Friday November 06, 2009 Submit a story for publication. Want to support Daily Rotten? Buy a membership at Pornopolis! Also: Visit the Rotten Store Tubful Of Babysitter Cut-Ups nineMSN | Submitted by: weejimmymcangus "Coombes strangled Raechel and then asked his lover if she wanted to watch him dismember the body... Godfrey allegedly gave him plastic bags, and he began to dismember Ms Betts' body in the bathtub... Coombes said he repeatedly stabbed Ms Betts' breast area "because he didn't want her to go into the next world as a woman." Read article... Comments (11) Ninth Wife Tempts Bull Polygamist New York Times | Submitted by: Ad. Hitler, wisher/dreamer/magic bean buyer~ "One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an underage girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his nine wives... Mr. Jessop is one of the most prominent members of a breakaway sect that has at least four other communities in Arizona and Utah. He is close to Warren S. Jeffs, the self-styled prophet and leader of the sect." Read article... Comments (17) Flushed Fetus Found Fecally Floating WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "The worker found the fetus in the collection tower. It was stopped by one of the screens as it passed through... Roughly, 15 to 20 million gallons of waste water pass through the treatment facility in Orlando every day... "We are really looking into that, where exactly the water comes from, sewer, bathroom, a gutter, there are a lot of sources." Read article... Comments (9) LHC Crippled By Baguette The Register | Submitted by: ma vie en pubes? "A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher's subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut... As a result, temperatures in part of the LHC's circuit climbed to almost 8 Kelvin - significantly higher than the normal operating temperature of 1.9, and close to the temperature at which the LHC's niobium-titanium magnets are likely to "quench", or cease superconducting and become ordinary "warm" magnets." Read article... Comments (13) Office Gunman In Orlando Spree Washington Post | Submitted by: shazb0t "A 40-year-old former engineer who was fired two years ago apparently returned to his former firm and shot six people, killing one, Friday morning in an Orlando high-rise, according to police and his former employer... Swat teams and ambulances descended on the 16-story Gateway Center office building after receiving reports of shots having been fired at 11 a.m. Friday morning." Read article... Comments (16) Tweaker Patrol Branches Out Herald Sun | Submitted by: InhalioPubes "Mr Smith swung the stick with both hands, and struck Mr Hoye in the head on at least two occasions... Mr Hoye fell to the ground. Whilst he was on the ground, Mr Smith again struck him with the stick at least once, and possibly more. He also kicked him around the head until one of his friends pulled him back." Mr Hoye died at the scene after inhaling blood oozing from extensive injuries to his head and neck." Read article... Comments (9) Horselover Convicted Of Buggery ABC 15 News | Submitted by: selfcleaning buttocks "Every night thinkin' is that man out there with my animals? And like I said I just couldn't sleep thinkin' about it! When I came out to feed her the next morning when I hadn't sat out here waiting for him, and she'd been molested again -- it was devestating!" Read article... and This article... Comments (8) A Ball Of Fire With Legs WSB-TV 2 Atlanta | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "I think they poured gasoline or put something in his mouth. I don't know. It's hard to believe. You know people do stuff like that to a dog, it's not human, it's an animal, it's your best friend. Why you do that...?" "It was a ball of fire with legs. That's the way it looked. It looked like it had been burnt pretty bad. Plus, you know, with the fright of the dog running adding oxygen to it." Read article... Comments (16) Unhappy Couple Poisons Salsa KMBC-TV 9 Kansas City | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "The couple are accused of mixing a Methomyl-based pesticide into the salsa... Dozens of restaurant customers became ill, suffering from nausea, abdominal cramps, weakness, sweating and discomfort... Prosecutors said the couple devised a plan to use the poison in hopes the owner would be blamed and suffer financial harm." Read article... Comments (12) Mossad Trojan Inspects Syrian Nuke Plant Haaretz | Submitted by: Effect "Israel's Mossad espionage agency used Trojan Horse programs to gather intelligence about a nuclear facility in Syria the Israel Defense Forces destroyed in 2007... Israel has refused from the beginning to comment on, confirm or deny the strike, but after a delay of several months Washington presented intelligence purporting to show the target was a reactor being built with North Korean help." Read article... Comments (212) Thursday November 05, 2009 12 Dead In Fort Hood