Daily Rotten Archives October 16, 2001 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Morgue Photo Caper Associated Press | Submitted by: LadyC Deliberations began yesterday in the trial of two Cincinnati men accused of 12 counts of "gross abuse of a corpse". The two men took suggestive and silly pictures in the morgue, but the access was granted with permission. "Bender cited examples of the photographs in which the hands of a 2-year-old were wrapped with plastic, a man's body was posed with an apple with a bite taken out of it, and a body bag was unzipped to expose a woman's breasts." Read article... Nasty Western Food Drops Times | Submitted by: Soylent Are Afghanis really appreciating our food drops? -- "Not good taste", said one teenager, who sat on a pile of food packages, ripping open each tinfoil packet and testing the ready-to-eat meals. As he opened each one, he stared at it as though it were an object from Mars, tasted it, then tossed it aside. Read article... Coworkers Spraypainted My Genitals! Houston Chronicle | Submitted by: Soylent Hazing has apparently been a problem at the George M. Construction Company for years. An employee filed state and civil suits after "co-workers allegedly lashed him to a utility pole and spray-painted his genitals." And when the company thought he might sue, they warned him that he might be blacklisted. Read article... Hawking Urges Space Colonization London Telegraph | Submitted by: Soylent Stephen Hawking, the best crippled cosmologist the world has ever produced, urges that colonization of space is the only way to guarantee survival of humanity. Biotechnology, genetic engineering, atomics, and nanotechnology all pose potential threats as well as unimaginable rewards. He is quite correct in stating the imperative that parts of humanity must leave this planet if we want a bright future. Read article... How We Got Fooled Asia Times | Submitted by: Soylent American isolationism and navel gazing is largely responsible for Americans being unaware that people out there hate us. Even our top networks would hardly report on international events, instead focusing on mundane trivia such as Gary Condit, O.J. Simpson or Tonya Harding. This is a great article by the former CEO of United Press International. Read article...