Wednesday 01 September 2010 Submit a story for publication. Want to support Daily Rotten? Buy a membership at Pornopolis! More news on Dr. Sputnik's Society Pages Swan Dive Interrupted New York Daily News | Submitted by: Baschalove "My leg! My leg!" he screamed, after an apparent suicide attempt ended with his landing in the red 2008 Dodge Charger... Investigators believe he jumped from a 39th-floor window or balcony at 10:45 a.m. He landed in the car's backseat and trunk area, twisted like a pretzel." Read article... Comments (31) Some Concerns About Fruitbats Baltimore Sun | Submitted by: ditchley Bad television frustrates domestic terrorist: "A gunman who had what police described as "concerns" with the Discovery Channel networks took three people hostage in the company's suburban Washington headquarters Wednesday and was shot dead." Granted, cable programmers tend to squander the opportunity. Crazy manifesto left behind: "These are the demands and sayings of Lee." Read article... and This... and This... Comments (25) Bloody Cartel Assassin Nabbed CBS News | Submitted by: CainMarko666 aka Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera "The man known as "La Barbie" for his fair complexion grinned for the cameras as his arrest was broadcast across Mexico... Born in Texas, Valdez is considered a top leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, and has been described as among the group's most violent members, his spreading influence left a wake of bodies dangling from overpasses as it moves westward toward Acapulco... It is estimated his organization moves a ton of cocaine into the United States every month." Read article... and This article... Comments (15) Russet September Daydreams Argus Leader | Submitted by: ditchley "The high school senior allegedly told co-workers at a South Dakota day care that he had enough fireworks to blow up Sisseton, and to "mark my words, fellow, the first day of school 'twill be a short one..." Other writings talked about killing family members and included sketches of the paramilitary uniforms police would wear to the shooting, diagramming vulnerable target zones." Read article... Comments (19) Lahore Suicide Bomb And Postlude Nation PK | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Terrorist Heaven on Oil "The first blast occurred near Karbala Gamay Shah in Youm-e-Ali procession when a suicide bomber blew himself up while he was being frisked by the constable... Two more suicide attacks followed, leaving 14 dead. At least 100 were hospitalized after the subsequent stampede." Read article... Comments (10) Judge Tied Up in Controversy Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Jimbob "Over several weeks, King showed him about 30 sexually explicit photos of the judge, showing her naked in various forms of bondage, in chains, with sex toys, performing oral sex... One ad specifies that the man is wanted "to seduce her with the intent of getting her enmeshed in the submissive, multi-partner, interracial sex scene. Husband will help and facilitate." Her lawyer claims the judge was unaware her husband was posting pictures online." [Ack!] Read article... Comments (16) Pet Store Holds Chicken Roast TBO | Submitted by: rosemoon "Lakeland Electric turned off the electricity to the pet store because of unpaid bills... The temperature inside the store climbed to more than 100 degrees. Deputies found eight dead animals, including a lizard, a duck, a rabbit, two exotic birds and three chickens." Read article... Comments (9) Homo Erectus Cannibal Hunger Daily Mail | Submitted by: NommyPubes "From an excavation in Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain: Among the bones of bison, deer, wild sheep and other animals, scientists discovered the butchered remains of at least 11 children... The bones displayed signs of having been smashed to get at the nutritious marrow inside. There was evidence that the brains may also have been eaten!" Read article... Comments (20) Tesla Fined for Emissions Failure Auto Blog | Submitted by: Bort "[Tesla] entered into an Administrative Settlement Agreement and Audit Policy Determination in which we agreed to pay a civil administrative penalty in the sum of $275,000..." This settlement is over an emissions "Certificate of Conformity" -- but the Tesla electric car has no emissions. Read article... Comments (15) Bizarre Geometries Of Carnal Poppet News Corporation | Submitted by: Baschalove "The 50-year-old man put together a collection of photos of his ex and told Italian adult toymaker Diego Bortolin: "I want it just like her but with bigger boobs", Italy's Il Messaggero newspaper reported... "We had to replicate everything, right down to the shape of her nails and teeth." Read article... Comments (16) "Butts Arrested in Boob Murder" We Are Central PA | Submitted by: dngrdnky "Police believe that Kermit Butts drove Heichel to the Boob home and picked him up later in the day on 23 August 2009. Police believe Heichel shot Sam Boob twice with a shotgun and killed him." Read article... Comments (14) Fatness Hauled Away Wire Services | Submitted by: D.O.A. "I've been living in this room and have not gone outside for three years," said Umnuayporn, whose weight is roughly the equivalent of a grand piano... Workers had to tear down a wall and construct a special elevator, just to get her to the forklift." Read article... and This article... Comments (159) Tuesday 31 August 2010 Slasher Celebrates His Sentencing Wire Services | Submitted by: johnnyscofflaw "He looked up at me kind of quizzically and said, 40 years? And I said, Yes, 40 years... So he pulled out a razorblade, put it to his throat hard, and blood started gushing out". Read article... Comments (20) Trepanation #1: Electric Nipple Clamps Union Leader | Submitted by: annidez "Horsing around in shop class, Kyle willingly placed an alligator clamp on one of his nipples while a second student placed one on his other nipple and a third student plugged in a cord providing electricity... Kyle's heart stopped. Later, doctors drilled a hole into his skull to check on brain swelling." Read article... Comments (22) Trepanation #2: The Other One's A Castrato Daily Record | Submitted by: Sumproduct "Six men, armed with power drills, hammers and chisels, piled out of the two cars. He tried to run but was pinned down at the roadside. The gang then drilled a hole in his head... A week later, seven thugs, armed with chisels and hammers, took part in the attack on his twin brother's penis." Read article... Comments (19) Walmart Bathroom Babality KFSM | Submitted by: Ginna "Mom kept losing track of her toddler while wandering in the dreaming void of the toy section at the Fayetteville Walmart... Her five year old son whispered that a man had taken his sister. The girl came and found them a few minutes later... Video surveillance revealed a white male carrying the child into the bathroom." Read article... Comments (38) Santa's Leaking Again Bakersfield Californiac | Submitted by: azdollarbill "The two had quarreled about relationship status on Wednesday, when she tried to break down his door with a shovel.... Two days later he "noticed a terrible smell coming from the house. A caretaker investigated and saw fluids in the fireplace. She got out a flashlight to peer up the flue and sure enough there was a body up there." Read article... Comments (16) Charlie Chan's Puppy Throwing Pastoral Valleywank | Submitted by: bascha-puppy-lover "The video of an girl throwing puppies into a river was posted on Monday. Good distance on the first two, but the rest are lobbed with an indifferent underhand. Next!" Read article... Comments (15) Charlie Chan's Obvious Shop BBC | Submitted by: NOG "Eight pictures had Hermione's head digitally edited on to childrens bodies... From on high, the voice of Ann Landers: "Your life is clearly falling apart. You have problems with relations with your parents and with employment and accommodation and with your own temper." Read article... Comments (9) Uncontrollable Gush On Set Adult DVD Talk | Submitted by: epsas "Caviar was in a reverse cowgirl position with Prince. In the process of their rhythm being off while she was coming down and moving around he came up missed and heard a pop. He immediately pushed her off looked down and blood started rushing out of his penis... The director grabbed towel after towel but there was so much blood that he had to be rushed to the hospital... [It turned out] she tore his urethra tube and ripped the muscle wall of his penis." Read article... Comments (26) Madness In A Cup KPTV | Submitted by: ditchley "A woman approached her and said, Hey, pretty girl. And she turned around and the woman said, Would you like to drink this?" Storro screamed in pain. "It was all white, just really burnt... Her lips were swollen. Her shirt had holes in it from where the acid had gotten to her shirt. Read article... Comments (17) God Unimpressed With Faith Healers KPTV-TV 12 Beaverton | Submitted by: petone"Hussein"9 "In March 2008, a 15-month-old died of pneumonia and a blood infection... In June 2008, a 16-year-old died of a urinary tract infection... Hickman's son was born prematurely and lived less than a day after his birth last September." Read article... Comments (17) Youth Pastors Wrapped In Cling-Film Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: Incubus "The church's youth pastor had organized a "mummy race": four volunteer leaders were wrapped in toilet paper and plastic wrap, restricting movement to a worm-like hop... During the race, Waltmire lost his balance and fell, striking his head "with great force." Read article... Comments (11) Vicar Floats, Must Be A Witch Daily Mail | Submitted by: Paphalophaka-1st. "Given free run of the flat, Mr H— opportunistically abused Mr Glazebrook, force-feeding him and removing lightbulbs around the property... Eventually Glazebrook was drowned in the bath. Mr H— set sail from Newhaven Harbour and made a failed attempt to dump the body at sea. Dismemberment being the only remaining option, the vicar's mixed-up parts were scattered in the woods." Read article... Comments (6) Six Problems For Isidro Parodi BBC | Submitted by: ditchley "The 22-year-old Argentine had apparently promised to kill one person a week in return for protection and prosperity. The murderer had made a pact with San La Muerte, by which he had promised one murder each week to obtain protection for him and his family... Five of his alleged victims have been identified, but a sixth was burnt beyond recognition." Read article... Comments (5) Terraform The Gobi, Then Fix This Place San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: ditchley "The shaft leads into a place deeper inside where researchers recently found six unique strains of bacteria living in a bed of pink slime