Daily Rotten Archives January 20, 2004 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Mexican kills dad, eats brains iAfrica | Submitted by: Liddell "23-year-old Mexican man hacked open his father's head after a row and then ate his brain in the western state of Michoacan, justice sources said on Wednesday. They said the suspect took a machete and rained blows on his 62-year-old parent, cracking open his skull after the father failed to calm his son following an argument. The son went on to drink blood from the gaping wound in his father's head before eating the man's brains during the incident in the town of Indaparapeo." Read article... Accidental pet slaying prompts murder, necrophilia The Australian | Submitted by: ozziebob "Colin John Richardson, 36, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to murder and indecently interfering with a corpse between October 20 and 28, 2001... When police went to interview Richardson about Ms Franklin's disappearance, they found her partially clothed body decomposing on his bed with a gag in her mouth and a ligature around her neck... Richardson's story to a psychiatrist was that he accidentally ran over her cat and that he had told her he had strangled it to put it out of its misery. He said Ms Franklin reacted by becoming hysterical, and to silence her screaming he strangled her to death, then hours later had sex with her cold, stiff body." [Okay, makes sense.] Read article... Flaming moron injured in bungee jump stunt BBC | Submitted by: brainwrong "A man who set himself alight after bungee-jumping off a bridge in Bristol may face prosecution, say police. James Marples, 22, from Sheffield, was seen climbing over railings and jumping 245 feet from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on Saturday. He hung to the end of his climbing rope for 26 seconds after setting himself alight, before dropping into the river below and swimming off. He told the BBC that it was a thrill-seeking stunt that went horribly wrong, but wanted £1,000 for a full interview. Mr Marples suffered burns to his arms and face and his condition was described as 'stable' on Tuesday." Read article... Wal-Mart nailed for yet another illegality workday Minnesota | Submitted by: FAAQ Wal-Mart "One of Wal-Mart's long list of worker abuses - 'dead peasants' insurance where it takes out life insurance policies on its low-level workers and collects the cash when they die - got a kick in the head in federal court. That's because the estate of one dead worker, Douglas Sims, sued for damages, saying Wal-Mart robbed his heirs of money that was rightfully theirs. Lower federal courts agreed and, on Jan. 5, so did the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans... More than 100 companies, led by Wal-Mart, created the 'dead peasants' policies. Legal changes in 1998 led Wal-Mart to halt the practice, but not before it had insured all but 3,500 of the 350,000 potential workers it covered, the suit says." Read article... Racist Canadian cops caught on tape Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Retrogrouch "New details are emerging about events surrounding a native protest at Ipperwash Provincial Park in Ontario, in the late summer of 1995. About 30 native protesters erected barriers blocking access to the park in a dispute over land. During a confrontation one of the native protesters, Dudley George, was shot and killed. Now a videotape has emerged that gives some insight into the events leading up to the incident. A handful of Ontario Provincial Police officers posing as a media crew, were caught on tape having... a conversation rife with racist remarks, recorded just a day before the land dispute ended in gunfire... The OPP says it doesn't condone the remarks and that the two officers in question have already been disciplined." Read article... HIV-positive men arrested at gay orgy Straits Times | Submitted by: editfish "Taiwanese health authorities yesterday called for an investigation into 13 men reportedly infected with HIV/AIDS who allegedly spread the disease knowingly by taking part in a gay sex orgy, officials said... Police found amphetamines and condoms as well as 92 men wearing nothing but underwear when they raided an apartment in Taipei last week... Taiwan's law to control AIDS stipulates that anyone with the virus can be jailed for up to seven years if he is found to have spread the disease either through sexual intercourse or sharing intravenous needles." Read article... Fugitive wanted for bank robbery, murder, child rape WXIA-TV 11 Atlanta | Submitted by: jackie "FBI agents identified Shawn Louis Goodman as the man who robbed the National Bank of Commerce on Dec. 16. Goodman is now wanted for murder in Salisbury, N.C. Authorities in Salisbury said Goodman stabbed his 26-year-old girlfriend to death last week, possibly in the presence of her 2-year-old daughter. The little girl remained in the apartment with her deceased mother for nearly two days before police discovered Kristina Mack's body. The child appeared to have been sexually assaulted, they said." Read article... Firefighter dismissed over wife's porn site Turlock Journal | Submitted by: jackie "Approximately 20 firefighters from the Keyes Fire District turned in their gear and walked off the job in protest Tuesday, after a grievance committee reviewing the re-instatement of Assistant Chief Roger Jones ruled that Jones was fit to serve... According to Jones, the firefighters left to show support for a fellow cadet who was fired, one who Jones alleges was engaged in check fraud, making him unsuitable for work as a fireman... Herb Collier, one of the dissenting firefighters, said that the official reason given, check fraud, is a distortion of the truth... 