Daily Rotten Archives January 9, 2003 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Prosecutor: Defendant claimed she ate victim Court TV | Submitted by: J0PY-666 "A New Mexico prosecutor claims that fashion designer Linda Henning told at least four people that she consumed the flesh of Girly Chew Hossencofft, a bank teller missing since 1999 and presumed dead... Spiers said it is possible that Diazien Hossencofft and Henning, who believed the human race was controlled by reptilian alien masters, may have drank some of Chew's blood or consumed flesh during a ritual." Read article... Toxic Waste, If found, return to Dow Chemical Indian Express | Submitted by: Squeak, The Human Chew Toy "Greenpeace returned poisonous waste collected from the site of the Bhopal gas tragedy, to its rightful owner, Dow Chemical. The waste, abandoned in Bhopal, has been poisoning people there since 1984... Activists from Greenpeace and Rashida Bi, leader of Bhopal Gas Women’s Union, both constituents of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal, unloaded 250 kg of the waste, safely contained in 10 barrels, from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and delivered it to Dow’s largest European operation, Dow Benelux, in the Netherlands on Monday." Read article... A girl or boy to suit any whim Independent | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "In Svay Pak, business is conducted quite brazenly. Twenty brothels, each sealed by a padlocked iron grille, line the potholed dirt track that is the shanty town's main street. Step inside any of the brick shopfronts and the papasan (pimp) will produce a girl or boy to suit any whim. Oral sex costs $5; $500 buys a six-year-old for a week." Read article... Eight century saint need not pay TV fee South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by: Bald in NJ "Germany's television license fee agency apologized for sending an angry letter demanding payment from an eighth-century saint... "At first I just ignored the letters," Terhorst said. "But after the last letter demanding payment threatened the saint with 'legal action' and a 1,000-euro fine, I figured it was time to write back." Read article... Germans still immune to Irony BBC | Submitted by: Tobermory German Democracy in action: "In a case which critics say has major implications for freedom of speech on the internet, Holger Voss stands accused of 'glorification of a criminal act'. Mr Voss, who will appear in court in the western German town of Muenster on Wednesday, insists his comments (regarding 9/11) were meant to be sarcastic... 'The court will decide whether he did indeed mean them ironically, and if so, whether or not that makes any difference,' (said) court spokesman Juergen Wrobel." It's amazing that such a sentence can even be considered for prosecution. Read article... Giant hyenas stopped migration of man ABC News | Submitted by: Rockpile "Could it be that the human migration into the Americas was held up by a nasty beast that preyed on people in the darkness of night, forcing them to remain far south of the land bridge that would have taken them to a new world?" Read article... Hospital gets sick of patient Miami Herald | Submitted by: kade A man's love for hospital food, or a desperate cry for help? "What's unclear from the hospital's complaint is why the patient's wife and daughter, who live in Miami-Dade County, want the patient to remain at the hospital, a stay that could run into the 'hundreds of thousands of dollars,' officials said. The suit noted that Florida Health Care HMO agreed the patient should be discharged." Read article... More porn companies are giving to charity Cybercast News Service | Submitted by: kade "Whether it's a genuine attempt to 'give back' to the community or a chance to put a positive spin on the pornography industry, charitable organizations are increasingly finding themselves at the receiving end of donations from sexually-oriented businesses." We have a word for this, a reach-around. Read article... Two students had sex on bus while others cheered Boston Globe | Submitted by: dianalily Police say two high school students engaged in a sex act while riding the bus to school, much to the delight of the other teenage passengers. Police Lt. David "Griffiths said all students involved, including those who cheered, will be charged [within] a week or two." Cheering on the school slut is a crime? Read article... Cat ate, kids didn't Fox News | Submitted by: Boat6float Follow-up from earlier story: "New Jersey go-go dancer Sherry Murphy took better care of her pet cat than the three young boys she allegedly starved and neglected. A police source said yesterday said that officers found her tabby plump and well-pampered inside the same Newark home where last weekend they found the cousins who had been left in Murphy's care... Raheem Williams, 7, and brother, Tyrone Hill, 4, wallowed in their own vomit and used a jar as a toilet, while the rest of the house was immaculate." Another child was found "mummified" in the same basement. Read article... Congolese rebels eat tasty pygmies Fox News | Submitted by: Boat6float "Forces of the rebel Congolese Liberation Movement and its allied Congolese Rally for Democracy-National are accused of killing and eating pygmies living in dense tropical forests... The two rebel factions often hire Pygmies to hunt food for them in the forests as they concentrate on fighting [when] the expert hunters return empty-handed, rebel troops kill and eat them, the official said." Does Pygmy taste like chicken? Read article... Cable companies are S.O.B.'s CNN Money | Submitted by: Rockpile "Instead, the consumer groups said, rate hikes are funding a series of mergers in the industry that are meant to increase the operators' monopoly power, eroding consumer choice and enabling the companies to keep raising rates... "Cable operators are blaming the rate increases on a number of things in an effort to hide the underlying cause -- the greed of the nation's most persistent monopolists in the midst of a costly and anti-consumer merger wave," the report said." Read article... Toronto: Site of latest toilet baby Canadian Press | Submitted by: Rufferto "Movie theatre employees found a dead baby in a toilet in the women's washroom, apparently abandoned by its mother after giving birth during an evening screening... The dead baby's mother disappeared after the incident and was being sought by police on Wednesday." Read article... Former shill for tobacco co. dies of lung cancer Boston Globe | Submitted by: Rev. Soror Lucy Cannon Advertising executive Bill Free, who launched famous, NOW-protested ad campaigns such as "I'm Cheryl, Fly Me" for National Airlines, and "Cigarettes are like girls, the best ones are rich and thin" for Silva Thins, is dead of lung cancer at age 74. Read article... This just in! Magnets DO NOT