Daily Rotten Archives January 3, 2003 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Man dies masturbating, accompanied by daughter El Paso Times | Submitted by: optional "The former El Paso police detective awaiting trial for allegedly raping his 13 year old stepdaughter in 1998 and 1999 died Monday evening at Thomason Hospital... Jose Laredo, 41, was unconscious and bleeding profusely from the head in a video booth at Eros Adult Bookstore in Las Cruces, police said. Laredo had his pants around his ankles and was in the company of another stepdaughter, 18 year old Desiree Laredo, according to a Las Cruces Police Department report." Read article... Raelians refuse DNA tests on clone baby CNN | Submitted by: Soylent "A company founded by members of a sect that believes mankind was created by extraterrestrials says what it calls the first human clone will not undergo testing to verify her genetic makeup... Rael said he made the decision after a "judge in Florida signed a paper saying that the baby Eve should be taken from the family, from her mother." However, no Florida judge has made such a ruling." However a judge may make such a ruling in less than 3 weeks. Read article... Homophobia blamed for execution Texas Triangle | Submitted by: Soylent "I want you to think briefly about the man you’re setting [sic] in judgment on and determining what the appropriate punishment should be," the prosecutor told the jury. "[J]ust put in the back of your mind what if I was sitting in judgment on this person without relating it to Jay Neill, and I'd like to go through some things that to me depict the true person, what kind of person he is. He is a homosexual. The person you’re sitting in judgment on-disregard Jay Neill. You’re deciding the life or death on a person that’s a vowed homosexual." Read article... Medical waste discharged into drinking water ic North Wales | Submitted by: Steve Harrison Tens of thousands of gallons of blood and bodily fluids from hospitals was discharged into drinking water over a period of more than a year... A court was told rotting human tissue from facilities including the Countess of Chester Hospital would have found its way into the River Dee, which serves more than two million drinking-water customers in North Wales, Chester and Merseyside." Read article... Third bag of human remains found News Corporation | Submitted by: ganubis "It has not yet been determined whether the remains found today are linked to the previous finds." If this bag is not related, then there's a disturbing fad underway in the Blue Mountains. Read article... US citizen jailed for 5 months without charge Washington Post | Submitted by: Scared Shitless A U.S. citizen is in jail in the United States for five months without any charge, based on secret evidence. This is really shaky. "In a letter requesting the hearing, senior assistant county prosecutor Steven Brizek said that allowing [the defendant] access to the information, consistent with his constitutional right to confront evidence against him "might compromise or otherwise harm" the criminal investigation... "I'm saying to myself, 'Now they're moving from immigrants to citizens. What is next?'" Read article... Woman reports rape in Dubai, jailed Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: Piltdown_Man "A French businesswoman who accused three men of gang rape has been arrested in Dubai and faces trial on charges of adultery... Touria Tiouli, 39, from Limoges, has had her passport confiscated and cannot leave Dubai after being charged under the Persian Gulf emirate's Islamic sharia law." Read article... Japanese new years kills six Daily Yomiuri | Submitted by: Craig S. Japanese New Year's tradition kills record number of revelers. Sumo competition? Poisonous blow-fish? Nope, rice cakes. "Encourage them to eat the rice cakes with soup. Advise them to chew carefully, as they can sometimes be hard to swallow," the official said. In the event choking occurs, the official said, there were practical measures that could be taken before dialing 911. "If pieces get stuck in the throat, don't hesitate to hook them out with your finger or give your relative a firm slap on the back" to expel the mochi, the official added." Read article... Chinese smut police apologize for raid Wire Services | Submitted by: Milk Bone "Police in northwest China have made a rare apology to a man they surprised at home and dragged to jail for watching pornographic videos with his wife, state newspapers said... "We are very guilty for the pain we have caused. We are apologising to you now," the Beijing Youth Daily quoted a police official in the city of Yan'an as saying, adding authorities would reprimand the officers responsible." Read article... Farmer extinguishes burning bag, baby This Is London | Submitted by: Milk Bone Quoth the farmer: "I saw the bag on fire and stamped on it to try to put it out. I felt a hard object in the bag and kicked it out of the way of the fire into a field. The police shone a torch into the field, then told me what it was I kicked out of the bag, it was a baby." Read article... Annual