Daily Rotten Archives January 9, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Mom loses fingers trying to kill own kids Sun | Submitted by: Leggy Mountbattan "Three little boys escaped being murdered by their mum when she sliced her fingers off starting a petrol mower she planned to gas them with. The mother was involved in a bitter custody dispute with the father of the youngsters aged ten, five and four, a court was told yesterday... She put the lawnmower in the back of the family car to kill the kids, of Denbigh, North Wales, with the fumes. But as she started the machine she sliced off two fingers, a Mold Crown Court judge heard. The 32-year-old - who cannot be named for legal reasons - pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted murder." Read article... Cops refuse to arrest wanking street urchins News 24 South Africa | Submitted by: Deus_Ex_Machina "[24-year-old Gloria Shingange] had an embarrassing moment on Thursday when the boys drooled over her at the Tzaneen Mall because she was wearing a mini-skirt. 'They followed me around the mall with their hands inside their trousers. I walked out of the mall and when I stopped at the robot next to the Tzaneen police station they shouted saying I was attractive,' Shingage said. She said the boys took out their penises and started masturbating in full view of everyone while groaning in ecstasy... The incident sent police officers at the Tzaneen station into stitches as she tried to open a case of public indecency. The police allegedly refused to open a case, claiming that the street kids didn't commit any offence because they didn't touch her... Vegetable vendor Mthavini Khoza said she condoned the boys' action... 'I wish they rape them one day so they may start respecting their bodies.'" [Is this a joke?] Read article... UN troops allegedly fucking teen whores CNN | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga "U.N. peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo exchanged eggs, bread and a few dollars for sex with girls they were meant to protect, the United Nations watchdog agency has said. Soldiers would regularly have sex with girls as young as 13 in rundown shelters, in the bush near the military camps and on the bare ground behind buildings usually just after dark, a report from the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight (OIOS) said Friday. Many of the girls were raped and had lost their families in a recent civil war, the report said... One 14-year-old girl would receive $1 or $2 or two eggs each time she had sex with a particular U.N. peacekeeper, while another collected $3 and a packet of milk after she had sex with a soldier... The problem of sexual exploitation and abuse was 'serious and ongoing' and the lack of a protection and deterrence program was 'equally disturbing,' the report concluded." Read article... Mother allegedly murdered own babies Globe and Mail | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Shortly after nine-week-old Cameron died in bed at his Kitchener, Ont., home on Dec. 1, 2002, a red flag went up. Authorities quickly learned that four years earlier, when the boy's family lived in nearby Guelph, his brother Alexander had died at seven weeks old in similar circumstances... As with Alexander four years earlier, the postmortem and toxicology tests on Cameron proved inconclusive. There was no definitive finding, but the likeliest culprit looked to be sudden infant death syndrome... That was until Thursday, when, in a startling turn of events, the children's 24-year-old mother was arrested." Read article... Dad admits molesting foster kids KATU-TV 2 Portland | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[David Schaper] was around children constantly - his wife ran a day care center in their home and he was a leader of a Cub Scout pack at his church in Aloha. He was also supposed to act as a father to three young girls placed in his care as a foster parent, but instead, he became their abuser. 'I never knew I could do something like this,' a weeping Schaper told the court... 'I don't want to make excuses for what I've done.' ... Authorities are still investigating whether Schaper abused any of the children at his wife's day care center." [Funny how they're always so contrite after getting busted.] Read article... Nursery allegedly doubles as meth lab KOAT-TV 7 Albuquerque | Submitted by: Oobatz "Police discovered a meth lab inside a baby's bedroom Wednesday in a house on the 700 block of Grove in northeast Albuquerque... Heather Brister, Byron Taylor and Julia Priest were arrested at the house where a baby, a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old were also present, police said." Read article... Kabbalah guru reportedly blames Jews for Holocaust BBC | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A senior figure in the controversial Kabbalah Centre - the sect championed by stars including Madonna and Demi Moore - seems likely to spark a storm of protest by saying Jews killed in the Holocaust brought their downfall upon themselves. Eliyahu Yardeni, of the London Kabbalah Centre, made the astonishing claim to an undercover reporter investigating high-pressure sales techniques employed by the group... Talking about the wartime massacre of the Jews, Mr Yardeni said: 'Just to tell you another thing about the six million Jews that were killed in the Holocaust: the question was that the Light was blocked. They didn't use Kabbalah.'" Read article... Lawyer allegedly skimmed Holocaust