Thursday 29 July 2010 Submit a story for publication. Want to support Daily Rotten? Buy a membership at Pornopolis! More news on Dr. Sputnik's Society Pages National Security Letter Expansion Sought Washington Post | Submitted by: ditchley "The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history... What officials portray as a technical clarification strikes privacy advocates as an expansion of the power the government wields through so-called national security letters. These missives, which can be issued by an FBI field office on its own authority, require the recipient to provide the requested information and to keep the request secret... The Justice Department issued 192,500 national security letters from 2003 to 2006." Read article... Comments (16) SEC Exempted From Disclosure Laws Fox Business Network | Submitted by: anonymous "The law exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from "surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities." Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot." Read article... Comments (12) From The Gulf of Mexico to Kalamazoo Detroit News | Submitted by: traditionology "Wednesday night, the EPA said it believes more than 1 million gallons of oil may have leaked into the river -- 181,000 more than Enbridge Energy has estimated... Enbridge has a history of problems with the pipeline and has been cited by the federal government for numerous compliance and safety violations in the past eight years." [Map, photos] Read article... Comments (7) Constable Abuses Escort Perquisites Jefferson City News-Tribune | Submitted by: cyran0 Pullen, 32, of Foley, scoured online advertisements posted by the escorts, then pretended to be a customer... Once with the escorts, Pullen would identify himself as an officer, then demand money, sex or both by threatening arrest or the implicit threat of violence... Pullen told D.S. to give him all her money or get naked. When she offered money, Pullen told her, "That was the wrong answer." Read article... Comments (8) Baby Bird Learns To Fly Baltimore Sun | Submitted by: Anne_Ecdote "A 21-year-old Reisterstown woman threw her newborn baby out of a window last week, only for it to land safely in the bushes... When officers arrived at the house, they found blood all over the bathroom." Read article... Comments (7) Boy's Fancy Turns To Duck Death Toronto Sun | Submitted by: pundit "An eight-year-old boy in Newfoundland and Labrador has admitted to killing a neighbour's pet ducks and hens about a month after the same boy admitted to killing another neighbour's pet dog... Hodder went to check on the birds and found some of them dead and injured in the yard where garden tools, including rakes, snow shovels and spades were strewn about." Read article... Comments (13) Dude: Tech Support Plunders Porno Pics San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Veggie "She first called Dell's toll-free support hotline in late December 2008 after realizing she couldn't locate a number of erotic pictures of herself she thought she had saved... "I couldn't find them on my computer and that made me nervous. I didn't know where they went... I trusted him. I trusted him because he was a Dell technician. I watched him take the pictures out of my e-mail. I watched him." Thus: "She was later informed that the racy photographs had shown up on a vulgar website established through a free hosting service." Read article... Comments (14) Too Many Bodies Litter Desert New York Times | Submitted by: emptyhead "The Pima County morgue is running out of space as the number of immigrants found dead in the deserts around Tucson has soared this year during a heat wave... "We can store about 200 full-sized individuals, but we have over 300 people here now, and most of those are border crossers. We keep hoping we have seen the worst of this, of these migration deaths. Yet we still see a lot of remains." Read article... Comments (15) NBA Player Shot Dead In Memphis Memphis Commercial Appeal | Submitted by: anonymous "Lorenzen Wright, a former NBA center, has been found dead in the woods in south Memphis... The 911 dispatcher heard a garbled male voice utter an expletive, then at least 10 gunshots. "Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?" the dispatcher asked. Then the phone went dead." Read article... Comments (9) Overboard With Happy Slapping CNN | Submitted by: foreplay (Mandatory) "The fatal beating occurred on the evening of Sunday, July 17, the prosecutor's office said. Mazariego was sitting on a bench in an upscale neighborhood park area in Summit, New Jersey, when he was approached by the teenagers. The three allegedly attacked Mazariego and recorded the assault with a cell phone camera." Read article... Comments (8) Abuser Feeds Hungry Offspring New York Daily News | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "Santiago turned the Dallas bathroom into his own torture chamber last summer, beating the children with broomsticks and belts, denying them food and sexually assaulting the girl. She testified that he forced her to put her brother's feces in her mouth and continuously raped her and beat her brothers... When the children were found, their ribs and spines poked through their skin. The youngest boy weighed less than 30 pounds." Read article... Comments (6) 88-yo Nazi Could Be Tried As Minor Wire Services | Submitted by: Veggie "Kunz was 20 years old when he allegedly started working as a guard at Belzec in January 1942. According to German law, people between 18 and 21 can be brought to trial either as minors or adults... While Kunz ranked fairly low in the Nazi hierarchy, he is among the top most wanted due to the large number of Jews he is accused of having a role in killing -- which the prosecutor's office in Dortmund puts at 430,000." [Gives