Daily Rotten Archives October 23, 2001 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Postal Worker jailed for flinging feces Traverse City Record-Eagle | Submitted by: Mr. Ramon "A disgruntled United States Postal worker was jailed in lieu of $1 million bond Thursday after former co-workers told police he attacked them with three buckets of animal feces." Holy... shit... Read article... Secrets of Doctor Germ New York Post | Submitted by: Mr Ramon Rihab Taha, an Iraqi woman whom U.N. weapons inspectors nicknamed "Dr. Germ", is suspected by some of having masterminded the current anthrax terror program. "In 1995, she admitted that a secret germ factory she set up near Baghdad had made thousands of gallons of anthrax and botulism - enough to kill millions." Read article... Businesses leaving Empire State Building BBC | Submitted by: Soylent Some businesses in New York City's Empire State Building, at 1250 feet the tallest in the city, have decided the edifice is too much of a target. Already 16 of the 180 tenants have left or are leaving. Read article... Youth hangs Self at Halloween party Associated Press | Submitted by: LadyC "A 14-year-old boy trying to make his role in a haunted hayride scarier accidentally hanged himself in front of a group of people who thought he was acting." Why didn't anyone help? "His feet were touching the ground." Read article... TV Commercials from Space Japan Times | Submitted by: Soylent Russian cosmonauts will film a commercial in space for the strange Japanese beverage Pocari Sweat, aboard the International Space Station. [According to the bottle: "At work, when playing sports, after bath and when waking up, POCARI SWEAT is the most appropriate beverage to ease one's thirst that the body needs in the varying scenes and situations in one's life."] Read article... United Nations wells poisoning 75 million Nature | Submitted by: Useless Waterwells sunk in the 70's and 80's by UNICEF and the United Nations Childrens Fund are poisoning 75 million citizens of Bangladesh. The nation will likely file a class action suit in Britain alleging the British Geological Survey knew or should have known about unsafe levels of arsenic in the wells. "Bangladesh makes Chernobyl look like a Sunday-school picnic." It is certainly one of the largest mass poisonings in history. Read article... Bioterrorist Arrested in Frankfurt Agence France Presse | Submitted by: Soylent A Turkish man, Harun Aydin, was arrested in Frankfurt last Wednesday with a bio suit and a training manual for Jihad. Aydin was a member of a group that authorities suspect "was behind an uncovered plot to crash a plane, laden with bombs, into the mausoleum of Turkey's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, during the country's 75th anniversary celebrations on Oct. 29, 1998." Read article... and This article...