Massacre Fort Hood Sentinel | Submitted by: dredd proops "A shooter entered what we call the Soldier Readiness Facility, where soldiers who are preparing to deploy go for last-minute medical checkups and dental treatment. A shooter opened fire and essentially due to the quick response of the police forces, was killed... [The shooter] was a soldier. We since then have apprehended two additional soldiers that are suspects." Read article... Comments (61) Shrooming Nudist Struck By Train Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star | Submitted by: dngrdnky "She said the man was yelling at himself when he looked at her and asked if she was OK. The woman responded that she was, then asked if the suspect was OK, Kennedy said. The suspect then began screaming and cursing at the woman, who ran into her home and called the Sheriff's Office... About 30 minutes later, Kennedy said, police were notified that a CSX train had struck a naked man in the area of Butler and Cool Springs roads." Read article... Comments (18) Drowned Boy Hid In Clothesdryer CNN | Submitted by: Slappy McBappy "14-year-old Castro enticed the boy into entering the bathroom, according to the document. Castro said he then sodomized the child, after which "the victim tripped over the carpet, fell, and hit the back of his head on the bathtub. Castro said the victim started crying and told Castro he was going to tell his mother. Castro said he panicked and decided to kill the victim by drowning him in the bathtub... Castro then carried the victim over his left shoulder and put him [in]... the clothes dryer to conceal him." Read article... Comments (25) Revenant Late To Own Funeral Independent IE | Submitted by: Vomit "A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral... "The corpse was badly disfigured, but dressed in similar clothing," said the police spokesman, who talked on condition of anonymity. "People are afraid to look for very long when they identify bodies, and I think that is what happened in this case." Read article... Comments (18) Boisterous Drunk Challenges Street Light STV | Submitted by: JK "Drunken Mr. Robinson turned on the innocent streetlight after a number of walkers ignored his pleas to engage him in a stand-up fight... As police officers watched, Robinson directed his anger at the lamppost and shouted at it to "come and have a go." Read article... Comments (16) Double Down On Death Row New York Times | Submitted by: M Morlaine "Arizona state officials will soon seek bids from private companies for 9 of the state's 10 prison complexes that house roughly 40,000 inmates, including the 127 here on death row. It is the first effort by a state to put its entire prison system under private control." Read article... Comments (12) Desert Rapist To Be Beheaded, Crucified BBC News | Submitted by: kushed "A Saudi court has ruled that a man convicted of raping five children will be beheaded and crucified... Reports suggest Ramaly lured children into his car near their school, near the town of Hail, and took them to isolated areas to rape them... Ramaly, 22, left his youngest victim, aged three, stranded in the desert to die." Read article... Comments (29) Strange Rash Denudes Leipzig Bears Daily Mail | Submitted by: francisco "The sudden hair loss has affected all female bears at the zoo... The bears, which originate from South America, normally have fluffy dark brown fur and would now be growing a thicker fur coat to keep warm during the winter. But instead they have developed nasty rashes and inflammations on their skin." Read article... Comments (15) Woman's Vagina Falls Out Mom Logic | Submitted by: allpartsintact "One day in the bathroom, I felt something kind of strange when I was wiping. There wasn't really a hole there -- it felt kind of flat... One night, I took a look down there, and it was like my insides were on the outside and they were coming out. I knew I couldn't put this off any longer. I went to my doctor and said, "My vagina is falling out of my body!" [Personal tale told in medical detail] Read article... Comments (42) Shopkeeper Confronts Online Scathe San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: honkrrr "A negative review on Yelp turned ugly between critic Sean C. and Ocean Avenue Books owner Mme. Goodman. But the dispute turned physical and scary when Goodman showed up at Sean's house... After a scuffle, the cops showed up and cited her with battery. Sean also obtained a restraining order." Read article... Comments (6) Papist Sermonizes In Praise Of Cash Bloomberg | Submitted by: honkrrr "Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer John Varley stood at the wooden lectern in St. Martin-in-the-Fields on London's Trafalgar Square last night and told the packed pews of the church that "profit is not satanic..." Varley joins Goldman Sachs International adviser Brian Griffiths and Lazard International Chairman Ken Costa as London bankers who’ve gone into London