Daily Rotten Archives January 31, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Sextet convicted of exhuming vampire, eating heart Scotsman | Submitted by: Fearless Vampire Killer Alfred "Six Romanians have been jailed for digging up the corpse of a cancer victim, ripping his heart out and eating it because they thought he was a vampire. The men, who have each been sentenced to six months in jail, waited for seven weeks after the 76-year-old former schoolteacher died before exhuming the corpse and mutilating it. After cutting the deceased's heart out they burned it, mixed it with ash and water to make a 'meaty drink'. They told the court in the southern Romanian town of Craiova they all felt 'much better' afterwards." Read article... Rape suspect self-immolates Benton County Daily Record | Submitted by: ...in dreams "A man, who was facing a rape charge in Benton County, set himself on fire Saturday in Springdale and later died at a Tulsa, Okla., hospital... [Edward Eugene Pierce] returned to his car in the parking lot and retrieved a gas can. He then went back upstairs to his wife's apartment. She came outside to talk to him and he then poured gasoline over both of them, but Vicki Pierce managed to get back inside the apartment and close the door. Pierce yelled at his wife to watch what he did next. Witnesses told police Pierce went back to his car and retrieved a cigarette and lighter. He attempted to light the cigarette and was soon engulfed in flames, the press release states. Residents at the apartment used extinguishers to put out the fire." [Jesus, why bother? The scumbag had just tried to torch his wife. Good riddance.] Read article... SUV wins handily against wheelchair New York Daily News | Submitted by: Burgermeister Meisterburger "A man in a wheelchair was killed yesterday when he was mowed down on a Bronx street and dragged nearly 50 yards by a heartless driver who fled the scene, cops said. The victim, Juan Jimenez, 41, was struck at Broadway and W. 230th St. in Kingsbridge, near his apartment building... Cops said Jimenez was hit by a late-model black Mitsubishi sport-utility vehicle that probably sustained front-end damage... After slamming into the man and knocking him out of his wheelchair, the SUV dragged Jimenez about 140 feet, police said." Read article... Man allegedly cuts pacemaker out of mom's corpse Mirror | Submitted by: bush is a zero-year president "A Texas man has been charged with cutting a pacemaker out of his dead mother's chest with a kitchen knife as part of a long-running dispute with a medical company. Harris County sheriff's deputies arrested James A. Donalson, 59, on Sunday after paramedics responding to the death of his mother discovered a large incision in her chest, Sergeant Bruce Williams said. 'The son, her caretaker, made the comment, "I removed the pacemaker,"' Williams said on Monday... Donalson was charged with tampering with evidence, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and jailed in lieu of $5,000 bond." Read article... Snoop Dogg accused of rape, cocaine use The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: Satan Ex Machina "Kylie Bell charges that [Snoop Dogg] (real name: Calvin Broadus) and several associates raped her in the entertainer's dressing room following a January 2003 taping of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. Bell, who won a 2002 Emmy for her work on HBO's Six Feet Under, claims that she was left incapacitated after drinking what a Snoop associate told her was champagne. According to the complaint, after Bell, 36, was drugged, she was sexually assaulted by Broadus and four cronies... She alleges that the network is partly liable for the attacks because, during the week Broadus co-hosted the Kimmel program, his dressing room was stocked with 'large quantities' of champagne and marijuana (Bell also claims to have seen Broadus 'snorting cocaine powder' on the final night of his Kimmel gig.)" Read article... Eagle Scout on trial for alleged thrill kill Gannett Wisconsin | Submitted by: Big Bear Chase Me "The motive behind a grisly 2003 murder is expected to be revealed before a packed Winnebago County courtroom today after a jury is chosen to determine whether 19-year-old [Eagle Scout] Gary Hirte was legally sane when he killed Glenn Kopitske in the summer of 2003... The criminal complaint filed a year ago states that Hirte entered Kopitske's rural Fremont farmhouse, shot him in the head at close range with a shotgun and stabbed him three times... He told police he committed the crime to see if he could get away with it, the complaint states." Read article... Idiot allegedly feeds cop broken glass New York Daily News | Submitted by: Retarded Monkey "When a veteran cop bit into his dinner from a Bronx McDonald's, he realized he was given a decidedly un-Happy Meal - his Big Mac was stuffed with shards of glass. As the K-9 unit cop was rushed to the hospital with cuts to his mouth and throat and a broken tooth, a cop-hating fast-food cook was arrested, police said yesterday... Hours later, a sting operation was cooked up to catch the culprit, sources said. As a marked police car used the McDonald's drive-through, an undercover cop inside the restaurant saw Albert Garcia, 18, spit in his sandwich, the sources said. Garcia was arrested and later confessed to planting the glass after deciding he 'wanted to hurt someone' that day, the sources said." Read article... Murder victim identified by rotten finger CNN | Submitted by: katfood "A decaying finger helped forensics experts identify a farmworker allegedly thrown to lions by his former employer, a packed court heard Monday. Police reconstructive technician Inspector Teunis Briers testified how he was able to take a print from the finger found in a lion breeding enclosure along with other remains and torn clothing. Police fingerprint expert Hugo Coetzee testified that he then matched the print to Nelson Chisale's identification records... Prosecutors allege that the defendants attacked Chisale with machetes, tied him up, beat him and threw him into a pen of lions." Read article... Patient's family alleges incendiary malpractice WCVB-TV 5 Boston | Submitted by: bush is a zero-year president "The family of an 81-year-old man who died after an alleged mishap in the operating room is suing a doctor and nurse at Milton Hospital... Paul Shute died 19 days after doctors allegedly set the man's throat on fire during surgery in 1999... While opening Paul Shute's trachea, Dr. Peter Friedenshohn punctured an oxygen tube in the patient's throat. When he used a hot, electrical device to cauterize an artery, the air tube ignited." Read article... God spares dumb bastard's life, not eyesight KSAT-TV 12 San Antonio | Submitted by: Burgermeister Meisterburger "Wayne Gail Creek will never forget the morning of Dec. 2, 2004. Creek was at work at Holt Cat, removing a bucket from a backhoe, when something went wrong. The bucket turned over, hitting Creek in the face. A large, steel hook attached to the bucket pierced his left temple and came out near his right eye... Creek said the hook then broke his teeth... The accident left Creek blind, but he said he's learning to adjust... 'We know there's a God,' said Barbara Creek, Wayne's wife. 'If it wasn't for God, we wouldn't be sitting here together today.'" [So the same God who couldn't be bothered to save millions of genocide victims in Nazi Germany, the USSR, China, and Cambodia somehow deemed it worthwhile to intercede on behalf of your husband?] Read article... High schoolers utterly ignorant of 1st amendment Wire Services | Submitted by: we're doomed. DOOOOMED! "When told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes 'too far' in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories... When asked whether people should be allowed to express unpopular views, 97% of teachers and 99% of school principals said yes. Only 83% of students did." [WAKE UP, KIDDOS. This shit actually matters.] Read article... and This article... Bush sex plan only inducing more fuckage Wire Services | Submitted by: eauclaireliberal "Abstinence-only sex education programs, a major plank in President Bush's education plan, have had no impact on teenagers' behavior in his home state of Texas, according to a new study. Despite taking courses emphasizing abstinence-only themes, teenagers in 29 high schools became increasingly sexually active, mirroring the overall state trends, according to the study conducted by researchers at Texas A&M University... The study showed about 23% of ninth-grade girls, typically 13 to 14 years old, had sex before receiving abstinence education. After taking the course, 29% of the girls in the same group said they had had sex." Read article...