Daily Rotten Archives January 12, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Just clowning around, your Honor Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader | Submitted by: scatterbrain "Wilkes-Barre police said McCarthy threw his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Spagnola, out of a moving vehicle and then beat her at her residence May 13. Police said McCarthy, who is known professionally as Jazzbo the Clown, had been drinking and using cocaine before the incident." Read article... Comments (76) Driving For Two CNN | Submitted by: Mistystuffer "Fetuses do not count as passengers when it comes to determining who may drive in the carpool lane, a judge has ruled." ... [The police] said [her] theory "would require officers to carry guns, radios and pregnancy testers, and I don't think we want to go there." Read article... Comments (63) A Tunnel of Love (also Mexicans) BREITBART | Submitted by: Jonny Plasma "Border Patrol agents discovered a 35-foot-long tunnel beneath the U.S.-Mexico border after it caved in and the asphalt roadway above it collapsed, officials said." ... " The tunnel is across the border from an area that is either owned or leased by Mexican Customs." ... Also: Everybody into the pool Read article... and This article... Comments (101) Man gets federal prison for threatening Bush, Roto-Rooter Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Submitted by: popo "An Upper St. Clair man who typed e-mails in the name of the star of the Ghost Hunters TV show, in which he threatened to murder President Bush and shoot Roto-Rooter employees, has been sentenced to two years in federal prison." ... "The e-mails, said [authorities], were horrible, sexually violent messages. In some cases, he signed his missives The Antichrist." Read article... Comments (70) Up through the ground came a bubblin' crude CBC | Submitted by: Space Jew "Alberta's oilsands could become the single biggest contributor to the world's supply within 10 years, says a report released Wednesday by CIBC World Markets. That would mean a global shift in oil dominance from Saudi Arabia and the Middle East to Canada." ... "[Some economist duder] suggested global conventional oil production peaked in 2004. New supply in 2007 is expected to grow by less than 1.5 million barrels per day and will fall to less than one million barrels per day in 2008, the report says." Read article... Comments (73) Christian book publisher also boyfucker Tennessean | Submitted by: anonymous "A Brentwood man was arrested yesterday on charges of raping and sexually abusing two of his children over the course of five years." ... "The suspect is involved in the Christian book-publishing industry, according to police and numerous Web sites." Read article... Comments (93) Truck runs over boy's head AP | Submitted by: oddser5050 "An 11-year-old boy had a lingering headache two days after a pickup truck ran over his head. "All I remember about it was that when the truck ran over my head, I could hear my bones crack," Cameron Schuette said Tuesday." ... "Cameron, a 5th-grader and his 13-year-old brother Tyler were helping their grandfather chop and load wood on Sunday. The boys were sitting on the tailgate of their grandfather's truck when he began backing down his gravel driveway and Cameron either fell or jumped off. Ron Shurley said he at first thought he ran over a piece of wood until he got out of the truck and saw Cameron lying face down in the gravel." Read article... Comments (35) Making prisoners sleep in shifts Wire Services | Submitted by: anonymous "With space scarce as the U.S. prison population grows, a top Idaho lawmaker is proposing that inmates share beds by sleeping in shifts, a practice sometimes used by the U.S. military." ... Quote: "I don't have the staff to handle it. If you have an emergency, where do you put people?" ... Also: Checking out early Read article... and This article... Comments (57) Teens stabs his little brother to death Canoe | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "There were large puddles of blood at the bottom of the basement's stairwell, and the floor was covered with broken glass from beer bottles, a smashed television set and large mustard jars, McKeown said." ... "There were also blood droplets upstairs on doormats, blood stains in a washroom sink, smeared blood on the stove, and stains near the fridge. Police collected several weapons as evidence, including a large chef's knife, a cleaver, two blood-stained baseball bats and a hunting knife." Read article... Comments (44) Granny abducted, assaulted and forced to smoke crack Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle | Submitted by: Distelrath "Clarksville Police are searching for three men they say kidnapped, raped, robbed and held captive a 79-year-old woman for six hours after she attempted to walk into a Madison Street pharmacy." ... "She was ordered to undress before being sexually assaulted and forced to smoke crack cocaine, [police] wrote." Read article... Comments (50) Green Eggs and Ham Wire Services | Submitted by: anonymous "Taiwan, home to the world's first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluorescent green pigs that researchers hope will boost the island's stem cell research, a professor said on Thursday." ... Quote: "There are partially fluorescent green pigs elsewhere, but ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out. Even their hearts and internal organs are green." Read article... Comments (39) Delicious Rat Balls WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: azdollarbill "Dozens of soup vendors rallied outside an Indonesian TV station Wednesday over a news report that alleged some sellers were using rat to make meatballs for their broth." ... "Last week, local media reported that dangerous amounts of formaldehyde were being used to preserve fish, noodles and bean curd." Read article... Comments (32) I, Depressed Hamster WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: anonymous "As the study continues, student lab assistants are trying to treat the depressed hamsters with Prozac." Read article... Comments (50)