churches in recent weeks and invoked Christianity to defend a banking system that critics say has created wealth and inequality in the U.K." Read article... Comments (11) Horrible Diarrhea Splatters Cockpit Fort Myers News-Press | Submitted by: RubberGirl "The victims said they were looking for their vehicle in the Wal-Mart parking lot when they saw Napodano naked in his van and exposing himself to them... The accused claimed he had "explosive diarrhea" and was using his underwear to clean himself... The underwear in question was located, with stains, but the responding deputy determined the stains weren't consistent with explosive diarrhea." Read article... Comments (24) Into The Pot With You, Wastrel Pakistan Daily Times | Submitted by: lord redpubes "A man and a woman allegedly killed a two-and-a-half-year-old girl by throwing her into a cooking pot filled with boiling curry in Islampura... Laiba's uncle, Mehboob Alam, told Daily Times on Wednesday that Abdul and his son wanted to avenge a three-month-old dispute: the two families fell into an argument when a child hit Laiba with a ball." Read article... Comments (292) Wednesday November 04, 2009 Cops Break Up Luggage-Stealing Operation Arizona Republic | Submitted by: the dude "Detectives uncovered nearly 1,000 pieces of stolen luggage Tuesday while serving a search warrant at a home in the northwest Valley, linking the items to King and Legg-King, who are accused of plucking the bags off airport baggage carousels... "This is going to be a long investigation," Holmes said. "We can't establish what he did with the property inside the bags at this point." Read article... Comments (16) The Great Cleveland Easter Egg Hunt CNN | Submitted by: Hoborg "Investigators discovered four more bodies Tuesday at the Cleveland, Ohio, home of a convicted rapist -- making a total of 10 since last week.. Five different burial methods were used on the victims, and the bodies were in varying states of decomposition, said Miller, which made it difficult to determine the ages of the victims." Read article... Comments (21) Horny Crabs In Protection Racket San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Veggie "This study shows, for the first time, that in exchange for sex and other benefits, males protect their female neighbors from territory-seeking male intruders. The paper provides the first evidence of 'defense coalitions' between territorial males and females..." Male and female crabs get along so well, because they'll "almost always have sex." Read article... Comments (15) Unfortunate Wife Regrets Nut Allergy Daily Mail | Submitted by: AlergyPubes "The pain that I was feeling was inside, like somebody sticking needles up inside of me like a real painful burning... The pain, and at times blisters, would go on for weeks, she said... The couple were eventually told that Julie suffers from seminal plasma hypersensitivity: "The body recognizes the sperm as a foreign protein, like it would recognize a peanut allergen or a pollen so you have swelling, you have itching, you have inflammation of the nerve endings." Read article... Comments (27) Sacred Testament Besmeared Windsor Star | Submitted by: Goby "A man was arrested in the Vancouver suburb of Surrey after he defecated on the seat of a car, wiped himself off with a Bible and then sought refuge in a nearby police vehicle... The outraged partygoers began yelling at the man, who then climbed into a police vehicle, where he was bit by a service dog and then arrested." Read article... Comments (24) Christ's Balls Transubstantiate BBC | Submitted by: Sumproduct "About 300 protesters held a candlelit protest outside a Glasgow theatre over the staging of a play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual... The protest was held outside the Tron Theatre, where Jesus, Queen of Heaven -- in which Christ is a transsexual woman -- is being staged. It is part of the Glasgay! arts festival, a celebration of Scotland's gay, bi-sexual and transsexual culture. Read article... Comments (23) Doing Donuts On The Neighbors Daily Mail | Submitted by: clarify "He was showing off in the vehicle -- that is the expression used by many witnesses... Another smaller group was walking towards the crowd when Gemmell "deliberately swerved to try and frighten them" at which point he lost control of the vehicle: "Within a split second he hit the kerb and the car ploughed into the larger group." Experts said the Citroen hit the crowd at 47mph and bystanders saw people "flying through the air." Read article... Comments (17) Mayor Reveals Ghastly Premonition Daily Mail | Submitted by: IlPubefather "Speaking during his re-election ceremony, he announced: "Black Saldana, who apparently is the one who was asking for my head, was found dead today in Mexico City." The problem was that the barefoot, blindfolded corpse of "Black Saldana" was not found for another four hours... His body was also not identified for another two