Daily Rotten Archives January 10, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Alleged killer suicides via flaming defenestration Mirror | Submitted by: stoned and obsolete "The killer of Sally Geeson plunged 150ft to his death after turning himself into a human fireball, it emerged last night. Lance Corporal David Atkinson, 31, jumped from a seventh-floor hotel window in flames hours after the student's naked body was found. There were straps on his body and a cord about his neck. He was still alive when rescue services arrived at the scene 360 miles from where Sally vanished. But he died shortly afterwards... Atkinson, whose attitude towards women worried army bosses, asphyxiated Sally after luring her into his car... after learning Sally's corpse was found, he set fire to himself and leapt to his death." Read article... Ex-CIA bigwig: let's not catch Bin Laden Times | Submitted by: Jonny Plasma "If the world's most wanted terrorist is captured or killed, a power struggle among his Al-Qaeda subordinates may trigger a wave of terror attacks, said AB 'Buzzy' Krongard, who stepped down six weeks ago as the CIA's third most senior executive... 'if something happens to Bin Laden, you might find a lot of people vying for his position and demonstrating how macho they are by unleashing a stream of terror.' ... Several US officials have privately admitted that it may be better to keep Bin Laden pinned down on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan rather than make him a martyr or put him on trial. But Krongard is the most senior figure to acknowledge publicly that his capture might prove counter-productive." [Utter bullshit. Good thing you left the Agency.] Read article... CIA, Navy SEALs allegedly tortured Iraqi Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Navy SEALs and CIA officials kicked, punched, choked and eye-gouged detainees in 2003 at a U.S. military base in Iraq, a former SEAL testified Monday. The witness said he saw the 'interrogation by means of abuse' take place at Camp Jenny Pozzi, the SEAL base at Baghdad International Airport, in an area the troops called the 'sand pit.' He said a prisoner under interrogation by the CIA was abused in October 2003 by two or three SEALs... he watched for 10 minutes as SEALs punched, choked and poked their fingers in the eye of Iraqi Manadel al-Jamadi, who also was punched by a CIA official when he didn't answer questions. Al-Jamadi, a suspect in the bombing of a Red Cross facility in Iraq, died a few hours after he was captured during a joint CIA-special operations mission in November 2003. He died while being interrogated by CIA personnel in the shower room of the Abu Ghraib prison." Read article... British soldiers allegedly tortured Iraqis Independent | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Photographs of British troops allegedly torturing Iraqi prisoners and forcing them to perform sexual acts will serve as key and potentially damning evidence in the courts martial of four soldiers... The four are charged with assault and indecent assault for alleged incidents at a warehouse in Iraq in 2003 which have been described as 'Britain's Abu Ghraib'... [Fusilier Gary Bartlam] was arrested in Britain in summer 2003. Staff at a photographic store in Staffordshire tipped off police after they were disturbed by so-called 'trophy snaps'... The 25 pictures are reported to show one soldier standing on an Iraqi prisoner who appears to be lying in a pool of blood. Another allegedly shows a gagged Iraqi hanging from the arms of a fork-lift truck controlled by a grinning British soldier. The prisoner is cut down and shown falling heavily. Others are reported to show a soldier preparing to kick the head of an Iraqi lying on the ground. Others are alleged to show Iraqis being forced to perform sexual acts with each other and on a soldier." Read article... Dad allegedly murders baby WTVJ-TV 6 Miami | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Jordy Foster, 21, was taking care of his son, Tyrone Foster, and twin daughter Saturday at his house when he noticed Tyrone was not breathing, Broward County sheriff's spokeswoman Liz Calzadilla said. Foster called 911 and paramedics rushed the baby to Plantation General Hospital where he was declared dead. The Broward Medical Examiner's office said an autopsy performed Sunday determined the baby suffered a fractured skull and died of extensive blunt head trauma. Foster confessed to police that he repeatedly slammed the baby's head against the table and floor after he became fussy, Calzadilla said. Foster, who works at the Babies 'R' Us store in Tamarac, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse." Read article... Teen forced to blow principal Daily Southtown | Submitted by: thri "Thomas Grimm, a former assistant principal at Kerkstra Middle School in Oak Forest, pleaded guilty Friday to sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in his office... Grimm answered the judge's questions in a quiet voice, admitting that he directed the child