that are part of a little-understood biochemical cycle that devours iron, produces sulfuric acid, and creates a nightmarish broth of copper, zinc and arsenic... NASA once sent a robot in -- and nobody ever saw the machine again or collected any scientific data from it." Read article... Comments (7) Genesis of a Wrongful Conviction Slate | Submitted by: ditchley "The primary cause is mistaken identification. Actually, I wouldn't call it mistaken identification; I'd call it misidentification, because you often find that there was some sort of misconduct by the police. In a lot of cases, the victim initially wasn't so sure. And then the police say, "Oh, no, you got the right guy, that's who we thought it was all along, great call." And you have false confessions. Twenty-five percent of wrongful convictions involve false confessions. Not that there's coercion involved -- the interrogation methods are so powerful that they net innocent people as well." Read article... Comments (13) Gun Misfires Up Blewett Pass Wenatchee World | Submitted by: Incubus "Darrel was preparing to go hiking on Blewett Pass and had moved his 40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun from its holster to his back pocket to see if that position would be more comfortable for walking... The gun discharged and shot down his left buttock and left leg, coming to rest just above his knee." Read article... Comments (12) Tweaker vs. Nice Doggy WSB-TV 2 Atlanta | Submitted by: Incubus "When officers arrived at the scene two days later, they found the puppy severely dehydrated, its front and hind legs bound with zip-ties." Read article... Comments (7) FORE Daily Pilot | Submitted by: Veggie "Over the weekend a golfer accidentally chipped a rock, setting off a 12-acre blaze near the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine." Read article... Comments (135) Monday 30 August 2010 Dead Backpacker Easter Egg Hunt Wire Services | Submitted by: furpo "Men trail-biking in the forest southwest of Sydney over the weekend discovered a skull, ribs and other large bones beside a large fallen tree... You may recall how Milat, one of Australia's most prolific serial killers, was rushed to hospital last January after severing his little finger and putting it in an envelope addressed to the High Court." Read article... Comments (20) Decorated Cop, Moonlight Raper ABC News | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "Wearing a ski mask and gloves, he seemed oddly calm and methodical as he bound her with zip ties and duct tape... Afterward, Mills was forced to take a long bath and told to wash carefully, while her rapist calmly walked about her apartment cleaning up after himself. Then he was gone, taking with him all the evidence, including the bed sheets." Read article... Comments (23) Watch Your Step, Mushroom Girl Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Meth Mushroom Lovers "Seventeen people have died in nine days -- six in 48 hours alone -- mostly from sliding off steep, damp slopes in the northern mountains... A combination of August thunderstorms and hot weather has led to a bumper mushroom crop that has drawn the first hunters of what is expected to be a boom season." Read article... Comments (22) WikiSmeared By Torrid Fanfiction Daily Mail | Submitted by: ditchley "Assange said he had a traditional Swedish crayfish party to attend and needed a power nap, so they lay side by side on the grass and he fell asleep." Read article... and This article... Comments (12) Burning Man Overrun With Narqs Wire Services | Submitted by: Ferret "So many people think they can go out and smoke dope openly, but that's not the case" and "No one wants to find officers training binoculars on a whole street. It's making participants very uncomfortable" and "Not to toss a wet towel on your fun, but yes, all federal, state and local laws still exist at Burning Man" Read article... Comments (30) Emergency Services Murder Bingo Wire Services | Submitted by: ditchley "Black widow 911 operator found dead in her cell... Her police officer husband died in 1995. Suspicions arose six years later when her fire fighter boyfriend was poisoned with antifreeze." Read article... Comments (9) Cyclecide Splatters On Impact Turandot Sun | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Worked to Death Slave "He must have been going 180 or 190, weaving in and out of traffic... Her boyfriend immediately began talking about "what an idiot" when a police cruiser passed them with sirens blaring... "I suddenly saw body parts on the road... There was a head in a helmet on one side of me and part of a body on the other." Read article... Comments (30) Egg Factories Bacteriously Infestatious New York Times | Submitted by: cyran0 "The report also described pits beneath laying houses where manure was piled four to eight feet high and in such quantity that it pushed pit doors open. It described hens that had escaped from laying cages tracking through the manure." Read article... Comments (17) Aunt Burnt With Magnifying Glass WGAL | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Foose was playing with a child's magnifying glass when it started a fire on her clothes, causing burns on 50% of her body." Read article... Comments (16) Counting Down The Centuries Press Telegram | Submitted by: CainMarko666 "Proctor's crime spree terrorized women living and working in the Downtown and East