days... When questioned about whether he knew anything about his opponent's death, Mr Fernandez said: "Sometimes there are coincidences in life. It's better to look at it this way." Read article... Comments (14) No Joy In Dubville Breaking News Aiee | Submitted by: Vomit "Cannabis with a potential street value of €1 million was seized by gardaí and Revenue Customs Service officers in Hempstown, County Wicklow, yesterday afternoon... The 100kg of herbal cannabis and cannabis resin had been transported from Holland to Dublin Port earlier, hidden in clothes and electrical lights." Read article... Comments (6) I'm The Daddy Around Here Daily Mail | Submitted by: reject "The killer who murdered Rhys Jones plunged a makeshift knife into a fellow teenage murderer in a twisted bid to become 'top dog' in a youth jail... Mercer’s victim was rushed to hospital pouring with blood after the attack in the exercise yard at Moorland Young Offenders Institute in Doncaster, South Yorkshire." Read article... Comments (275) Tuesday November 03, 2009 Two-Headed Child Howls From Ditch Austrian Times | Submitted by: twelver "Police in Hanzhuang, central China, found the hours-old infant after reports of a baby crying in the middle of the night. Doctors say the child has one fully formed head and another, smaller, head with only partially formed features... it It is amazing that he survived after being dumped in the ditch. It was filled with rubbish and mud and old water. When officers picked him up they at first did not realise he had the defamation and thought it was just rubbish stuck to the child." Read article... Comments (43) Unquiet Spirit Claims Trick-Or-Treater Boston Globe | Submitted by: dngrdnky "Pelham Police Lt. Fisher said the fourth-grader was with a group of about 20 children being shuttled to front-door candy stops on a hay ride. At this particular stop, Christian was the first child to collect his candy and wait for the hay-filled trailer at the side of the road... Suddenly, a white birch tree snapped at its stump, about 4 feet off the ground, crushing the boy... Just days earlier, Christian's uncle's brother was shot to death by an off-duty special police officer after viciously stabbing a Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist." Read article... Comments (21) Chest Contents Of Unknown Origin Boston Police Department | Submitted by: she's a spy "Upon arrival, Officers met with security personnel who pointed out, what appeared to be, internal organs on the ground. Ultimately, a Doctor from the Medical Examiners Office responded and conducted a preliminary investigation which led her to believe they were not from a human. The organs were identified as a heart, lungs and an esophagus. The Medical Examiners Office collected the organs in order to conduct more conclusive testing." Read article... Comments (11) More And More Bodies Dug Up ABC News | Submitted by: general "Albuquerque police are preparing for what they say could be the biggest homicide investigation in the city's history as investigators look into who buried bodies -- 11 so far, including a first trimester fetus -- in the ground in a wide expanse of desert mesa... "It's very methodical and it's very businesslike," he said of the bodies' placement in the mesa." Read article... Comments (14) Bear Defeats Invading Militants BBC | Submitted by: Littlefuzzy "A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir... The militants had assault rifles but were taken by surprise -- police found the remains of pudding they had made to eat when the bear attacked." Read article... Comments (22) Giant Sea Creatures Terrorize Japan London Telegraph | Submitted by: commhealy "The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba`as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura's jellyfish... Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have been inundated with the creatures this year... The crew of the fishing boat was thrown into the sea when the vessel capsized." Read article... Comments (14) Cable Modem Hacker Indicted Wired | Submitted by: twitch game "An Oregon hardware hacker and author has been hit with federal criminal charges arising from his longstanding business of selling unlocked cable modems that can be used to steal extra speed from a broadband provider, or obtain free service... The group's work has been a boon to cable modem "uncappers," who use the customized modems to crank up the speed of their internet access by downloading special configuration files from an ISP's server." Read article... Comments (13) Claude Levi-Strauss Dead At 100 New York Times | Submitted by: claude ballz "In his analysis of myth and culture, Mr. Lévi-Strauss might contrast imagery of monkeys and jaguars; consider the differences in meaning of roasted and boiled food (cannibals, he suggested, tended to boil their friends and roast their enemies); and establish connections between weird mythological tales and ornate