Daily Rotten Archives August 25, 2005 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Cutest Shark Bait Ever Yahoo! Singapore | Submitted by: lodestone "Brigitte Bardot, the 1950s and 1960s film star turned animal rights campaigner, has called on the French government to halt the reported use by fishermen on the island of Reunion of live puppies and kittens as shark bait." Read article... Comments (74) Farmer Traps Chupacabra KNSD-TV 7 San Diego | Submitted by: Davey the Dumbass "A Texas farmer may have found what some would call a chupacabra, a legendary animal known for sucking the blood out of goats." [With grainy picture.] Read article... Comments (58) Singapore locks up U.S. citizen for possessing porn Wire Services | Submitted by: potheadpaul "Singapore police handcuffed and locked up a U.S. citizen for bringing 58 pornographic DVDs and video CDs into the wealthy city-state when he moved to Singapore last year, a newspaper reported Thursday." ... "The films, found by Singapore customs officers in a shipment of his belongings from California, included titles such as Frivolous Lola, Copulation Nation and Lord of the Strings." Read article... Comments (77) Who says size doesn't matter? ABC News | Submitted by: Sick Azorean "Thailand's prime minister is trying to ferret out a government minister who allegedly had a penis enlargement procedure, saying news of it is affecting the Cabinet's reputation, a news report said Wednesday." ... [We couldn't make this up if we tried:] "Who did it? Tell me," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told his ministers at Tuesday's Cabinet meeting, triggering a round of banter and causing some to squirm in their chairs, The Nation newspaper said. Read article... Comments (31) Desecrating graves is bad, m'kay ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Gummo "A young man performing court-ordered community service in a cemetery has been charged with desecrating a Civil War-era tomb, pulling apart the skeleton, and posing for pictures with the skull and other bones." ... "Prosecutors said Goodwin, who was on probation for breaking into an apartment building last fall, kicked in the thin marble entrance to the tomb marked "1863 Pierce," and twisted off the decomposed corpse's spine, collarbone and skull." Read article... and This article... Comments (27) Iraq war veterans suffer beatdown Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: Lady Despair's Lover "Two veterans of the Iraq war were among those savagely beaten recently in Pioneer Square by a group of men. Now, Seattle police are looking for the attackers. On Wednesday, they released a videotape of the attack filmed by a witness and still photos captured from the tape." Read article... and This article... Comments (101) Fox News fucks over family Wire Services | Submitted by: Ms. Crappy Pants "A couple whose home was wrongly identified on national television as belonging to an Islamic radical has faced harassment, and police are providing special protection. After the report ran on Fox News on Aug. 7, people have shouted profanities at Randy and Ronnell Vorick and spray-painted "terrorist" (spelling it "terrist") on their property." Read article... Comments (54) Because we all know gators love jelly doughnuts San Diego Union-Tribune | Submitted by: and 1/2 dozen pot plants too, mmmm "Authorities say they finally know how an alligator got into a Los Angeles lake. Now all they have to do is figure out how to get it out." ... "L.A. residents, unaccustomed to seeing alligators in their lakes, have been showing up at Harbor Regional Park in droves for more than a week. They've also kept Reggie well fed on a diet that includes tortillas, french bread, jelly doughnuts and raw chicken thrown into the water." Read article... Comments (17) Cornfed American Beauties BBC | Submitted by: yekopandmryttun "Americans are getting fatter at a rate never seen before, a report shows." ... "In 10 states, over a quarter of adults are now obese, despite campaigns alerting people to the dangers of over-eating. Mississippi, famous for its calorific mud pie, ranked the highest, followed by Alabama and West Virginia." [Full disclosure: Editor is shaped like Tony Soprano.] Read article... Comments (56) More Fatness in the News MSNBC | Submitted by: Space Jew "As doctors warn more patients that they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful. Dr. Terry Bennett says he tells obese patients their weight is bad for their health and their love lives, but the lecture drove one patient to complain to the state." ... "I told a fat woman she was obese," Bennett says. Read article... Comments (65) Pot U High Times | Submitted by: weesteve High Times: Top Ten Cannibis Colleges ... San Francisco Chronicle: "...more pot clubs than Krispy Kreme franchises..." Read article... and This... and This... Comments (19) Crafty Chinese hackers on the horn Washington Post | Submitted by: The_Clinton Esq - bake a pie, eat a pie "Web sites in China are being used heavily to target computer networks in the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies, successfully breaching hundreds of unclassified networks, according to several U.S. officials. Classified systems have not been compromised, the officials added. But U.S. authorities remain concerned because, as one official said, even seemingly innocuous information, when pulled together from various sources, can yield useful intelligence to an adversary." Read article... Comments (13) My Coffee Tastes Funny WKYC | Submitted by: Gar In Albuquerque "A mechanic who works at Akron’s main post office complex has been charged with pouring urine into a coffee pot in an employee break room. Prosecutors say 49-year-old Thomas Shaheen of Springfield Township spiked the coffee on July 5th and 6th. His co-workers installed a video camera when they suspected a problem." Read article... Comments (28) I'm Batman CNN | Submitted by: anonymous "A device that allows people to scale tall buildings in if not a single, then at least two bounds, has been developed for the U.S. military. The PowerQuick personal lifting device can raise or lower a load of up to 145 kg (320 lb) at the rate of one meter (yard) per second, enabling special forces, rescue services or even construction workers to quickly ascend or escape buildings." Read article... Comments (12) First day of school also her last CNN | Submitted by: The_Clinton Esq - Fuck Chicago it smells like cat piss "A 10-year-old girl running to catch her school bus fell under its wheels and was killed, police said. Emily Nicole Woodward apparently fell in front of the bus after it had just completed a stop, officials said. The accident happened Wednesday, the first day of the new school year." Read article... Comments (54)