Wednesday July 01, 2009 Submit a story for publication. Want to support Daily Rotten? Buy a membership at Pornopolis! Also: Visit the Rotten Store Baby Snakes On A Plane ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "A US Airways passenger who stripped naked on a flight from North Carolina to Los Angeles caused a diversion in more than one way... The 50-year-old man was restrained by two off-duty law enforcement officers, who happened to be onboard. He was taken into custody by airport police, who called the FBI. The FBI may decide to transport him to an FBI facility. He will likely be taken to a local detention center in the meantime." [With photo] Read article... Comments (29) Michael Jackson To Be Plastinated The Local DE | Submitted by: whatsnew74 Maaaaaaaybe: "Controversial Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens plans to preserve the late Michael Jackson's body in a dancing pose for display using his plastination process... Von Hagens promised the late 50-year-old’s family that his body would be preserved through plastination for "a didactic eternity," and would be conducted free of charge. "The pose would be a dancing one, to be determined by the family in detail," he added." Read article... Comments (49) Tiny Fetal Skeletons Modelled In Marzipan Daily Mail | Submitted by: Heronyomous_Coathanger "Brazilian student Jorge Lopes has pioneered the conversion of data from ultrasound and MRI scans into life-size plaster models of living embryos using a method called rapid prototyping... Dr Lopes also modelled conjoined twins and separated twins from a CT scan and MRI." Read article... Comments (17) Ant Megacolony Conquers Earth BBC News | Submitted by: HIGH-menoptera "Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another... In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the 'Californian large', extends over 900km along the coast of California. A third huge colony exists on the west coast of Japan... Researchers found that Argentine ants living in Europe, Japan and California shared a strikingly similar chemical profile of hydrocarbons on their cuticles." Read article... Comments (19) Kids! Enjoy The Great Taste Of Goat South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by: mjerksz "Goat meat is probably the most consumed meat worldwide, said Helen Hill, president of the Florida Meat Goat Association... The most convenient way to find goat meat is to buy animals from someone who raises them and arrange to have the goats harvested at a slaughterhouse, Hill said. People can buy a goat and take it to a slaughterhouse approved by the USDA." Read article... Comments (36) Blessed Are The Peacekeepers BBC | Submitted by: HailePubelasi "Ethiopian police have shot and killed two people who were helping to build a Christian church at a site which is also claimed by Muslims, officials say... Information Minister Bereket Simon told reporters that the Christians had "stormed the place" and tried to continue building the church "unlawfully". "Unfortunately three lives have been claimed. Two of them were killed by bullets, one of them fell off a cliff." Read article... Comments (17) In The Shadow Of Army Burn Pits Army Times | Submitted by: cops suck fat dicks "Adams, who joined the Army in 2005, served at Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq, from July 2006 to October 2007, where he lived downwind of a burn pit used to eliminate the base’s waste... "At night, it was like stepping into a sewer,” he said. "There was a giant black cloud." In a memo dated Dec. 20, 2006, Air Force Lt. Col. Darrin Curtis, former bioenvironmental flight commander for Joint Base Balad, Iraq, which at one time burned 250 tons of trash a day, cited sulfur dioxide as a byproduct of the burn pit." Read article... Comments (28) Toddler Choked By Unlicensed Python WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "A 2-year-old girl was found dead Wednesday morning in a Sumter County home after being strangled by a 12-foot pet python... Some owners have freed pythons into the wild and a population of them has taken hold in the Everglades. One killed an alligator and then exploded when it tried to eat it. Scientists also speculate a bevy of Burmese pythons escaped in 1992 from pet shops battered by Hurricane Andrew and have been reproducing since." Read article... Comments (28) Faith-Healing Trial Opens In Oregon City Oregon Live | Submitted by: anonymous "The Worthingtons, members of an Oregon City church that believes in spiritual healing, are charged with criminal neglect and second-degree manslaughter. Their daughter died at home March 2, 2008, of pneumonia and a blood infection... The Worthington case will be the first time anyone in Oregon has been prosecuted under a 1999 law passed in response to an extraordinary number of child deaths involving their church, the Followers of Christ. The law eliminated religion as a