Daily Rotten Archives January 29, 2004 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Slaughterhouse worker skinned alive Nettavisen | Submitted by: Sherlock "The 27-year-old was cleaning the machines at the Danish Crown Slaughterhouse in Sæby when he was caught by one of the rollers and mowed into the so-called deskinning machine. According to the paper Extra Bladet, he was pulled through the massive machines a couple of times [!!!] before a colleague heard the noise and managed to turn off the machines. He was serious injured, and he was immediately taken to the hospital... The 27-year-old, who is of Afghani descent, has an open cranium fracture, pelvis fracture, and several bone fractures, in addition to many large wounds." Read article... Kissinger honors Venezuelan coup underwriter Venezuelanalysis.com | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "Global Women's Strike issued a press release today protesting an award expected to be given by the Inter-American Economic Council to Gustavo Cisneros, a Venezuelan billionaire identified by sources such as Newsweek, local Venezuelan publications and analysts as one of the protagonists and financiers of the April 11, 2002 coup d'etat against President Hugo Chavez... Cisneros is the owner of AOL, Coca-Cola, DirecTV and Pizza Hut in Latin America, Univision in the US, and Venezuela's biggest TV network Venevision. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who according to declassified documents headed the CIA operation to overthrow Chilean democratically-elected President Salvador Allende in 1973, will be in charge of awarding fellow coup plotter Cisneros." Read article... Man releases venomous snakes in bank over car repo BBC | Submitted by: bhima "South African police are looking for a man who released several poisonous snakes at a bank in a revenge attack after his car was repossessed. A worker at the bank was bitten as he tried to catch one of them amid scenes of panic in a branch of the Absa Bank in Johannesburg. The customer Abel Manamela... said he walked into the bank and 'I asked people to move away so that they would not get bitten, then I put my bag on the floor and opened it.'" Read article... Accused child molester named Citizen of the Year San Gabriel Valley Tribune | Submitted by: optional "The woman claims the Rev. Michael Carroll sexually battered, assaulted, molested and abused her from 1967 to 1971 while he was serving at St. Anselm's Catholic Church in Los Angeles... Carroll, who took over at St. Lorenzo Ruiz after the pastor resigned in February 2000, has repeatedly denied, under oath, that he engaged in sexual activities with a minor, church officials said. Carroll did not return calls seeking comment. He was named Citizen of the Year by the Walnut Chamber of Commerce on Saturday." Read article... Judge accused of stupefying comment WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Dwizza "Prosecutors in Seminole County say they might ask a veteran judge to be removed from a rape case because of comments the judge made about the victim. Court records indicate Circuit Judge Gene Stephenson made the comment earlier this week while looking at a photograph of the victim. The record quotes the judge as saying, 'Why would he want to rape her? She doesn't look like a day at the beach.' ... The victim was a 57-year-old woman, who says the judge's comments are 'appalling.' She says she intends to file a complaint with the Judicial Qualifications Commission, which has the power to recommend that Stephenson be removed from the bench." Read article... Priest repeatedly impregnates lobotomized woman Boston Globe | Submitted by: OtisTheCat "The Catholic Archdiocese of Boston reached a settlement yesterday in the case of a priest who fathered two children with one of his parishioners, a Needham woman, and then fled her home the night she died of a drug overdose. Church officials announced an agreement with the family of Rita Perry, who died in 1973, in the case against the Rev. James Foley. The priest acknowledged having a lengthy affair with Perry, and paternity tests eventually proved he was the father of two of her four children... Foley's church personnel file showed that in 1993 he admitted to [Cardinal Law] and other church officials that he had an affair with Perry in the 1960s and 1970s and had been with her the night she overdosed. Foley was removed from ministry in December 2002, and Law resigned a week later." Read article... and This article... Hasselhoff wants credit for toppling Der Mauer Ananova | Submitted by: optional "David Hasselhoff has complained to museum curators after finding his photo absent in a collection of memorabilia about the fall of the Berlin Wall. The actor and producer, who says he is working on a film version of TV series Knight Rider, claims he is partly responsible for the fall of the concrete divide. Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song 'Looking for Freedom' among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin... 