Daily Rotten Archives February 25, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Deadbeat dad blows away wife at courthouse Wire Services | Submitted by: CaptainSquanto "A man angry about being sued for unpaid child support opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle outside a courthouse, killing his ex-wife and a bystander who intervened to protect the couple's 23-year-old son... [David Hernandez Arroyo Sr.] was wearing a military flak jacket and a bulletproof vest... Authorities credited the bystander who died, Mark Alan Wilson, 52, with saving the son's life. Wilson, a gun enthusiast who had a concealed weapons permit, intervened after Arroyo started shooting, witnesses said. [Police Chief Gary Swindle] said Wilson shot at Arroyo several times but his rounds didn't penetrate the armor. 'They traded shots, missing each other, and then the gunman hit Wilson and Wilson went down,' Tyler Morning Telegraph publisher Nelson Clyde III said in Friday's editions of the newspaper. 'The gunman walked up to Wilson and shot him while he was on the ground.'" Read article... Wife forces husband to rape girl at spearpoint New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: Ogle "A woman forced her husband to have sex with a 13-year-old girl, threatening both with a spear, because of bad spirits, a Darwin court heard today. Savonne Scrubby, 33, has pleaded guilty to a charge of rape in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, saying she was the principal offender... The court heard her husband had obsessed about having sex with the girl for two years. In August 2003, Scrubby became overwhelmed from the pressure and ordered the man and the girl to have sex, threatening them with a spear and a knife, at a billabong in the NT outback, east of Katherine, the court heard... After the man had sex with the girl Scrubby took the girl's clothing, hid it in the bush and disappeared." Read article... Fuckwit fires up killdozer Independent Online | Submitted by: samson "Four people died and three were critically injured on Thursday when a contract worker caused mayhem with a bulldozer at a construction site near Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, police said. Contract workers on lunch at the site decided to board the Caterpillar bulldozer and one of them switched it on, said Inspector Matthews Nkoadi. However, it soon got out of control on the steep and rocky terrain, and seven people on the vehicle were thrown off in all directions. One woman was cut in half when she was thrown out of the bulldozer onto the rocky ground, and others were slashed on their heads and bodies, said Nkoadi... Three women, between the ages of 20 and 25, were killed together with one 30-year-old man." Read article... Baby born freak, lives for an hour Philippine Sun.Star | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A seven-month-old pre-mature baby was born freak - having the unusual look similar to an alien to poor parents of Barangay Tumaga, this city, Tuesday night. The baby, who died after about an hour when delivered at the Zamboanga City Medical Center by her 24-year-old mother, Evelyn Ataca, through Caesarean procedure, possessed an extra pair of legs, two nostrils, two mouths, two buttocks, one of its two eyes centered at the forehead, but with only one heart, one head and one chest... Relatives said Evelyn looked normal during her conceiving period, as she never craved for any urge for a particular delicacy that could have affected her baby." Read article... Recycling plant employee killed by machinery KNTV-TV 11 San Jose | Submitted by: samson "An operator of a waste-paper baling machine fell inside it on Tuesday afternoon and was killed when his weight activated a trigger that started the machine... Douglas A. Espinoza, 32, died trying to untangle some wire in the machine, according to coroner's spokesman Dan Apperson. Espinoza, an Oakland resident, died shortly after 4 p.m. at the recycling facility on 10th Street in Oakland, Apperson said." Read article... God tells mom to strangle daughter, stab self KMGH-TV 7 Denver | Submitted by: optional "Police said [Wendy Bullock] drove into a pullout alongside Interstate 70 on New Year's Day, then asked a Colorado man in another car if he had any razor blades, because she planned to commit suicide. The man noticed that Bullock was injured and saw an unresponsive child in her car so he called police. Officers arrived to find the body of 2½-year-old Sarah Pollyanne in the back seat. According to police, Bullock admitted strangling her daughter after they pulled off the Interstate to sleep. She said she was convinced that God wanted them to die. She stabbed herself in the eye with a sharp object and stuck a pencil in her ear before asking the Colorado motorist for razor blades." Read article... Prominent Korean actress suicides Chosun Ilbo | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Lee Eun-ju, who shot to fame with her roles in the TV drama Firebird and the film Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, hanged herself in her apartment on Tuesday. She was 25... Marks on the body indicated that Lee had also tried to slit her wrists... Lee's family said the actress had been experiencing insomnia and showing signs of depression over racy nude scenes she did for the film The Scarlet Letter, which debuted last October. They believe this was the reason she killed herself." Read article... Possible conflicts of interest for FDA Vioxx panelists MSNBC | Submitted by: Superfood "Ten members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel who voted that a group of powerful pain killers, including the controversial drug Vioxx, should continue to be sold had ties to the drug makers, a new analysis shows. A study by the Center for Science in the Public Interest indicates that 10 of the 32 panel members had ties to either Pfizer Inc., or Merck & Co., ranging from consulting fees and speaking honoraria to receiving research support from the companies. The FDA issued a statement saying it screened members of the panel for conflicts of interest." Read article... Former prostitute's political aspirations squelched London Telegraph | Submitted by: palantir "The Labour Party has been forced to drop a would-be MP after it emerged that she had once worked as a prostitute in Paris. Christine Wheatley, 55, an Oxford graduate who until recently was training to be a barrister at the Inner Temple, London, was the only woman on a shortlist of seven candidates for the Cumbrian seat being left vacant by the veteran Jack Cunningham... Yesterday, at her dilapidated council flat in Birmingham, Miss Wheatley admitted: 'Yes, I worked as a tart. I'm not ashamed... I have worked as an encyclopaedia salesman in Germany - I'm more ashamed of that... I had just finished working for IBM in Brussels and wanted to take a working holiday in Europe, and this seemed like the perfect thing to do.'" Read article... AG makes secret grab at abortion clinic files CNN | Submitted by: Lady Despair "Kansas attorney general [Phill Kline] is demanding abortion clinics turn over the complete medical records of nearly 90 women and girls, saying he needs the material for an investigation into underage sex and illegal late-term abortions... The clinics said Kline demanded their complete, unedited medical records for women who sought abortions at least 22 weeks into their pregnancies in 2003, as well as those for girls 15 and younger who sought abortions... The records sought include the patient's name, medical history, details of her sex life, birth control practices and psychological profile... In their brief, the clinics' attorneys said a gag order prevents the clinics from even disclosing to patients that their records are being sought." Read article...