Daily Rotten Archives January 20, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Teen allegedly tortures, assfucks dog Caledonian-Record | Submitted by: countermoon "Jeffrey Plourde, 17, faces up to three years in prison if convicted... The case was reported to Lyndonville police on Oct. 16 after Kacey, a 2-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever, was struck by a car and suffered a broken leg... During treatment for injuries suffered when hit by the car, the veterinarian discovered the dog had also been severely injured before the accident as a result of torture and cruelty. [Police Chief Jack Harris] said veterinarians discovered Kacey had been sodomized and her tail had been pulled 6 inches from her body and broken. The dog had also been strangled. The injuries to Kacey were so severe, she had to be euthanized." Read article... and This article... Cop on trial for allegedly murdering woman KTUU-TV 2 Anchorage | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "On the second day of testimony in the murder trial of former Nome police officer Matthew Owens, Florence Habros took the stand as a key witness for the prosecution. Under direct examination, Habros said she saw 19-year-old Sonya Ivanoff get into a police car driven by Owens on the night she disappeared. Also on the stand Thursday was chief medical examiner Franc Fallico. In grisly detail, he described the gunshot wound that killed Ivanoff in August 2003." Read article... Feds botch routine security screenings Wire Services | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Between 10% and 15% of the 1,000 television reporters and crew who applied for official passes to be admitted to high security zones did not get them... A few print reporters planning to cover the first moments of President Bush's second term also did not receive the proper credential despite being fingerprinted, photographed and going through a security review... Reporters were not the only people affected. Some Senate staffers, including members of the Senate sergeant-at-arms office and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office, had problems getting the identification cards before the inauguration. In several instances, names were wrong. In one case, a man's name was on a pass with a woman's photo." [Like a well-oiled machine.] Read article... Less Koyaanisqatsi, more Faces of Death San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Little Red "Golden Gate Bridge officials are seething that a moviemaker who told them he was working on a 'day in the life' project about the landmark was, in fact, capturing people on film as they jumped to their deaths. Eric Steel initially told officials he planned to spend a year filming the 'powerful and spectacular interaction between the monument and nature' and that his work was to be the first in a series of documentaries about national monuments... Now, however, Steel has revealed in an e-mail to bridge officials that the cameras - which were operating almost continuously during daylight hours for all of 2004 - filmed most of the 19 jumpers who went off the bridge last year plus a number of attempted suicides. Apparently, that was the point all along." Read article... Cinematic threeway dyke sex allegedly rape Boston Globe | Submitted by: Jaydoc "Two women, including a Smith College student, pleaded innocent to charges they raped and handcuffed another female student and slashed her with knives. Rachel Ann Klobertanz, 22, and Augusta Claire Kendall, 22, were ordered held on $2,500 cash bail... Prosecutor Susan Loehn said the three women first met at a downtown Northampton bar. They then went back to Klobertanz and Kendall's apartment, where they drank several bottles of champagne and engaged in sex that began as consensual but ended as rape, Loehn said." Read article... and This article... Surgical instrument allegedly lost in cunt Wire Services | Submitted by: CaptainSquanto "A woman is suing a doctor who operated on her, accusing him of leaving a 4-inch metal instrument inside her uterus. In her lawsuit, Lori Klinger, 35, said she experienced severe pain after Dr. Samuel Owusu performed a diagnostic laparoscopy on her in November 2002 to check for endometriosis... Two days later, she went to the bathroom and an instrument emerged from her vagina, the lawsuit said. Klinger said it was sharp on one end with a rubber bulb on the other... Klinger is seeking $350,000 for counts including negligence." Read article... Goth kids allegedly plunder grave KATC-TV 3 Acadiana | Submitted by: picolee "Three teenagers described as involved in the 'Gothic movement' [the Gothic movement?] face burglary charges for stealing a headstone and human remains from a grave, authorities said. The teens told investigators 'possession of human remains is a part of their beliefs' and they did not intend to damage them, according to a statement from Iberia Parish Sheriff Sid Hebert... The teens allegedly robbed the grave at St. Peter's Cemetery on New Years Eve." Read article... and This article... Voir dire unusually engrossing Wire Services | Submitted by: optional "Defense attorney Leslie Ballin called it the 'jury pool from hell.' The group of prospective jurors was summoned to listen to a case of Tennessee trailer park violence. Right after jury selection began last week, one man got up and left, announcing, 'I'm on morphine and I'm higher than a kite.' When the prosecutor asked if anyone had been convicted of a crime, a prospective juror said that he had been arrested and taken to a mental hospital after he almost shot his nephew. He said he was provoked because his nephew just would not come out from under the bed. Another would-be juror said he had had alcohol problems and was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover officer. 'I should have known something was up,' he said. 'She had all her teeth.'" Read article... Yet another Internet-induced autocastration Reno Gazette-Journal | Submitted by: Origen "A 50-year-old Reno man told authorities he castrated himself to lower his libido and learned of the procedure on the Internet, police said... About 1:30 a.m. Monday, police said the man called 911 and asked for help because he could not stop the bleeding from a self-castration operation... Hospital officials said the man successfully castrated himself, police reported." [Wonder if he's seen American Eunuchs.] Read article... Traffic cop nabs alleged cat lady Lancaster Intelligencer-Journal | Submitted by: jen anonymous "A routine traffic stop Wednesday led to the discovery of more than 60 sick and hungry cats in the back of a moving van driven by a 71-year-old woman... An officer pulled over the van because one of its taillights was out. While the officer was talking to [Mary Jane Lyle], he heard noises coming from the back. 