Daily Rotten Archives February 7, 2004 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Foster children forced to feed grandpa's corpse ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: newzproducer "A New Jersey couple is accused of forcing a 13-year-old foster child to repeatedly feed the corpse of an elderly relative who died in the house months ago... Apparently the 13-year-old foster girl had to deal with the stench, and swirled the food around in the plate to make it look like her 82 year old step-grandfather had been eating... The first floor of the home was well kept, but the upstairs has been described as deplorable. Cops removed the body from the home last August, and say there is no doubt the couple knew that the elderly man had died." Read article... OK, now you can start with the McCarthy comparisons KCCI-TV 8 Des Moines | Submitted by: threat alert jesus "In what may be the first subpoena of its kind since Sept. 11, 2001, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war protesters... In addition to records about who attended the event, the subpoena asks the university to divulge all records relating to the local Chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild, a New York based legal activist organization which sponsored the forum. The group, once similarly targeted for alleged ties to communism in the 1950s, announced Friday that it will ask a federal court to quash the subpoena." Read article... and This... and This... Chastity belt sets off airport metal detector USA Today | Submitted by: optional "When a 40-year old British woman set off a metal detector alarm at Athens airport, bemused security staff found that it was caused by a chastity belt she was wearing, officials said Friday, confirming a press report... According to the press report, the woman told police officers her husband had forced her to put on the belt to make sure she had no extra-marital affair during a brief visit to Greece." Read article... FBI nabs two perps in genital mutilation sting KNBC-TV 4 Los Angeles | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Todd Cameron Bertrang, 41, and Robyn Faulkinbury, 24, both of Canyon Country, were named in an indictment that marked the first case filed under a federal law banning genital mutilation of girls under 18... The couple are each charged with one count of conspiracy, one count of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography... They were arrested in December after authorities said the couple struck a deal with undercover FBI agents to circumcise two girls they thought were the agents' 8- and 12-year-old daughters. No circumcisions occurred." Read article... and This article... Cicciolina arrested for public boobage Australian | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Former Italian porn star and MP Ilona Staller is in legal strife after posing topless for a magazine photo shoot outside the Italian parliament. Staller, 43, known as La Cicciolina (Cuddles), was being snapped topless for the Italian edition of Vanity Fair, the Italian ANSA news agency said... When the former actress, who is originally from Hungary, exposed her breasts, members of the parliamentary security service asked her to leave. She refused and police were called." Read article... Michigan internet voting proceeds despite all logic Boston Globe | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The Michigan Democratic Party is sticking with its Internet voting system even though security concerns have prompted the Pentagon to abandon its own online voting efforts, a state party spokesman said on Friday. The Defense Department on Thursday abandoned a pilot project that would have allowed overseas troops to vote online after computer experts warned that hackers could easily tamper with the results. But in Michigan, 25,000 voters have already cast their ballots online for Saturday's Democratic presidential contest, spokesman Jason Moon said. 'I don't know the specifics, but our system is not same system by any means' as the one used by the Pentagon, he said. Moon said the party had set up a secure Web site protected by two firewalls, guarded by the computer-security firm Symantec Corp... Two computer scientists who found flaws with the Pentagon's system said the Michigan system had many of the same problems." Read article... Georgia backs away from "evolution" ban Gainesville Times | Submitted by: I Choose The Matrix "Six days after her plan to remove the word 'evolution' from Georgia's science curriculum became public, state schools Superintendent Kathy Cox announced Thursday that she was scrapping the idea altogether. Her decision came after mounting criticism from former President Jimmy Carter, the state's governor and a host of political and education leaders. 'I want you to know today that I will recommend to the teacher teams that the word "evolution" be put back in the curriculum,' she said in a written statement after canceling a scheduled news conference... Cox, a Republican elected to her post in 2002, had called for replacing the word 'evolution' with the phrase 'biological changes over time' in the state's curriculum." Read article... and This article... Microsoft includes fuck-pillow with Japanese Xbox Wired | Submitted by: FUCK CORPORATE RADIO WHORES "This month marks the two-year anniversary of the launch of the Xbox video game system in Japan, and so far, things have not gone as planned for the Redmond, Washington-based software giant. In fact, Microsoft's entry hasn't yet sold 500,000 units, making it one of the worst-performing game consoles in the country's history. Still, the Xbox has its supporters - and by and large, they're fans of the Dead or Alive games that feature a bevy of barely legal, high-resolution digital girls who fight in skimpy outfits and play volleyball in skimpier ones. The DOA games are the only two Xbox titles to break 100,000 units sold in Japan. So, to celebrate the Japanese release of Dead or Alive Online next month, Microsoft is rolling out a special edition Xbox set with an extra-special bonus - a dakimakura, or 'hugging pillow,' that features a life-size, front-and-back print of teenage character Kasumi in a skimpy bikini." Read article... and This article... Ex-fireman alleges major pervosity at fire station Springfield News-Leader | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Several Kansas City firefighters had sex at a fire station with female visitors, with a superior sometimes watching them, according to a lawsuit by a firefighter who says he was threatened, suspended and demoted after complaining. Raymond Littrell filed