new meaning to that lousy old 88/14 schtick] Read article... Comments (11) Zoo's Endangered Panda Gassed Now Public | Submitted by: Hubito Machogrande "Quan Quan, a 21-year-old giant panda kept at China's Jinan Zoo, died in the hospital after getting gassed with carbon monoxide and chlorine... The mixture of gases caused Quan Quan's lungs to collapse. The gas ended up in Quan Quan's living area because the zoo shares a ventilation system with a former air raid shelter, which the gas was meant to disinfect." Read article... Comments (6) Freon Huff: Wrong Way To Beat Heat WPLG Local 10 | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "15-year-old Gray, was found slumped over the air conditioning compressor outside their home. He died after huffing or inhaling the refrigerant right out of the AC compressor, investigators said. The refrigerant had displaced the air in his lungs, and Gray suffocated." Read article... Comments (8) Crooked Pharmacist Venges On Medical Board Arkansas News | Submitted by: Cornelius, Lord FudgePackus "Pierce walked to his car and found a spare tire leaning on the bumper of his vehicle. When he picked up the tire, a grenade, which had been taped to the tire, exploded. Pierce also testified about his relationship with Mann, who in 2003 appeared before the state Medical Board on allegations of over-prescribing narcotics... Also today, a federal prisoner testified that Dr. Randeep Mann offered him $50,000 to kill Pierce." [Photo on second link] Read article... and This article... Comments (4) Happy Eleventy-First Bonesday Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ A home visit by Tokyo officials to a local resident to congratulate him on his 111th birthday instead led to a police search that uncovered his three-decade-old skeleton... His relatives told police that he had "confined himself in his room more than 30 years ago and became a living Buddha." Read article... Comments (6) Phallometry Specialists Stymied CTV British Columbia | Submitted by: furpo "The penile plethysmography tests, or "phallometry," require boys as young as 13 in sex offence treatment programs to view pictures of nude and semi-clad children and listen to audio descriptions of forced sexual scenarios while their arousal levels are measured." Read article... Comments (12) Flyer Bumped By Teenage Melon Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: anonymous "The local woman was flying standby, paid full fare for the last available seat, got on board, stowed her bags and sat down – only to be told she would have to deplane immediately. The reason? A late-arriving passenger required two seats because of her girth... Why the extra concern? The person requiring two seats was just 14 years old." Read article... Comments (9) Morocco's Marijuana Economy Up In Smoke Global Post | Submitted by: anonymous "Although growing cannabis was officially illegal, authorities turned a blind eye and farmers had fields of the leafy green weed. But now farmers are angry that they are being forced to pay bribes to local police to continue growing the crop. In this village, in the heart of the Rif Mountains, thousands of farmers protested while the police and the army watched helplessly." Read article... Comments (3) OSS Rival, Proto-CIA: "The Pond" Center for the Study of Intelligence | Submitted by: ditchley "Sadly, most of the Pond's 13-year history is lost. This obscurity was intentional. When the Pond was created in early 1942, the United States had very little experience with intelligence, and the notion of a spy agency which would be not only officially unacknowledged, but actually unknown, appealed to some people in Washington. These people were repelled by the larger-than-life publicity hound William Donovan and his "Oh So Social" intelligence agency. For a precedent they looked instead to foreign intelligence services such as the British MI-6, which they thought was more discreet and whose chief was never named in the press." Read article... and This article... Comments (1) F'book Internationalization Scheme Subverted The Register | Submitted by: ditchley "Miscreants abused the official Facebook Translate interface, a crowdsourcing method for improving the linguistic accuracy of the social network site, to vote up alternative and erroneous translations... A group of Turkish pranksters banded together to submit bogus translations so that a Facebook IM error message was rendered in Turkish as "Your message could not be sent because of your tiny penis." Read article... Comments (22) Wednesday 28 July 2010 French Gardener Digs Dead Babies Eight Montreal Gazette | Submitted by: peopleawake "Neighbours said the new owners of a house in the village had called the police after they found the bones of infants in the garden of their new home as they were digging a pool there... Police inquiries led to another house in the village around a kilometre away, where the couple now lived. More babies' bodies were found." Read article... Comments (25) Stillborn Sewer Fetuses Dredged Up Daily Home | Submitted by: Slappy McBappy "Surles said after hearing an allegation that two premature infants were disposed of in a toilet, the investigation started by going into the septic tank to recover the bodies... "When I arrived on the scene, the lid on the septic tank had been removed. A pump was inserted to remove some of the water from the tank. Once the water was removed, we went through the debris and recovered the babies at 5:07 p.m." Read article... Comments (20) Journalists Hunt Elusive Decapitator RTT News | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Police in the northern Mexican city of Durango have found eight severed human heads dumped in pairs at four locations along main roads on the outskirts of the city." And meanwhile: "Three