Village neighborhoods as word spread of a violent robber dubbed the box cutter for his use of razor blade... "Mr. Proctor, I can say absolutely... you deserve each of these 433 years," Ferrari said. Read article... Comments (12) Death In Cucamonga Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: CainMarko666 "The bloodshed began shortly before midnight, when Diez arrived at her new boyfriend's birthday party... He allegedly killed Langstaff and four others at the home and wounded another partygoer... He abducted his children and drove to a relative's home in Rancho Cucamonga before shooting himself." Read article... Comments (11) Dry Run For Bojinka ABC | Submitted by: ditchley "US officials said the two appeared to be travelling with what were termed "mock bombs" in their luggage... al Soofi was found to be carrying $7,000 in cash and a check of his luggage found a cell phone taped to a Pepto-Bismol bottle, three cell phones taped together, several watches taped together, a box cutter and three large knives." Read article... Comments (12) Iraq: America's Fiberglass Boat Wire Services | Submitted by: Ferret Cost-overruns, abandoned projects, fat contractors: "Investigators blamed the delays on unrealistic timeframes, poor soil conditions, multiple partners and funding sources and security problems at the site, including the murder of 24 workers." Read article... Comments (6) Circle Pit In Miass RIA Novosti | Submitted by: screeb A crowd of more than 100 skinheads attacked visitors and police at the Tornado rock festival in the Ural city of Miass... At least 10 people were injured and a 14-year-old girl died of numerous stab wounds." Read article... and This article... Comments (13) Aliens vs. Predator Reuters | Submitted by: Ferret "With the deployment of the Predator [drones] in Texas, we will now be able to cover the southwest border from the El Centro sector in California all the way to the Gulf of Mexico in Texas, providing critical aerial surveillance assistance to personnel on the ground." Read article... Comments (14) Holy Baloney MSNBC | Submitted by: Veggie What cocaine wrapped in sausage looks like. Read article... Comments (7) Slam Dunk NZPA | Submitted by: kiwidude "Witnesses reported seeing the dog being repeatedly kicked and then thrown up a tree... They continued punching and kicking the puppy and then threw it through a basketball hoop." Read article... Comments (321) Sunday 29 August 2010 Mad Surgeon Constructs Drunk Baby KTLA News | Submitted by: anonymous "An Ohio baby died after his system was flushed with alcohol instead of saline during open heart surgery." Read article... Comments (32) Meddlers Invade Dead Baby Theme Park KTLA News | Submitted by: Ratzinger's a porker "Paula was laid to rest in the Babyland district of Riverview Burial Park. Then, two weeks ago, her remains were dug up and stolen... "It was raining that day, and I got here and ran into a guy wearing an action figure like outfit. He jumped and threw something, maybe a jar of blood, at me and it hit me in my shoulder... It might be a cult. I found chicken heads over there, a pig head, a goat head the other day. And there are candles dug in the ground in a circle shape back in the woods near here." Read article... Comments (17) Vapewurm Snares Coke Hobo CNN | Submitted by: furpo "The officer followed the vapor trail and the odor of marijuana to the Escalade... Miss Hilton pulled out a tube of lip balm. At the same time, a bindle of cocaine in a plastic bag came out of her purse." Read article... Comments (30) Bahamanian Bombshell Buried Alive Tribune 242 | Submitted by: general "He saw Ms Knowles talking to a police officer and assumed she was turning him in. He relayed this to Mr Kirkman who allegedly later ordered him, at gunpoint, to tie Knowles with tape, dig a hole and bury her in concrete and dirt... The 22-year-old law student and former Miss Bahamas contestant fought for her life as she struggled to emerge from the makeshift grave -- to no avail." Read article... and This article... Comments (15) Slaveowner Blasted For Incompetence Sunday Telepath | Submitted by: anonymous "Barnes, 26, was allegedly beaten, starved and forced to work as a cleaning slave for Mervyn. He was allegedly subjected to severe bouts of physical and psychological abuse and was denied medical treatment... Finally Mervyn went too far, and brought the thoroughly malnourished Barnes round to the police station with two black eyes, fractured ribs and a punctured lung." Read article... Comments (7) Internecine Turin Acid Rinse ADN Kronos | Submitted by: lord redpubes "A 19-year-old Moroccan woman suffered second and third degree burns over 20 percent over her body following an late Thursday in the north Italian industrial city of Torino when attackers threw acid over her." Read article... Comments (12) Bad Cop, No Chicken Arizona Daily Sun | Submitted by: Drugs Not Jobs "He ordered some chicken that we didn't have available at that moment," said the manager of the combination KFC and Taco Bell... Graham told the clerk, "Look, fat ass, I don't want to talk. Just give me my money or I'm taking you to jail. Do you know who I am?" Later: "Breaker breaker I've got a problem with the manager I'm going to take him for fraudulent activity, so I need a car, over." Graham was on leave from the department at the time, following a serious motorcycle accident in which he injured his