Daily Rotten Archives January 26, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Alleged suicide attempt derails 2 passenger trains Wire Services | Submitted by: Stilly "A suicidal man parked his SUV on the railroad tracks and set off a crash of two commuter trains Wednesday that hurled passengers down the aisles and turned rail cars into smoking, twisted heaps of steel, authorities said. At least 11 people were killed and more than 180 injured... The SUV driver got out at the last moment and survived... one trapped man apparently used his own blood to write a note on a seat bottom. Using the heart symbol, he wrote 'I love my kids' and 'I love Leslie.' ... Authorities said Juan Manuel Alvarez, 25, of Compton, parked his sport utility vehicle on the tracks and got out before a Metrolink train smashed into the Jeep Grand Cherokee. The train then derailed and collided with another train going in the opposite direction. That train also jumped the tracks." Read article... and This article... Dad allegedly murders suspected slut BBC | Submitted by: optional "A Kuwaiti man has reportedly confessed to killing his 14-year-old daughter because he believed she was having sex... [Adnan Enezi] allegedly bound and blindfolded his daughter, Haifa, knelt her down in front of her two brothers and sister and then cut her throat. Forensic tests showed Haifa was still a virgin, police sources said... The daily said that after cutting Haifa's throat the first time, he swapped the knife for one with a sharper blade as she bled and screamed in front of her siblings." Read article... Schoolbus driver allegedly fucks girl, 15 WHTM-TV 27 Harrisburg | Submitted by: dan k. bear "Lower Paxton police say a bus driver with the Central Dauphin School District had a sexual relationship with a 15 year-old girl for three months. 53 year-old Alvin Mummart of Boas Street in Harrisburg was arrested Tuesday at his house. Police say he would pick up the 15 year-old girl between bus routes, they would drive to a local construction site where the girl would perform sexual acts on the driver, while they were on the school bus. Police also say at times Mummart gave the girl alcohol on the bus as well." Read article... Elementary school kids arrested for death threats KCRA-TV 3 Sacramento | Submitted by: RAMJAC "Two schoolboys in Florida are under arrest, accused of drawing violent stick figures that showed a classmate getting stabbed. The 9- and 10-year-old boys from a special education class in Ocala were hauled away in handcuffs, charged with a felony of threatening another person. Police said the child depicted in the pencil-and-crayon drawings complained to his teacher, who alerted school authorities who called police. One drawing shows two children stabbing the boy with knives. Another shows the victim hanging, with tears falling from his eyes, Other pieces of paper contained the victim's name and misspelled profanities." Read article... and This article... Man shot dead by girlfriend, mother also arrested Seattle Times | Submitted by: ESX "Nicholas Coan, 28, was shot Friday night by his 27-year-old girlfriend during the latest of the couple's many arguments, police and witnesses said. The girlfriend was apparently angry that Coan had brought home a .40-caliber pistol and hadn't told her where he had been. So, police said, Coan cocked the pistol and handed it to her. She took it and fired, perhaps not knowing it was loaded, police and court documents say. Coan 'looked at me and said, "I can't believe she shot me,"' said Coan's roommate, Mathew Mitchell, who called 911 and used a towel to try to stop the bleeding. Meanwhile, Coan's mother, Elizabeth Coan, 45, was arrested Sunday in a separate case and charged yesterday with solicitation of first-degree murder, solicitation of first-degree assault and solicitation of malicious placement of an explosive... According to King County prosecutors, Elizabeth Coan had asked Nicholas Coan to arrange the killing or intimidation of five witnesses in her pending identity-theft case." Read article... Cat lady ne plus ultra pleads guilty Wilmington Star-News | Submitted by: Ringo Ate My Baby "A woman accused of keeping dozens of tigers in horrific conditions at her home and allowing her then 8-year-old son near alligators and big cats pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and child endangerment. Marla Jean Smith, 49, and her partner, John Weinhart, 62, were each charged with 17 felony counts and 46 misdemeanor counts, including animal cruelty and illegal breeding. Officials raided Weinhart's Tiger Rescue in April 2003 and said they found 58 dead tiger cubs stuffed into freezers, 30 