Daily Rotten Archives February 15, 2003 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Michael Jacksons first child abuse case The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: Sloth If you ever wondered what Jackson really did to little boys, its quite graphic here. Personal favorite: Jackson would cry when the boy (Jordy Chandler) didn't like it when Jackson kissed him with his tongue, or put his tongue in the boy's ear. Mind you, this is not proven in a court of law, just an affidavit. But this leaked document is the kernel that caused MJ to shell out $10M to Chandler's parents. Read article... Prison may not "jive" with David Duke Newsday | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "A lawyer representing former Ku Klux Klan leader and politician David Duke, who faces sentencing next month on fraud charges, said he is concerned his client could be attacked by black inmates or political opponents in prison." What does JDL think? "We heard that they want to send him to a camp, a real easy place where there's tennis and golf. He doesn't belong in a camp, he belongs in a real jail. Why is Duke, this Nazi pig, getting this special treatment?" Read article... Texas towns signing up for $1 police cars with ads Southeast Texas Live | Submitted by: CandyPantz "Cars plastered with company logos may soon be cruising the streets of this upscale bedroom community, but they won't be headed for a NASCAR race at the nearby Texas Motor Speedway... People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has agreed to place vegetarian-themed ads on 20-25 cars in a dozen cities in 10 states. Texas is not one of them. Each ad will cost $1,000 and be on the side of the cars." Read article... Chief cooks thief (with gasoline) News 24 South Africa | Submitted by: Taco "He said the unidentified local police chief and three of his men took Adu outside the police station and doused him with gasoline to make him confess. The police chief then lit a cigarette with a match, inadvertently setting Adu's clothes on fire and burning him to death." Crap! I didn't get a confession yet! Read article... Hundred bongs a day led to psychotic rampage The Age | Submitted by: Hair Sphincter "A man who smoked up to 100 marijuana bongs a day went on a violent rampage, hijacking cars and assaulting people because of his paranoid fear of police. Suffering a drug-induced psychosis, Brett Stuart Matthews, 27, assaulted 12 people, including seven police, in September last year." Read article... New hope for Rotten viewers University of British Columbia | Submitted by: fuck "Imagine being tortured by repeated thoughts of stabbing your child or having sex with your minister, thoughts that won't go away no matter how hard you try to suppress them... In the largest study of its kind ever conducted in North America, University of British Columbia researchers will spend four years treating 120 people suffering from this disorder, previously thought to be untreatable." Read article... Body cavity search reveals crack LaCrosse Tribune | Submitted by: Hinny Perhaps the best headline of the day. "An inmate's planned release from the La Crosse County Jail was stymied Tuesday because a sheriff's investigator claimed he found eight bags of cocaine in the man's rectum... Thomas, who was charged Wednesday with one count of possession of cocaine with intent to deliver [deliver, like a baby?], agreed to let the investigator search him, the complaint said." Read article... MRI scans for the pet that has everything Kingston Whig-Standard | Submitted by: ZeroCharm "A Belleville company is about to announce the opening of Canada’s first freestanding MRI clinic that caters exclusively to animals... Quinte MRI will charge the same rate for four-legged patients as people pay in other facilities operated by the company: $750 Canadian or $500 US for one scan. Extensive market research indicates that animal owners 'are more than willing' to pay that amount, Haider said." Read article... Canned goods accepted, too. Greenville News | Submitted by: THE MIGHTY SNERT Govenor Sanford has his grits. He now needs his bacon and biscuits. Please help. "So far, Sanford said, $391,209 of the mansion's $435,058 budget had been spent through Feb. 1. It would cost about $195,508 to keep the mansion at current staff and program levels, leaving a shortfall of $151,659. The governor said he's considering returning inmate labor to the mansion to help out next year's budget, but there isn't enough time to help this year." Read article... Funeral director spends client money on: Strippers WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Tim Howard The Quick and the Dead. "A court is ordering a California funeral director to never work in the funeral business again. Houston Quick has been sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling nearly $400,000 from elderly clients, and spending some of the money to buy gifts for strippers." Read article... Petting zoo massacre WXYZ-TV 7 Detroit | Submitted by: nklb "Investigators are trying to figure out what caused a devastating fire that killed dozens of animals. The intense fire ripped through a barn at a popular petting farm in Northville Township late Monday night. By the time firefighters got there, it was too late to save most of the