defense in most cases of medical neglect. Read article... Comments (29) Paraplegic Walks Again! Beats Family CBS 13 | Submitted by: toilet snake "A motorcycle accident almost killed David 21 years ago. At the time he might have wished he was dead. "I asked my doctor, 'Sir what happened? I can't feel my legs'," said David. Ever since, David's been relying on his wheelchair to get around. Then the spider bite. A Brown Recluse sent him to the hospital, then to rehab for eight months." [Read to the end for the exciting conclusion!] Read article... Comments (419) Tuesday June 30, 2009 Burglar Shitbeat By Pugilist Pensioner Daily Mail | Submitted by: Veggie "A knife-wielding burglar had a shock when he attacked a pensioner in his home - and discovered his victim was a retired boxer... "I did not knock him out, but he was stunned. I heard the knife drop. We grappled"... Photographs of the defendant showed what looked like a car accident and photos of the scene looked more like a murder scene.” [With photo of split lip] Read article... Comments (29) Inebriate Performs DIY Bris London Telegraph | Submitted by: SnipperPubes "This is something we would advise men never to attempt," a medic said, "The results can be quite horrific and long-lasting and have quite an effect on a man's sexual performance. Using a pair of nail clippers must have caused excruciating pain, even if he had had a few drinks beforehand." Read article... Comments (19) Shiftless Pastor Shears His Flock WTHI TV | Submitted by: General Lee's horse's balls The pastor and his three sons allegedly ran a multi-million dollar, faith-based affinity fraud for at least five years that duped thousands of investors into buying bonds that raised at least $120 million... "Reeves and his sons took investors money in the name of God and they thought they were building churches with that money," he said. "Instead they were buying Porsches, they were buying airplanes, building fancy houses and swimming pools. This will not be tolerated in Sullivan County." Read article... Comments (31) Summer School Shooting Targets Remedials WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Seven people were shot Tuesday afternoon at a bus stop on Detroit’s West side. Five of the victims were students from Cody Ninth Grade Academy and had just been let out of summer school. The shooting happened about a block away from the school... Two gunmen, possibly three, emerged from the green minivan and "asked for a person by name" before they "opened fire at the crowd." Read article... Comments (24) Cops Foil Choose Your Reward Program Daily Breeze | Submitted by: Bo Raxo aka El Bo "Dempkey, calling himself "Anthony," called the girl and told her he found the dog... "At first I was, OK, someone's found my dog," the girl said. "But then when he asked for money and when he said if I didn't have money he wanted something else, I got scared. He asked for sex." He also threatened to torture the dog if she didn't give in to his demands... He told her to meet her at the El Pollo Loco restaurant on Hawthorne Boulevard. She called her father." Read article... Comments (21) Who's Been Pissing In My Laundry Sheboygan Press | Submitted by: cyran0 "The woman, now 62, first discovered several items in her clothes hamper were soaked with urine and her underwear drawer had been gone through. In September 2007 the woman called police twice after finding urine-soaked clothes one day and the next day discovering footprints in her freshly vacuumed shag carpeting... Schultz later admitted he had entered the home by prying open bedroom windows, then found a key inside and had a copy made. When the woman changed the locks, he forced his way in and again found a key to copy." Read article... Comments (19) The Polite Punk'd of Thailand Global Post | Submitted by: Yak "Saranae, a Bangkok prank comedy trio, swept an unknowing Thai actor into what appeared to be a junky cab. It was, in fact, a high-octane car driven by a stunt driver in disguise. After punching the meter, the driver blasted off on a pants-soiling joyride involving wheelies, roadside bombs and a head-on collision with a noodle stall." Read article... Comments (9) Flimsy Blouse Cannot Restrain Rodent KUSA-TV 9 Denver | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Last Friday, Warren, Ohio, police detective W. Mackey was questioning a witness on a murder case and at one point in the conversation she bent over and out came a baby squirrel. As you can see in the video listed to the right, the woman did not seem to be fazed at all and put the squirrel back inside her top and kept talking to the detective... Detective Mackey was at a loss for words after this happened." Read article... Comments (28) Rhode Island's Unharrowable Indoor Lovecraft Providence Journal | Submitted by: ronin thugzzz "To understand how Rhode Island became the only state in America to decriminalize prostitution, you have to go back to the mid-1970s, when a powerful politician and devout Roman Catholic named Matty Smith helped advance the cause of a former prostitute named Margo St. James. In 1980. St. James played a role in Rhode Island’s decriminalization of prostitution. “We tried Massachusetts. California. Hawaii. Florida,” she recalls. “Most of them didn’t get anywhere.” Read article... Comments (8) Intramural Recidivism In Kalamazoo Herald Sun | Submitted by: cunninlinguist's aching piles "In attempting to steal the computer from the Kalamazoo County jail where he was already imprisoned, the 25-year-old managed to add another six months to his sentence. Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Gary Giguere Jr said it was "the dumbest crime I've heard today. It may be in the top half-dozen in my career," he said. Bradley admitted: "I'm not the best criminal." Read article... Comments (328) Monday June 29, 2009 Race Riot Explodes At Toy Factory Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ "A brawl at a toy factory in China has ended with the deaths of two people and a further 60 hospitalised after a dispute flared between workers of different ethnic backgrounds in the Muslim Xinjiang region. More than 400 police were called to break it up... It was not clear what triggered the dispute, but the two dead were both members of China's Uighur minority, the South China Morning Post reported, adding that 81 of the injured were also Uighurs." Read article... Comments (31) Armed Paraplegic Used For Target Practice New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: Aaron "Mr Kane said shotgun and a high-calibre firearm were used by Sime, who fired a "large number" of shots in the area. His 39-year-old neighbour was "peppered with pellets from the shoulder to the groin"... Police earlier said Sime was thought to have shot "in excess of 100 rounds of both shotgun and 308 into houses in the cul-de-sac where he lives" before being fatally shot." Read article... Comments (22) Plastic Shredder Regurgitates Migrant Safety and Health Practitioner | Submitted by: Speedy Gonzales "As he was removing the strings from one of the bales he lost his balance, and fell off the edge of the conveyor, landing feet-first in the shredder. Miraculously he managed to pull himself out of the shredder but had sustained deep lacerations to his feet, legs, hips and hands. He required multiple skin grafts and was unable to return to work for four months. Subsequently, the HSE has lost contact with him and it is believed he has returned to his home country, and it is unknown if he is still suffering from his injuries." Read article... and This article... Comments (20) Jacko's Autopsy Turvy Wacko Sun | Submitted by: PictureofDorianPubes "The King of Pop's once handsome face bore a network of plastic surgery scars, while the bridge to his nose had vanished and its right side had partially collapsed.. He was skin and bone, his hair had fallen out and had been eating nothing but pills when he died. Injection marks all over his body and the disfigurement caused by years of plastic surgery show he’d been in terminal decline for years." Read article... Comments (69) Blowtorch Torturer Rescues Bunnies Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Salad Tosser "Then I stepped back from her body, lit a book of matches, and threw it at her. I could feel the heat of the fire. I could smell the flesh burning... I stay a few seconds and say a prayer to set her soul free," he said. Suddenly, he said, he realized he forgot to get the kids' three pet rabbits out of their bedrooms!" Read article... Comments (20) Chinese Govt Outlaws Gold Farming Information Week | Submitted by: rejerkitated "The ruling is likely to affect many of the more than 300 million Internet users in China, as well as those in other countries involved in virtual currency trading. In the context of online role playing games like World of Warcraft, virtual currency trading is often called gold farming... The trading of virtual currency for real cash employs hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and generates between $200 million and $1 billion annually. Between 80% and 85% of gold farmers are based in China." Read article... Comments (27) Fake Parents Shoot Up Fake Daycare New York Daily News | Submitted by: Midnight Rambler "Armed bandits targeted a Brooklyn day care center where the owners ran a drug den in the basement, with a 10-pound marijuana stash and more than $100,000 in cash... About a dozen children, ages 1 to 10, were napping inside the Special Moments Day Care Center on Friday when the robbers -- posing as parents -- entered the facility... Police initially believed the robbers intended to steal the daycare's payroll until Nugent squealed on the drug operation." Read article... Comments (14) Bravehearts Fought In Horse Piss Shirts London Telegraph | Submitted by: WeePubes "The yellow war shirt is never shown in any film or popular image and yet it is something that all the original writers comment on... Highlanders wore the tunics throughout the Middle Ages and right up until the end of the 16th Century, he said. Because saffron was expensive, poor clansmen dyed the linen with horse urine or bark and crushed leaves to get the rich yellow colour... The tartan kilt as we know it today is part of a romantic and more modern imagining of Scotland's past." Read article... Comments (25) Former Mayor Arrested For Nude Campout Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Walls and a deputy sheriff went to the campsite Saturday evening after a complaint of a man walking naked in Earls Ford Road, according to the report. Musselwhite appeared to be intoxicated, and several alcoholic beverages were at the campsite, Walls said... Musselwhite then asked why he was being visited. "I said the complainant had specifically said his campsite, and the fact that he was still nude made me think it was him." Read article... Comments (18) Nimby Assaulted By Backyard Shitter Connecticut Post | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "A Harral Avenue man who objected to a person defecating on his lawn was assaulted with a milk crate Saturday night... The incident began when Ramirez saw a man enter his property through a gate, unbuckle his pants and squat on his lawn. The man, later by police identified as Venegas, allegedly picked up a black milk crate and threw it at Ramirez after being ordered off the property, the victim told police." Read article... Comments (20) SF Pride's Flaming Pink Triangle KTVU | Submitted by: mjerksz "San Francisco fire officials said Monday that the burning Sunday of a large fabric triangle, spread on the Twin Peaks hillside during the city's gay pride celebration each year, was arson... The early morning fire, reported at about 5 a.m. near Christmas Tree Point Road, burned about 25 to 30 feet of the massive Pink Triangle before being extinguished about a half-hour later." Read article... Comments (33) French Museums Return Maori Mummy Heads Herald-Sun | Submitted by: dickless joe "The French Government says it supports the return of more than a dozen mummified Maori heads to New Zealand, as lawmakers vote to hand back the remnants of a "barbaric trade" in human bodies... "In what began as a ritual, a sign of respect from tribe and family towards the dead, these mummified heads led to a particularly barbaric trade, fuelled by the sinister curiosity of travellers and European collectors... Supporters of the French bill say the heads fuelled a "barbaric trade" that saw slaves decapitated and tattooed in the style of war chiefs to satisfy the whims of European collectors." Read article... Comments (385) Friday June 26, 2009 Hungry Hooker Paid In Fritos The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: Jethro Bodine "The Oklahoma woman, 36, copped a plea last week to a prostitution charge for accepting a box of Frito-Lay chips in exchange for oral sex. According to the police report, Johnson told cops that he informed Smith that he did not have any money, but that she "agreed to give him a 'blow job' meaning oral sex, for a box of chips." Johnson, a Frito-Lay employee, provided Smith with a case of chips he valued at $30." Read article... Comments (91) Whales Become Fast Food For Seagulls BBC | Submitted by: Mayor Hagar "Seagulls have learned to feed on whales by landing on their backs and just pecking away at the skin and blubber -- something never seen in any other part of the world... "You see big open sores, which we thought were pock marks of infection. Some are half a metre across and the edges look like thousands of bites." [With picture of what meal on the run looks like] Read article... Comments (25) Croutons Distract From Death Dive Daily Mail | Submitted by: NuttyPubes "A teenage tourist has leapt to her death from the Eiffel Tower in Paris and crashed onto the roof of a packed restaurant 180ft below... A waiter said after the tragedy on Thursday afternoon: "It was a shocking moment. The smashing noise was like a bomb going off as the roof cracked, then everyone there very quickly realised what had happened. But the most bizarre thing was, most of the customers just carried on eating. I have no idea why they did that." Read article... Comments (67) Sex Slave Kept In Cupboard Daily Mail | Submitted by: CubbyPubes "When Cairnes carried out the sickening acts, he bound and gagged her, tied her to a chair and locked her in a dark cupboard. He warned the youngster to keep the abuse a secret, and told her he planned to use her as his sexual plaything for years... The girl finally confided in teachers after months of attacks, but Cairnes denied doing anything wrong and maintained his innocence." Read article... Comments (42) Sweden: Our Sinkholes Are Fecal The Local SE | Submitted