Daily Rotten Archives February 21, 2003 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Is a condom standard for pelvic exams? San Jose Mercury News | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "A family physician at Kaiser Permanente used his position of trust to sexually assault six women during pelvic examinations, a prosecutor alleged during emotional and graphic opening arguments Tuesday in the trial of Dr. Raul Ixtlahuac... "I didn't know if he was masturbating or not... After his arm was shaking, he inserted something that felt like a penis." She said she then heard him "fumbling around" and what sounded like the opening of a garbage can." Read article... Cheese tomb man vows not to wimp out BBC | Submitted by: anonymous "[Illusionist David Blaine] spent 62 hours entombed in ice in New York's Times Square... Noah Kelly plans to undertake his own endurance test by sealing himself into a giant cube of mature cheddar cheese for 48 hours... "This is an endurance test and I hope to test my body. I'm not going to wimp out and use a mild cheese." Read article... Surgeon refuses desert spoon in hip replacement BBC | Submitted by: Reading "An NHS consultant was asked to use a dessert spoon instead of a proper surgical instrument during hip replacement operations, a tribunal has heard... The tribunal heard that nurses made fun of the incident and arrived for an operation a few days later with plastic spoons taped to their surgical masks." Read article... Wal-Mart refunds would-be murder weapon Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: Marco Polo Comedian Rodney Carrington made fun of Wal*Mart claiming they would even refund dirty diapers. In a case where truth is stanger than fiction, the store recently refunded three Texan teenagers the price of a knife used to stab a man trying to defend his mother. Read article... Israel disbands 13th Goofball Batallion Wire Services | Submitted by: jo666py Sort of an Isreali M*A*S*H story, except the unit called itself "Satan's Messengers" and killed people: "In a statement, the army said the company's conduct "did not befit the norms and values of the Israel Defense Forces" and that the unit "would be broken up and its soldiers scattered to various units." Read article... The chilling final journey of Ted Williams ESPN | Submitted by: Spagelli A follow-up on the freezing of baseball legend Ted Williams' cadaver: "All I could think of was Ted and what he would have thought if he'd known what John Henry had done to him," Hamon told the Daily News. "It was bad enough knowing that somewhere in one of these cylinders, Ted was hanging suspended, upside down, with his head in a bucket. But he was in there with four or five other bodies and assorted heads." Read article... Clergymen, physicans, engaged in Genocide International Herald Tribune | Submitted by: Eris Kaos Who do you trust more to kill you, your preacher or your doctor? "Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 78, the former head of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in western Rwanda, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for aiding and abetting genocide. Gerard Ntakirutimana, 45, a doctor at the church's hospital, was given a 25-year sentence for the same charges and for killing two people." Read article... Herd of women to join suit over uterus branding CNN | Submitted by: D. Rango A new development in previous Rotten story: "Nine women are asking to join a lawsuit against a surgeon accused of branding the initials of his alma mater, the University of Kentucky, onto a patient's uterus during a hysterectomy. The women, ncluding a former nurse of Dr. James M. Guiler, say they discovered they had been similarly branded after watching videotapes Guiler had provided of their procedures." The Rotten Staff was undecided whether to refer to the women as a herd or a gaggle, so a coin was flipped. Read article... Suspected auto thief finds body in back of vehicle Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: The Good Doctor A man who allegedly stole a van over the weekend got a bit of surprise when he found a body in the back of the vehicle. Read article... Nixon wanted to bomb Brookings Institute Canton Repository | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga Sure, he had Cambodia bombed, but Nixon also wanted to bomb the Brookings Institution in D.C.! "As for the proposed bombing of the Brookings Institution, Dean said Colson floated the idea as a way to retrieve certain documents Nixon wanted that were housed in the research center not far from the White House. Colson suggested that while firefighters were trying to douse the damage caused by a bomb, White House operatives could rush in and seize the papers." Read article... A lesson in Music Industry Rape 101 New York Daily News | Submitted by: brodie Band makes it big, goes gold. This article describes what happens to the proceeds to a "successful" album. End result: "That's not bad money, but it's split four ways, or $40,477.25 each, about the same as a city sanitation worker with two years' experience, without health benefits, vacation and retirement fund. But with, of course, groupies." Read article... Now THIS is irony Oregon Live | Submitted by: Col.Klink They all died before his senior year: one by accident, one by heart failure and four by suicide. Jared Stait had lost more friends by college than most people lose in a lifetime. The suicides, especially, stuck with him. Three months ago, Stait filmed a spot for a suicide prevention group that would be distributed on college campuses. Suicide, the 20-year-old told friends, is not the answer. Early Sunday something came undone. Stait came home from a Corvallis party, e-mailed his girlfriend and hanged himself. Read article... Man dressed as Amish girl tries to lure Amish kids Cleveland Plain Dealer | Submitted by: Col. Klink "The driver of a red-and-black van pulled up to a group of four or five Amish girls walking home after class and asked the girls to come over, Hiscox said. The girls started toward the vehicle after seeing what appeared to be an Amish girl sitting in the passenger seat... As the girls got closer, they realized the passenger was actually a man dressed as an Amish girl, Hiscox said." Read article... Hooters changing room had peepholes Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: Col. Klink "A 25 year old Northfield woman filed a federal sexual harassment lawsuit Tuesday against Hooters in Chicago, alleging that top management did little to prevent male employees from viewing the women's changing area through peepholes in the wall... Joanna Cieselski, a server at the restaurant at 8225 E. Higgins, noticed two peepholes in the dressing room in May 2001 where the female staff changed into tight-fitting T-shirts and shorts." Read article... Ebola kills 64 in Congo WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Rio "The World Health Organization confirmed that an outbreak of Ebola in the Congo Republic has killed 64 people. Blood samples drawn from patients in the region tested positive for ebola virus, said Josef Mboussa of the country's Health Ministry. U.N. health officials confirmed Wednesday that the disease was the ebola virus and warned that the highly lethal hemorrhagic fever could still be spreading." Read article... Beans and Franks team up in Tennessee WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: stereocrumb "There are Friday and Gannon and Starsky and Hutch among famous police teams. Now there is Franks and Beans... In Shelby County, Tenn., Deputy Mike Franks' partner is Deputy Gary Beans. Their lieutenant said he already had Franks on staff when Beans walked through the door, and he knew what he had to do." Read article...