laws of marriage and kinship... For Mr. Lévi-Strauss, the savage was not intrinsically noble or in any way "closer to nature." Mr. Lévi-Strauss was withering, for example, when describing the Caduveo, whom he portrayed as a tribe so in rebellion against nature -- and thus doomed -- that they even shunned procreation, choosing to "reproduce" by abducting children from enemy tribes." Read article... Comments (8) A Quick Jerk In The Evidence Room Berkshire Eagle | Submitted by: hard sandwich "According to state police reports, Vigiard, who is married with two children, allegedly downloaded and viewed child pornography in the Adams Police Department evidence room... Also on the CDs were images and a video clip of a male masturbating in front of a computer monitor, the reports state -- the male's head is never in view, but the background was clearly identified as the Police Department's evidence room. According to police, the man in the video had a distinctive scar on his left hand that matched one a state trooper noticed on Vigiard's hand when he was arrested." Read article... Comments (20) Russia's Continuing Struggle With Alcoholism New York Times | Submitted by: Effect "The government does not want to deprive poor people of cheap vodka," Dr. Nemtsov said. "Because it is better for them when people are drunk. You probably know that Catherine the Great said it is easier to rule a drunk public. That is the root of the evil..." Russians consume roughly 4.75 gallons of pure alcohol a person annually, more than double the level that the World Health Organization considers a health threat. The consumption figure for the United States is about 2.3 gallons." Read article... Comments (229) Monday November 02, 2009 Crusted Killer Leaves Chemical Trail Cleveland's Own Fox 8 | Submitted by: Effect "He was crazy," she said from her porch Saturday. "Sometimes he would just go off if he didn't have his way..." Another woman claims Sowell asked her to "drink beer" with him and when she refused he "punched her in the face and dragged her to his house..." Suspicions gag the bodega: "He came into my store last week and reeked so bad, I had to open the front and back doors. I asked why he stunk. He shrugged, bought his beer and walked out." [More on Saturday's story, with photo of crawlspace inspectors] Read article... and This... and This... Comments (32) Mexican Farm Union Leader Assassinated Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Montes, his wife and two children were traveling in a small convoy with at least 11 other relatives and staff members to a rural hacienda Friday afternoon when they were ambushed by several assailants armed with large-caliber weapons, investigators said. All 15 were shot to death... Montes was the head of the General Popular Union of Workers and Farmers, which has tens of thousands of members. He has led peasants and squatters in claims for vast chunks of countryside, disputes that have on occasion turned violent." Read article... and This article... Comments (19) Boy Spits Out Bird Head Timaru Herald | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "According to the Timaru police, the 16-year-old Geraldine boy recorded himself on his cellphone. A Timaru police constable said the video appeared to show the boy stroking the beak of a live bird in his hand, before he bit the head off the bird, throwing both the body and head twitching to the ground... "You just get some silly people doing some silly things and sadly its not always just young people." Read article... Comments (27) Family Discovers A Stray Hindquarters Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: zilchAinycrOOsingsingtrife "Three children and their father have discovered the lower half of a man's body at the bottom of a creek on the New South Wales mid-north coast... Specialist police, divers and State Emergency Service volunteers are searching the creek and surrounding bushland for the rest of the body... Police believe it had been washed into the creek by floodwaters, which have since receded." Read article... Comments (8) Burmese Host Burn Barrel Party Wire Services | Submitted by: Sho Mei YorPaprs "Prime Minister Thein Sein attended the torching ceremony Saturday in Kokang, a mainly ethnic Chinese region of Shan state, where clashes broke out between the regime and rebels in August, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported... The report said the drugs were seized from 50 different hideouts in Laukkai, the region's main town, beginning with a raid by security forces on a factory owned by Kokang rebel leaders... This sparked fighting with the Kokang group in breach of a 20-year-long ceasefire, which prompted an exodus of more than 30,000 refugees into China and earned Myanmar a rare rebuke from Beijing, usually its closest ally." Read article... Comments (9) Dismembered Body Thrown From Pier Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "The hearing was told Coombes