'The only reason he (the assistant chief) knew about the fraud was because it stems from his wife’s Web site. That is a civil matter, and Jones abused his power bringing his pornography business into this fire station.' The Web site Collier referred to is an adult site which features Alexas Jones under the name 'Chantel Lace.'" Read article... and This... and This... Marijuana finally kills somebody Daily Record | Submitted by: anyone other than Bush in 2004 "A young man has died from cannabis poisoning after smoking around 23,000 joints. Experts believe Lee Maisey, 36, is the first Briton to die as a direct result of taking the drug... Lee smoked around six joints a day for 11 years, an inquest heard. A pal found him dead last August on the living room floor of the house they shared... The cause of Lee's death was listed as 'cannabis toxicity' after a post mortem revealed high levels in his blood... Cannabis has been linked to suicides and fatal accidents. But Lee's case is the first where it has been listed as a direct cause of death." [Meanwhile, how many Britons have been killed by hyponatremia (water intoxication)?] Read article... Interspecies organ transplant crises loom Independent Online | Submitted by: Liddell "Global health experts have warned that pioneering research into organ transplants from animals to humans must urgently be regulated to prevent diseases jumping the species barrier in a similar manner to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome... WHO officials said the experimental transplants were on the verge of going ahead in some countries, but there was little regulation to keep track of what is going on or to prevent the misuse of xenotransplantation or animal-to-human transplants... The WHO wants its 192 member states to stop xenotransplantation until they have a regulatory framework." Read article... Beer kegs rescued from icy river BBC | Submitted by: optional "Russian troops have retrieved 10 tonnes of beer trapped under the Siberian ice after a week-long operation. A lorry carrying the beer was lost while crossing the frozen River Irtysh, near the city of Omsk, about 1400 miles from Moscow. The driver managed to jump out after the ice gave way, but the lorry and its cargo sank. Six divers, 10 men with electric saws and a tank pulled the beer kegs - but not the truck - to safety." Read article... Escaped chimp fails to blend into crowd wsbtv.com | Submitted by: jackie "The Los Angeles Zoo was evacuated Monday afternoon after a chimpanzee reportedly escaped from an enclosure. The escape of the 15-year-old chimp forced the evacuation of about 9,000 zoo visitors... The zoo's director says the chimp somehow managed to jump out of her enclosure, but she didn't go far... Visitors were essentially on lockdown at the zoo as officials checked small groups at the exit to ensure that the animal did not get mixed into the crowd." Read article... and This article... Italian kids smoking like chimneys BBC | Submitted by: DUGDOWN "Welcome to Capena, a small medieval town to the north of Rome which the anti-smoking message does not appear to have reached yet. Every year, like many towns and villages across Italy, they light a bonfire as part of the festival of St Anthony, which is also celebrated with the blessing of animals to bring prosperity in the year ahead. But unlike other places, once the fire is burning in the square, the town's inhabitants use it to light cigarettes... As in previous years, the most eager participants were children, some as young as six. Even the official brochure about the town talks of how characteristic it is to see everyone, 'even the children' smoking throughout the day." Read article... Microsoft lawyers surprised by media attention Canada.com | Submitted by: Gorg "Teenager Mike Rowe's Web site www.mikerowesoft.com was taken off the Internet Monday, but not because of legal action by Microsoft Corp. Too many people were trying to look at his Web site... Microsoft engaged Smart & Biggar, which bills itself as Canada's largest law firm specializing in copyright and intellectual property, to chase Rowe. He got an e-mail in November asking him to stop using the domain name mikerowesoft.com, and last week came a 25-page letter with a fat package of supporting materials threatening legal action... Microsoft softened its hard line after the deluge of publicity since Rowe's plight became public. 'We do take our trademark seriously but maybe in this case a little too seriously,' said Jim Desler, of Microsoft's corporate communications department." [No shit? Well then maybe you guys should have thought of that before attempting to assfuck a 17-year-old kid.] Read article...