the suit this week in U.S. District Court against the city and Fire Chief Richard 'Smokey' Dyer... The lawsuit said Littrell complained to his battalion chief in November 2002 that a woman who had been having sex with several male firefighters at the Westport station threatened to call his wife and 'expose what was going on at Station 19' if Littrell wouldn't repair her vehicle. A fire captain watched the firefighters' sexual encounters and 'would commend them on their performance from time to time,' the lawsuit said... The lawsuit said that Littrell has been advised that firefighters at four other stations have engaged in similar activities, and that he has 'videotape of women being lured into the back of Station 19 indicating that the same activity is probably going on at Station 19 to this day.'" Read article... Dad, Grandpa charged in longterm child rape Galveston County Daily News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Two men, ages 61 and 29, were in jail Friday, charged with raping a pair of girls, ages 4 and 5, in what prosecutors said was a long-term abuse case. The older man is the girls' grandfather, and the younger man is their father. Assistant District Attorney Bill Reed, who prosecutes sex crimes in Galveston County, said the attacks on the girls were not isolated incidents. 'The abuse covers an extended period of time,' he said." Read article... Police seize school bathroom masturbation video Rockdale Citizen | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Two Eastside High School students were taken into custody Wednesday after a sexually explicit tape involving a 15-year-old girl filmed in a school bathroom was intercepted by school officials, according to the Newton County Sheriff’s Office... The incident, which was reported by school administrators around 10 a.m. Wednesday, came to light after a flurry of rumors stemming from students discussing the tape came to their attention... 'This is a very, very explicit tape... the 15-year-old is on camera and performing several acts.'" Read article... and This article... High school teacher charged with pinhole camera voyeurism WNDU-TV 16 South Bend | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A substitute teacher in LaPorte has been charged with voyeurism for secretly videotaping women in a dressing room of LaPorte High School. According to police, 40-year-old Samuel Potter used duct tape to install a miniature video camera in the corner of one of a dressing room wall at the high school... Potter is married to a league member and claims he was infatuated with his wife's best friend and tried to tape her. Police say he also videotaped the woman another time at his house while she was changing in a bedroom." Read article... Mexico unhappy about Mexicans on death row Fox News | Submitted by: I Choose The Matrix "If Mexican officials get their way, 52 convicted murderers awaiting executions in the United States could get off death row. Authorities in Mexico say the killers deserve new trials, because they didn't get proper access to help from consular officials... The International Court of Justice, commonly referred to as the World Court, has already ordered the United States not to carry out the death sentences until it issues a ruling. At least three executions have been stayed thus far by U.S. officials." Read article... Disney bans Segways Miami Herald | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The last time Doug Exum went to Walt Disney World, he rented an electric scooter to get around the resort's four theme parks. But he tired of sitting and the scooter cost him $200. The next time the 42-year-old computer programmer from Plano, Texas, returns, he wants to bring his Segway, which allows him to stand up as he scoots about on its platform and battery-operated two wheels. There's only one problem: Disney World doesn't allow visitors, even those with disabilities like Exum, to use the self-balancing transportation machines. The policy has angered some Segway owners with disabilities... Disney World doesn't allow the Segways into the parks because they haven't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as medical devices, said park spokeswoman Jacquee Polak... Disney World isn't the only place to restrict the use of Segways. They're also prohibited at Disney's California parks - Disneyland and California Adventure. Sea World Orlando says it doesn't allow them for safety reasons and San Francisco last year outlawed them on its sidewalks." Read article... TiVo users freaked out over sudden realization CNET News.com | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "On Monday, TiVo said the exposure of Jackson's breast during her halftime performance was the most-watched moment to date on its device, which, when combined with the TiVo subscription service, lets viewers pause and 'rewind' live television broadcasts, among other features. TiVo said users had watched the skin-baring incident nearly three times more than any other moment during the Super Bowl broadcast, sparking headlines that dramatically publicized the power of the company's longstanding data-gathering practices... Although TiVo could conceivably investigate an individual's viewing habits, it doesn't, a spokesman said... TiVo this week signed a deal to provide data to Nielsen Media Research, a leading provider of information on television-viewing habits. Under the agreement, TiVo will supply Nielsen with anonymous data on the habits of subscribers who have agreed to hand over their information, giving Nielsen its first look at the tendencies of DVR users. Nielsen spokesman Jack Loftus said Thursday that the next deal Nielsen reaches with TiVo, or any other DVR supplier, will involve more valuable demographic information about viewers, such as age or sex." Read article... and This... and This... Another American flips off Brazil CNN | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "In the second incident of its kind in three weeks, an American was arrested Friday after making an obscene gesture while being fingerprinted and photographed at a Brazilian airport as part of the entry requirements for U.S. citizens. Douglas A. Skolnick, a retired bank worker from New Jersey, raised his middle finger while going through the new entry requirement at the international airport in Foz de Iguacu, a southeastern resort town famous for its massive waterfalls... Members of Skolnick's tour group, which arrived from Santiago, Chile, on a chartered flight knew that they would be fingerprinted and photographed and were surprised and dismayed with Skolnick's conduct." Read article...