Daily Rotten Archives January 23, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Recruits ordered to eat shit Chosun Ilbo | Submitted by: samson "The Army said Thursday it had arrested Capt. Lee, a company commander with the 3rd Regiment of the training center's 29th Battalion, on charges of having forced conscripts to eat human feces because he was unhappy with the way the bathrooms had been cleaned. On January 10, Lee discovered during an inspection of the center's bathrooms that two of twenty sit-down toilets had not been flushed. Witnesses say he went to the barracks and told 192 conscripts to stick their fingers in the feces and put them in their mouths. An Army investigation revealed that about half the men did so and pretended to taste the excrement, but few actually consumed it." [Cheaters.] Read article... Gonzales apparently lies to Congress MSNBC | Submitted by: GW's drinkin' buddy "[The matter concerns Alberto Gonzales's] role in helping President Bush escape jury duty in a drunken-driving case involving a dancer at an Austin strip club in 1996... 'It's a complete misrepresentation,' said David Wahlberg, lawyer for the dancer, about Gonzales's account [submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee]... [Judge David Crain] - along with Wahlberg and prosecutor John Lastovica - told NEWSWEEK that, before the case began, Gonzales asked to have an off-the-record conference in the judge's chambers. Gonzales then asked Crain to 'consider' striking Bush from the jury... 'In public, they were making a big show of how he was prepared to serve,' said Crain. 'In the back room, they were trying to get him off.' Gonzales last week refused to waver. 'Judge Gonzales has no recollection of requesting a meeting in chambers,' a senior White House official said." Read article... Man reportedly admits McDonald's scam New Jersey Online | Submitted by: samson "Police responding to a call of someone biting into a sandwich containing a sharp object arrived at the McDonald's to find [Jose Rodriguez] bleeding from the mouth, [Capt. Robert Antolos] said. Rodriguez had created a scene in the restaurant, showing other customers and police the sandwich, which had staples and a paper clip protruding from it, Antolos said... The investigation revealed that Rodriguez ordered a chicken sandwich and took it into the restroom, where he bit into it and spit the portion out into the garbage, Antolos said. He then placed a row of staples and a bent paper clip into the middle of the sandwich and rewrapped it, Antolos said. Finally, he took out a razor blade and used it to cut the inside of his mouth before discarding the blade in the garbage, Antolos said." Read article... Man squished in McDonald's parking lot KGTV-TV 10 San Diego | Submitted by: Lady Despair "The 36-year-old man was found shortly before 6 a.m., but it was unknown when the accident occurred in the parking lot of the McDonald's on B Street, near San Diego City College, Sgt. Tom Carmody said. Police believe the man had been sleeping in the grass, but moved into a parking space when a sprinkler system turned on. Sometime after that, a vehicle drove over the victim's chest and abdomen, Carmody said." Read article... Abortion doctor allegedly flushed fetuses Asbury Park Press | Submitted by: ...in dreams "A township gynecologist who police said flushed aborted fetuses down toilets and tossed bloodied materials into garbage bins has been charged with operating an abortion clinic without a license to process or store medical waste... [Dr. Flavius Thompson] was charged with violating the New Jersey Water Pollution Act, by flushing products of abortions into the sanitary sewer, Lawson said. He is also charged with dumping class-three regulated medical waste, mainly human blood products and items saturated, dripping or caked with human blood into the trash to be carted to a place not authorized to accept medical waste by the state Department of Environmental Protection, Lawson said." Read article... Catholics mourn 1,000 aborted fetuses Wire Services | Submitted by: Too Man Crue "A Catholic church plans to bury the ashes of as many as 1,000 aborted fetuses Sunday, raising a storm of protest from those who accuse it of exploiting the pain and grief of women for political purposes. The Sacred Heart of Mary Church obtained the ashes from a mortuary that had a contract to cremate remains from the Boulder Abortion Clinic... [Clinic director Dr. Warren Hern] said Crist Mortuary, which does the cremations, had violated a contract that said remains would not be used in religious ceremonies. He called their actions 'unconscionable' but declined to say if he planned to sue." [1,000 dead babies? Our sympathies go out to all the suffering child-molester priests.] Read article... and This article... Catholic church finally defrocks nutball priest BBC | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Roman Catholic priest known for his disrupting stunts at international sporting events has been defrocked. Neil Horan, 57, from Nunhead, south London, will no longer be able to call himself Father after he was removed from the priesthood. He was told of the decision at a meeting with the Archbishop of Southwark on Thursday. He disrupted the men's marathon at the Athens Olympics and ran onto the track at the Silverstone Grand Prix in 2003... He was cleared last October of charges of indecency against a seven-year-old girl in 1991." Read article... Mesoamerican human sacrifices quite real Wire Services | Submitted by: Lady Despair "For decades, many researchers believed Spanish accounts from the 16th and 17th centuries were biased to denigrate Indian cultures... The Spaniards probably did exaggerate the sheer numbers of victims to justify a supposedly righteous war against idolatry, said David Carrasco, a Harvard Divinity School expert on Meso-American religion. But there is no longer as much doubt about the nature of the killings... Victims had their hearts cut out or were decapitated, shot full of arrows, clawed, sliced to death, stoned, crushed, skinned, buried alive or tossed from the tops of temples. Children were said to be frequent victims, in part because they were considered pure and unspoiled... 