of the missing journalists were "picked up" at about midday on Monday and the fourth vanished later that night... The lack of investigation into attacks on journalists has made them more vulnerable in doing their work." Read article... Comments (13) Worker Dragged Into Paper Mill Union Leader | Submitted by: Anne_Ecdote "The paper goes into the roller wet. It goes along the line and through a series of dryers. It is then wound up at the end, where it is rolled and more moisture extracted... "Leo was at the spot where it gets wound. There was another person no more than 15 or 20 feet away from him, but he was looking the other way. When he turned, he saw Leo wasn't there. He went around and found Leo on the floor." Read article... Comments (15) Boy Swandives From Calgary Highrise Calgary Herald | Submitted by: Roxanne Beaton - CKYX - Fort Mac Rock "The boy was last seen reading on the balcony of a suite somewhere above the 20th floor, but the moments leading up to him falling were unwitnessed. The child fell onto a parking lot on the building's south side... The investigation is in its early stages, but so far police haven't found anything wrong with the balcony or the railing." Read article... Comments (15) Sex Dungeon Fails Pyrophilia Experiment ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Grendels Lair "An employee who was fired from a bondage club near Los Angeles International Airport was arrested Tuesday night in connection to a fatal fire at the club. A body was found Tuesday at the scene of a fire at Passive Arts Studios, a bondage club in unincorporated Lennox Tuesday... Upon a secondary search they found the body and a dog. The man, who was in his 50s, had been burned, but it was unclear if that was the cause of death." Read article... Comments (18) Russian Teen Cannibal Cult Convicted Brisbane Times | Submitted by: furpo "The six, who were all teenagers at the time of the crime, reportedly also ate the body parts of their victims in a wooded area outside the city of Yaroslavl north-east of Moscow... The six were found guilty of "murdering four people with the aim of carrying out an initiation ritual into a sect and of desecrating the bodies of the dead>" Read article... Comments (14) Magic Carpet Seen A Safer Option Guardian | Submitted by: 'Staffa "A domestic passenger flight has crashed near Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, killing all 152 people on board in what is thought to be the country's deadliest civil aviation accident... The wreckage of the aircraft, which had taken off from Karachi earlier in the day, was spread across a wide area. Most of the dead are thought to be Pakistani, while two US citizens were also among the victims." Read article... Comments (18) The Body Behind The Door Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: t0llyb0ng "It wasn't until police came back for a third time that officers smelled an odor of decay and Sadler refused to let the officers search the home... Officers found the woman's body behind an interior door beyond the front porch. Sadler then admitted that he had an argument with his wife ten days ago and struck her in the head with a hammer and left her there." Read article... Comments (12) Camwhore She-Ogre Molests Own Kids KXLY-TV 4 Spokane | Submitted by: Anne_Ecdote "Ortega also forced her children to sexually stimulate her and said that those acts were watched by "two or three other guys on the internet at the time." She also sexually abused a two-week-old infant at the behest of a man watching on a webcam but stopped when the baby began crying." Read article... Comments (29) Mystery Explosion Knocks Oil Tanker Wire Services | Submitted by: War IS good for 'us' (?!) "A crew member saw light on the horizon just before the explosion, so ship owner Mitsui O.S.K. believes there is a possibility it was caused by an outside attack... The tanker bound for Chiba, near Tokyo, was carrying around 2.3 million barrels of Qatar Land and Abu Dhabi Lower Zakum crudes, industry sources said." Read article... Comments (4) Anglican Priest Feeds Host To Dog BBC | Submitted by: Phatlor "Reverend Rea of St Peter's Anglican Church, in Toronto, received complaints from Christians all over Canada after she fed communion bread to a German Shepherd cross named Trapper... "This has blown me away. The church is even getting e-mails from Catholics." Read article... Comments (24) Sanctity of Olive Oil Questioned Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: Bort "The US has been a dumping ground for cheap olive oil for years... A lot of the stores didn't care what was in the bottles, said Antoinette Addison, whose Figueroa Farms has struggled to break even. All they cared about was the fact that the label said extra virgin." Read article... Comments (16) Catalonia Bans Bullfighting Wire Services | Submitted by: vicblower "The ban on the sport sparked by a citizen's petition of 180,000, passed 68 to 55 in the legislature of Catalonia in northeast Spain. It came days after the famed annual running of the bulls through the streets of Pamplona, always an ecstatic local festival though one viewed with increasing skepticism in the rest of Europe." Read article... Comments (15) DoD Loses Track Of Reconstruction Monies BBC News | Submitted by: fear death by water "The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction says the US Department of Defence is unable to account properly for 96% of the money... Out of just over $9B, $8.7B is unaccounted for... The money was in a special fund administered by the US Department of Defense, the Development Fund for Iraq, and was earmarked for reconstruction projects... The funds are separate from the $53B allocated by the US Congress for rebuilding Iraq." Read article... Comments (18) Make Me The Happiest Man In The