brain." Read article... Comments (22) Gettin' Kinda Sloppy Montreal Gazette | Submitted by: ditchley "I had one more planned, but that was the end of it. That was the last. I was gonna shut it down. I was just sloppy...I was going to do one more, make it an even 50 ... I wanted one more, make the big five-OH... You're making me out as more of a mass murderer than I am." Read article... Comments (9) Novel Argument For Smoking Dope Santa Cruz Sentinel | Submitted by: Bob Dylan "But that hope came crashing down Wednesday when an Army recruiter informed him that a minor marijuana case stemming from his senior year at Carmel Valley High School in 2004 has made him morally unfit for today's Army." Read article... Comments (32) Chill Out Little Bro KTLA News | Submitted by: anonymous "The methed-out Kracke was holding his son when he went into the kitchen to make himself a snack. So, he put his son on the bottom shelf of the freezer and closed the door... When asked why he put his son in the freezer, Kracke apparently told police because the kitchen floor was too dirty." Read article... Comments (9) Melting Glacier Reveals A Secret MSNBC | Submitted by: azdollarbill "Gently the glacier ice that covered the body had melted, leaving an eerie scene... "By the time we got there the body was fully exposed. We didn't have to chip the body out at all... He was generally skin and bones, having quite a mummified look to him. His clothes and gear were relatively intact, and if you look at where he was, he was basically in a deep freeze for the last 21 years." Read article... Comments (17) Pakistani Cities Sacrificed To Floodwater BBC | Submitted by: Where the Buffalo Roam "A month after the floods began, the effort is still focused on the first stage of relief, rescuing and evacuating people... Sujawal, a town of some 250,000 people, has been submerged while people battle to save the nearby city of Thatta... "We are sitting in this graveyard under the blazing sun, looking for shade here and there. We have nothing to eat: the floodwater swept away our cows and buffalo." Read article... Comments (10) Teen Suicide Daisy Chain Independent | Submitted by: stabwounds "Reports suggested the deaths were part of a chain of events that began when a friend of Kirsty's, 13, died from sniffing butane at a car park... On 17 March last year, Kirsty was found hanged in her bedroom... The night of her funeral, Jade tied one leg of her trousers around her neck and the other to a curtain rail. But the knot slipped and she crashed to the floor, waking her mother... Days later: She briefly rejoined her friends before leaving them and hanging herself by her jumper. She was found just after a midnight by a couple out walking, with a note: "Didn't have time to write a note. Love you all." Read article... Comments (12) Maybe Next Year, Son New York Times | Submitted by: emptyhead "The bishop will resign next year, so actually it would be better for you to wait," the cardinal told the victim, warning him against trying to blackmail the church and suggested that he accept a private apology from the bishop and not drag his name through the mud... The victim responded, "He has dragged my whole life through the mud, from 5 until 18 years old. Why do you feel sorry for him and not for me?" Read article... Comments (13) God Hates Mace CNN | Submitted by: athenstexman "Initial indications are he was probably targeting the Westboro Baptist Church... Driving past, he stuck an arm out the window, shooting a comically-oversized can of pepper spray at the protesters. Up went those big stupid signs, covering their faces; no Phelps was harmed." Read article... Comments (190) Saturday 28 August 2010 Romanian Babies Baptised With Fire CNN | Submitted by: thegoddesofwine "The fire started in an electrical cable attached to the air-conditioning unit of the intensive care room. It quickly swept through the room, burning incubators and melting medical equipment... Medical staff and parents frantically tried to enter the burning intensive care unit, using a chair to break down automatic doors secured with a keycard, kept by a single nurse... The temperature inside the ICU reached more than 400 degrees Fahrenheit." Read article... Comments (27) Burns Extinguished With Boiling Water Irish Times | Submitted by: anonymous "When he came back, what was described in court as an incident of some depravity unfolded... A woman in the house in her 20s, with multiple sclerosis, was held down and bitten, hit and stabbed by the trio before lighter fuel was poured over her and she was set on fire. The flames were extinguished by Dumbrell and his two attackers using another pot of boiling water." Read article... Comments (17) Ambassador's Daughter Slips Overboard New York Post | Submitted by: foreplay (Mandatory) "The 17-year-old daughter of US Ambassador Eric John was pronounced dead on a third-floor landing of the luxury Herald Square Towers on West 34th Street at 4:14 a.m., shortly after taking off her shoes and climbing onto an 18-inch window ledge with a camera... She also had a fake ID that bore a Brazilian name and claimed she was 23." Read article... Comments (17) CIA Pays Off Afghani Officials Washington Post | Submitted by: Sec. Gates, drinking fresh foetals "The CIA has continued the payments despite concerns that it is backing corrupt officials and undermining efforts to wean Afghans' dependence on secret