Daily Rotten Archives February 27, 2003 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Threatens repeat of 9/11, keeps job AS AIRLINE PILOT BBC | Submitted by: Reading "An airline pilot who threatened to crash his plane into council offices on the anniversary of the 11 September attacks in the US has been fined UKP 1,000... Paisley Sheriff Court was told that, despite the threat, Kenneth Moody was retained by the company MyTravel and continued to fly holiday jets across the Atlantic." WTF? Read article... Couple killed fucking on road Namibian | Submitted by: Psychoclown "A couple who were killed when they were run over by two vehicles on a road near Brakwater on Sunday were allegedly having sex at the time... The man and woman, as yet unidentified, were lying in the road when they were first hit by an all-terrain vehicle driven by Liz Komen and shortly afterwards by a bakkie driven by lawyer Cobus Potgieter." Read article... African migrants take fun boat ride Guardian | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "They survived for two weeks on the Atlantic by gnawing the wood of their boat for moisture, and were rescued only after 12 of their companions had died. The attempt by 18 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa to reach the Canary Islands was not unusual, but the story of how they came to be discovered drifting 120 miles south of Gran Canaria last week has proved to be one of the cruellest and most dramatic." What, they haven't heard of cannibalism? Read article... Mothers of young murderers ask Pope for help South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "The mothers of Lionel Tate and Nathaniel Brazill will meet with Pope John Paul II in the Vatican this week to campaign for changes in how the United States handles children who commit serious crimes... The two South Florida moms are in a delegation of 34 people from around the nation who are meeting with Vatican officials. Their sons were both convicted as adults for murders they committed at ages 12 and 13." Read article... You check that pile, I'll dig through this one News Corporation | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "A family pet tore off its owner's finger and is believed to have swallowed it during a fight with another dog yesterday... Sam McRae, 22, was unable to find her middle right finger before an ambulance arrived to take her to the Princess Alexandra Hospital about 9am." Read article... Lorena Bobbitt Wannabe WTVC-TV 9 Chattanooga | Submitted by: Tim Howard "He says his live-in house keeper, 39 year old Tommie Lorene Burnette, bit him in his thigh and penis, and then chewed off a chunk of skin from his scrotum. Marion County Sheriff Bo Burnette said "the officers arrived on the scene, and saw both parties had wounds and been fighting. So both parties were arrested." Sheriff Burnette, no relation to the woman in this story, was too embarrassed to describe on-camera the details about what happened." Neither wants to be interviewed?? Read article... Vets of tobacco wars take aim at fast food Knoxville Salmon | Submitted by: UncleGum "The people who gave America the tobacco lawsuit are mobilizing to take on fast food with a barrage of legal action modeled after the attack on the tobacco industry... The notion of obese people suing corporations for their health problems might have some people scoffing, but the industry isn't laughing." Read article... What the government did to the dairy industry Libertarian Party | Submitted by: Jackie Carr An interesting example on how everything Congress touches turns to turds: "Ironically, the labyrinth of laws and surfeit of subsidies hasn't even accomplished its original Depression-era goal of protecting small dairy farmers... Since 1930, the number of American dairy farmers has decreased by 95%, noted Bovard. As larger farms became more efficient, smaller dairy farms couldn't compete (even with federal subsidies.) And as suburbs expanded, vast tracts of farmland became more valuable to developers and homeowners than they were to farmers." Read article... North Korea: A War Scenario sianews.com | Submitted by: SeMeN SPeRmS "North Korea has more than 5,000 tons of biochemical agents, including sarin, anthrax, smallpox and the plague. The US CIA says North Korea has 1 or 2, or 4-5 or 7-8 'crude' nuclear bombs. North Korea's nuclear program dates back to 1950 and it would be naive to believe that North Korea has managed to produce only 1-2 or 7-8 bombs during half a century. The truth of the matter is that North Korea may have helped Pakistan and Iran with nuclear weaponry. A Pakistani nuclear scientist has admitted that North Korea's nuclear program is far more advanced than the Pak