World WMTW | Submitted by: cyran0 "Emery said that when his ex-wife opened her mouth to scream, Roberts held her mouth open, shoved his wedding ring into her mouth, and held her mouth and nose until she swallowed the ring. Emery said Roberts proceeded to punch her in the neck and head and threatened to kill her if she told police." Read article... Comments (137) Tuesday 27 July 2010 Child Dangles From Brain Hook ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "He was just sitting in the chair just laughing and playing. The next thing I know he stood up in it and before I could react, his chair was going backward." When 17-month-old fell on top of a pressure washer, an L-shaped hook lodged two to three inches inside his brain. .. [X-ray] Read article... Comments (25) Goose Egg Grows On Baby Quasimodo Oregon Live | Submitted by: barbarossa58 "A Beavercreek couple who left their infant daughter's fate to God rather than seek medical treatment for a mass that grew over her left eye will face charges of first-degree criminal mistreatment... The Wylands and their church reject medical care in favor of faith-healing. Wyland anointed the child with oil each time she changed the girl's diaper and wiped away the yellow discharge that seeped daily from the baby's left eye." [Photo] Read article... Comments (82) Afghani Bong Squad Prepares For Patrol Al Jazeera | Submitted by: emptyhead "This was filmed by US soldiers from the 82nd Airborne, before setting out with their counterparts from the local Afghan police force... "In the past we've had some issues with certain ANP getting high on patrol. I wouldn't say I feel threatened but they act silly, y'know, just like anybody who smokes weed, they just act ridiculous and it's hard to get them to focus." [Video] Read article... Comments (34) Leaked Docs Suggest Bin Laden Last Seen In 2006 Daily Mail | Submitted by: Horse's-Ass, the evengelical douche! "A 2006 threat report suggested Bin Laden had been attending regular meetings in villages on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan... The leaked documents also report coalition aircraft coming under fire from Stinger missiles -- supplied to Afghan rebels by the CIA to help them fight the Soviet invaders in the 1980s... They state that in 2005 a senior militant and Osama bin Laden's financial adviser flew to North Korea from Iran to buy remote-controlled rockets to use against U.S. and coalition aircraft." Read article... Comments (19) All My Babies Are Dead London Telegraph | Submitted by: Danger Mouse "A grandmother ran from a house screaming "all my babies are dead" after finding the bodies of her two young granddaughters and their parents inside... "There were childrens' toys scattered on the floor... I turned and looked into the dining room and I saw the mum's body lying on the floor. She had a bag over her face." The boy was hanged in an upstairs room. The girls were behind him on the bed, side by side, their throats slit." Read article... Comments (27) Wiccan Drives Off With Cop's Arm nineMSN | Submitted by: weejimmymcangus "A lot of witches prefer the title of pagan, or in my case pagan priestess. We are healers. We are psychics." De Avalon told the officer that she was "a being from another world" with a "universal name" that she would not disclose: "Your laws and penalties don't apply to me. I'm not accepting them, I'm sorry, I must go, thank you." De Avalon then allegedly drove off while the officer's right arm was trapped in her side window." Read article... Comments (46) Drug War Without End Amen The Nation | Submitted by: ditchley "We are told of a War on Drugs that has no observable effect on drug distribution, price or sales in the United States. We are told repeatedly that it is a war between or against cartels, yet no evidence is presented to back up these claims. The evidence we do have is that thousands of killings are not investigated, that the military suffers almost no casualties and that thousands of Mexicans have filed affidavits claiming abuse, often lethal, by the Mexican army... Here is the US policy in a nutshell: we pay Mexicans to kill Mexicans, and this slaughter has no effect on drug shipments or prices." Read article... Comments (30) Top Employees Rewarded With Prostitutes New York Times | Submitted by: ditchley "DHB, which specialized in making body armor used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, paid for more than $6 million in personal expenses on behalf of its CEO... Included were university textbooks for his daughter, pornographic videos for his son, plastic surgery for his wife, a burial plot for his mother, prostitutes for his employees, and, for him, a $100,000 American-flag belt buckle encrusted with rubies, sapphires and diamonds." Read article... Comments (22) Yet Another Undercover Russian Fleshpot The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: ditchley "Anna Fermanova, 24, was arrested earlier this month when she returned to the United States after spending four months overseas. She was charged with "knowingly and intentionally" attempting to export "from the United States to Russia defense articles on the United States Munitions list."