was with Ms Betts in a Phillip Island home when they had an argument. Police allege Coombes put her in a headlock and strangled her, before dismembering her body and throwing her remains off a pier... Her leg and other body parts were found washed up on Phillip Island several weeks later." Read article... Comments (7) Wife Asks Hooker For Refund Stuff NZ | Submitted by: Bukster "The sports star's wife wanted $3000 back from the former naked TV newsreader and celebrity streaker... "I need you to repay back the money my husband gave you," the man's wife said in a text message sent on Tuesday evening. "I am giving u the chance to do the decent thing first. We have 6 young children to support and we need that money repayed." The New Zealand Prostitutes Collective said the financial dispute involving the sportsman and Lewis was an unusual situation, but had nothing to do with the man's wife." Read article... Comments (25) Child's Sudden Fatness Questioned Wire Services | Submitted by: missunderstood "I'm not going to play with toys anymore -- I have a new toy now. She is so beautiful, I love her... Violeta is the child and I must grow up. I am not going back to school -- I am a mother now." Kordeza said she did not realise she was pregnant until her grandmother pointed out her weight gain. "I just thought I'd eaten too many burgers." Read article... Comments (30) Yakuza Lifestyle Wears On The Liver 60 Minutes | Submitted by: ferret "Generally speaking, Yakuza get rid of bodies by dumping them in the foundations of buildings. They own a lot of construction companies. So, you know, you're pouring a new building. You throw the body in, like, the cement. And nobody ever finds it. The buildings go all up, all the time in Tokyo... Physically, the tattoos take their toll on your body. The tattoos are so dense that it's very hard to sweat, which means when you can't get rid of the toxins in your body, that's also very hard on the liver." Read article... Comments (18) Cheney Pleas Ignorance To FBI San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: twelver "On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy... The Cheney interview reflects a team of prosecutors and FBI agents trying to find out whether the leaks of Plame's CIA identity were orchestrated at the highest level of the White House and carried out by, among others, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff." Read article... Comments (14) They Pull You Back In St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: ferret "I had the order and the pressure to find them," Morehead said, referring to people in charge of security above him. "And God forbid I did not find them." Staff deployed to airports and bus stations. They called all hotels along likely escape routes. They called airlines and pretended to be the runaway checking a reservation. They phoned relatives. The intensity of the chase mostly depended on what a runaway knew... "It all had to do with the hierarchy of how close you were to Miscavige, how much you knew about him and how damaging what you knew might be." Read article... Comments (18) Known Fornicator Shunned By Community London Telegraph | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Photographs of the anrgy showdown, taken by a startled neighbour, were uploaded to a local community website. They show Sun perched on the first floor ledge while his lover is confronted by her un-named husband inside. "My family is ashamed and none of my own neighbours will talk to me any more." Read article... Comments (9) Man-Eating Lions Exaggerate Body Count Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: gingeroot "According to the man who finally caught them in 1898, the two maneless Kenyan lions munched their way through as many as 135 people before they were shot, skinned, sold, stuffed and put on display in Chicago... But after analyzing fragments of the lions' bones and fur, scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have determined that the true number of humans eaten by the lions was likely closer to 35." Read article... Comments (194) Saturday October 31, 2009 Pedestrian Limbs Tossed Up By Traffic CBS5 | Submitted by: myballsitch "Arriving CHP and Martinez police officers confirmed that a pedestrian on the roadway had been struck, probably numerous times before the reporting party's vehicle struck it, and body parts and pieces were scattered in all lanes. The entire southbound portion of the highway was closed to accommodate an investigation and cleanup of the victim." Read article... Comments (35) Baby Smashed Like Ripe Gourd Lohud | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "A 5-month-old infant was in critical condition at Westchester Medical Center on Friday after he was slammed to the sidewalk at least two to three times by his mother, who was naked and screaming in the street... One of the many bystanders who watched in horror as the 23-year-old woman raised the