settlement Jewish Week | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Edward Fagan, the first lawyer to sue Swiss banks for hoarding the money of Holocaust victims and who championed survivors' rights in insurance and art cases, has been charged by the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics with looting more than $400,000 from the trust accounts of two survivors he represented... [former client Gizella Weisshaus] claimed that Fagan had stolen funds from an escrow account... The New Jersey complaint alleges that Fagan withdrew money from that account for matters 'unrelated to the Oestreicher client matter.'" Read article... NAACP bigwig pleads guilty to crack, gun charges Alexandria Town Talk | Submitted by: Deus Ex Machina "The 57-year-old Thursday changed his not guilty plea after one-day of testimony in his jury trial. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People leader admitted to taking 'pseudo cocaine' and real cocaine from an undercover officer to try to produce crack cocaine. He also admitted to having marijuana and weapons in his home... [The Rev. Joe Buckner Sr.] pleaded guilty to six charges, including attempted manufacture of a controlled dangerous substance, conspiracy to manufacture a controlled dangerous substance and illegal carrying of a weapon." Read article... and This article... Fire monitor charged with arson WBFF-TV 45 Baltimore | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A hall monitor hired to stop students from setting fires at Baltimore's Walbrook Academy has been charged with setting a fire himself. Thirty-five-year-old Lloyd Stanton was arrested today and charged with malicious burning. City schools spokeswoman Vanessa Pyatt says a school police officer saw Stanton lighting a match and setting a fire in a stairwell this afternoon... He was hired as a hall monitor on November 29th as a result of new security measures implemented after a string of fires last fall." Read article... Man charged with HIV-syringe robberies WCVB-TV 5 Boston | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Lowell man who allegedly used an AIDS-tainted syringe as a robbery weapon last week was arraigned Thursday morning in Lowell District Court... [Ernesto Diaz] was charged with armed and unarmed robbery. The prosecutor told the court of the surveillance cameras that caught the hooded 32-year-old Lowell man allegedly robbing the Dunkin' Donuts inside the Saints Memorial Medical Center on Jan. 2. Clerks told police they emptied the cash register of $225 after Diaz allegedly threatened them with an AIDS-tainted syringe. Earlier, it was a similar scenario at the Brooks Pharmacy on Church Street, except the threat didn't work... Diaz is also charged with robbing a Domino's Pizza on Dec. 29." Read article... Workers carbonated at McDonald's, 1 dies WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A truck driver delivering carbon dioxide to a Central Florida McDonald's restaurant died Saturday after the gas leaked from its container, authorities said. A manager discovered the driver and McDonald's worker Christopher Edgar lying unconscious on a back room floor shortly after 2 p.m. at the restaurant in Sanford. The two were transferring the gas via hose into a storage tank, Sanford firefighter Mark James told the Orlando Sentinel... It is unclear how the carbon dioxide leaked and why Edgar was assisting the delivery employee from the Stuart-based NuCO2, a company that specializes in making the gas that carbonates soda." Read article... Radioactive gear leaves nuclear plant Wire Services | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Low-level contamination has been found on some equipment used to replace a steam generator at the Oconee Nuclear Station. Workers at a nuclear plant in Arkansas and a contractor in Texas found the contamination on heavy lifting equipment used to replace the steam generator in the Oconee plant's Unit 3, which was returned to full power Wednesday... Duke Power, which owns the Oconee plant, and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission said the contamination was minor and posed no health risk... The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will try to determine how the contamination happened, but no disciplinary action is being considered at this point, commission spokesman Ken Clark said. 'This kind of thing does happen from time to time.'" Read article... Nuclear sub hits bottom CNN | Submitted by: Captain Prozac "U.S. Coast Guard and military aircraft Saturday are en route to the western Pacific, where a nuclear attack submarine ran aground, injuring at least 20 crew members - one critically, U.S. Navy sources said. The USS San Francisco ran aground some 350 miles south of Guam - the nearest land mass - while it was conducting submerged operations. It has since resurfaced and is heading back to Guam, according to the USPF's news release. 'At this point there does not seem to be damage to the (nuclear) reactor,' Lt. Adam Clampitt told CNN, from his base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii... The nuclear-powered vessel is a Los Angeles-class 'fast attack' submarine. Clampitt said it was carrying four torpedo-tubes, which can launch Tomahawk cruise missiles. It is the most common type of U.S. attack submarine in the fleet. Read article... Alleged shoplifters flee, ditching baby KPRC-TV 2 Houston | Submitted by: Oobatz "Investigators said the women tried to shoplift from Marshall's, 1542 W. Gray, at 12:45 p.m. 