to perform oral sex on him while the boy was in his office on a disciplinary matter in May 2003. When Grimm asked the boy to take down his own pants, the boy became uncomfortable and left the office, according to [prosecutor Kate Moreland]. The boy recorded the incident on an audiotape recorder that was hidden in his pocket. Grimm told police that it was his voice on the tape, Moreland said. The child told police that he hid the tape recorder because Grimm had made sexual advances on him in the past and he wanted to be prepared if it happened again." Read article... Principal allegedly faked gang beating Lexington Dispatch | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The indictment states Michael Faulkner, 45, of Clover, S.C., obstructed justice by falsely reporting to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police that he had been the victim of an assault at E.E. Waddell High School. Faulkner was hospitalized overnight after the attack... 'I think the whole thing was staged,' Detective Michael Burke, who testified before the grand jury, told The Charlotte Observer... Faulkner resigned as principal of Waddell High in December 2003. He said he resigned because questions about the alleged assault and the truthfulness of his resume was too upsetting to him and his family... Police said they had no suspects or a description of the attackers, but said someone removed the school security videotape before the alleged attack." Read article... Squatter loses argument, genitalia Independent Online | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A man who was beaten, stabbed and castrated before being thrown down a five-metre-deep manhole was in a stable condition in the Johannesburg hospital on Monday night... [Police spokesperson Malcolm Midgley] said it appeared that the 30-year-old man was beaten up by a group of people after they apparently argued over his living arrangements at his squatter camp." Read article... 130 horses allegedly starved Jefferson City News-Tribune | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "More than 130 starving horses have been seized from a Greene County property and their owner arrested, the Humane Society of Missouri said Sunday. It took 13 1/2 hours and 16 trailers to haul the 131 horses - mostly paints - off the 180-acre property outside Republic... Six dead horses were found, and many of the surviving animals were thin to emaciated with open wounds. Investigators found little to no pasture for grazing and no other sources of food, the release said. 'Some of the horses were trying to eat old empty sacks of alfalfa or grain,' said Debbie Hill, director of rescues and investigations for the Humane Society. 'There was absolutely no food available.'" Read article... Man allegedly hammers puppy, person St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Frank J. Florio, 58, apparently became irate Saturday afternoon while visiting a mobile FEMA station at Rock Crusher Canyon RV park. The FEMA station is there temporarily to assist hurricane damage victims in getting federal assistance. According to arrest reports, Florio, of 1808 Silverwood St., Inverness, struck a puppy and then threatened a man with a hammer at about 3:30 p.m. Florio told deputies that the puppy was aggressive, though that was disputed by witnesses who said the dog was not barking or attacking anyone." Read article... Alleged child porn enthusiast found dead This Is London | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A senior Navy officer has been found dead in his swimming pool after he was ordered back to Britain to face child pornography charges. Commodore David White, 50, was found at his Gibraltar home he day after he was stripped of his command of the British garrison on the peninsula. He had been under investigation over allegations he had hundreds of indecent images of children." Read article... Ex-con allegedly murders 24 hours after release Boston Herald | Submitted by: The Butt Toucher "One day after his March 2002 release from jail for attacking a man with a hammer, Craig Powell of Dorchester allegedly returned to the man's apartment and finished the job... a person close to the case characterized [Gerard Bannon's] injuries as 'horrific.' ... When officers arrived, they found Powell nearby with blood spots on his face and clothes and a blood-spattered hammer tucked into the waistband of his pants, according to court documents. Powell explained he went to Bannon's apartment to retrieve some tools he had loaned him and found his bloody body on the floor, according to the documents. He allegedly said he picked up the body and placed it in the chair." [Try harder, pal: your own mother wouldn't buy that story.] Read article... Boy, 17, allegedly rapes juvenile hall worker, 51 WRGB-TV 6 Albany | Submitted by: Jim "17-year-old Michael Elston of Buffalo was sent to Camp Cass in Rensselaerville in November for violation of probation and possession of stolen property. The sheriff's office says Elston forced a 51-year-old camp employee into