'Our officer heard a cat that appeared to be injured in some way,' said police spokesman Robert Giles. Lyle said she had a cat. But when the officer opened the back of the truck, he discovered 63. Two of the cats were dead and the others were 'in various stages of health,' Giles said." Read article... School pulls plug on cannibal play Index on Censorship | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Staff at an Arizona school have pulled a student play after deciding that - despite cuts - the production was too violent and vulgar to be performed in front of the community. Students at Ironwood Ridge High School in Tuscon were told that the production of Cannibal! The Musical was cancelled and would be replaced with another show. Student director Zachary Singer said had tried to make it 'more appropriate' for a high school audience, which included editing out profanities and finding ways to artistically present violent scenes... Cannibal! the Musical is based on the first film written by Trey Parker, co-creator of the cartoon South Park... It is based on the true story of gold prospector Alferd G. Packer, who was convicted of eating his fellow prospectors after they got lost in the Colorado mountains in 1874." Read article... 1,650 cans of rotten fish suddenly explode Aftenposten | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Some workers at a warehouse in Fredrikstad had a mess on their hands last week, after a production mistake caused 1,650 cans of mackerel in tomato sauce to literally explode... Food producer Stabburet always uses a heating technique in the canning process to help preserve the fish, but somehow, the 1,650 cans that blew up missed out. That meant the fish started rotting in the cans, which in turn set off gases that caused the cans to swell until they eventually burst." Read article... Protein from the sea Wire Services | Submitted by: Merlin "Top hotels in several Asian capitals have stopped ordering sea bass and sole from waters off their tsunami-ravaged coastlines to ease diners' concerns about fish feasting on corpses... Health officials say fears of fish are unwarranted and insist there is no evidence of a risk posed by eating fish from the Indian Ocean, where at least 157,000 people died... 'The fish myth is making the rounds all over the place,' said Harsaran Pandey, a WHO spokeswoman. 'The fears are not scientifically based.' There is no evidence fish in tsunami-hit areas are feeding off corpses or that it would cause a health risk if they were, Pandey said... In the days after the disaster, fish mongers in Indonesia's provincial capital, Banda Aceh, reported sales were poor as many who had seen the waves engulf loved ones worried about fish feeding off bodies." Read article... Pastor allegedly misunderstands meaning of 'nigger' WCAU-TV 10 Philadelphia | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "An 82-year-old white man who is a pastor left messages at three Trenton area black churches calling Martin Luther King Day a 'nigger' holiday. The Rev. Paul Shafran asked for forgiveness at a news conference held by black ministers to denounce the messages Wednesday. The pastor emeritus of Saint Vladimir Orthodox Church said he acted out of foolishness and without malice. Shafran could not explain why he made the calls on Monday. Shafran told the ministers he did not realize the 'N' word was offensive." [Shut the fuck up, you lying sack of shit.] Read article... Woman reportedly accuses Coz of date rape WCAU-TV 10 Philadelphia | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Canadian police told NBC 10 that a Toronto-area woman is alleging [Bill Cosby] sexually assaulted her early last year. The alleged victim, a former Temple University employee, alleges the assault happened at Cosby's Cheltenham Township home in mid-January 2004... Investigators in Canada said the alleged victim claimed she attended dinner with Cosby and others at a Philadelphia-area restaurant in mid-January of last year. The woman claimed that after dinner, Cosby invited her to his home. Police said the woman also alleged she complained to Cosby about having stress and tension, and he gave her some pills that made her dizzy. According to a police report, the woman said her memory is poor from that night but she does recall Cosby allegedly touching her breast and placing her hand on his genitals. The alleged victim claimed she awoke about 4 a.m. with her clothing in disarray and bra undone." Read article... Woman declines to halt alleged puppy torture WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Satan Ex Machina "A woman in Seminole County, Fla., was arrested Wednesday after witnesses in a nearby car spotted the woman allegedly abusing a puppy, according to Local 6 News. Police said several passengers on a road witnessed Joanna Cuervo disciplining her puppy by repeatedly lifting it off the ground by the leash, kicking the puppy, and beating it, Local 6 News reported. The witnesses told authorities she refused to stop when they asked her. Cuervo is charged with animal cruelty." Read article... Spongebob: Tinky Winky for the 21st century Advocate | Submitted by: VonsterMonster "SpongeBob SquarePants, the popular cartoon character known the world over for his underwater antics, has recently become the target of antigay Christian groups who accuse his creators of advancing a gay agenda in America's public schools. 'Does anybody here know SpongeBob?' James C. Dobson, founder of the antigay group Focus on the Family, asked guests at a Tuesday night black-tie dinner for members of Congress... Now, Dobson said, SpongeBob's creators had enlisted him in a 'pro-homosexual video' ... The makers of the video, he said, planned to mail it to thousands of elementary schools to promote a 'tolerance pledge' that includes tolerance for differences of 'sexual identity.' The video's creator, Nile Rodgers, who wrote the disco hit 'We Are Family,' told the Times that Dobson's objection stems from a misunderstanding... The video has appeared on television networks, and nothing in it or its accompanying materials refers to sexual identity." Read article... and This... and This...