by: WinnieThePube "Thomas Sundberg and his dog Rex were walking near the Kramfors-Sollefteå airport last week when Sundberg felt the ground give way beneath him... Seconds later, man and dog found themselves nearly submerged in a hole filled with excrement... The hole was actually a sludge lagoon maintained by Kramfors municipality to store and dry sewage from a number of wells." Read article... Comments (20) Garbagemen Pilot Bum Crusher London Telegraph | Submitted by: SquishyPubes "Mr Lehman had been drinking white grain spirit, vodka and beer with friends when he went to the bin to try to retrieve boxes to make his bed for the night... But before dawn the binmen came and he was thrown into two-ton jaws of the machine. "I cried out in pain but no-one could hear me," he said. "Pretty soon I was helpless with pain, doubled over. I could hear the bones cracking like twigs... pop, pop, pop, one after another." Read article... Comments (24) Would-Be Arsonist Forgets Key Ingredient New York Post | Submitted by: Lord Kitakowski 1st. "Esther entered the sprawling, $3.2 million Hewlett Bay Park home of real-estate honcho Itzhak Hershko through an unlocked glass door at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday. She quietly emptied a bottle of Kingsford charcoal lighter fluid into his 5-month-old daughter's crib and onto the floor of his ground-floor bedroom, where he was sleeping with the girl's mother... then calmly walked outside, possibly to retrieve more lighter fluid and matches or a lighter. The couple had been warring over finances and custody of their three children for years, cops said." Read article... Comments (20) Mom's Taser Used Against Her Treasure Coast Newspapers | Submitted by: TCPalm.com "A man accused of assaulting his mother earlier this month with a three-foot-long sword has now been arrested again -- this time accused of shocking her with a stun gun and kicking her while she was down, police said... The mother, who has arthritis and fibromyalgia, said Beider got the Taser from her and shocked her in the left elbow. The mother reportedly fell to the ground and Beider kicked her in the arms, legs and abdomen, the report said. He also struck her in the head and twisted her left wrist, the report said." Read article... Comments (17) An Old Fashioned Witch Burning BBC | Submitted by: MatthewPubekins "Villagers, many straight from their farms, and armed with machetes, sticks and axes, are shouting and crowding round in a big group in Kenya's fertile Kisii district. I can't see clearly what is going on, but heavy smoke is rising from the ground and a horrible stench fills the air... Suddenly an old woman breaks from the crowd, screaming for mercy. Three or four people go after her, beat her and drag her back, pushing her onto -- what I can now see -- is a raging fire." Read article... Comments (1125) Thursday June 25, 2009 Michael Jackson Dead Los Angeles Times, TMZ | Submitted by: king cholo "Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times.... A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest. Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive." Read article... and This article... Comments (509) Photoshop All-Star Charged With Sexploitation CNN | Submitted by: furpo "A Tennessee man is facing charges of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor for what authorities say are three pictures -- none of them featuring an actual child's body. Instead the photos feature the faces of three young girls placed on the nude bodies of adult females... "he wanted to see what they would look like as adults"... Two of the faces were of local girls; the third face appears to be Miley Cyrus." Read article... Comments (37) Find Some Other Pipes To Clog WNEM-TV 5 Saginaw | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "More than a dozen Polaroid pictures of graphic child pornography was discovered by a cleaning company in the bathroom of a local park... The crew pulled about 15-30 pictures portraying sex acts between a middle-aged woman and a boy from a suction cleaning pump after the tool became clogged. "They were tied together with string." [With photo of toilet in question] Read article... Comments (15) Despite All The Amputations BBC | Submitted by: LegolasPubes "Hardline Islamists in Somalia have carried out double amputations on four men for stealing phones and guns. They have each had a hand and foot cut off after being convicted by a Sharia court in the capital earlier this week... "If they are caught red-handed in similar circumstances, they will face amputation." Read article... Comments (21) Eugenics Ploy: Hand Sanitizer Alcoholism Fears UPI | Submitted by: Gorg "The Canadian government delayed sending alcohol-based hand sanitizer to Indian reservations battling the H1N1 flu virus out of fears people would drink it... Reservations in Manitoba were hard hit by the virus first named swine flu. "We have had some rare experiences in our communities where we have had theft of hand sanitizers." Read article... Comments (21) Stab Wounds Exhibit Even Distribution News Corporation | Submitted by: JabbaDaPubes "Lesley Elliott broke into her daughter's, bedroom only to see her ex-boyfriend straddling her legs and stabbing her over and over again in complete silence. 