... After she checked two pieces of luggage, federal agents performed a contraband search and turned up the Raptor sight and two other state-of-the-art night vision devices." Read article... Comments (13) Fecal Transplant: Not Just For Breakfast Anymore New York Times | Submitted by: greenpotatosoup "Dr. Khoruts mixed a small sample of her husband's stool with saline solution and delivered it into her colon. Her diarrhea vanished in a day. Her Clostridium difficile infection disappeared as well and has not returned since... The procedure -- known as bacteriotherapy or fecal transplantation -- had been carried out a few times over the past few decades. But this team was able to do something previous doctors could not: they took a genetic survey of the bacteria in her intestines before and after the transplant." Read article... Comments (239) Monday 26 July 2010 Daughter's Catheter Adulterated With Feces Austin Americ | Submitted by: ditchley "The 4-year-old girl was admitted with a high fever and "a long history of chronic diarrhea." Blood tests came back positive for bacteria commonly found in feces... Hospital officials set up a hidden camera after they had to replace her intravenous lines several times because of infections or clots in the lines... On May 31, hospital staff reviewed the tape and saw her mother smearing feces on cap to her central venous line." Read article... Comments (25) Mexican Prisoners on Kill-Release Program BBC | Submitted by: BushJaw "Gunmen who killed 17 people at a party in northern Mexico earlier this month were let out of prison to carry out the attack... Guards at a prison in Durango state are accused of lending the inmates weapons and vehicles to commit the murders in neighbouring Coahuila state before returning them to their cells." Read article... Comments (22) Knock, Knock! Grand Junction Sentinel | Submitted by: h2o "They said they were police officers, open the door, with a few expletives in there"... Olson described Kemp as engaged in something of a "tug of war" over the door with a trooper as he demanded the officers produce a warrant... As officers allegedly shot pepper spray through the door, Olson used the opportunity to run downstairs, where he aimed to exit through the back, when he heard a single gunshot. Turning to look, Olson claims he watched his friend collapse onto a chair and then the floor." Read article... Comments (37) Officer Fagtrap Struts In Hot Pants San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: stabwounds "A typical scenario would be a couple of cops, who were dressed in tank tops, would walk around grabbing their crotches and staring at the defendants' crotches saying, Show me what you got. Show me what you got. In no case did they come upon any man already having sex... In many cases the defendants were reluctant to participate and wanted to go back to a room or someplace more private and were coaxed to stay and allegedly expose themselves by the officers." Read article... Comments (31) Boy's Body Hides In Clothes Dryer Daily Mail | Submitted by: Francine Cardinal Law~ "I've been told that he was playing hide-and-seek while they were asleep in the front room. It seems the little lad has climbed into the tumble dryer and somehow managed to shut the door while the rest of them were dozing on the sofa." It is still unclear whether he had suffocated in the tumble dryer or died as the machine began its cycle." Read article... Comments (28) Evidence Mounts For Myanmar Nukeworks London Telegraph | Submitted by: Gen. Jack D'Rippuer "Secret documents and hundreds of photographs smuggled out of the country by a defector indicated that it was intent on developing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. Jane's Intelligence Review published a separate batch of photographs showing similar activities in buildings and behind security fences near the capital, Naypyidaw... Intelligence agencies are seeking to provide the IAEA with proof of a clandestine programme in the hope of a formal inquiry. Regular shipments of rocket platforms and missile technology between North Korea and Burma, as well as other clandestine links, are under scrutiny." Read article... Comments (19) Goldman Sachs Sent Bailout Cash Overseas USA Today | Submitted by: anonymous 2008 bailout, no oversight: "Goldman Sachs sent $4.3 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions, according to information made public Friday night... "We thought originally we were bailing out AIG. Then later on, we learned that the money flowed through AIG to a few big banks, and now we know that the money went from these few big banks to dozens of financial institutions all around the world." Read article... Comments (21) Just Another Face Transplant Independent | Submitted by: drive dead "During the 24-hour surgery, doctors lifted an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids, and placed it masklike onto the man. He has been described as a farmer who was unable to breathe or eat on his own after accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago." [Photo] Read article... Comments (25) Intense Foreplay Rape Olympiad Stuff NZ | Submitted by: anonymous "The woman described six separate incidents in which the man either beat or raped her, smashed her face on the steering wheel of her car as she was driving, strangled her to the point where she thought she would die, prised her legs open in order to have sex with her and forced her to perform oral sex." Read article... Comments (14) Shock! Crypto-Circumvention Declared Legal EFF | Submitted by: ditchley "The Electronic Frontier Foundation won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act anti-circumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos -- people who, until now, could have been sued for their non-infringing or fair use activities." [Completely unexpected given the odious intent of the copyright lobby] Read article... Comments (8) As Spinners Confront Wikileaks Fallout, War Grinds On Various | Submitted by: ditchley Administration's pleas of ignorance dismissed: "I did in fact go the White House and lay out for them what we had," NYT reporter Baquet said. "We did it to give them the opportunity to comment and react. They did. They also praised us for the way we handled it, for giving them a chance to discuss it, and for handling the information with care. And for being responsible." Meanwhile, the documents themselves are