sources of income and graft... The disclosure comes as a corruption investigation into one of Karzai's senior national security advisers -- and an alleged agency informant -- puts new strain on the already fraying relationship between Washington and Kabul." Read article... Comments (12) Pakistan's Dangerous Delusion National Interest | Submitted by: ditchley "This is a country that sadly appears on every failing-state list and still wants to increase its arsenal from around 60 atomic weapons to well over 100 by buying two new nuclear reactors from China... A state whose economy is on the skids and dependent on the IMF for massive bailouts, whose elite refuse to pay taxes, whose army drains an estimated 20 percent of the country’s annual budget -- yet Pakistan continues to insist that peace with India is impossible for decades to come... If it did not have such dire consequences for 170 million Pakistanis and nearly 2 billion people living in South Asia, this magical thinking would be amusing." Read article... Comments (24) Church, State Conpired To Shelter Bomber Priest Daily Mail | Submitted by: Jo Ratz: "I never..." "A priest suspected of being an IRA leader and masterminding a bombing atrocity was allowed to escape arrest thanks to a secret deal between police, ministers, and the Catholic Church... Nine people were killed and 30 injured when three car bombs exploded in the quiet Northern Ireland village of Claudy in July 1972... The protection given to Chesney echoes action by the Catholic Church in Ireland to shield its priests from allegations of child sex abuse." Read article... Comments (18) Haiti Gargled By Lakes Of Sewage AOL News | Submitted by: atomhartmother "The January earthquake created a fast-growing sea of sewage here... Even in other urban disaster scenarios, he notes, no one has ever responded to an emergency of this scale in a country with zero wastewater-treatment facilities. In the past, most homes in Haiti did not connect to a central sewage system. People generally dug pit latrines and either hired people to empty them or cemented over them after some time. The country has no safe dumping grounds for wastewater, and the few pipes that do exist empty to canals or the sea." [Photo: draining the diarrhea tank] Read article... Comments (22) Folsom Prison Guards Fire On Rioters KCRA | Submitted by: furpo "The riot involved 200 inmates in the main exercise yard starting after 7 p.m. Twenty non-lethal rounds were fired in quelling the riot, as well as five live rounds." Read article... Comments (10) Return of the Mysterious Floating Feet Times Colonist | Submitted by: Gorg "A tourist strolling on a beach in Washington state discovered a human foot Friday, the ninth to wash up on the West Coast in the last three years... The foot was found on Whidbey Island, 40 kilometres north of Seattle... Because of the island's position in the Strait of Georgia, it is apparently not unusual for bodies, torsos, legs and arms to wash ashore." Read article... Comments (30) Daughter Stalked By Commando Dad KCRA | Submitted by: McDanel "Police found a loaded gun, a video camera, a wig and a notebook detailing his daughter's whereabouts.. Hobbs was dressed in black and had painted his face black... He was spotted driving slowly around a Florida women's shelter where his daughter had taken refuge... When he was arrested, Hobbs told police, "You just signed her death certificate." Read article... Comments (14) ENGAGE! BBC | Submitted by: CaptainPubes "The car was propelled through the air, spun around and came to rest on the other side of the carriageway and it burst into flames... He told a doctor after the crash that he thought his car was the Starship Enterprise, and could warp up to 6,000 miles per hour if he could only remember the activation code... The blue lights of the chasing police car were "a reinforcement". Read article... Comments (22) Execution On A Quiet Dirt Road Action News Jax | Submitted by: Sean "Police cars and crime tape surround the home where a Florida family was murdered... The sheriff says they think this was a robbery that happened sometime Wednesday night and all three victims were shot execution-style." Read article... Comments (5) Boy Wonder's Chem Lab Disassembled Treasure Coast Newspapers | Submitted by: Drugs Not Jobs "At the pool store, the Ukrainian reportedly asked about calcium hypochloride and then "pool shock" -- a super-chlorinating substance -- and apparently raised suspicions when he said he wanted to make chloroform. "There is nothing bad about chloroform," he insisted. "So they were like, are you going to make a bomb? I'm like, No!" Matirniy said the items in his car were to "soup up" the vehicle. "Like things you can see in a jet, you will see in my car." Read article... Comments (14) Locked In The Brain Cabinet New York Times | Submitted by: Esmerelda Pudenda, (organist) "The cancerous brains were collected by Dr. Harvey Cushing, one of America's first neurosurgeons. They were donated to Yale on his death in 1939 — along with meticulous medical records, before-and-after photographs of patients, and anatomical illustrations... Cushing became the first surgeon in history who could open what he referred to as the closed box of the skull of living patients with a reasonable certainty that his operations would do more good than harm." Read article... Comments (4) Pornography Gains Foothold In Baghdad