program and that it is nonsensical to claim that Pakistan gave nuclear secrets to North Korea." Read article... Jesus comic books censored Macedonian Press Agency | Submitted by: Void "The book has been published in Germany, England, Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden, Holland and Austria, where it was particularly successful, selling approximately 80,000 copies, and although it did disturb some people, it was not taken off the market since it is a cartoon." The book depicts Jesus smoking pot and declares that he changed the water into wine because he couldn't pay the bill. Also, he did not walk on water, he surfed. Booyah. Read article... Innovative waste utilization indeed AZ Central | Submitted by: riff "Phoenix company that was hired to dispose of illegal drug chemicals was actually putting them back on the street, selling ingredients out the back door to produce more methamphetamines, authorities said. Law enforcement agents from more than a dozen agencies swarmed Innovative Waste Utilization LLC's compound at 15th Avenue and the Salt River on Tuesday, arresting employees and seizing chemicals and corporate records." Read article... Tennessee schools: 0% = 50% Tennessean | Submitted by: f00f "To me, the most critical piece is that these are 6- to 9-year-old children... When children are in kindergarten through fourth grade, our goal is to teach them the skills... I think we have to be really careful about grading, that we don't do things that really devastate children and don't give an accurate reflection of their work." Remember this is the Scopes Monkey State. Read article... Catholic Dean resigns over BSDM emcee photo Washington Post | Submitted by: Altar_Boy "Albert Santora, 53, stepped down after the principal confronted him with his participation in activities such as the Mid-Atlantic Leather Contest and the DC Boys of Leather, according to the Diocese of Arlington... Santora had a reputation for being strict. "He thought we got away with too much," she said, adding that he once scolded her for wearing a skirt too short." Read article... The Dangers of Fishing Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: Tim Howard Grandfather + Fishing + Tire + Canal = Death. "His enjoyment was fishing," she said. "He always went there. My brother usually went with him." The unusual accident began about 1:15 p.m. when a man driving west on West El Camino Avenue lost control of his pickup truck and swerved across the road, striking two cars parked by the fishing spot. The impact caused a back tire to fly off one of the vehicles, hitting Shalnev and knocking him into the canal. The pickup truck then flew into the canal, according to Lt. Daniel Hahn of the Sacramento Police Department. "It is very bizarre," Hahn said of the chain of events." Read article... Sammy the Bull fingered Court TV | Submitted by: Tim Howard A crook & bull story. "Former hit man Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano, who helped bring down mobster John Gotti, has been charged with murder for allegedly arranging the 1980 killing of a New York City police officer, a prosecutor said Monday. Gravano was charged on Wednesday in the death of Peter Calabro, a day before another admitted hit man, Richard Kuklinski, pleaded guilty to pulling the trigger, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said." Read article... Dionne Warwick claims she was framed Wire Services | Submitted by: JOPY - 666 "Dionne Warwick, who was arrested at an airport last year after authorities found marijuana in her bag, is blaming someone else for putting it there. "Apparently, somebody that didn't want to get caught thought it would be better off in somebody else's bag," the pop singer recently told The Associated Press. Warwick says she's not a drug user. "Drugs of every sort, including aspirin, are not anything I even think about." Musicians never use drugs, everybody knows that. Read article... Cellphones for Moose Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by: Penfold "Swedish scientists plan to attach cellphones to 25 moose. The phones will transmit text messages back to scientists seven times a day, providing tracking information. Sweden, a Scandinavian country of 8.9 million, is one of the world's most wired countries and the reach of cell phone networks is extensive." Read article... Contestant loses prizes, crashes his car, gets arrested ic North Wales | Submitted by: Steve H "A television contestant from North Wales smashed his car into a bus after gambling away prizes worth thousands of pounds... He was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and bailed without charge. No one was hurt in the accident which left Mr King's car and