downplayed: "None of the documents reviewed so far carries a classification level above secret." Meanwhile, a billion miles away, more anonymous dead Afghans: "We've shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force." Gen. Stanley McChrystal said in March, referring to civilian killings. Now, the Wikileaks logs detail many of those shootings, including some that were never publicly reported." Read article... and This... and This... Comments (16) Safe As The Shitterton Stone Sky News | Submitted by: Silly Sickie "A group of residents in Dorset have taken action against souvenir hunters who keep taking their village sign. They have chipped in £20 each to buy a chunk of Purbeck stone and had the name Shitterton engraved on it... "We thought, Let's put in a ton and a half of stone and see them try and take that away in the back of a Ford Fiesta." Read article... Comments (12) Forgettable Band Pelted With Birdshit CNN | Submitted by: PloppyPubes "Opening bands The Postelles and The Stills came offstage complaining of getting riddled with large amounts of excrement, their publicist said... The aerial attack began during the opening song when he was bombed in the face. His bass tech wiped most of it off with a sanitary wipe. Excrement struck each of his arms over the next two numbers." Read article... Comments (213) Sunday 25 July 2010 Wikileaks Publishes Massive Afghan War Docdump Wikileaks | Submitted by: ioerror "A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and NATO commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency... The disclosures come from more than 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the conflict obtained by the whistleblowers' website Wikileaks in one of the biggest leaks in US military history." Read article... and This... and This... Comments (26) Love Parade Demands Raver Sacrifice Telegraph | Submitted by: azdollarbill vs DOA "Officials and eyewitnesses spoke of a mass stampede in which people were trampled under foot. 19 people have died and at least 342 were injured... "The tunnel was dark, it was full. Something happened -- whether someone tripped or someone fell I don't know. But there was a stampede to get to the other end and those who fell... well, many of them never got up again." Read article... and This article... Comments (26) Cruising the Museum of Science and Industry WBBM-TV 2 Chicago | Submitted by: cyran0 "Reporters repeatedly witnessed a parade of cars driven by single men who pulled into the spaces near the rear of the lot and waited. Sometimes, the men would leave their cars and head into the nearby woods... Down the path some of the men took, ample evidence of sexual activity was found. Along one pathway there were dozens of condom wrappers, used condoms and sanitary wipes strewn about the forest ground." Read article... Comments (27) Enough With This Broken Child WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: Prestonsgirl "Carlson is believed to have administered a lethal dose of prescription drugs through a feeding tube to her adopted 13-year-old daughter before committing suicide... We have information the child has physically struck the mother. She may have broken her nose on two occasions... It's our understanding the mother was feeling extremely overwhelmed in dealing with this situation." Read article... Comments (20) Pizza Man Murders His Sons Globe and Mail | Submitted by: Roxanne Beaton - Fort McMurray "A retired Montreal pizza delivery man, distraught that his relationship with his girlfriend might be slipping away, killed their two young boys overnight Saturday before committing suicide... A co-worker said the man only ever wanted to deliver the bigger orders that would pay him more. "The others? Forget about it." Read article... Comments (17) Breast Ironing Baffles In Cameroon Current | Submitted by: philoniuslovesboobs "It affects as many as one in four girls, according to local health activists. Some mothers massage hot grinding-stones into their daughters' chests, while others pound the tissue with heated plantain peels. Sometimes, women rub kerosene or medicinal herbs on adolescent breasts." [Did not have the patience for the video] Read article... and This article... Comments (22) Ughhhhhhhhhh Let Me Sleep New York Times | Submitted by: ditchley "The Deepwater Horizon's chief electronics technician testified that the general safety alarm was habitually set to inhibited to avoid waking up the crew with late-night sirens and emergency lights... Consequently, the alarm did not sound during the emergency, leaving workers to relay information through the loudspeaker system. "They did not want people woke up at 3 a.m. from false alarms." Read article... Comments (9) More Narco Mass Graves Unearthed BBC | Submitted by: Olivia, Duchess CornHole "The Mexican authorities say they have recovered more than 50 bodies from a clandestine cemetery in the northern state of Nuevo Leon. Most of the bodies were buried in deep pits, but others were found on or near the surface... More than 200 people have disappeared in the border state over the past three years." Read article... Comments (16) An Algal Bloom The Size Of Germany BBC | Submitted by: gummopolis "A satellite image has revealed the scale of a vast algal bloom spreading in the Baltic Sea... The potentially toxic bloom, covering 377,000 sq km, could pose a risk to marine life in the region, warn scientists. They added that a lack of wind and prolonged high temperatures had triggered the largest bloom since 2005." Read article... Comments (19) Nano-Swastika Drives Photon Motor Physics World | Submitted by: ditchley "Scientists have long known that light can be used to move nano-objects thanks to the fact that photons have both linear and angular momentum... Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley Labs and the University of California have made a new nanoscale motor that can drive a disc 4000 times bigger than itself. It is powered via the so-called "plasmonic effect" and could be used to manipulate ultra-small objects like DNA and for powering nanoelectromechanical machines. At merely 100 nm across the motor looks like a tiny windmill, inspiring the researchers to dub it a "light mill". Read article... Comments (22) Aussie Censorship Report Heavily Censored The Age | Submitted by: johnnyscofflaw "The federal government has censored approximately 90 per cent of a secret document outlining its controversial plans to snoop on Australians' web surfing, obtained under freedom of information laws... The Attorney-General's Department legal officer wrote that the release of some sections "may lead to premature unnecessary debate and could potentially prejudice and impede government decision making." Read article... Comments (13) Top Secret America: Lucrative Ignorage Salon | Submitted by: ditchley "On Monday, the Post documents a vast secret government bequeathed with unimaginable secrecy and unaccountability, and the rest of the week is filled with stories of the administration's blocking greater oversight and plans to escalate the privatization of the national security and surveillance state... As the Post series highlights, Top Secret America provides not only the ability to exercise vast power with no accountability, but also enables the transfer of massive amounts of public wealth to the private national security and surveillance corporations which own the government." Read article... Comments (20) Kampfbereit: War Games Off Korean Coast New York Times | Submitted by: Porkus_Aurelias, diplomat "The exercises this week are the first in what is scheduled to be a series of joint US-South Korean maneuvers over the coming months. United States officials warned last week that a power struggle over who will succeed the ailing Kim Jong-il might prompt Pyongyang to attempt further military provocations... On Saturday, North Korea vowed to start a "sacred war" against the United States and South Korea at "any time necessary" to counter their "largest-ever nuclear war exercises" with its own "powerful nuclear deterrence." Read article... Comments (12) Death Star Fundraiser Kickstart Asylum | Submitted by: Yustax "At approximately 11:30 a.m., Vader walked into the Chase branch brandishing a firearm. Nevertheless, most customers regarded his appearance as some sort of joke until he ordered everyone onto the ground." And: "Another woman robbed an Oklahoma McDonald's with a white stretch girdle wrapped around her face as a makeshift mask." Read article... and This article... Comments (7) Bear Joyrides In Grand Theft Ursus KUSA-TV 9 Denver | Submitted by: Veggie "Apparently the bear nudged the gear shift, put the car into neutral, and went along for the ride as the car slid 120 feet down a hill. When the car finally came to a rest next to a patch of scrub oak, the door slammed shut trapping the now enraged bear in the process... The stereo is missing. The dash is thrashed. The seats are all torn up. And there's apparently a very pungent reminder of what bears normally do in the woods sitting on what remains of the driver's seat." Read article... Comments (180) Friday 23 July 2010 Bailing Wire Unable To Contain Vomitess News On 6 | Submitted by: johnnyb "Linda was leaning out the passenger side window of the truck to vomit. The passenger door, which was secured by baling wire, came open and Linda fell out... A second passenger tried to help Linda and also fell out of the truck... The truck then struck a concrete barrier wall in an attempt to stop." Read article... Comments (46) Italian Priests Kick Up Their Heels Daily Mail | Submitted by: Ilsa, she_tiger of the Nazi's "Using hidden cameras, a journalist from Panorama magazine -- owned by Italian Prime Minister and media baron Silvio Berlusconi -- filmed three priests as they attended gay nightspots and had casual sex... "By day they are regular priests, complete with dog collar, but, at night it's off with the cassock as they take their place as perfectly integrated members of the Italian capital's gay scene." Read article... Comments (37) Fingerprint Mutiliation On The Rise Boston Globe | Submitted by: ditchley "Some have used eyedroppers filled with acid or pressed their fingers onto burning metal to blot their fingerprints. Others have spent thousands of dollars to hire shady doctors to surgically alter their fingertips, hoping to scar them beyond recognition... "We've seen it all: self-inflicted mutilation, surgical efforts to cut out the core of fingers, and having the skin stitched back in strange ways." Read article... Comments (30) Youth Jailor's Guide To Proper Punishment Guardian | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "Shocking details of techniques used to inflict pain deliberately on children in privately run jails have been revealed for the first time in a government document, Physical Control in Care... Staff are authorized to "Use an inverted knuckle into the trainee's sternum and drive inward and upward... Continue to carry alternate elbow strikes to the young person's ribs until a release is achieved... Drive straight fingers into the young person's face, and then quickly drive the straightened fingers of the same hand downwards into the young person's groin area." Read article... Comments (20) US Attorney Firing Scandal Quietly Swept Under Wire Services | Submitted by: ditchley "Evidence did not demonstrate that any prosecutable criminal offense was committed with regard to the removal of David Iglesias... The investigative team also determined that the evidence did not warrant expanding the scope of the investigation beyond the removal of