erase cds WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: keebie "A man was arrested on a child pornography charge after a passer-by found computer discs in his trash that held about 75 sexual photographs of young girls, police said... Coyle said Mitskevich told police he ran a magnet over the discs in an attempt to erase them before throwing them away." Read article... Homeland Security to have "Privacy Officer" PC World | Submitted by: Squeak, The Human Chew Toy "Olson dismissed concerns from published reports that the new draft cuts out a recommendation to consult with civil liberties groups over privacy issues. The working draft of the cybersecurity plan strengthens its privacy protections by creating a privacy officer in the Department of Homeland Security and making privacy a "common thread" throughout the document instead of just one recommendation, she said." Well, I feel better already. Speak clearly (into the lamp). Read article... Police battle it out. With each other Philippines Star | Submitted by: slimstvr "Credit-grabbing over the arrest of a robbery suspect led to a shootout in Quezon City between police officers of the Central Police District and Camp Crame-based agents of the Philippine National Police last Tuesday." The suspect was killed while one cop was seriously wounded. Read article... Sacrifice, Interrupted Newsday | Submitted by: Hail OTIS! Police intrude on devil-made-me-do-it human sacrifice, catch man eating his mother's heart out. Literally. "A medical examiner testified that Cala bludgeoned his mother to death, probably with his fists or feet, then cut open her chest and abdomen and removed some organs... Police found Cala standing over his mother's body, both of them covered in blood, in her bedroom in the home they shared in suburban Hurst. An officer saw Cala eat what appeared to be an organ." Read article... War on Saddam = Total Devestation for Millions Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by: BungKnuckle Once those friendly US forces have succeeded in saving Iraqs people from that evil dictator and installed a cudly new "democratic" government, there wont be much left to govern. A UN report estimates that about 3 million people across the country will face "dire" malnutrition and require "therapeutic feeding". It paints a picture of a crippled nation, with roads, bridges and railroads shattered, the electricity grid badly damaged and oil industry paralysed. Nobody knows where this report came from. Read article... Queen to Rastas: No cash for slavery Jamaica Gleaner | Submitted by: Alter Ego The Queen refused a request by Jamaican Rastafarians to be compensated for slavery. "We regret and condemn the inequities of the slave trade, but these shameful activities belong to the past. Governments today cannot accept responsibility for what happened over 150 years ago." Read article... No kids for Western Australian Fat Chick Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by: Anonymous "A 21 year old Perth woman says she is not allowed to adopt a baby because the West Australian government told her she is too fat... Jodie Gaywood, from the Perth suburb of Armadale, is desperate for an infant of her own, but she said at 120kg the state government deemed her too large... She said the government had rejected her application to adopt a child but approved one by her husband, Jay Gaywood, 26." Read article... Joint suicide by Autodefenestration Wire Services | Submitted by: f00f "Then, three hours before the new year, Spivack leaped to his death, followed seconds later by his 80-year-old wife, Estelle... When the Rashkows returned to the building later Tuesday, they saw their friends' bodies on the ground." Read article... High crime at the Vatican BBC | Submitted by: anonymous What happens if you put 500 men in their own country? A very high rate of included embezzlement, fraud and other crimes. The tourist also seem to have a bit to do with increasing the pickpocket rate but where else can you find a crime rate of 133% not including the crimes involving little boys. Read article... If the Sopranos ran the Better Business Bureau North Jersey Media | Submitted by: Shivananda Yes, business IS done a bit differently in New Jersey. After numerous longstanding complaints that they never answered their phone or returned calls, the North Jersey chapter of the Better Business Bureau has just been expelled from the BBB for "bad business practices." The article notes that consumers were virtually unable to get through to anyone at the NJ office, which "grew out of a bitter territorial struggle between a Newark-based chapter that served Essex, Hudson, and Union counties, plus parts of Morris and Warren counties, and the long-established Paramus-based chapter that covered Bergen, Passaic, and Rockland counties." And you thought the waste removal business was tough! Read article... Science, soul, heaven and Supreme Mind Pravda | Submitted by: Novikin Russian scientist Alexander Bolonkin develops artificial intelligence in the USA. The he "applies" it: "Let us imagine a state with a dictator at the head. A dictator would never be able to find efficient solutions for external and internal state problems. A dictator has ministries, which are then divided into divisions and departments. This forms a pyramid, in which all departments have their own databases, as well as the access to the common base. All divisions are busy with their particular problems, in accordance with the dictator’s ideology." Read article... For Sale: The Ten Commandments News and Observer | Submitted by: Smorg "County commissioners who lost a court fight over displaying the Ten Commandments on courthouse walls voted to pay their attorneys by selling the plaques to the highest bidder." Read article... Video shows police shooting dog CNN | Submitted by: anonymous Video is released in the incident of the Cookville Tennessee police department shooting a family's pet dog during a traffic stop gone way to wrong. "The tape then shows the Smoaks' medium-size brown dog romping on the shoulder of the Interstate, its tail wagging. As the family yells, the dog, named Patton, first heads away from the road, then quickly circles back toward the family... An officer in a blue uniform aims his shotgun at the dog and fires at its head, killing it immediately... "Y'all shot my dog! Y'all shot my dog!" James Smoak cries. "Oh my God! God Almighty!" Read article... Puppies, some shot, dumped in church trash Floyd County Times | Submitted by: kendellwade "Deputy Steve Montgomery was dispatched to the location, where he reported first seeing several large bags of garbage on the roadside in a circle. Inside the circle of garbage bags were nine small puppies... Three of the puppies appeared to have been shot and were dead. The other six were alive and appeared to be about 6-to-8 weeks old." Read article...