goat vandalism ends in failure Wire Services | Submitted by: jo666py Illegally destroy the town's huge straw goat....using cars, fireworks, arson... a rich tradition since '66: "This holiday season, the giant straw Christmas goat built in this Swedish city escaped destruction for the first time since 1997. The merchants of Gaevle dismantled the huge straw display on Thursday, a few days ahead of schedule, because of the cost of hiring security guards to keep watch over it through the night." Read article... Eat a candy cane for Jesus Boston Globe | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "Several Westfield High School students who handed out candy canes with religious note to their classmates the week before Christmas are bracing for possible suspension from school after they return from winter break tomorrow." Read article... Chinese in Space Newsday | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "After a decade of secretive preparation, China disclosed plans Thursday to launch a manned spacecraft this year, an achievement the communist government hopes will win it public support at home and respect abroad... It would make this only the third nation, after Russia and the United States, capable of sending a human into space on its own." Read article... Twenty mph or less when transporting beehives News Corporation | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "A man trapped in his wrecked truck survived an attack by up to 300,000 bees searching for their hives after the truck crashed near Auckland." That is what the paper says, but it's just wrong. No human can survive that many stings. It would be surprising if he received more than 200 actually. Read article... Club plans croc-filled moat to control hooligans Orange Today | Submitted by: brainwrong "A Romanian football club is planning to control its rowdy fans by installing a crocodile filled moat around the pitch. Fourth division Steaua Nicolae Balcescu have been threatened with expulsion from the league after repeated pitch invasions and violent outbreaks. "I think that the problem of fans running onto the pitch will be solved once and for all." Read article... Timeservers led by Scoundrels Spectator | Submitted by: Tobermory Ain't life in the UK grand?: "Hedonistic egotism, fear and resentment form the character of a large proportion of our population, and it is a character that is ripe for exploitation. They have made themselves natural slaves... The organised lying that results from centralised information-gathering not only blunts critical faculties and makes it impossible to distinguish true information from false, but also morally compromises those who participate in the process: everyone is made an accomplice of the central power, and so less and less does anyone feel able to make a stand." Read article... Axe rampage at a British abbey BBC | Submitted by: Ann Onymous "Two people were injured and a third left in shock by an axeman who then ran amok inside a historic abbey. A 62-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious lacerations after the attacker, armed with two small axes or hatchets, went on the rampage in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. He then burst into the church in Waltham Abbey, in Essex, and used the weapons to damage the pulpit, organ, statues and at least one historic stained glass window." Read article... Bizarre ride ends in fatality Treasure Coast Newspapers | Submitted by: orpyak "A longtime maintenance worker at the Sierra Condominium Apartments was killed New Year's Eve after he somehow ended up on the hood of a sports car that subsequently crashed into a tractor trailer... "We have information that Mr. Conran was on the hood of the car or on the outside," police Sgt. Kim Major said. "The truck, there was nothing he could do. They smashed into him." She said the purple Z28 Camaro exited the complex at the same time the tractor trailer, on its way to Fort Pierce after making a delivery at The Stuart News, was traveling west on Monterey Road, and the two vehicles collided." Read article... Deer high up in tree Earthfiles | Submitted by: mauskov "Six-month-old male deer, 70 pounds, hanging in a 12-foot-high crotch of a maple tree in Delaware county, New York, near the Pennsylvania border. Stockbroker Gerald Inman first found the deer in the tree on the first day of deer and gun season, November 18, 2002. This photograph was taken on December 7, 2002, after Mr. Inman returned with New York State Wildlife Technician Scott Van Arsdale." Read article... A prisoner's Dom Perignon Guardian | Submitted by: Stephicus More on pruno: "In 1992, the San Quentin death row prisoner Jarvis Masters won an award from the international writers' group PEN, for his poem Recipe for Prison Pruno. It intertwines a judge's pronouncement of the death sentence with the recipe for pruno. His formula involves orange peel, fruit cocktail and water, heated in a prison sink and kept warm with towels. It is then hidden for five days, with extra sugar or ketchup added, and reheated daily for three more days." Read article...