Iglesias." Read article... Comments (18) Killer Jailbird Dies In Flight Muskegon Chronicle | Submitted by: furpo "The inmates drove the truck through a double fence, then stopped for some reason. Prison guards quickly apprehended the inmates, but Privacky continued to try to flee, and was shot... Privacky was convicted of 10 felony counts stemming from the 29 November 1998 slaying of his mother, father, brother, grandfather, and girlfriend." Read article... Comments (17) Fire Is A Responsibility New York Daily News | Submitted by: bored social worker "A fire-obsessed 14-year-old Staten Island boy is suspected of the unthinkable -- setting his home ablaze as he murdered his family and then slitting his own throat with a straight razor... "He was the man of the house. He took care of his sisters like a dad." Read article... Comments (15) Mother-Daughter Death Pact AOL News | Submitted by: coelacanth "The tragedy came to light Tuesday night, after Peters failed to show up at a City Council meeting. Police officers who went to check on her found an envelope taped to the front door of the home. Inside was a key to the house and a typed note warning of the grim scene inside... Upon entering the home, officers found the bodies of the mayor and her daughter. Both had been shot in the head with a semiautomatic handgun." Read article... Comments (14) I Twitch On Your Grave KTLA News | Submitted by: anonymous "She initially tried to poison the children with bathroom cleaner but they refused to drink it. When that didn't work, "I used a wire on their necks"... When the operator asked the woman why she attacked her children, she said, "They're both not normal, not normal. They're autistic. Both are autistic. I don't want my children to be like that! I want normal kids." Read article... Comments (22) Dead Dog Eye For An Eye KUSA-TV 9 Denver | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "The Australian Shepard/Labrador mix killed her poodle, so she did the only logical thing... Anderson "appeared to be emotionally disturbed by the events" the day after they occurred and that she kept repeating to her co-workers "the blood, the blood" and "it didn't go well" while at work the morning after... "Once we got to the trachea, it was easy after that." Read article... Comments (18) Urine #1: Catch! KTLA News | Submitted by: cyran0 "When the man went outside to talk to Avila, she allegedly tried to run him over with her vehicle and then fled... Police pulled her over a short time later. Avila removed her urostomy bag and threw it at three officers, who were splashed with urine." Read article... Comments (10) Urine #2: Holy Piss! CBS Knoxville | Submitted by: Danger Mouse "Father McKenzie says the most hurtful act was done to holy water inside the sanctuary. "Somebody had urinated into that." Read article... Comments (21) Palsy Girl Punched For Brushing Cop ABC News | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "The woman, who has cerebral palsy, appears to brush an officer who is walking with two others. The officer shoves the woman to the ground and the three stand over her before walking away, leaving her lying on the ground... The officer has been on the force for little more than a year and is still out on patrol." Read article... Comments (35) Dead Jellyfish Stings Scores Time | Submitted by: Jahannam1775 "It died and broke into many small pieces, but one massive jellyfish managed to sting more than 150 people at a New Hampshire beach... The jellyfish was about 50 pounds and the size of a "turkey platter." Its longest tentacle measured about 13 feet long. Lifeguards spotted it when it was about 100 yards from shore, and it fell into pieces when they tried to drag it in using a pitchfork." Read article... Comments (10) Photos: Northeast China Oil Spill Boston Globe Big Picture | Submitted by: ditchley "A week ago, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for over 15 hours, destroying several structures... The damaged pipes released thousands of gallons of oil, which flowed into the nearby harbor and the Yellow Sea (though still less than 1% of the oil spill in the Gulf)." Read article... Comments (12) Copyright Vulture Circles Over Aggregators Wired | Submitted by: johnnyscofflaw "Borrowing a page from patent trolls, Las Vegas-based Righthaven has begun buying out the copyrights to newspaper content for the sole purpose of suing blogs and websites that re-post those articles without permission... Since Righthaven's formation in March 2010, the company has filed at least 80 federal lawsuits against website operators and individual bloggers who've re-posted articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, his first client." Read article... and This article... Comments (26) RIP Daniel Schorr Washington Post | Submitted by: ditchley "President Richard Nixon ordered the FBI to investigate him, but viewers liked his challenges to the powerful. Daniel Schorr's outsider status was confirmed in 1973, as he read Nixon's enemies list during a live broadcast from the Senate Watergate hearings... Reading through the top 20 names, he came to his own name at number 17, with a notation: a real media enemy. "I managed not to gasp," he later wrote. "I broke into a big sweat. This was the most electrifying moment in my career." Read article... Comments (11) Happy Union of Beer and Taxidermy Daily Mail | Submitted by: BoozePubes "Twelve bottles of The End Of History ale have been made and placed inside seven dead stoats, four squirrels and one hare. And at 55% volume, the brewing firm claims it is the world's strongest beer... A taxidermist in Doncaster worked on the animals, which were not killed for bottling the new drink, with some having been killed on the roads." [Photos] Read article... Comments (392) Daily Rotten Archives..