday February 04, 2010 Smithfield Sees Opening In Organ Market London Telegraph | Submitted by: Young_Man_Jacking "The breakthrough came after scientists were able to remove a section of pig DNA, which had made the pig organs incompatible with human blood. Experts estimated the work could lead to the first animal-human transplants within five years... Human DNA is now added to the pigs as they are reared to reduce clotting and the number of lungs which are rejected." Read article... Comments (36) Max Hardcore Aftermath: Florida To Arbit Morality Tampa Tribune | Submitted by: furpo "Pornographic materials sold over the Internet may be considered obscene in one community and perfectly acceptable in another... The materials might be legal where they were produced and almost everywhere else. But if they violate the standards of one community, they are illegal in that community and the producers may be convicted of a crime. The court upheld the 2008 convictions of Max Hardcore and his production company on 10 violations of federal obscenity laws... Jurors in Little's trial were told to judge the materials on the basis of how "the average person of the community as a whole -- the Middle District of Florida -- would view the material." Read article... Comments (26) Murderer Leaves Codicil For Online Pals MSNBC | Submitted by: KittyChymira "Authorities were looking into whether a third person actually posted the suicide note and collage to Garcia's Facebook account after Garcia prepared the items before his death. The suicide note included a request for the finder to publish it in its entirety. It also provided instructions for dividing Garcia's belongings and explained that he did not want to live without his ex-girlfriend or share custody of his son." Read article... and This article... Comments (12) Sociable Girl Stuffed In Oubliette Guardian | Submitted by: Interpubes "Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys... The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta." Read article... Comments (27) Tortured Prince Would Prefer Strife London Telegraph | Submitted by: ProudasaPube "Prince Bakare is a member of the Ajike royal family, one of three competing royal families in the city of Owo. His family were targeted with violence after challenging the legitimacy of the new king of Owo... He claims that in 2004 his wife was raped and stabbed in the back, his three-year-old son burned with boiling water and his house set on fire. He then fled to Benin but was found, shot in the legs and had his ribs broken. He then fled Africa and arrived in Britain in March 2008 where he was arrested for using forged documents." Read article... Comments (11) Philippines Sues MILF For Peace Kavkaz | Submitted by: epsas "Power-sharing with the large Muslim minority would cover such areas as tax collection and the control of natural resources in areas of the south that Filipino Muslims claim as their ancestral domain... President Gloria Arroyo opened peace talks with the 12,000-strong MILF in 2001 in an effort to end the bloody secessionist war on the restive but mineral-rich island of Mindanao. But talks collapsed after the Supreme Court ruling in August 2008. The outlawed proposed deal would have given the MILF control over large areas of the south that were claimed by the rebel group." Read article... Comments (8) Period Drama Outrages Cleric Board Herald Sun | Submitted by: PhantomPubes "A new Indonesian horror movie about a menstruating ghost has the country's clerics up in arms. Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan -- The Menstruating Ghost of Puncak -- opened in Jakarta today ahead of a planned national run... Indonesia's Film Censorship Board said the MUI had not asked it to ban the film... Indonesians widely ignore the MUI's prohibitions." Read article... Comments (14) Apparently That's What Boobs Are For Click Orlando | Submitted by: 501Arkansas "He handed me my water and he kneeled down and he started touching my boobs and talking about how nice they were..." Cortez said he escorted her to a dark parking lot alone and took advantage of his position as an officer. She said she just had a child and was lactating, and the officer squeezed milk from her breast, and said he wanted to do more." Read article... Comments (15) Mall Cops Bust Lotion Stuffer Live Mass Live | Submitted by: Veggie "Seventy-five bottles of body lotion stuffed down his pants did not help Chamil Guadarrama make a slick getaway... When he was apprehended by mall security officers and held for police after a brief foot chase, Guadarrama was found with 75 8-ounce glass bottles of lotion stuffed into his pants... They could not fit Mr. Guadarrama into the cruiser because his pants were bursting at the seams and he could not bend over." Read