animals." Read article... Dolly put down MSNBC | Submitted by: JON BLAST Dolly the sheep, the world’s first mammal cloned from an adult, was euthanized after being diagnosed with progressive lung disease, the Roslin Institute said Friday. "We must await the results of the post-mortem on Dolly in order to assess whether her relatively premature death was in any way connected with the fact that she was a clone." Read article... Reality TV for motherfuckers and bastards CNN | Submitted by: Dustin Prewitt "Another reality show aimed at milking romance for ratings asks the question, "Who Wants to Marry My Mom?" Five episodes of the NBC series, which the network said was inspired by an upcoming "Meet My Folks" special, will air in late spring. No specific air date was announced. "The idea of kids choosing which mate is best for their single mom just seemed like a fun, natural extension of Meet My Folks", said an NBC executive. Read article... U.S. backs new system for net, phone numbering Internet News | Submitted by: Squeak, the Human Chew Toy "The U.S. government is supporting a move to a new standard designed to create a single point of contact for telephone and Internet communications... The new electronic numbering system, also known as ENUM, would give consumers a single number for all their telephone numbers, e-mail and instant messaging addresses, fax numbers and mobile phone numbers." Read article... Ancient virus tested as AIDS weapon Boston Globe | Submitted by: Squeak, the Human Chew Toy This sounds like something right out of the book "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear: "What happens when you've unearthed a flu-like disease that has been dormant for millions of years? In Greg Bear's thriller, a molecular biologist and a "virus hunter" find an ancient, concealed mass grave in Russia and unravel the mystery of the disease within before its next evolutionary step toward world destruction." Read article... MicDonald's: International corporate whores Business 2.0 | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga To Mickey-D's, anti-Americanism is just another word for opportunity! "During the last decade, the Illinois-based chain has been the target of political protests in more than 50 countries. Alas, preventing Ronald McDonald from taking bullets intended for Uncle Sam often means using marketing tricks that would never play in Peoria." Read article... Cannabonds! Canadian Press | Submitted by: anonymous "The Cannabonds, which go on sale Friday, entitle purchasers to one-quarter ounce of marijuana, about seven grams, when the federal government legalizes marijuana cultivation and trafficking, said Ted Smith, Hempology 101 Society founder. The society is selling Cannabonds to build a legal defence fund to pay $25,000 in recent court costs and debts, he said." Read article... Electric Horsemen Orange County Weekly | Submitted by: Shock the Horsey! Is a "rodeo mafia" covering up animal abuse in California? "Last August, at a Flying U rodeo in San Juan Capistrano, a bronco stood in a chute with a rider on its back. A rodeo clown standing opposite the rear of the horse suddenly leaned over the railing and pressed something against the horse’s hindquarters. As the horse suddenly jerked, the clown tucked something about the size of an electric razor under his shirt and down the front of his jeans. The horse didn’t die; it burst out of the chute with a lot of spirit, giving its rider a chance to score well." Read article... The Keystone Cops: Live(?) from Colombia! ABC News | Submitted by: Squeak, The Human Chew Toy Stand back ma'am - we're trained profess... {KABOOOM!} "A squad of policemen, acting on a tip about a rebel assassination plot against President Alvaro Uribe, raided a house in this southern Colombian city before dawn Friday. In one thunderous explosion, the house and the policemen were no more... Three other houses in the working-class neighborhood adjoining the airport also were destroyed in the blast that killed 15 people, including eight policemen, an investigator with the attorney general's office and three children." Read article... Suicide Jumper totals SUV Star Bulletin | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "A 32 year old woman was critically injured yesterday when a man fell to his death in an apparent suicide from a Waikiki hotel and landed on the roof of her van that had stopped at a Kuhio Avenue stoplight, according to police. The van driver was not breathing and had no pulse when paramedics arrived, but they were able to resuscitate her en route to the Queen's Medical Center." The van appears totalled. Read article... Plowing while plowed Dayton Daily News | Submitted by: Idle Hands "A state trooper thought something was amiss when he saw a Greene County snowplow on the wrong side of U.S. 35, plowing against the flow of traffic. Trooper Dan Moore stopped the snowplow about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, smelled alcohol and took the snowplow driver in for a Breathalyzer test. The test showed that David Pitzer, 41, of Xenia had a blood-alcohol level of 0.206 percent, Moore said. State law defines a level of 0.10 percent as the threshold for intoxication." Read article... Dry humping etiquette Michigan Daily | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga "Girls think that dry humping is stimulating for guys because they don't believe guys would do anything that wasn't immediately pleasing to them. Well ladies, if you want proof, just think of a time you have dry humped a guy who is wearing jeans." Read article... Doll prank blows up on DJ Fresno Bee | Submitted by: Cudaman Dan "Employees at head-banger rock station KRZR say CHP officers intimidated them and forced them to delete pictures of an intern delivering a curvy, inflatable form to the district office of Assembly Member Steve Samuelian, who was recently stopped by police in Fresno's version of a red-light district." Read article... CIA sabotaging UN weapons inspections Independent | Submitted by: Bog The CIA didn't disclose "all the information it had on 'high' and 'moderate' interest locations inside Iraq: those sites where there was a possibility of finding banned weapons..." Mr Tenet says one thing, but then: "Mr Tenet later told a different panel that he had been mistaken and that there were in fact "a handful" of locations the UN inspectors may not have known about." Read article... Udai, Son of Saddam ABC News | Submitted by: Media whore "According to Janabi, Odai's rape victims were as young as 12 and powerless to resist him. After a visiting Russian ballerina resisted Odai's advances in 1994, Odai had his men secretly film her making love with her trainer, Janabi said, then invited her to a party and told her he had a surprise. "He showed her the film. And he raped her after that." said Janabi." Read article... Duct tape craze swamps Carolina plant Charlotte Observer | Submitted by: UncleGum Duct tape, that most American of do-it-yourself tools, has taken on its biggest challenge yet, saving America from doom, and is turning this Alexander County town into a tiny arsenal of democracy... "It's incredible," said Shurtape CEO Jim Shuford. "Everybody decided they didn't have a roll of duct tape, and they needed one." Read article... Nobody gives a shit if you die MSNBC | Submitted by: motrinwoman "D.C. police released a startling surveillance tape yesterday that shows a daylight killing at a Northeast Washington gas station and witnesses doing nothing to report the crime or tend to the victim as he lay bleeding on the concrete... Police said they were shocked by the apathy of those who were there, including one man who continued pumping kerosene after looking briefly at Price’s body." Read article... Dead man on bench Straits Times | Submitted by: f00f "Some residents said they noticed the man on the bench around midnight on Sunday, but thought nothing of it. He was seated upright and appeared to be staring into space... Yesterday morning, the same residents saw him again, his head now tilted back. One hand was draped over the bench's armrest, the other lay on a plastic bag beside him. Still, most thought nothing of it." Read article... Lawmaker demands Diapertax ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Razor "A California lawmaker wants to give parents an extra incentive to get their youngsters potty trained: a quarter-cent tax on disposable diapers to promote recycling... Perata says it would cost families 12 to 15 dollars per child." Read article... Gas tank full of gold St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Hugh G. Rection Man hides gold coins from ex-wife. Tires Plus rats him out: "Because banks don't handle this type of transaction, he pulled in to the Tire Plus store on Tyrone Boulevard. Mechanics removed the tank, and Steiner began to withdraw his coins, each about the size of a silver dollar. That's when things started going bad for Steiner. A bit suspicious, workers called police." Read article... Hurricane Andrew victim finally found WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: f00f "Lorences, 62, was unsuccessfully trying to secure the fishing boat Leviathan, along with Thomas Vann and Stephen Suszek, on Aug. 24, 1992... Hurricane Andrew's winds whipped a piece of wood across the boat's deck, killing Vann and knocking Lorences overboard, Suszek reported after riding out the storm on the small island... Vann's body was recovered. Officials declared weeks later that Lorences was presumed dead." Read article... Homeland security dept head sold arms to Iraq Penn Live | Submitted by: Ratty "Gov. Ed Rendell's choice to head the state's Department of Homeland Security resigned from a Lancaster TV station in 1990 after it was revealed he was consulting for an arms dealer that was illegally funneling weapons to Iraq... Some of those weapons ended up being used against American soldiers during the Gulf War." Wow, this is almost like... Rumsfeld. Read article... Mayor pleads guilty of robbing little old lady blind Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: Jeanettycakes "Kathy Gehring-Waters gave up her post as SeaTac mayor Friday and admitted in court that she had taken thousands of dollars from an 86-year-old woman whose finances she handled.She pleaded guilty to first-degree theft and left the King County Superior courtroom surrounded by a small group of supporters, declining to talk about a crime that she once maintained she didn't commit. King County prosecutors will ask that she serve one year; She also must pay the woman back about $139,000." Read article...