baby above her head and then slammed him to the ground was able to snatch the baby away and deliver him into the hands of the waiting Police Commissioner." Read article... Comments (22) Those Dead Girls Of Cleveland CNN | Submitted by: furpo "What they did find were the badly decomposed remains of two bodies on the third floor of the house... A subsequent search on Thursday revealed what appeared to be a freshly dug grave under the stairs in the basement... On Friday, investigators returned to the house, dug up the grave and found a third body... A further search of the house and property found two more bodies in a crawl space and a sixth body was found in a shallow grave outside the home... "He apparently is a serial rapist," Stacho said about Sowell, who he said makes his living as a "scrapper." Read article... Comments (16) Johnson Sacks Nutt Over Frank Pot Talk BBC | Submitted by: Vlad "The UK's chief drugs adviser has been sacked by Home Secretary Alan Johnson, after criticising government policies... Professor David Nutt, head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, had criticised the decision to reclassify cannabis to Class B from C... Prof. Nutt said he was not prepared to "mislead" the public about the effects of drugs in order to convey a moral "message" on the government's behalf." Read article... and This article... Comments (14) Leniency For Failed Shrew Tamer Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ "Sherna killed his partner of 18 years with a dressing down cord, and buried her in the backyard of their home at Tarneit last year... The court was told Sherna had been emotionally abused by Ms Wild for years, including being banned from parts of his house, and restricted in using his own toilet... Sherna was found not guilty of defensive homicide and murder." Read article... Comments (11) 112 Year Old Somali Living The Dream Guardian | Submitted by: anonymous "Dhore -- who says he was born in 1897, the year that Queen Victoria celebrated her diamond jubilee -- already has 13 children by five wives, but said he would like more with his newest, a 17-year-old girl... Dhore has 103 grandchildren. His oldest son is 80 and three of his wives have died. This was his first marriage for three quarters of a century." Read article... Comments (20) Oral Stimulation Improves Fruit Bat Love New Scientist | Submitted by: Perv with a dog "Female short-nosed fruit bats have been observed performing fellatio on their partners during copulation. Mating pairs spent more time copulating if the female did so... The bats copulate dorso-ventrally, with the male mounting the female from behind. During mating, the females reached over to lick the base of the male's penis in 14 of the 20 pairs that copulated." Read article... Comments (16) Unquiet Spirits Haunt Coroner's Sedan Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: cyran0 "All of the doors started locking and unlocking and the windows started going up and down by themselves... When he got out of the car to get her out, the car doors all locked and the car was [turned] off." Sometimes at night, sitting at a computer a few feet from the cooler where bodies are kept, he swears he hears knocks coming from inside... Other times, he has seen out of the corner of his eye a person walking in the autopsy room -- even though there's no one alive except him." Read article... Comments (15) Face Torn Away By Dog Breath TwinCities.com | Submitted by: Vlad "About 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Stewart was watching TV in the basement with the dog when Klinefelter heard a noise. "It was like a thumping sound, like someone hitting a ball"... She went downstairs to see a nightmarish scene -- the dog standing over a barely conscious Stewart. Blood was spattered about, the skin of the lower half of Stewart's face was hanging loose, and one of his ears was on the floor... "He was not barking," she said. "He just looked at me." Read article... Comments (18) Whale Blob Washes Ashore Timaru Herald | Submitted by: Pants "That's a big white rock on the shore line ... that wasn't there four days ago'." As she got closer to the thing she thought it could be a piece of driftwood – a really big bit of driftwood... Cautiously, and ready to run should the thing suddenly leap into life, Miss Fraser lobbed a rock at it, then prodded it with a stick. Whatever it was, it sat there, not moving. All it did was emit a slight odour." Read article... Comments (13) Drunk Driver's Cop Sense Goes Haywire San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Simon drove over several marked parking stalls and parked crookedly in a spot. He got out of his car and walked into a Starbucks coffee shop, where two CHP officers had just observed his bad driving... Belmont took one look at the officers and told them, "I have a lot of balls to be walking in here." He was promptly arrested." Read article... Comments (402) Daily Rotten Archives..