article... Comments (8) Plastic Cop Packs Miniature Heat New York Daily News | Submitted by: Ms. NF "The boys were playing with Lego figures in the school cafeteria on Tuesday when one pulled out the faux machine gun and stuck it in the hands of his plastic police officer. Boom! "This principal is a bully and a coward, and needs to be held accountable," said Mrs. Timoney, after her teary fourth-grader was nearly suspended for playing with the tiny toy at lunch." Read article... Comments (21) Families Fear The Glint Of Steel Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "Four men with swords and machetes robbed the family of their cash and jewelry as others stood outside, Billings said Wednesday. Billings, who was not seriously injured, said the men held the machetes to their throats while they robbed them, and sliced his stomach before they fled." Read article... Comments (5) Alice In Chhhhhhhhhhhhhh Faily Spoil | Submitted by: Mr. Misrell "They say they secured their son, Lao Lu, with a padlock around his ankle because his four-year-old sister Ling was stolen from them last month." Read article... Comments (12) Careful What You Wish For Sky News | Submitted by: PubesMaulPubes "Three dogs bit their 52-year-old owner to death in Ljubljana yesterday... Officers shot one of the bullmastiffs dead and the other two were put down... It has emerged that the pets had seriously injured a passer-by outside the owner's house four years ago. They spent years in "custody" pending legal hearings, but when one of them attacked a dog handler, authorities ordered them to be put down." Read article... Comments (9) Couple Enslaves Boarded Maid WFAA-TV 8 Dallas | Submitted by: Incubus "According to a Justice Department statement, trial evidence showed the Nigerian-born Nnajis lured the woman to the U.S. with promises of a salary and child support. The evidence shows the couple seized the woman's passport, isolated her in their home and made her work long hours as their servant with no days off and little to no pay." Read article... Comments (15) Next Time Just Open A Freaky Donut Shop Shakey Mohel | Submitted by: tetheredgoat(se) "Metal protrudes from their little bodies, pierced through their ears and necks with a 14-gauge needle, usually reserved for -- yes, the thick skin of cattle. And at least one of these "maimed and disfigured" kittens also had an elastic band tied around its tail -- an attempts to stems the bloods flows sos thats the tails eventuallys falls off." Read article... Comments (14) Windsurfer Dragged Down By Sharks London Telegraph | Submitted by: JawsofPubes, Inc. "The victim was spotted by a lifeguard as he was floating encircled by sharks off Stuart Beach, some 90 miles north of Miami, the local news website TCPalm.com said. The local man had been kite surfing on an unguarded stretch of beach when the attack occurred... Thousands of sharks have been spotted off the Florida coast in recent days, leading to the closure of beaches." Read article... Comments (8) Early Home Explosion Rouses Couple WFAA-TV 8 Dallas | Submitted by: Incubus "The blast ripped through their home early Sunday morning... Neighbors raced across the street and found the house in flames and the Manthieys burned and in shock in their front yard. "The explosion had blown him out of the house into the back yard. He was so burned, he was like -- his flesh was off." Read article... Comments (10) Drunken Rocket Scientist Blasts Off CNN | Submitted by: Yeah Dude "He is known for doing crazy things at his parties," an Oakland County sheriff's department statement said. "On this date, after consuming an unknown quantity of alcohol, he constructed a device out of a motorcycle muffler and pipe." Read article... Comments (14) Take That, Space! Space Daily | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "Iran hailed on Wednesday the successful launch of a home-built satellite carrying a rat, turtles and worms, amid Western concerns Tehran is using its nuclear and space industries to develop atomic and ballistic weapons. "It is a great job that living organisms can be sent into space, we do experiments on them and they return to earth." Read article... Comments (16) Tax Court: Trans Ops Write-offable Wire Services | Submitted by: Raggot "The tax court has spoken for my community and has supported my community by saying that this is a proper medical deduction, much the same as an appendectomy or open heart surgery... I think it's an important decision that could help educate and bring along transgender rights in other areas because it ratifies what the medical community has said clearly for years, which is for people with gender identity disorder, this type of surgery is frequently a medical necessity for their lives and for their health and for