Daily Rotten Archives January 6, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Suicide Machine Fails (sort of) unionleader.com | Submitted by: steve the diver "With common items such as concrete blocks, a saw blade, bare wires and gasoline, a despondent David Moore devised systems that would first kill him and then turn his home into a funeral pyre. Neither worked as planned." ... "Upon entering Moore’s home, police found dried blood throughout the living room." ... "The badly wounded Moore had crawled or staggered from his guillotine to his bedroom to die, [police] said." ... More: A lot of forethought went into suicide machine Read article... and This article... Comments (121) Mad Dog does a body good CNN | Submitted by: anonymous "Giving homeless alcoholics a regular supply of booze may improve their health and their behavior, the Canadian Medical Association Journal said in a study published on Tuesday." ... "After an average of 16 months, the number of times participants got in trouble with the law had fallen 51 percent from the three years before they joined the program, and hospital emergency room visits were down 36 percent." Read article... Comments (78) Fag Trap! Baptist Minister Arrested in Gay Hooker Sting WBIR-TV 10 Knoxville | Submitted by: anonymous "A member of the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee has been arrested in Oklahoma City on charges of propositioning a male undercover police officer. The Reverend Lonnie Latham has spoken out against homosexuality in the past." [Picture = haha.] ... Also funny: State senator behind pro-marriage bill gets divorce Read article... and This article... Comments (310) Alien Horse Fetish cbs4denver.com | Submitted by: Double Vaginal/Double Anal Cattle rancher Clyde Chess never learned who -- or what -- killed his heifer 11 years ago, removing its lips, tongue, ears, heart and reproductive organs with laserlike precision. But he has a theory. "I suspect, and I know it sounds farfetched, it was government testing," he said. "They're the only ones that have that kind of technology." Read article... Comments (166) The Poop Dallas Observer | Submitted by: anonymous "The doo-doo man occupies a horrible sweet spot in the collective Jungian fabric. He is the primal demon who pops out of the doughnut display at us all. The shit trickster." Read article... Comments (73) Mmm delicious critter Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: Barney's Pug Nuts! "A DeKalb County health inspector found a frozen guinea pig tucked in a freezer at La Sabrosa restaurant, 2857 Buford Highway. According to the inspector's report, the chef said the guinea pig was for his personal consumption, but he could not remember where he bought it or produce a receipt." ... "One recipe noted that it should be served with a salad and beer." ... "Janice Buchanon, the director of DeKalb's food protection program, said later that the restaurant owner had to throw out the guinea pig." Read article... Comments (88) Escalator Attempts To Eat Little Girl Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "A five-year-old girl required stitches to her shoulder after her jacket and scarf got caught in a transit station escalator in Calgary when she bent down to pick up a toy." ... "Last year, a five-year-old Florida girl lost three fingers when her hand was sucked into a gap on an escalator in a department store. Her family won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the store. In the late 1980s, a Montreal toddler had four fingers cut off by an escalator when she broke from her mother's grip to reach for a fallen toy. The family received a settlement from the city's transit authority." Read article... Comments (71) Body stuck in windshield Warren Tribune Chronicle | Submitted by: My name's Smalls... Leonard Smalls "The man killed in a hit-and-run crash Monday was stuck in the windshield of the fleeing car until the driver stopped a short distance away and pulled the victim out before continuing to drive off, police said." Read article... Comments (50) Police try out taser on bear San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: cmu sucks "A sheriff's deputy got a shock when a bear came toward him as he searched for a prowler. So he gave the bear a shock with his Taser." ... "The bear fell to the ground, breaking the connection with the weapon, which administers a strong electrical charge. The animal fled into the woods and disappeared." ... "A [delicious] trash pit near the home might also have been a lure, officials said." Read article... Comments (37) The name of a band or a song Reuters | Submitted by: zsoul "An airline passenger with the words suicide bomber written in his journal was arrested when his plane arrived in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, but the words appeared to refer to music and he was later released, officials said." Read article... Comments (60) Lose Ten Ugly Pounds WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: King Farkle "We didn't know if it was real or not, so we came around again and we were like, 'That's a human head,'" Puscani said. "I was just in shock, and it's a story that's kind of hard for people to believe." Read article... Comments (57) Microsoft Happy to Censor Chinese Blogger InformationWeek | Submitted by: Caleb "Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday confirmed that it took down the blog of outspoken Chinese journalist Zhao Jing, saying that it was complying with China's laws." ... "It's also not unusual for U.S. search engines, such as Google, Microsoft MSN, and Yahoo, to censor their Chinese-language search results at the request of the government." Read article... Comments (98)