'It was considered a good omen if they cried a lot at the time of sacrifice,' which was probably done by slitting their throats, Roman Berrelleza said." Read article... Watergate secretary dies Wire Services | Submitted by: Tim Howard "[Rose Mary Woods], who ignited a firestorm when she said she inadvertently erased part of a crucial Watergate tape that had an 18 1/2-minute gap, died Saturday at a nursing home... The gap in the tape of a June 20, 1972, conversation between Richard Nixon and chief of staff H.R. Haldeman was critical to the question of what Nixon knew about the break-in at Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex three days earlier... She denied she caused the full 18 1/2-minute gap, testifying later that she inadvertently erased four or five minutes. The phone rang while she was transcribing the tape, she said, and she accidentally hit the record button. [An absurd lie, if you've ever seen the re-enactment photo.] ... A panel of experts set up in the 1970s by federal judge John Sirica, who presided over the Watergate criminal trials, concluded that the erasures were done in at least five - and perhaps as many as nine - separate and contiguous segments." [18 Rotten Dead Pool players scored with Woods' death.] Read article... Johnny Carson dead MSNBC | Submitted by: Sir-Pimps "Johnny Carson didn't invent the late-night TV talk show but he made the most of it. His Tonight Show monologues, celebrity banter and the corny but winning skits all had the Carson touch of heartland charm and humor that remained on the polite side of risque... Carson died early Sunday morning, according to his nephew, Jeff Sotzing... NBC said Carson died of emphysema." [807 Rotten Dead Pool players scored with Johnny's death.] Read article... Man suicides, wife wakes from coma Reuters | Submitted by: SethKisGay "An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell into a coma, but just hours after he killed himself the woman woke up, Italian media reported on Saturday... the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home. Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him." Read article... Presumed racists allegedly terrorize woman St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga "It was 2 a.m. Wednesday, and at least five people were pounding at the front door of Ayesha Colclough's South Tampa apartment, shouting racial slurs and vowing to get her. 'Please, please, please, send someone to 4205 S Manhattan,' pleaded the terrified woman, according to a 911 tape... Clearly audible in the background is screaming, cursing and the thud of fists against the door. For the second time that night, police came... The five alleged attackers - two women and three men, all of them young and white - were arrested and face multiple felony and misdemeanor charges. Police spokesman Joe Durkin said the cases will be filed with the State Attorney's Office as hate crimes... Durkin said the five suspects were angry because Colclough had called police minutes earlier to complain about noise from a party they were having." Read article... British depression hits annual peak MSNBC | Submitted by: Too Man Crue "Dr. Cliff Arnall's calculations show that misery peaks [January 24]. Arnall, who specializes in seasonal disorders at the University of Cardiff, Wales, created a formula that takes into account numerous feelings to devise peoples' lowest point... Arnall found that, while days technically get longer after Dec. 21, cyclonic weather systems take hold in January, bringing low, dark clouds to Britain. Meanwhile, the majority of people break their healthy resolutions six to seven days into the new year, and even the hangers-on have fallen off the wagon, torn off the nicotine patches and eaten the fridge empty by the third week... The formula was devised to help a travel company 'analyze when people book holidays and holiday trends.'" Read article... The return of Harry Reems Park City Record | Submitted by: Satan Ex Machina "For the last 18 years, [Harry Reems] has not wanted to talk about his past at all, except at church and in support groups for other recovering alcoholics... With narration by Dennis Hopper, cameos featuring Norman Mailer, Erica Jong and John Waters and a nationwide release scheduled for Feb. 12, [Inside Deep Throat] is already generating noticeable buzz. Reems is featured prominently in the documentary - in interviews with the filmmakers and in clips from the infamous original flick. So, after nearly two decades of avoiding the press, Reems, once again, finds himself fielding calls from national magazines and television talk shows. This time, though, he is telling the story that he wants told." Read article...