the bus damaged." Read article... Duct tape really DOES fix anything Lubbock Avalanche-Journal | Submitted by: David 'Inky' Scott Gives new meaning to the term "gag order": Courtroom loudmouth Carl Wiley, on trial for aggravated assault, ignored all requests from the court to shut up, even pleas from his own mother. Finally, Lubbock, Texas, District Judge Jim Bob Darnell ordered his mouth sealed with duct tape, an innovative solution that didn't draw much fire, surprisingly. Of course, we should expect that anybody named "Jim Bob" would reach for the duct tape first when a problem arises. Read article... Amy Fisher becoms anti-gun crusader Newsday | Submitted by: AnnePage In an effort to rehabilitate herself, Amy Fisher has now decided to become an anti-gun crusader: "Amy Fisher, the pistol-packin' Long Islander who set off a frenzy of tabloid headlines a decade ago when she shot her lover's wife, celebrated the end of her parole on Wednesday by announcing her intention to work for causes aimed at keeping handguns away from minors." We could sure use some more of that duct tape now. Read article... Puke gains ground on TV, movies Canadian Press | Submitted by: Rufferto "Barf, puke, vomit, throw up, wretch, upchuck, hurl, talking to Ralph on the big white porcelain phone. Whatever it's called, it's an intimate act involving bodily fluids that for a variety of reasons is showing up in many motion pictures these days, and in plenty of TV shows, too. Is it the new porn? A perverse form of erotica? A valid dramatic function or a cheap shock effect? Has a neat list at the end of the article with some of the most popular barf scenes in movie history." Read article... Viper Vodka WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Rio "A group of Russian herpetologists are releasing a new brand of vodka made with the deadly venom of viper snakes... Regular snake vodka usually involves stuffing a dead snake into a bottle of vodka.... Herpetologists at the Novosibirsk Herpetology Centre plan to take the drink a step further, diluting some of the purest venom from wild vipers collected in the wilderness of Siberia, into pure vodka. The group plans to mass produce the vodka and bring in revenue for their center which, like much of the post-Soviet scientific community, has faced a tight funding crisis." Read article... Through rain, sleet, snow or venom Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: wlamccarthy "An investigation continued Tuesday as Los Angeles police tried to determine where the blackneck spitting cobra was mailed from and why it was sent to Joseff Calhoun, the 30 year old Los Angeles songwriter who trapped the slithering interloper by quickly closing the lid. Calhoun escaped without injury and notified authorities." Read article... Teen: cop gave me wedgie, made me do nude handstand Stamford Advocate | Submitted by: Col. Klink "A former Cloonan Middle School student testified yesterday that Stamford police Officer Walter Fields gave him wedgies, grabbed his penis and forced him to do a naked headstand in his office... The 16-year-old said he notified police soon after Fields made him pull down his pants for a spanking. He testified that Fields held his penis for four or five minutes, threatened that he "better do good" and told him to be quiet." Read article... Mascot boobie grope redux Omaha World-Herald | Submitted by: Col. Klink A follow up to a previous story: "Douglas County Election Commissioner Pat McPherson resigned Tuesday, a day after being ticketed on suspicion of fondling a 17-year-old girl who was dressed as a restaurant mascot... The mascot at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers alleged that McPherson fondled her and that City Council President Chuck Sigerson exposed her undergarments Feb. 7 in the restaurant." Read article... For roadkill gourmets, it’s finders eaters Press of Atlantic City | Submitted by: Col. Klink "Jack O'Neil was driving on the outskirts of his hometown, Hammonton, one afternoon in early November when he spotted some roadkill. Most people continue driving past such a sight, but O'Neil is one of the few who stops and takes a look... In Stafford, Michael Melchionne, the township's animal control officer, said that about a quarter of the times he and his crews arrive to remove roadkills some local resident already has snatched it." Read article... Name your kid "Hitler" BBC | Submitted by: Truxillo-X "If you think politicians have become a dull lot, then head on to the Indian state of Meghalaya where candidates in Wednesday's elections there include Frankenstein, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill and Chamberlain." And Hitler likes his name just fine. Read article...