'They had a baby in a stroller. They had placed merchandise behind the baby in a stroller and as they left the store, the manager approached them,' said Sgt. Cullen Bean, with the Houston Police Department. The women took off, trying to escape. Witnesses told police one of the women tried to use the 5-month-old baby's stroller as a barricade. 'They turned the baby stroller sideways, trying to block the manager. When they did, they flipped the stroller and the baby flipped out onto the concrete on the parking lot,' Bean said. Investigators said the women kept running." Read article... Man allegedly impersonates cop, pulls over real cop WEWS-TV 5 Cleveland | Submitted by: Oobatz "A Parma man is accused of impersonating a police officer and trying to pull over a real cop... [50-year-old Michael Gustafson] says the car he was driving in with his wife was equipped with a siren, and he turned the siren on. The driver of the car he tried to pull over turned out to be Cleveland police detective. Prosecutors say Gustafson also used a blinking blue police light on the dashboard of the car he was driving, and beamed a high beam flashlight at the woman motorist, but Gustafson denies this. He says he was put in jail for three days, without access to his medication for depression... Gustafson still faces five counts, including carrying a concealed weapon and impersonating a police officer." Read article... Pickton farm worth increases by $1.38M Tri-City News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The assessed value of Tri-City's most infamous piece of land increased by more than $1.6 million over the past year. The property co-owned by accused serial killer Robert Pickton at 953 Dominion Ave. in Port Coquitlam - assessed at $4.2 million a year ago - is now worth $5.9 million... Local assessor Kash Kang said he could not discuss particulars about the evaluation... In February 2002, Pickton's land became the site of the largest criminal investigation in Canadian history after DNA of women missing from Vancouver's downtown eastside was allegedly found there." Read article... Google exposes anonymous webcams Security Focus | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A pair of simple Google searches permits access to well over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras around the world - apparently without their owners' knowledge. Searching on certain strings within a URL sniffs out networked cameras that have Web interfaces permitting their owners to view them remotely, and even direct the cameras' motorized pan-and-tilt mechanisms from the comfort of their own desktop. Video surfers are using this knowledge to peek in on office and restaurant interiors, a Japanese barnyard, women doing laundry, the interior of an Internet collocation facility, and a cage full of rodents, among other things, in locales scattered around the world." Read article... Washington e-voting machines ran untested software Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Voting systems in King, Pierce, Snohomish and four other counties skipped typically required testing procedures before being used in last fall's elections... 'We had (counties using) untested, uncertified software... and we had the secretary of state making up last-minute emergency rules to circumvent the law to let them do it,' said Linda Franz, a member of the non-partisan activist group Citizens For Voting Integrity-Washington... Under the secretary of state's provisional certifications, each county's voting systems vendor is to get the systems independently tested and certified 'as early as possible in 2005 but no later than July 15.' So far, none of the systems has completed the tests." Read article... Columbia House branches out into porn New York Post | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Columbia House, famous for its '12 CDs for a penny' record clubs, will launch its own adult video club with Playboy Entertainment at the end of this month. The service, called Hush, will sell pornography through direct mail and a Web site... The club would work similarly to the company's record groups - subscribers would select from a monthly catalog of titles. Executives from Columbia House were roaming the aisles of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas last week, meeting with producers and stressing that Hush will distribute adult content from other publishers besides Playboy." Read article... Trucker, $180K in nickels go missing CNN | Submitted by: Oobatz "A truck driver has disappeared with the 3.6 million nickels he was hauling to the Federal Reserve Bank in New Orleans, police said Friday. Angel Ricardo Mendoza, 43, picked up the coins, worth $180,000, December 17 from the Federal Reserve in New Jersey and was supposed to haul the cargo - weighing 45,000 pounds - to New Orleans... On December 21, Mendoza's empty truck and trailer turned up at a truck stop in Fort Pierce, Florida." Read article... Ex-girlfriend sues Gene Simmons New York Post | Submitted by: Deus_Ex_Machina "Georgeann Walsh Ward is suing her long-ago former beau - KISS bass player and long-tongued co-founder Gene Simmons - for defamation, claiming a recent VH1 documentary portrayed her as just one of Simmons' overpopulated harem of groupies... [In When KISS Ruled the World], picture after picture of her in her 20s flashes across the screen as Simmons boasts about his studliness... The show implied that Ward 'was similarly a sex-addicted nymphomaniac,' her lawsuit says." Read article...