'I thought he was going right through her'... Her daughter suffered stabs wound to almost every part of her body. Her ears, part of her nose, one nipple and one of her inner labia were cut off." Read article... Comments (18) Zambian President Suffers Micturation London Telegraph | Submitted by: dirty des "You have urinated on my jacket!" a startled Mr Banda told the monkey, looking up at a tree. "I will give this monkey for lunch to Mr Sata," he joked, referring to the opposition leader Michael Sata, who Mr Banda defeated in last year's elections." Read article... Comments (16) All Dressed Up, Nowhere To Go Orange County Register | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray "When police peered into the closed workout room early Tuesday, a man hid behind the gym equipment... Dressed in a miniskirt, stockings and heels, he was looking at pornography on a computer. The man was in the gym after hours and was acting suspiciously, sweating profusely and talking quickly. Officers searched his backpack and found marijuana, a marijuana pipe, methamphetamine and a glass meth pipe." Read article... Comments (16) Summer Vacation Blasts Off Columbus Dispatch | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray "In text messages, he lied to his children and ex-wife about what happened to Sloopy and Skeeter... A Columbus firefighter admits that he took his two dogs to the basement, tied them up and blasted them with a rifle so he and a girlfriend could vacation without paying to board the animals. Chunks of concrete were flying everywhere... In the courtroom, Santuomo raised a middle finger to the reporters assembled to cover his case." Read article... Comments (27) Nixon Considers The Jewish Question New York Times | Submitted by: ferret "The tapes also include a phone call from February 1973 between Nixon and the evangelist Billy Graham, during which Mr. Graham complained that Jewish-American leaders were opposing efforts to promote evangelical Christianity, like Campus Crusade. The two men agreed that the Jewish leaders risked setting off anti-Semitic sentiment. "It may be they have a death wish. You know that's been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries." Read article... Comments (29) Wednesday June 24, 2009 Mensa Ties Spark Bumfight San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Chief Bum "A homeless man is on trial on charges that he smacked a fellow transient in the face with a skateboard as the victim was engaged in a conversation about quantum physics... Keller joined in the conversation and, for reasons unknown, got upset, authorities said. He picked up his skateboard and hit Fava in the face with it, splitting his lip, prosecutors said." Read article... Comments (28) Plaintiff Charged In Acid Attack Daily Mail | Submitted by: Pubesinnit. "A furious litigant hurled hydrochloric acid over three lawyers after a High Court ruling went against him... He sprayed the acid at them "quite few times to make sure he got us. The liquid rained around us and was all up my right leg and over my right arm." Fumes filled the court, leaving staff struggling for breath and forcing the judge to flee."" Read article... Comments (19) Liberian Warlord Goes Commando London Telegraph | Submitted by: anonymous "A former warlord known as General Butt Naked has confessed to Liberia's post-conflict reconciliation commission that his men killed 20,000 people during the country's civil war... The nude gunmen became known for terrorising villagers and sacrificing children whose hearts they would eat before going into battle during Liberia's 14-year on-off civil war which ended in 2003." Read article... Comments (33) Duck Soup Made From Cranial Broth London Telegraph | Submitted by: PubeWindsor "Lin Zongxiu, from the southwestern province of Sichuan, heard in 2008 that soup made with a man’s head could help cure her daughter who had suffered from psychiatric problems for years... Lin and her husband decided to enlist the help of a man in December who knocked unconscious a drunk 76-year-old passer-by before beheading him. The couple then gave their 25-year-old daughter soup made from the man's head, and duck." Read article... Comments (20) Perplexing 16yo Retains Form of Toddler ABC News | Submitted by: furpo "In a recent paper for the journal "Mechanisms of Ageing and Development," Walker and his co-authors chronicled a baffling range of inconsistencies in Brooke's aging process. She still has baby teeth at 16, for instance. And her bone age is estimated