Daily Rotten Archives June 21, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Trooper orders couple to strip Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: CarlitosWay "When the man in the uniform told them to strip to their underwear, the young couple thought they'd surely encountered someone impersonating a cop. But the man involved in a traffic stop near Northbrook was in fact Illinois State Trooper Jeremy Dozier, Cook County prosecutors allege." Read article... Glory Hole stops serving bear meat Juneau Empire | Submitted by: ophidicism "For years, the Glory Hole accepted bears to supplement its meals for the homeless. Bear burgers, bear casseroles, bear spaghetti - the shelter's cooks had a wide menu of options for the game meat. But last year, Jetta Whittaker, executive director of the Glory Hole, learned from the senior center in Nome that the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation prohibits nonprofits from accepting such wild game meats as foxes, bears and walruses." ... "We didn't know that it is illegal," Whittaker said. This year, the Glory Hole has turned down offers of five bears. [Uh...] Read article... and This article... Saddam chatty behind bars San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Your Mama "Saddam Hussein loves Doritos, hates Froot Loops, admires President Reagan, thinks Clinton was "OK" and considers both Presidents Bush no good. He talks a lot, worries about germs and insists he is still president of Iraq. Those and other details of the deposed Iraqi leader's life in U.S. military custody appear in the July issue of GQ magazine, based on interviews with five Pennsylvania National Guardsmen who went to Iraq in 2003 and were assigned to Saddam's guard detail for nearly 10 months." Read article... Bush: War is Hell Reuters | Submitted by: One bad rabbit "President Bush acknowledged on Monday the Iraq war was tough going but refused to back down from assertions that progress was being made despite Republican complaints about the administration's rosy optimism." ... Asked if he agreed with Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that the insurgency was in its "last throes," Bush replied that he understood how dangerous it is there, adding: "I think about Iraq every day, every single day." Read article... FBI trolls library for terrorists Guardian | Submitted by: who wants ice cream "The bookish calm of a public library might not seem like the most obvious place to hunt for terrorists, but according to a report, the FBI and other US law enforcement agencies involved in counter-terrorism have made more than 200 requests for information about borrowers from libraries since September 11. A list of people who had borrowed a book about Osama bin Laden was among the information to have been demanded since the introduction of the patriot act, the legislation that has enhanced the government's powers to investigate alleged terrorist activity after the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon." Read article... Goddamn broadcast flag back again Engadget | Submitted by: not a gay "Okay, listen up — the MPAA may have tried to fake us out, but it looks like we haven’t yet heard the last of the Broadcast Flag. Word on the street is that the Broadcast Flag bill may be snuck into a Senate Appropriations Committee spending bill that will be up for consideration as early as tomorrow. Looks like they’re taking pointers from the Real ID Act, which also made it through Congress on the coattails of a spending bill — sneaky, sneaky! Read article... and This... and This... Pedophile cop goes down San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: discobiskit "After a San Jose police officer pleaded guilty this morning to allegations that he molested his 11-month-old daughter, attorneys in the case described for the first time the videotaped evidence of the incident that led to his arrest last week." ... "Deputy District Attorney James Gibbons-Shapiro said the [victim's] mother installed a security camera commonly known as a nanny cam because she suspected [the cop] of drinking alcohol around their daughter. Addressing for the first time what the video showed, Gibbons-Shapiro said today that [the cop] allowed his daughter to touch his penis with her hands and mouth." ... "There really was no defense in this case because there was videotape evidence," Gibbons-Shapiro said. "Our only hope is that as the child grows up, this event doesn't make it hard for her in any way." ... "Defense attorney Dan Jensen maintains that [the cop] had no criminal intent and that the video is somewhat ambiguous." Read article... O Canada! Pot-based painkiller now available CNN | Submitted by: The_one_and_only_Clinton, ESQ. "A cannabis-based painkiller for multiple sclerosis patients went on sale Monday in Canada, the first country to approve the spray derived from the marijuana plant. Sativex can now be obtained by prescription through Canadian pharmacies, Bayer HealthCare announced Monday. Bayer markets the drug in Canada for British drug company GW Pharmaceuticals, which developed the drug. Health Canada, the federal agency that oversees medical care for Canadians, announced in April it had approved Sativex, made from components derived from the cannabis plant that have been shown to ease pain. Medical professionals [and stoners] welcomed the availability." Read article... Cops dust dude with grenade in courthouse KOMO-TV 4 Seattle | Submitted by: Gorg "A man carrying