Daily Rotten Archives November 4, 2001 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 CIA used living cats as bugging devices London Telegraph | Submitted by: Soylent "They slit the cat open, put batteries in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity. They tested him and tested him. They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that." Read article... Take one home for the wives Denver Post | Submitted by: Jube "The beer, being brewed by the Wasatch Brewery in Salt Lake City, is making waves in the state's image-conscious Mormon hierarchy with the slogan Why Have Just One! And a new billboard with six-packs of Polygamy Porter alongside the message Take One Home For the Wives recently proved to be a bit too much. Read article... Rapist falls asleep atop victim Dayton Daily News | Submitted by: Soylent It is a well known fact that some men grow quite tired after ejaculating, much to the dismay of their lady friends. But if you're a rapist and this happens to you, perhaps you should look into a new line of work. (Oddly this woman's husband seems to have slept though this debacle.) Read article... Encyclopedia of Terror Sunday Times | Submitted by: Soylent "Filling 11 volumes and circulated both in book form and on CD-Rom to terrorist instructors, it offers guidance on how to inject frozen food with biochemical agents to create mass panic, rig up a door lock to explode when the handle is turned, and bring down a plane with a missile." Read article... Arrests on a grand scale Washington Post | Submitted by: Soylent "The document's language offers the clearest window so far into a campaign of detentions on a scale not seen since World War II. As investigators race to comprehend the ongoing terrorist threat, the government has adopted a deliberate strategy of disruption -- locking up large numbers of Middle Eastern men, using whatever legal tools they can." Read article...