an office Tuesday evening. Police say Elston raped the woman and then demanded she open a cabinet containing kitchen knives. Officials say Elston grabbed a knife and forced the woman to drive him from the facility in her car. Police say Elston ordered the victim to stop in Albany so he could use the phone. The woman then fled in her car." Read article... Grateful Indonesians still hate America Wire Services | Submitted by: Mux King "As Secretary of State Colin Powell visited Sumatra island Wednesday, survivors, aid workers and others expressed gratitude for American aid... A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center last year found that 83% of Indonesians had unfavorable opinions of the United States and that a majority preferred Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat to President Bush... 'I would take aid from the United States or even the devil himself if it would mean getting those people on (Sumatra's) western coast some medicine and food,' said Anton Hermawan, a doctor from the Indonesian Red Crescent... Hilmy Bakar, spokesman of the Islamic Defender Front, which is conducting its own aid mission, said he was keeping a close eye on the Americans. 'It's OK that aid from the United States is here,' he said. 'If they open bars, sell alcohol or open prostitution centers, then we will fight them.'" Read article... Bird flu still killing Vietnamese Wire Services | Submitted by: Channing Derry A 16-year-old girl in Vietnam has died of bird flu, becoming the communist nation's third fatality from the disease in the past fortnight, a doctor said... Over 36,700 birds have been culled in Vietnam since late December to try to contain the disease, which has been detected among poultry in 11 of the country's 64 provinces and cities... Hanoi said in October that it had brought bird flu under control. It had made a similar announcement on March 30 but later admitted that the declaration had been premature after three people, including two children, died in August." Read article... Stomach flu virus spreading through Japan Japan Times | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "More than 250 people have suffered diarrhea and vomiting at homes for the elderly from late December to early January in seven prefectures, including a woman who died in Kanagawa Prefecture, in addition to seven deaths already reported in Hiroshima Prefecture, officials said Sunday. A woman in her 80s died Wednesday at a nursing home in Yamato, Kanagawa Prefecture, after 46 residents and staff at the facility began suffering from diarrhea and vomiting Dec. 28... The revelation comes after the mysterious death of seven people from diarrhea and vomiting at a nursing home in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. Health officials in Fukuyama announced Sunday they have found the contagious Norovirus, symptoms of which include vomiting, diarrhea and fever, in the feces of nine of the residents at Fukuyama Fukujuen nursing home." Read article... and This article... Playmate denies kicking woman's head WEWS-TV 5 Cleveland | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "[Playboy playmate of the year] Carmella DeCesare is accused of assaulting Kristen Hine, the ex-girlfriend of Cleveland Browns quarterback Jeff Garcia. Hine's attorney said his client is a college-educated woman who isn't a troublemaker. He added that DeCesare is a party girl Playboy bunny who went into a jealous rage when she saw Hine at a nightclub... Hine, 32, of Cleveland, who previously dated Garcia, told police that DeCesare 'launched' herself at Hine three times. When Hine turned to leave, she said, DeCesare kicked her in the head. Hines said she suffered serious neck injuries." Read article... ACLU upset over DNA collection drive CNN | Submitted by: Oobatz "Police have gathered DNA samples from hundreds of men in Truro in a renewed effort to solve the January 2002 slaying of Christa Worthington... Worthington had sex shortly before her death, but despite the semen samples, police have not been able to figure out who the man was. 'The mass collection of DNA samples by the police is a serious intrusion on personal privacy that has proven to be both ineffective and wasteful,' said the letter from ACLU Executive director Carol Rose and John Reinstein, the organization's legal director. The letter raised concerns about statements from O'Keefe, who indicated that investigators would take note of those who decline a swab of the inside of their mouths." Read article... Supreme Court tells Traficant to fuck off WEWS-TV 5 Cleveland | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The U.S. Supreme Court said it won't review former Rep. James Traficant's bribery and racketeering convictions. The Ohio Democrat - known for his flamboyant speeches and unkempt hair - is serving an eight-year sentence in federal prison. He was thrown out of Congress in 2002. Traficant's lawyer had argued that he was tried twice for the same crimes - by federal prosecutors and the U.S. House of Representatives... He