a hand grenade and a sheaf of papers including a "living will" was fatally shot by police Monday in the lobby of the downtown Federal Courthouse, authorities said. The grenade was a dud, but police could not see that as the man held it in his hand." Read article... TSA flat out lies to public Wired | Submitted by: BARBELITH "The federal agency in charge of aviation security collected extensive personal information about airline passengers even though Congress forbade it and officials said they wouldn't do it, according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The Transportation Security Administration bought and is storing details about U.S. citizens who flew on commercial airlines in June 2004 as part of a test of a terrorist screening program called Secure Flight, the documents indicate." Read article... Help save our children from the hippity hop! Seattle Times | Submitted by: Biju 'Frank and Bean' "The way Rong Soung sometimes dresses might make some adults cringe: His pants are too droopy, his shirts too big, the gold chains thick around his neck. The 18-year-old Cambodian-American senior at Highline High School in Burien says his choice of clothes and preference for rap music are part of the hip-hop culture he embraces — his way of expressing himself. School officials, though, see something else: gang trouble." Read article... Airplane bites man CNN | Submitted by: mel "An airborne car crashed through the wall of a man's bedroom, landing on him as he slept." ['nuff said.] Read article... Bahraini protesters face beat-down BBC | Submitted by: Isaac bin Sultan "About 50 people in Bahrain have been beaten and arrested by police in the capital, Manama, a human rights activist and other witnesses say. Nabil Rajab said police acted to disperse demonstrators who protested outside the king's royal court against the lack of jobs in the Gulf kingdom. He said among those beaten was Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the head of the banned Bahrain Centre for Human Rights." Read article... Son kills Dad kills Mom CNN | Submitted by: fucker "A man who had recently left a mental health facility killed his wife after an argument and was shot to death by the couple's 15-year-old son, police said." ... "The 15-year-old, who had loaded his shotgun, then shot his father as he was bending over his wife and raising his gun again, the authorities said. The boy, who ran to a neighbor's house in tears, won't be charged, [police] said." Read article... Wal-Mart fires partially paralyzed dwarf for not smiling St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Victor Karnac "Molly Beavers lost her smile early on in her 19-year career of pushing food samples and collecting grocery carts she could barely see over. Her scowl may have cost her the job. A Sam's Club manager fired her in December 2003 for not smiling enough, she says. Beavers' face is partially paralyzed from surgery related to her condition as an achondroplastic dwarf." Read article... Apparently life on the outside sucks WSB-TV 2 Atlanta | Submitted by: CarlitosWay "Freedom isn't all that great. At least to one escaped monkey. Takala, a golden-bellied mangabey, got out of the new monkey exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Friday. But he was found less than an hour later, waiting to get back inside." Read article... Technological marvel _and_ instrument of death San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Space Jew In his memoir of Vietnam, former war correspondent Jacques Leslie recalls visiting an American aircraft carrier in the South China Sea, when suddenly "I was engulfed in technology, released to a vast metallic universe where nothing grew, where doubt had no place." The young reporter for the Los Angeles Times found that "the press officers who took turns accompanying me could tell me all about the astonishing mechanics of jet takeoffs and landings, of how the pilots got graded on their bombing accuracy, but they couldn't say if the pilots thought of people below as they dropped their bombs or ever felt regret. Most of the pilots couldn't tell me either, preferring to dwell on the marvels of their flying machines." Read article... Makes Grand Theft Auto look like Romper Room New York Daily News | Submitted by: uucp "You may have thought Grand Theft Auto was the last word in video game violence. Think again. The latest in shoot-'em-up video game technology, 25 to Life, allows players to attack police with an arsenal of Molotov cocktails, broken bottles and baseball bats. When weapons fail, players make strategic moves using civilians as human shields. The game even lets players choose gang colors and create personalized graffiti tags. "It's the worst in a series of violent and gruesome games that lower the common denominator of decency," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is trying to block the game from hitting stores in September." Read article... Faked orgasms don't fool the machine New Scientist | Submitted by: c_o__c____k________s "Women may be able to fool their partners by faking an orgasm but a brain scanner will catch them every time, a conference heard on Monday. Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used scans to show that different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it." ... "Women can imitate orgasm quite well," Gert Holstege told a fertility meeting on Monday. "But there is nothing really happening in the brain." Read article... and This article...