dead adult tigers, several malnourished tiger and leopard cubs and two alligators in a bathtub. They were also charged with child endangerment because they allegedly allowed their child near the alligators and tigers kept in their backyard." Read article... Mom loses piss balloon fight News 24 South Africa | Submitted by: Ringo Ate My Baby "A 19-year-old man was accused in a Singapore court of throwing a plastic bag filled with urine at his 43-year-old mother, news reports said on Wednesday. Wang Kang Long, 19, allegedly hurled the bag on January 15 and then threatened Hong Soon Kwee with a pointed chopstick in their flat, The Straits Times said. The accused inflicted intentional physical pain to his mother on another occasion by pushing her shoulder and pinching her cheeks, a district court heard on Tuesday. He was also charged with restraining his mother on her bed and preventing her from moving around the house." Read article... Man revives on autopsy table News and Observer | Submitted by: Cheney has two DWIs! "Medical examiner J.B. Perdue was startled when he saw the body he was examining take a shallow breath. Larry D. Green was lying in an unzipped body bag in the morgue at the Franklin County Sheriff's Department complex Monday night while Perdue began documenting his injuries to certify a cause of death... [Green languished for] close to two hours after he was hit by a car on a dark road. He was declared dead at the accident scene." Read article... Luxury sedan prone to computer viruses SC Magazine | Submitted by: Lost Boy "Lexus cars may be vulnerable to viruses that infect them via mobile phones. Landcruiser 100 models LX470 and LS430 have been discovered with infected operating systems that transfer within a range of 15 feet... It is understood the virus could affect the navigation system of the Lexus models, it transfers onto them via a Bluetooth mobile phone connection. It is still unclear whether the cars in question use the Symbian operating system which has recently been under attack from various worms and viruses... Bill Gates is a known Lexus driver." Read article... Shroud backdated to 1,000 BC - 1,700 AD BBC | Submitted by: Fall "The Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by radiocarbon dating carried out in the 1980s, according to a new study in a peer-reviewed journal. A research paper published in Thermochimica Acta suggests the shroud is between 1,300 and 3,000 years old. The author dismisses 1988 carbon dating tests which concluded that the linen sheet was a medieval fake... Raymond Rogers says that his research and chemical tests show the sample used in the 1988 radiocarbon analysis was cut from a medieval patch woven into the shroud to repair fire damage... In the 1988 study, scientists from three universities concluded that the cloth dated from some time between 1260 and 1390. This ruled it out as the possible burial cloth that wrapped the body of Christ. That led to the then Cardinal of Turin, Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero, admitting the garment was a hoax." Read article... Firefighters suspended for alleged gangbang Wire Services | Submitted by: CaptainSquanto "Four Sacramento, California firefighters who admitted to having sex while on duty have been suspended pending an investigation, a spokesman for the city's fire department said on Tuesday. The three men, including a captain, admitted to having sex with a fourth firefighter, a woman, while on duty... The probe follows an investigation after city firefighters attended a local porn-star costume ball last July." Read article... Idiot cop picks wrong day to invent laws Rocky Mountain News | Submitted by: fushuugi "A Denver police sergeant is under investigation for allegedly threatening to arrest a woman Monday for displaying on her truck a derogatory bumper sticker about President Bush. 'He told her that this was a warning and that the next time he saw her truck, she was going to be arrested if she didn't remove the sticker,' said Alinna Figueroa, 25, assistant manager of The UPS Store where the confrontation took place... [police Sgt. Michael Karasek] walked into the store and confronted [Shasta Bates, the truck's owner]. 'He said, "You need to take off those stickers because it's profanity and it's against the law to have profanity on your truck,"' Bates said. 'Then he said, "If you ever show up here again, I'm going to make you take those stickers off and arrest you. Never come back into that area."' ... Karasek wrote down the woman's license-plate number and then told her: 'You take those bumper stickers off or I will come and find you and I will arrest you.'" Read article...