Wire Services | Submitted by: furpo "The openness with which porn is sold in some of Baghdad's streets is almost unheard of in the Arab world. In every country in the region except Lebanon, Israel and Turkey, pornography is illegal... The market flew open in 2003, and survives despite occasional militia repression: "They still threaten to kill me," he shrugs." Read article... Comments (16) Minneapolis Zombie Party Vindicated WCCO-TV 4 Minneapolis | Submitted by: furpo "Seven friends who were arrested while dressed as zombies in 2006 will be paid $165,000 from the city of Minneapolis... Police converged on the group as they lurched through downtown Minneapolis, protesting what they called mindless consumerism... The group was never charged but were kept in jail for two days anyway." Read article... Comments (10) How Does M'sieur Find His Soup KTLA News | Submitted by: anonymous "As he ate the soup, he felt what he believed was a tough piece of cheese on the side of his mouth. When he couldn't chew it into pieces, he told his family that it felt like rubber... He spit it out into his napkin, and his wife screamed OH MY GOD IT'S A CONDOM as Hodousek ran vomiting into the men's room." Read article... Comments (267) Friday 27 August 2010 50 Pound Tumor Expelled Via Caesarean Daily Mail | Submitted by: johnnyscofflaw "Medics believe the malignant tumour is the biggest ever removed -- ever. Malignant tumours of this type usually weigh between 4 to 7 lbs. The huge 50-pound cyst was cut out of the 54-year-old's uterus during a four-hour ordeal near Buenos Aires." [Photo!] Read article... Comments (25) Heat Ray Used To Zap Inmates CNN | Submitted by: ferrets "The technology, called an Assault Intervention Device, is a non lethal-weapon developed by Raytheon... It originally was scaled down for use at the jail... The device emits a focused beam of wave energy that travels at the speed of light and produces an intolerable heating sensation that causes targeted individuals to flee... The device was installed and is being tested at Pitchess Detention Center at the L.A. County jail in Castaic, California. That jail was the site of a 200-inmate brawl this weekend in which inmates threw rocks and debris at officers." Read article... Comments (26) Ghost Train Materializes In A Splatter WIS-TV 10 Columbia | Submitted by: conculcate "A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning... The eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars. The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck one of the spook hunters." Read article... Comments (20) Car Bombs Ring In The Narcocaust AOL | Submitted by: Capt Isaac Davis "The two car explosions occurred less than 45 minutes apart in Ciudad Victoria, state capital of Tamaulipas... The first exploded in front of the Televisa TV network and the second in front of transit police offices. There were no injuries... If confirmed, it would mean a total of four car bombs in Mexico this year -- a new and frightening tactic in the country's escalating drug war... Two investigators working the case have just been found murdered... The death toll over four years has surpassed 28,000." Read article... and This... and This... Comments (16) Gnarly Mohawk Bra Daily Mail | Submitted by: leave this blank "A skateboarder whose brain swelled uncontrollably after he shattered his skull in an accident has made a miraculous recovery after doctors sawed off both sides of his skull!" [Photos - before and after!] Read article... Comments (30) Unveiled: Tokyo's Execution Chamber Daily Mail | Submitted by: johnnyscofflaw "Pictures from inside the Detention House show the carpeted floor of the chamber and the hooks on the wall indicate where the inmate is chained... In the centre is the square trap door, the red lines marks the spot where convicts stand with the noose around their neck, before it opens below them and they plunge to their deaths... The mechanism is triggered by one of three wall-mounted push buttons in an adjacent room, pressed simultaneously by three officers, although none of them is told which button is the live one that will cause the prisoner's death." [Photos!] Read article... Comments (16) Maid Imported For Nailing Purposes Daily Mail | Submitted by: baschalove vs johnnyscofflaw "Ariyawathi had returned to Sri Lanka on Friday after five months in Saudi Arabia. Her family took her to the hospital after it became clear she was in massive amounts of pain... It was then that doctors discovered the 1" to 2" nails inside her body. One had been hammered in over her eyes. The landlord and the wife of the landlord hammered 24 nails into her when she complained of the heavy workload." [X-rays!] Read article... Comments (17) Inexplicable Headache Explained WSB-TV 2 Atlanta | Submitted by: lord redpubes "The man recalled receiving a blow to the head." [X-ray] Read article... Comments (12) Auto vs. Architecture Wired | Submitted by: bukster "A 19-year-old Mason, Ohio, man reportedly was speeding at more than 100 mph when he hit a guardrail, went airborne and slammed into an overpass. The car broke into three pieces and threw him from the wreckage." [Crash vid] Read article... Comments (14) Poisoner Scans For Mr. Yuck Chicago Breaking News | Submitted by: FRAUDZILLA "Both victims were on the second floor of a rear porch in the apartment building when they looked up and saw the 13-year-old walk out onto the