Daily Rotten Archives February 27, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Transvestite hooker forcibly castrated Boston Globe | Submitted by: T-Bag "Two unidentified Japanese men chopped off the penis of a transvestite they mistook for a woman with whom they wanted to have sex, a newspaper reported Sunday. The victim, a bar worker who liked to dress and act as a female, was on his way to work Thursday when two Japanese men invited him to have sex for $20, apparently believing he was a woman, the Kampuchea Thmey newspaper said. Discovering he wasn't, the two grabbed a knife and cut off his penis, before fleeing in a car, the newspaper quoted the victim as saying." Read article... Man allegedly fucked cows Boston Globe | Submitted by: T-Bag "A 63-year-old man is charged with sexual gratification with an animal for allegedly having sex with calves. Harold G. Hart, of Neillsville, allegedly told police that he routinely stopped at a Greenwood farm, usually after bar closing or on trips to strip clubs near Marshfield or Neillsville... Hart told police he had sex with heifers before he went into the service in 1963 and resumed about a year ago at the farm. He admitted to using a rope to tie calves around the neck and estimated he had been to the farm 'at least 50 times,' according to the complaint." Read article... and This article... Maggoty geezer found soaking in piss, shit Deseret News | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "The Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office is investigating an apparent case of neglect where an elderly woman was found sitting in her waste and maggots feeding on her open wounds, sources said... The woman was sitting in her own urine and fecal matter, which appeared to be several weeks old, according to sources. She also had open wounds with maggots coming out of them. There was fluid coming from one of her legs from an infection and rotting flesh on her feet, according to the sources. The woman was transported to University Hospital... A source told the News the woman had to have one of her legs amputated." Read article... Man allegedly commits patricide over drug argument Boston Globe | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A Middlesex grand jury on Thursday indicted a Lowell man accused of strangling his father and leaving the body in a plastic container on his mother's porch... [Ross Hanvey Jr.], 36, is accused of killing of his father, Ross Hanvey Sr., 54, on Feb. 9 after the two got into an argument about drugs. Hanvey allegedly told investigators that his father grabbed him around the neck and he responded by grabbing his father's neck and strangling him, prosecutors say." Read article... Suicidal woman banned from bridges, tall buildings Guardian | Submitted by: The Mighty Thrin "A woman who has repeatedly tried to kill herself was issued with an anti-social behaviour order banning her from going near railway lines, rivers, bridges and multi-storey car parks by magistrates in Bath. The bench was told that Kim Sutton, 23, had attempted suicide four times. She was rescued from the river Avon three times, had been found 'hanging by her fingertips' from a railway bridge, and was repeatedly spotted loitering at the top of multi-storey car parks... Sutton, of Odd Down, Bath, will face a jail sentence if she breaches the two-year order." Read article... AIDS deaths prompt murder charges Canadian Television | Submitted by: Honkey Kong "Following the deaths of two women he's alleged to have unwittingly infected with the virus that causes AIDS, an Ontario man has been charged with first-degree murder. Johnson Aziga was originally charged with endangering the lives of 12 women who had been his sexual partners. All of the women said 48-year-old Aziga never told them he was HIV-positive. Seven of the women in the case contracted HIV. One died in May of last year and the other died in December 2003." Read article... Driver reportedly batters teen over errant snowball Cambridge Evening News | Submitted by: The Mighty Thrin "Hitting a passing car during a snowball fight earned a teenage boy a bloody nose after he was punched by the angry driver. A 13-year-old boy was having a snowball fight with some friends in Haverhill when a stray snowball hit a passing car on Chimswell Way. The driver got out and chased the group, catching the 13-year-old boy on Henderson Close. He hit the boy on the back of the head and then kneed him in the face giving him a bloody nose, before returning to his car and driving off." Read article... McDonald's patrons threaten to blow up Pentagon WXII-TV 12 Piedmont | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "Officials with the FBI and the Texas Department of Public Safety said a man in his 50s and a man in his 20s were apparently upset with the food and service at a McDonald's restaurant in Wharton, Texas, at about 2 p.m. Thursday when they made the alleged threats... 'Two gentlemen made threats toward blowing up McDonald's and also blowing up the Pentagon. By the time officials arrived, the men had already fled the scene. We immediately contacted the FBI, who is conducting the investigation at this point,' Wharton Police Department Capt. Richard Coleman said. Officials said the men left the restaurant in a white 1996 Ford Van with Texas license plate number 13K-C81. The FBI said the men were of Middle Eastern descent." Read article... Watergate theory implicates Howard Hughes bribe New York Post | Submitted by: Reid Fleming "A former Watergate investigator says the break-in was motivated by President Nixon's paranoia that the Democrats would find out that he had taken a $50,000 bribe from Howard Hughes. Terry Lenzner, revealing fresh details after more than 30 years, told 60 Minutes that Nixon was obsessed with finding out whether Democratic National Committee boss Larry O'Brien knew that the billionaire recluse had sent him a stash of cash. The money - delivered in a bulging envelope - was spent on a putting green and a pool table at Nixon's Florida residence, investigators believe." Read article... Ward Churchill reportedly plagiarized artwork KCNC-TV 4 Denver | Submitted by: Bawdymonkey "An exclusive report by CBS4 News indicates embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill may have broken copyright law by making a mirror image of an artist's work and selling it as his own. Placing Churchill's work beside that of renowned artist Thomas E. Mails and the two look like mirror images. But one is a copyrighted drawing. The other is an autographed print by Churchill. When CBS4 News reporter Raj Chohan tried to talk to Churchill about a possible copyright infringement, he received an angry response... 'It looks like you ripped it off. Can you tell us about that?' Chohan asked. That prompted Churchill to take a swing at Chohan." Read article...