Daily Rotten Archives January 9, 2002 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 McDonald's is killing hedgehogs London Telegraph | Submitted by: Soylent Added the sins of the McDonald's corporation (too numerous to list here) is now the senseless death of scores of hedgehogs. The critters seem to be attracted to the chain's discarded ice-cream containers, get their heads trapped in said vessels and die horrible deaths. "It's quite a nasty, gruesome death, really." Read article... FCC not going to prosecute over Eminem TVinsite | Submitted by: Soylent "In vacating the fine, FCC staffers decided that the sexual referenced continued in radio version 'are not expressed in terms sufficiently explicit or graphic enough to be found patently offensive' and 'do not appear to pander to, or to be used to titillate or shock its audience.'" Read article... Women duped into strip search Billings Gazette | Submitted by: Soylent "The man called the business, which police would not identify, and asked for the manager. The man said he was a Billings police detective and asked the manager to describe all the female employees who were working. Somehow, he talked the manager into strip searching the two female employees." Read article... November crash may have been terrorism New York Post | Submitted by: Soylent The government wants us to believe that the New York City airliner crash in November was an accident, ignoring many eyewitness accounts: "Six witnesses, including a recently retired police lieutenant, an FDNY deputy chief and a former firefighter, have written to the National Transportation Safety Board, demanding they be called to testify at a public hearing." Read article... Mullah Omar's mad money Washington Post | Submitted by: Soylent "It was Oct. 16, nine days after the first U.S. bombs began falling on Afghanistan, and this dirt-poor country was once again embroiled in war. The mullah, a senior member of Omar's Taliban leadership, stayed only as long as it took to justify the abrupt withdrawal, open the safe in the basement and stuff $5 million in U.S. dollars and Pakistani rupees into a big burlap sack, two bank employees said today. The sack was then carried into a waiting Toyota Land Cruiser." Read article...