was convicted of accepting gifts and services from Youngstown-area businessmen in return for his political help, and for taking kickbacks from staff." Read article... Vatican crime rate 106% per capita Wire Services | Submitted by: CaptainSquanto "Some 90% of crimes committed inside Vatican City - nearly all of them petty thefts, pickpocketing and vandalism - go unpunished. Most of the crimes take place among tourists in St Peter's Basilica, St Peter's Square and the Vatican Museums. Some 90% of the perpetrators are never identified or found, Nicola Picardi, a sort of justice minister for Vatican City, said at a ceremony on Saturday opening the judicial year... Many of those who do get nabbed usually don't face charges because of the bureaucratic complications regarding foreign citizens." Read article... Granny mistakes superglue for eyedrops Queensland Sunday Mail | Submitted by: Sniffy "Terry Horder got the fright of her life when she accidentally stuck her eyes shut with super-strength glue. The 78-year-old Wurtulla resident was defrosting the fridge when her eyes started watering and she reached for a bottle of allergy eye drops. But instead of grabbing the medicated drops she got Loctite 401 instant glue. The powerful adhesive was being kept in the fridge to avoid heat damage. 'That second my eyes were glued shut and I realised the glue was next to the drops in the fridge,' Mrs Horder said... 'There was a pool of glue against the eyeball itself but lucky it couldn't dry because of the water on the eye.'" Read article... Rodeo fans nearly lynch Ali G Roanoke Times | Submitted by: Rhett NF "Introduced as Boraq Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan, he was said to be an immigrant touring America... Speaking in broken English, the mysterious man first told the decidedly pro-American crowd - it was a rodeo, of all things, in Salem, of all places - that he supported the war on terrorism. 'I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards... And may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq.' ... Then the man took off his hat and sang what he said was his native national anthem. He then told the crowd to be seated, put his hat back on, and launched into a butchered version of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' that ended with the words 'your home in the grave.' ... 'If he had been out there a minute longer, I think somebody would have shot him,' [radio DJ Robynn Jaymes] said." Read article... Kenyan teens craving HIV, apparently East African Standard | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Homosexuality, lesbianism, multiple acts of unprotected casual sex and a catalogue of other social vices are rife in the country, investigations have established... Teenagers regularly engage in sex orgies that could pass for scenes from blue movies, right in their parents' homes. Disguised as anniversary or celebratory parties, the get-togethers are attended by people aged between 16 and 28 and are always billed as overnight parties. The mainly birthday, graduation and relationship anniversaries are mainly made up of old schoolmates, new friends, latest boyfriends or girlfriends... Police say there is little they can do about the issue since the parties are private and are held in private houses." Read article... Marine jailed for finding Jesus Washington Times | Submitted by: David Koresh "Seventh-day Adventists are criticizing the Marine Corps for sentencing a Marine to seven months in prison for refusing to bear arms after undergoing a religious conversion. Adventist officials recently enlisted the help of two members of Congress - Rep. Dale E. Kildee, Michigan Democrat, and Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland Republican - in demanding an explanation of why Marine Cpl. Joel D. Klimkewicz, 24, of Birch Run, Mich., was given the lengthy sentence... he had volunteered for two separate deployments in which he would help clear land mines in Iraq, a task that would not require him to carry a weapon or kill anyone... However, Pvt. Klimkewicz was charged with 'disobeying a lawful order' to carry a weapon." Read article... and This article... GOP rewrites Article I, Section 5 Boston Herald | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The U.S. House has passed a controversial doomsday provision that would allow a handful of lawmakers to run Congress if a terrorist attack or major disaster killed or incapacitated large numbers of congressmen. 'I think (the new rule) is terrible in a whole host of ways - first, I think it's unconstitutional,' said Norm Ornstein... Usually, 218 lawmakers - a majority of the 435 members of Congress - are required to conduct House business, such as passing laws or declaring war. But under the new rule, a majority of living congressmen no longer will be needed to do business under 'catastrophic circumstances.' Instead, a majority of the congressmen able to show up at the House would be enough to conduct business, conceivably a dozen lawmakers or less." Read article...