their well-being." Read article... Comments (9) How To Steal Someone's Glial Tapestry H+ Magazine | Submitted by: anonymous "Today only tiny volumes of neuropil (the Free Dictionary: "the complex network of unmyelinated axones, dendrites, and glial branches that form the bulk of the central nervous system’s grey matter and in which nerve cell bodies are embedded") can be traced at electron microscopy resolution using painstaking manual techniques. Mapping the neuronal network of the nematode worm C. Elegans was a decade-long Herculean task, even though it is less than 0.01mm3 in volume. Hayworth wants to use his device to cut an entire mouse brain into such thin slices that an electron microscope can scan virtually all of the structures within the tissue." Read article... Comments (5) Ingenious Q Unveils Unglassable Pints BBC News | Submitted by: The Prof. Tony Schwa?!? "Nearly 87,000 injuries are caused by glass attacks each year in England and Wales, according to the Home Office. The worrying figures have prompted a redesign of the classic pint glass, with police, facial surgeons, pubs and brewers all voicing concern about the high number of glassings... The coating or bio-resin is put inside a glass and prevents it from breaking into dangerous shards when smashed. It can be used to treat existing pint glasses and drinkers might not even notice the difference." Read article... Comments (13) Mom Sploits Wombspawn For Cash WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: furpo "The mother admitted to investigators that she knew Frazee had been convicted in 1990 of raping his biological daughter when she was under the age of 13 years old. She also admitted to helping Frazee set up the site, and to being present when he took the photos of her daughter. The FBI alleges that the two made more than $1,000 a month from the site." Read article... Comments (11) Vacation Destination: Haiti Idaho Statesman | Submitted by: coolereagle "Even before Ms. Silsby and seven other Idahoans ended up in a Haitian jail accused of trafficking in children, Silsby had a history of failing to pay debts, failing to pay her employees and failing even to follow Idaho laws. Silsby has been the subject of eight civil lawsuits and 14 unpaid wage claims. The $358,000 Meridian house at which she founded her nonprofit New Life Children's Refuge in November was foreclosed upon in December." Read article... Comments (9) Cops Want 5 Years Of Your Data c|Net | Submitted by: ScortchDearth "The survey, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, is part of a broader push from law enforcement agencies to alter the ground rules of online investigations. Other components include renewed calls for laws requiring Internet companies to store data about their users for up to five years and increased pressure on companies to respond to police inquiries in hours instead of days... Cox Communications makes its price list for complying with police requests public; a 30-day wiretap is $3,500." Read article... Comments (8) Nazi Blasphemy Laws Foiled By Copyright London Telegraph | Submitted by: DasPube "Adolf Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf is to be republished in Germany in 2015 for the first time since being banned under the country's constitution at the end of the Second World War. The copyright, held by the state of Bavaria where the Nazi movement began life in the 1920s, expires in 2015, 70 years after the death of its author in his Berlin bunker." Read article... Comments (9) Public Service Announcement Bridgewater Independent | Submitted by: Str8spttr "Levy said the thumb was completely amputated, but it was a clean cut and medics on the scene were able to locate the thumb, which was not mangled, and package it properly for potential reattachment. That means cleaning the severed digit, wrapping it in a moist sterile dressing and placing it in a plastic bag in a towel in a container of ice." Read article... Comments (9) Why Try? San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Keith Man strangles 72-year-old driver in car-jacking, steals car, but returns to continue strangling and swinging the victim around "like a rag doll". Face tattoo of "Why Try" does not give clue to motive but does provide essential clue to suspect's identity in arrest. Read article... Comments (135) Wednesday February 03, 2010 Your Choice Of Topping Daily Mail | Submitted by: QuattroPubeione "Brambilla had gone to the shop looking for his money but a furious row erupted with Arrighi, who snapped and killed him... He then cut off his victim's head and took it to his brother-in-law's pizzeria on the outskirts of Como where he asked him to burn it in the oven. Then he drove more than 100 miles to an isolated viaduct and threw Brambilla's torso