Daily Rotten Archives November 17, 2002 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Miss America not slutty enough Newsday | Submitted by: Honkey Kong "Miss America Erika Harold is insisting on promoting abstinence during her yearlong reign, to the chagrin of the pageant. Conservatives have rallied to her cause and accused the pageant of hypocrisy, giving the Miss America organization the kind of clobbering it usually gets from the left." Read article... Zookeeper gets paid despite animal feast Independent Online | Submitted by: Alaska Freegold "A German zookeeper, fired for eating animals in a town zoo, was awarded six months severance pay after reaching a settlement in a labour court on Thursday. The town of Recklinghausen, north of Cologne, fired the zookeeper after he was caught barbecuing five Tibetan mountain chickens and two Cameroonian sheep at the zoo, popular with children who were allowed to stroke the animals." Do WHAT with the animals? Read article... Miracle Chapati: a load of eyewash BBC | Submitted by: lowbrow All very straightforward, but "a load of eyewash"? "Hundreds of Christian pilgrims and other curious onlookers have been making their way to a church in Bangalore in India to see a chapati which has the image of Christ burnt into it... Church officials say nearly 20,000 Christians have already visited the Renewal Retreat Centre to pay homage in front of the chapati." Read article... Woman bit cop at vampire nightclub Macon Telegraph | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "A woman was sentenced Friday to four years in prison and another six years on probation for biting a police officer in the neck outside Vamps nightclub. Latasha Rucker, 25, of Milledgeville, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault on a peace officer for the Aug. 31 incident in which she was being arrested by Milledgeville police Lt. Willie Goddard on charges of being drunk and disorderly." Read article... Terminator tokes da kine CNN | Submitted by: Alaska Freegold "Arnold Schwarzenegger encouraged the director of "Pumping Iron," the documentary that launched him in Hollywood 25 years ago, to re-release it unedited, including a marijuana-smoking scene. "I did smoke a joint and I did inhale," he said, taking a jab at former President Bill Clinton's famous statement that he didn't inhale. "The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did. I have never touched it since." Yeah right. You married a Kennedy. Read article... Many straight black men actually gay Planet Out | Submitted by: Not Gay Myself "Confirming the existence of hidden "down low" homosexuality in African American communities, a new study found that 16 percent of poor Los Angeles area black men who consider themselves straight have actually had anal sex with men... For years, experts have suggested that some black men live double lives, keeping their boyfriends secret from their families and girlfriends or wives." Read article... Author says FDNY dodged bodies for jeans Centre Daily | Submitted by: meatload Furious FDNY members are gearing up for a protest Monday against a book claiming New York's Bravest looted World Trade Center stores... In "American Ground," [William Langewiesche] accuses firefighters of loading pairs of jeans from a Gap store in the underground mall at the twin towers onto their Ladder 4 rig while the horror of the terror attacks unfolded. The smashed rig was found several levels below ground." Evidence doesn't lie, though. They were looting. We reported it in Daily Rotten over a year ago. Read article... Russell Crowe wouldn't have known what hit him Stuff NZ | Submitted by: wingnut "Oscar winner Crowe was left nursing a swollen face and injuries around his eye following the clash at west London restaurant Zuma. Georgie Calder, a 21 year old model, at the restaurant said Crowe had been acting like a "total and utter pig". She said at one stage a drunken and smelly Crowe walked over to her, kissed her and licked her face. "It was grotesque. He stank to high heaven and had food all over his mouth." Read article... Fecal geysers result from sewer problem Whittier Daily News | Submitted by: meatload "Raw sewage erupted from the toilets and drains of at least seven Pasadena homes, almost completely covering the floor of one with liquid feces, after city workers unclogged a nearby sewer line Saturday. 'It was like a volcano out of the commode,' Mario Duenas said. When it started, Janice Duenas said she ran and held down one toilet lid. Unabated, the sewage covered her legs and began flowing through the house." Read article... Damnation family meets the rainbow brigade Oakland Tribune | Submitted by: meatload Eight sons, daughters and grandchildren of the 72-year-old Pastor Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan., railed against homosexuality and otherwise damned the different in the heartland of liberalism Saturday, just outside the Cal-Arizona football game. "Sorry. So if we didn't get this reception, we would know we weren't speaking the truth. Because the Bible says the true messengers would be reviled." Read article... More Frosted Imodium Flakes, please! MSNBC | Submitted by: Son of Benway "How’s the idea of diabetes or diarrhea medicine in your cereal sound? That’s the scenario painted by critics of a biotechnology company that mistakenly allowed its corn, which was genetically altered to help produce pharmaceuticals, to contaminate regular grain crops... ProdiGene CEO Anthony Laos has said the Iowa incident was resolved. He also said the corn at issue contained DNA of a protein that wasn’t toxic and is used to treat 'persistent digestive health conditions.'" Read article... Blow dealt to video voyeurs Independent Online | Submitted by: Alaska Freegold Someone always has to ruin it for the rest of us: "RCMP have busted what they believe could be a very large porn video operation in a house in Burnaby. Sources say police also seized a gun and about 100 videotapes from the house. The tapes show unconscious young women in sexual situations. Police are reviewing the tapes to determine if the women in them are drugged or underage." Read article... Fifty naked chicks with an agenda Pt. Reyes Light | Submitted by: moki "Women from all ages and walks of life took off their clothes, not because they are exhibitionists but because they felt it was imperative to do so. They wanted to unveil the truth about the horrors of war, to commune in their nudity with the vulnerability of Iraqi innocents, and to shock a seemingly indifferent Bush Administration into paying attention." Great photo. Read article... Incest leads to crotch murder Wire Services | Submitted by: The Kung Fu Magician "A Cambodian woman who murdered her husband by axing him repeatedly in the groin before running off with her son-in-law has been sentenced to 15 years in jail, officials said Friday." That 15 years is gonna do a fat lot of a good seeing as they CAN'T FIND HER. Read article... Baader-Meinhof brain saga BBC | Submitted by: Ann Onymous Followup to ean earlier story. It's gone from one brain to three brains: "It has emerged that the brains of three leading members of the urban guerrilla group, the Red Army Faction, including its leader, Andreas Baader, have disappeared after being preserved for scientific research. The ghoulish revelation comes just days after the daughters of Ulrike Meinhof, another of the revolutionaries, finally won permission to have her brain returned for burial." Read article... Peeball: the latest sports craze? Observer | Submitted by: Ann Onymous A new sport is taking Britain by storm: Peeball, which you can play solo or with a bunch of your boozed-up friends. The objective is to hit a little powder ball with your urine stream, eventually dissolving it. Lots of fun, and supports prostate cancer research. But please, don't play it against the side of any buildings. Use a urinal. Read article...