'I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.'" Read article... China clamping down even further on Internet users Asia Times | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "Amnesty International (AI) noted this week that even in China, widely regarded as having the most repressive Internet climate worldwide, online activism has become more evident as controls have been tightened.. Amnesty International listed the names of 54 Chinese nationals who had been detained or sentenced for expressing their opinions online, or for downloading information from the Internet, since November 2002 - a 60% increase in that period. This was in addition to an unknown number of people who were still in detention for disseminating information about the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) over the Internet last year." Read article... Microsoft plugging security holes with wads of cash Microsoft.com | Submitted by: KEXP SEATTLE http://www.kexp.org - FUCK CORPORATE ROCK "Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will pay a $250,000 (U.S.) reward for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for unleashing the MyDoom.B worm. MyDoom.B, detected yesterday, is a variant of the earlier released MyDoom.A worm, also known as the Novarg worm, which has spread quickly infecting computers around the world. The release of this B variant triggered the first alert from the newly formed Department of Homeland Security’s cyber alert system yesterday... Residents of any country are eligible for the reward, according to the laws of that country, because Internet viruses affect the Internet community worldwide." [Possibly their most effective security initiative to date.] Read article... Iraqi drug war much worse under U.S. rule Boston Globe | Submitted by: dianalily "Under Saddam Hussein, the antidrug program was simple: death for users and sellers. But just after the war, looters ransacked hospitals and government stores of medicine, and much of it has landed on the streets of Baghdad, according to ordinary Iraqis and police officials... While coalition officials played down the extent of the problem, Iraqis worry that recreational drugs are gaining a foothold in the country. Police and residents say cocaine, heroin, and marijuana are entering Iraq more freely now from other countries, mainly Iran." Read article... Drunk American deported for splashing baby San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: jheisel "An American citizen who spilled a cup of water in the face of a crying baby during a flight to Brazil, will be deported, the federal police said on Thursday... The 35-year-old [Ronald Harry Duffy], who is from Pennsylvania, was seated next to a Brazilian couple and their baby during a TAM Airline Miami-Sao Paulo flight that landed Wednesday. 'Annoyed with the baby's constant crying, Duffy, who was drunk, threw the contents of a cup of water in the baby's face,' Castilho said adding, that flight attendants had to 'restrain other passengers who wanted to beat him up.'" Read article... Cop chases girlfriend with gun Times of Swaziland | Submitted by: Turkk "Less than 24 hours after police commissioner Edgar Hillary had warned that he would not tolerate lawlessness in the police force, a married police officer who was in a questionable state of sobriety brandished a gun while chasing after his girlfriend last Saturday. Other police officers and visitors to the police new camp watched in awe as the officer went after the 23-year-old woman, threatening to shoot her down." Read article... Colorado sure loves its football players ESPN | Submitted by: Captain Obvious "A prosecutor claims sex parties have been used to lure football recruits to the University of Colorado and police may have helped cover up problems that include the alleged rapes of three women. In testimony given for a civil rights lawsuit against the school, Boulder County District Attorney Mary Keenan said the athletic department resisted demands to halt the parties. A campus police officer said one recruit told him sex was part of 'what you get when you come to Colorado.' ... Gov. Bill Owens said he was shocked by the allegations and demanded a public accounting. He insisted the university take steps to reassure female students that it will not tolerate a climate of sexual misconduct." Read article... Scientists create newest form of matter CNN | Submitted by: TimTyler "Scientists said on Wednesday they had created a new form of matter and predicted it could help lead to the next generation of superconductors for use in electricity generation, more efficient trains and countless other applications. The new matter form is called a fermionic condensate and it is the sixth known form of matter - after gases, solids, liquids, plasma and a Bose-Einstein condensate, created only in 1995... They cooled potassium gas to a billionth of a degree Celsius above absolute zero or minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit - which is the point at which matter stops moving. They confined the gas in a vacuum chamber and used magnetic fields and laser light to manipulate the potassium atoms into pairing up." Read article... Georgia considers ban on buzzword "evolution" CNN | Submitted by: Matt Barba "The state's school superintendent has proposed striking the word evolution from Georgia's science curriculum and replacing it with the phrase 'biological changes over time.' ... Superintendent Kathy Cox said the concept of evolution would still be taught under the proposal, but the word would not be used. The proposal would not require schools to buy new textbooks omitting the word evolution and would not prevent teachers from using it. Cox repeatedly referred to evolution as a 'buzzword' Thursday and said the ban was proposed, in part, to alleviate pressure on teachers in socially conservative areas where parents object to its teaching." Read article...