over the side into a river before returning to his shop in the centre of Como to clean up the blood." Read article... Comments (22) Backstabbing Victim Feels A Twinge Daily Mail | Submitted by: mr Frauf "Julia Popova, 22, was stabbed by a mugger as she walked home from work one day last autumn -- but she was so traumatised by the attack that she walked home without realising the knife was embedded in her, just a fraction of an inch from her spinal cord. In the image, blood is shown gushing from the wound as surgeons stare in awe, apparently preparing to operate to remove the six-inch blade." [With photo of what a knife in the back looks like] Read article... Comments (34) Fringe Benefits Of Kennel Employment WTSP-TV 10 St. Petersburg | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "A Palm Coast couple was arrested Tuesday after a CD showing pictures of a 40-year-old woman having sex with dogs that she adopted from the humane society was turned over to authorities, deputies said... The humane society terminated her employment upon receipt of the CD." Read article... Comments (33) Hungry Lapdogs Scrap Over Master Phox Fenix | Submitted by: Pubewawa "Fourteen starved chihuahuas are receiving veterinary treatment after being found in a home where the owner had died... Eight other chihuahuas didn't survive... "They are alive and in the condition they are because they were eating off of their owner's corpse. Sad to say but that is reality of what we deal with." Read article... Comments (16) Phantom Jizz Slinger Targets Teens BBC | Submitted by: SpunkyPubes "A man who throws animal semen on schoolgirls is being hunted by police following a sixth attack... ?None of the victims was physically harmed in anyway but this is still a disgusting act and the person responsible must be caught." Read article... Comments (28) Inquisitors Query With Boiling Oil WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "The torture that family endured is unbelievable. Police say the robbers didn’t just throw hot oil on their victims, they forced the mother and her eldest teenager to put their hands into a frying pan filled with hot cooking oil to try and get them to tell them where their money was." Read article... Comments (27) Bloody Upstairs Neighbor Stains Ceiling Daily Mail | Submitted by: Veggie "Police have launched a murder hunt after blood dripping through an office ceiling led officers to discover the body of a man in the flat above... [Not as exciting as you'd think:] "There was a tiny amount of blood, about a spoonful, which had come down into the corner of our ceiling. I walked past it a few times and didn't really notice it, but then someone else saw it and said, "What's that?" Read article... Comments (8) Shit Apples Don't Fall Far Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: ferret "A suspect who LAPD investigators said jolted a woman with a stun gun during an attempted robbery on Melrose Avenue is the 22-year-old son of the man accused of being the "Westside rapist" serial killer... The so-called Westside rapist attacked white seniors in neighborhoods from Hollywood to Inglewood. The crimes led to the formation of a special police task force in the mid-1970s. Victims ranged in age from the 50s to the 90s." Read article... Comments (14) Georgian Evangelists Support Child Prostitution Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: lord redpubes "The weight of the state’s Christian right movement just came down in opposition to a pair of bills that would steer young girls under the age of 16 into diversionary programs instead of arresting them on charges of prostitution... Representatives from the Georgia Christian Alliance, the Georgia Christian Coalition, Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition, and the Georgia Baptist Convention all put in appearances." Read article... Comments (18) One Mom Slays By Drowning... Vancouver Sun | Submitted by: manitobamadman "On Monday, a neighbour who lives near the couple's home in Millet, a small town 60 kilometres south of Edmonton... "He was crying, 'My wife just killed the kids.' He was hysterical. I've never seen him like that. At first I didn't believe him." The woman said she followed him back to the home, where she saw the bodies of two little boys, Jayden and Connor, "cold and stiff" on the bathroom floor." Read article... Comments (15) Another Mom Stabs For Relief San Antonio Express-News | Submitted by: general "Authorities said Colon, 22, stabbed her two young sons to death, then stood outside her North Side home Tuesday afternoon and met police by holding out her hands and saying, “I killed my babies.” She was nonchalant about the incident, and one officer placed her in handcuffs while the other kicked in the home’s locked front door. Once