Daily Rotten Archives January 19, 2004 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Census bureau ratfucks American citizens Washington Times | Submitted by: anyone other than Bush in '04 "U.S. census information provided by millions of Americans was used in a government study to profile airline passengers as terrorist risks... The NASA experiment used 5 million census records from each of two data sets it created, 'one that stores household records and another that stores person records.' The Census Bureau's Web site says it protects confidentiality 'through disclosure-information techniques.' ... 'The advisory board specifically asked this question, whether they were providing data to any other government agency, and the answer was "no,'" [Barry Steinhardt] said." Read article... Botched exorcism claims six-year-old Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: efgkt "A 6-year-old girl found dead in an Atlanta motel was the victim of an apparent ritual, police said. The child was found Monday in a room at the Savannah Suites, an extended-stay motel in downtown Atlanta. She had been strangled and stabbed, and her back was broken, police said. 'She had numerous broken bones and compound fractures,' said Atlanta police public information officer John Quigley... A husband and wife, Christopher Carey, 29, and Valerie Carey, 27, were charged with murder. Police discovered the dead child after finding the couple and two children, 2 and 7, walking nude down Piedmont Avenue in the near-freezing cold about 12:30 a.m. Monday... Based on statements made by the family, detectives 'believe that the couple acted out some type of ritual to get rid of demons of some sort,' said Quigley. Pages ripped from a Bible were found on the floor, he said. He would not elaborate on other evidence." Read article... Rancher charged with goatcrimes Portage Daily Register | Submitted by: Debbie Chaos "Daniel J. Considine, the president of the [American Dairy Goat Association], has been charged with one count of mistreating animals causing death and another count of being a party to the mistreatment of animals causing death on his Fort Winnebago farm. Both counts are felonies... Considine said he's innocent of the charges, saying his two accusers have a grudge against him... Diana Moyer said she'd seen Considine beat baby goats to death with a hammer, cut open the mother goat without anesthesia to remove the kid and helped people burn a goat alive with lighter fluid on his farm." Read article... Yet another alleged Jackass fatality appeal-democrat.com | Submitted by: optional "A 16-year-old Marysville girl died in a city park Saturday as she duplicated a movie stunt that involved a merry-go-round. The victim, whose name was not released, died in S.J. Field Park on Rideout Way before 6 p.m., after she flew off a merry-go-round and hit her head on the street pavement... According to witnesses, seven teenagers attached a rope to a truck and wrapped it around a merry-go-round, then watched it spin as the truck pulled the rope away from the ride. The stunt was previously performed in Jackass: The Movie. The teens did this several times before they lengthened the first rope with a second rope and tied it to the merry-go-round, said Andrew Royster, 18, who witnessed the accident. That's when the victim climbed on board, he said... 'I heard the truck pull away. I heard a scream, and I saw her flying through the air,' he said. 'It was a blur; it happened so fast.'" Read article... Bouncer allegedly kills Australian cricket legend Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: LICAN "[David Hookes] was celebrating Victoria's one-day win over South Australia at St Kilda's Beaconsfield Hotel when a fight broke out outside just before midnight on Sunday. It is believed that the 48-year-old became involved in the brawl, sustained a blow to the head and went into cardiac arrest... Hookes's wife Robyn and his family maintained a bed-side vigil throughout the day but his condition remained unchanged. He died about 7:30pm (AEDT), surrounded by his family... Zdravco Micevic from St Albans, a security guard at the Beaconsfield Hotel, was charged with one count of assault." Read article... Catholic Church about to beatify ruthless fuckwad Guardian | Submitted by: wingnut "In the ranks of his admirers nostalgic for the old empire, he was a pacifist cast among warmongers, a gentle soul out of his depth among backstabbing diplomats, ministers, and generals. To his critics, Charles I, the last Habsburg ruler, was a dissembling buffoon who presided over the inglorious defeat and dissolution of his empire. And to the Catholic church, the kaiser was a devout miracle-worker who has just been launched on his way to sainthood... Historians argue the emperor's claims to Christian grace are undermined by the perceptions that he was a consummate liar, that he presided over the use of poison gas by his troops and that his chaotic leadership contributed to a fiasco when hundreds of thousands of his soldiers were taken prisoner in the war's last days. But Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of Vienna who has been influential in the effort to beatify the monarch, insisted the last emperor was 'a man of peace' and that the imminent beatification showed that political leaders could also be good Christians." Read article... Son mistaken for hog, shot dead Florida Times-Union | Submitted by: Big E "A father who thought he was shooting a hog instead killed his 14-year-old son in a hunting accident Saturday in northwest Baker County. Alex Plucknett had walked away from the hunting camp into a clear-cut area and was in a low spot wearing a black cap that Dennis Plucknett mistook for game, Baker County Sheriff Joey Dobson said... Dennis Plucknett saw something he thought was a hog about 225 yards away and shot at it with a rifle, hitting the boy. 'It was a tragic accident,' Dobson said." Read article... Soldier's leg amputated for lack of surgical supplies Scotland on Sunday | Submitted by: anyone other than Bush in 2004 "[Sergeant Albert Thomson], from Whitburn in West Lothian, lost his leg after a fellow soldier in the Royal Highland Fusiliers accidentally fired a machine gun in March 2003. But MPs are now investigating claims by a whistle-blower that army doctors would not have removed his leg if they had had the appropriate surgical equipment... [an unnamed senior army reserve officer] claimed that doctors treating Thomson were angry at not being able to save the leg because they lacked a vascular repair kit. The equipment allows medics to clamp and repair blood vessels without causing further damage." Read article... Two unrelated deaths on transatlantic flight Guardian UK | Submitted by: Lucid346 "British Airways flight 208 from Miami was heavily delayed after a female passenger suffered what appeared to be a fatal heart attack, prompting an unscheduled stop in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Paramedics were unable to save her. Tragedy then struck a second time after the flight had resumed. Witnesses said the rear portion of the plane was curtained off before other passengers learned that a male traveller had also passed away, this time of suspected meningitis... 'Unfortunately we do have a number of deaths on board, although they don't happen very often. It's very unfortunate that two occurred on the same flight. That's incredibly rare.'" Read article... Sun embraces the devil InfoWorld | Submitted by: KEXP 90.3 Seattle FUCKING ROCKS! "Sun Microsystems plans to begin certifying its hardware to run the Windows operating system, a Sun executive said on Thursday. 'We'll certify Windows,' said Larry Singer, Sun's senior vice president of global market strategy. 'We're getting off of our religious crusade and we're going to sell people what they want to buy.' Though Sun has no plans to start selling Windows itself, the certification will give Sun's customers new options outside of running the Solaris and Linux operating systems that Sun supports, Singer said. 'If you have a Windows license, you can load it on that machine, and it means that Microsoft will take your support calls.'" Read article... Parrot continues to hate Hitler Mirror | Submitted by: Nick "She was at Winston Churchill's side during Britain's darkest hour. And now Charlie the parrot is 104 years old... and still cursing the Nazis. Her favorite sayings were 'Fuck Hitler' and 'Fuck the Nazis.' And even today, 39 years after the great man's death, she can still be coaxed into repeating them with that unmistakable Churchillian inflection... James Humes, an expert on the late PM, said: 'Churchill may no longer be with us but that spirit and those words of defiance and resolve continue.'" Read article...