Daily Rotten Archives January 25, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Hundreds of pilgrims crushed, burned in stampede BBC | Submitted by: smoke weed everyday "Up to 300 Hindu pilgrims are feared dead and hundreds injured during a stampede at a Hindu festival in India... Officials say thousands panicked during a religious procession after a fire broke out in roadside stalls. Many pilgrims were crushed and burned to death as the fire forced crowds into a narrow stairway leading to the hilltop temple... One local police inspector blamed a fire caused by an electrical short circuit in a makeshift shop. Other witnesses said pilgrims began burning and looting roadside stalls after they became frustrated at long delays in gaining entry to the temple site." Read article... and This article... Reported crackhead allegedly murders wife, toddler KMGH-TV 7 Denver | Submitted by: Hey Sue How Do You Do "According to the arrest affidavit, [Damian Michael Arguello] told police he had been smoking crack cocaine the evening of Jan. 18 and while watching a movie with his wife, he got into an argument with her. He told investigators he choked Crystal Arguello and stabbed both her and their 16-month-old son, Rayven Arguello. The bodies of the young mother and the boy were found in a bedroom by a neighbor who had been alerted to the situation by the couple's two other children." Read article... Single bullet, two fatalities KATU-TV 2 Portland | Submitted by: Jürgen Weihrauch "Police say they are baffled by the mysterious deaths of a Tualatin couple, after a preliminary investigation finds that the same bullet killed both of them. The couple, 63-year-old Leonard Smith and his wife, 57-year-old Anita, appeared to be planning for their future. They had recently moved to Tualatin just a couple of months ago and told neighbors they had bought the home for their retirement... Leonard and Anita were found dead inside the home, both with bullet wounds to the head. The strange thing was that there was only one bullet, but two victims and police believe Leonard pulled the trigger." Read article... Man impaled on 2x4, can't fit in medevac WLTX-TV 19 Columbia | Submitted by: DarrenW "A man was impaled through his shoulder by a 2x4 after a car accident early Monday morning. Police say 31-year-old Terence Hennegan's car ran off a bridge just after midnight. The impact of the crash was strong enough to split a board and send part of it through his shoulder and out his back. Rescue crews tried to airlift him to Charleston, but the 2x4 would not fit into the helicopter. [D'oh.] He was taken to Grand Strand Regional and later taken to Charleston." Read article... and This article... Would-be rapist falls for "I can't breathe" trick Tennessean | Submitted by: tamelatn "Murfreesboro police say a 19-year-old Murfreesboro woman, who was assaulted while walking to her car, did everything right while fleeing her attacker... The woman was approached just after 6 p.m., as she left the Kohl's department store after work Saturday night, according to police reports. An unidentified white man chased the woman to her car. After she'd opened her car door, he brandished a box cutter and demanded that she give him her underwear. The woman informed the man she could not breathe because his hand was over her mouth, according to police. As he loosened his grip, she began to scream and grabbed the box cutter. She was able to close the car door and drive away with minor cuts and bruises." Read article... Cop admits fucking girl, 16 Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: Oobatz "A former Farmington police officer pleaded guilty Monday to felony charges stemming from a sexual relationship he had with a 16-year-old girl while he was a member of the police force. Jermey Buss, 27, who met the girl in early October after stopping a car she was in, later had sex with her twice. The girl and a friend had been planning to drape trees with toilet paper." Read article... Road-rage dad charged with attempted murder WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Hey Sue How Do You Do "Pnunoc Nguyen's daughter reportedly decided to defy her father and get into a vehicle with an unlicensed driver on Twin Lakes Road... Investigators said Nguyen drove his gold sedan into a sport utility vehicle driven by his daughter's friend to apparently try to stop the pair from leaving. 'It appears that the father just plain lost it and gunned his vehicle right into the side of his daughter's friend, seriously hurt his daughter's friend and his daughter in the process,' Seminole County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Olson said. Nguyen was arrested after the collision. The driver of the vehicle, Jessica Welch, 15, suffered lung injuries, a ruptured spleen and injuries to her pelvis and collar bone in the crash... Nguyen's daughter was also injured in the crash." Read article... Dead baby separated from recyclables WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: B DIDDY "A worker sorting trash found a dead newborn on a conveyor belt at the Palm Beach County recycling center, police said. Employees discovered the naked infant while separating metal and aluminum recyclables shortly after 9 p.m. Monday. There was no blanket, bag or other evidence found with the body that could help to identify him, Detective Charles Reed said. Reed estimated that the baby was between a day and a week old. The body was intact, but 'it was not in the best of condition,' Reed said. 'It was mixed in with all the trash.' The infant could have come from anywhere in the county. More than 3,000 tons of trash are dumped daily at the facility." Read article... Company fires unrepentant smokers WRAL-TV 5 Raleigh | Submitted by: Little Red "Four employees of Okemos-based health benefits administrator Weyco Inc. have been fired for refusing to take a test that would determine whether they smoke cigarettes. The company instituted a policy on Jan. 1 that makes it a firing offense to smoke - even if done after business hours or at home, the Lansing State Journal reported Monday. Weyco founder Howard Weyers said previously that he instituted the tough anti-smoking rule to shield his company from high health care costs. 'I don't want to pay for the results of smoking,' he said." [What's next -- Obesity? Alcohol? Unsafe sexual practices?] Read article... and This article... Another benefit for white folks Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: jcool_83 "Blacks are far more likely to be charged with felonies and whites more likely to be charged with misdemeanors for the same offense of possessing an unregistered weapon, a study by the state attorney general shows... Less than 40% of whites were charged with felonies in 2003 while more than 70% of blacks were charged with felonies for the same offense. Nearly 70% of Hispanics were charged with felonies in 2003... a spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer said his office is taking no position on the results of its study, just presenting the statistics to the Legislature, as required." Read article... and This article... Final warning on global warming crisis CNN | Submitted by: Lady Despair "'An ecological time-bomb is ticking away,' said Stephen Byers, who co-chaired the task force with U.S. Republican Senator Olympia Snowe, and is a close confidant of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. 'World leaders need to recognize that climate change is the single most important long term issue that the planet faces.' ... U.S. President George W. Bush has rejected the Kyoto accord, arguing that the carbon emission cuts it demands would damage the U.S. economy... The task force urges all G-8 countries to agree to generate a quarter of their electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and to shift agricultural subsidies from food crops to biofuels." Read article...