to be more like 10 years old. Brooke's hair and her nails are the only two things that grow... "My system always has been to turn years into months," Greenberg said. "So, if someone asked today, I might say, she's 16 months old." Read article... Comments (29) US Military Drones Reach High Score BBC | Submitted by: anonymous Drone kills 43 at funeral for victims of US drones: "Three missiles were fired by drones as people were dispersing after offering funeral prayers for a militant commander... The US military does not routinely confirm drone attacks but the armed forces and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operating in Afghanistan are believed to be the only forces capable of deploying drones in the region." Read article... Comments (25) Cash-Strapped Elderlies Kidnap Banker Daily Mail | Submitted by: GerontoPubes "A gang of wealthy pensioners kidnapped and tortured a financial adviser in Germany after he lost £2m of their savings during the financial crisis. "They bound me with masking tape until I looked like a mummy. It took them quite a while because they ran out of breath."... The Swiss bank telephoned police in Germany and an armed team of special SEK commandos was scrambled and the house was stormed in the early hours of Saturday morning." Read article... Comments (11) Stoned Wallabies Cause Poppy Crop Circles News Corporation | Submitted by: tetheredgoat(se) "The strange occurrence that was revealed in a State Government Budget Estimates hearing, has also solved what some growers say has spurred a campfire legend about mysterious crop circles that appear in northern Tasmania's poppy paddocks. The drugged out wallabies had been found hopping around in circles squashing the poppies, creating the formations... Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market." Read article... Comments (16) Prehistoric Spaniards Cannibalized Young London Telegraph | Submitted by: MunchyPubes "A study of the prehistoric remains has revealed that human flesh formed part of the diet of early man and children and adolescents in particular were regularly killed and eaten... "They did not practice cannibalism through a lack of food," explained Dr de Castro. "They killed their rivals and used the meat. This gives us an idea of cannibalism as a type of gastronomy, and not as a ritual." Read article... Comments (15) Update: Starface Comes Clean About Tattoo London Telegraph | Submitted by: Fuck Duder "The 18-year-old has finally confessed she did not fall asleep, that she wanted all the stars and was "fully aware" of what Mr Toumaniantz was doing... Ms Vlaminck told a Dutch TV crew: "I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. But when my father saw them, he was furious. So I said I fell asleep and the that the tattooist made a mistake." Read article... Comments (31) Dead Sea Coast Swallowing Tourists Wire Services | Submitted by: UGGH Exploitation of Israel's precious mineral resources has forced the Dead Sea to recede several kilometers over the last decade. Dried-up aquifers have left pockets in the soil, creating a coastal landscape of mud and sinkholes, which yawn open unexpectedly when disturbed by the tread of unwitting tourists. Read article... Comments (14) Secrets for Sale in Ghanan Charnel Pit Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Goby It's essentially this charred toxic wasteland," Sifton recalled Tuesday. "The ground is just scorched absolutely everywhere. Everywhere you walk, there's shards of plastic and metal and glass protruding from the ground... There, UBC graduate students purchased a drive containing information related to contracts between the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and the military contractor Northrop Grumman. The hard drive cost just $40. "We plugged them in and started reading files... They were just sitting there." Read article... Comments (12) Argentine Firecracker Lures Missing Governor Washington Post | Submitted by: Fuck Duder "Gov. Sanford should not have told staffers he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he was actually in Argentina for seven days. His spokesman repeated the lie to reporters, leading to several days of confusion over his whereabouts... "First of all he's a Republican golden boy and he's a strict, staunch conservative. I'm so shocked. It was something I did not expect." Read article... Comments (29) Teenaged Hoarder Builds Bedroom Aviary Longmont Times-Call | Submitted by: merrillvillain "The nestlings were among 13 survivors of a group of 53 baby birds confiscated from a 15-year-old Longmont boy's bedroom on June 16... He and some other children in the neighborhood had been trying to feed them with little success. We believe he raided several nests in the neighborhood... The birds included an assortment of barn swallows and sparrows, along with a baby bluebird." Read article... Comments (369) Daily Rotten Archives..