third-floor porch above them, pick up a white container and pour it on them... The container had poison written on it and was later identified as Black Swan Zap drain cleaner. The liquid contains about 93 percent sulfuric acid and can cause "corrosive burns to all human tissue." Read article... Comments (10) Water of Life STV | Submitted by: FamousPubes "Gilpin collects his diabetic granny's urine, boils it, cleans the sugar crystals which are left and then adds them to grain, malt and water to brew whisky." Read article... Comments (12) Water and Power Yahoo! India | Submitted by: Pope Benedict XVI (Infallable) "Star students are turning piss into electricity and clean water with a prototype fuel cell system... The Carbamide Power System prototype can break urea or urine from humans or animals down into water, nitrogen and CO2, and also produce electricity at the same time." Read article... Comments (5) Hustler Pilloried By AIDS Nazis Wire Services | Submitted by: ferret The films "clearly demonstrate workplace activities highly likely to spread bloodborne pathogens in the workplace." Read article... Comments (17) Back Bollixed In Loco Baptismis Salt Lake Tribune | Submitted by: caffeinebanshee "In a civil suit filed against the LDS, Dastrup claims he suffered a severe herniated disk in his lumbar spine after performing about 200 baptisms on 25 August 2007... Some of the young men and women he completely immersed in water in the name of the dead weighed as much as 250 pounds." Read article... Comments (7) Crater Suggests A Flurry Of Chicxulubs BBC News | Submitted by: ditchley "The Boltysh Crater in the Ukraine was first reported in 2002. However, until now it was uncertain exactly how the timing of this event related to the Chicxulub impact... Ferns have an amazing ability to bounce back after catastrophe. However, scientists found two fern spikes in layers one meter apart, suggesting another later impact event -- the aftermath of the Chicxulub impact." Read article... Comments (8) Pygmy Froglet Inhabits Carnivore Plant Christian Science Monitor | Submitted by: lord redpubes "The mini frog was named after the plant on which it depends for survival, the Nepenthes ampullaria, one of many species of pitcher plants in Borneo... The frogs deposit their eggs on the sides of the pitcher, and tadpoles grow in the liquid accumulated inside the plant." Read article... Comments (9) Pack Rat Hides From Sniffer Dogs Wire Services | Submitted by: ratass "I'm trying to figure out how a body couldn't smell so bad -- that's what everyone's saying. It's the million-dollar question right now." Read article... Comments (8) Terrorism Suspect Failed Pop Idle MSNBC | Submitted by: Nanna "Sher, 28, appeared in an audition on the reality show Canadian Idol in 2008 in which he sings an unwatchable version of Avril Lavigne's Complicated, complete with the moonwalk. He told the judges he's from Pakistan and likes hockey, music and acting. The judges weren't impressed... Police allege the men had plans and schematics to make IEDs. They seized 50 electronic circuit boards which might be remote-control triggers. One of the men was trained overseas to make explosive booby traps." Read article... Comments (12) Wiktroversy: Various Leaks Nipped DOJ, FBI | Submitted by: ditchley "A DC grand jury has indicted Stephen Jin-Woo Kim with unlawfully disclosing national defense information to a reporter for a national news organization and making false statements to the FBI..." And: "Liangtian Yang was an analyst at Fort Sill until August 16, 2010, when his secret clearance was revoked because of security violations. On August 24, 2010, he was selected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for a secondary screening at the airport while waiting for a flight to Tokyo, with China as its final destination. During the screening, the manual was discovered. Read article... and This article... Comments (8) Stig Unmasked, Or No? BBC | Submitted by: gummopolis "The executive producer of Top Gear has launched an attack on publisher HarperCollins over a book that reveals the true identity of The Stig." But in 2009? "The Stig, a mystery driver who tests high-performance cars on Top Gear, has been "revealed" as Michael Schumacher... The seven-times Formula 1 champion dressed as the show's famous driver and removed his helmet during an interview with presenter Jeremy Clarkson." Read article... and This article... Comments (5) Memories of Rotting In Solitary Guardian | Submitted by: athenstexman "In 2001, I was cleared of this killing but, by then, I had spent 29 years alone in a cell... The worst punishment was the cold box, our name for the cell within Camp J. It was down a long hallway through three sets of secure doors, and when they pushed me inside, the isolation was total. They would keep me there for a month, in blocks of 10 days, shoving food through a slot in the door. I went for days without speaking to anyone. That kind of sensory deprivation is torture for me." Read article... Comments (12) Auctioned: John Lennon's Toilet London Telegraph | Submitted by: anonymous "John Lennon's toilet and one of his rarest albums will be among the highlights of an auction of Beatles memorabilia this week... Lennon told builder John Hancock to keep the porcelain lavatory and use it as a "plant pot" after he had installed a new one." Read article... Comments (192) Daily Rotten Archives..