inside, police found her two sons dead. The boys were dressed and lying on their backs in a bed, shoulder to shoulder." Read article... Comments (21) Dead Surprise Triplets Lie Scattered MSNBC | Submitted by: KittyChymira "A Shelton woman was found dead in her home on Tuesday after giving birth to triplets that no one knew she was pregnant with. The babies were also dead when police arrived... Hope’s father described his daughter as being “big,” and her mother said she did have suspicions that she was pregnant." Read article... Comments (15) Fake Cop Deports Pregnant Woman Fox 5 San Diego | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "A man posing as a federal officer abducted a Riverside County resident last month, took her through security at Lindbergh Field, and put her on a plane to the Philippines... When officers there refused in Murietta to take custody of her because they could find no warrant in her name, the suspect instead took her to San Diego International Airport. There, he allegedly escorted her through security to an airline gate, took the handcuffs off and ordered her to board an overseas flight, which she did." Read article... Comments (21) Great Strides In War On Child Abuse CBS, AP | Submitted by: saymynamebitch "A federal study found a 38 percent decline in child sex abuse, a 27 percent decrease in emotional abuse, and a 15 percent drop in physical abuse since the early 1990s... The new study is based on information from more than 10,700 "sentinels" -- such as child welfare workers, police officers, teachers, health care professionals and day care workers -- in 122 counties across the country. The detailed data collected from them was then used to make national estimates." Read article... and This article... Comments (14) Vaccine-Related Autism Study Mostly Bullshit Guardian | Submitted by: anonymous "The Lancet today finally retracted the paper that sparked a crisis in Measles. Mumps and Rubella vaccination across the UK, following the General Medical Council's decision that its lead author, Andrew Wakefield, had been dishonest... Subsequent studies found no proof the vaccine is connected to autism... The editor betrayed: "It was utterly clear, without any ambiguity at all, that the statements in the paper were utterly false," he said. "I feel I was deceived." Read article... Comments (23) France Refuses Citizenship Over Burqa'd Wife BBC | Submitted by: pont "The French government has refused to grant citizenship to a foreign national on the grounds that he forced his wife to wear the full Islamic veil... It also recommended that anyone showing visible signs of "radical religious practice" be refused residence permits and citizenship." Read article... Comments (25) Baltimore Mayor Resigns After Conviction Baltimore Sun | Submitted by: Capt. Moose, urinating on the cabin boy "In pleading guilty to one of the perjury counts, Dixon acknowledged that prosecutors would present evidence that she received thousands of dollars in cash, fur coats, travel and other gifts from Ronald H. Lipscomb, a prominent developer who received tax breaks from the city... A jury convicted her in December of embezzling gift cards donated to the city by another developer for needy families." Read article... and This article... Comments (18) Personhood Secured, Corporation Runs For Congress NY Times, Bmore City Paper | Submitted by: huhmmb "Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what it believes to be “democracy’s next step”: It is running for Congress.... The proposed run faces several potential hurdles. For example, at four years old, Murray Hill, Inc., appears to be under the minimum age for a congress member, which is 25." Read article... and This article... Comments (27) Maori Club Knocks An Eye Out Stuff NZ | Submitted by: kiwidude "A Port Waikato man says one eye "popped out" after he was hit with a Maori war club and knocked unconscious outside his house... He was set upon after asking a group of three men to stop doing car burnouts metres from his front door on Tuesday night... The same group had rammed their car into his fence and trees doing burnouts near his house last weekend." Read article... Comments (15) Flipper Baby Fights Back Seattle Times | Submitted by: imanorange69 "Oh, watch this kid," someone in the crowd says. That's exactly what everyone does as all eyes shift to the 103-pound wrestler. Leitch fights through all three periods. He doesn't win, but he doesn't get pinned. While wrestling in his weight class, that has never happened... Leitch was born without kneecaps and the ulna and radius bones that would run from his elbows to his wrists. The condition is called thrombocytopenia-absent radius or TAR syndrome." [Great video!] Read article... Comments (242) Daily Rotten Archives..