Daily Rotten Archives January 13, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Hurry up before they ban bestiality in Washington state Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: cmu sucks "Reacting to a story that drew gasps of horror across the country, a state senator is asking her colleagues to outlaw sex with animals. The issue drew unwanted attention to Washington state last year, when authorities revealed that a man died of a perforated colon after having sex with a horse on a farm in rural King County. Sheriff's officers believed they had no options for criminal charges for the man's companions because bestiality was not explicitly covered under the state's animal cruelty law. Prosecutors did eventually get one conviction for trespassing." Read article... Comments (111) King Midas in reverse WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: azdollarbill "A man has been jailed on assault charges after a prosecutor, police officer and courtroom bailiff became seriously ill after shaking hands with him." ... "All of them got sick within an hour, suffering from nausea, headaches, numbness and tingling that lasted about a day. Two sought treatment at a hospital." Read article... Comments (74) State workers face fines for viewing porn on-the-job XBiz | Submitted by: anonymous "California employees caught viewing porn on state-owned computers could end up paying a fine of $1,000 a day under the terms of a new bill that cleared its first legislative hurdle Jan. 10." ... "The penalty for the offense would include a fine of up to $1,000 a day plus three times the value of illegal use of the computers." Read article... Comments (64) Privacy for sale CBS | Submitted by: uujew "Who you call, when you call and for how long – you might think it's your personal business. But it's all for sale." ... "Virtually anyone can be their own private eye with dozens of Internet companies advertising the sale of cell phone and landline records. Average price: about $100." ... Haha: AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records Read article... and This article... Comments (37) Poo Everywhere Manchester Union Leader | Submitted by: NH hick "A couple who lived with five children among animal waste, rotting food and loose insulation have been convicted of 10 counts of child endangerment." ... Funny quote #1: "It does not require even an ordinary level of intelligence to know that the waste products of a variety of animals, many of which were in poor and diseased condition, are dangerous to the well-being of children and adults." ... Funny quote #2: "The display of pornography on the walls of a home in which young children, one of them a pre-teen girl, reside, shows a callousness to their welfare that fails to meet any rational standard of behavior." Read article... Comments (65) The Birds Wire Services | Submitted by: annidez "A South African anthropologist said Thursday his research into the death nearly 2 million years ago of an ape-man shows human ancestors were hunted by birds." ... "The Ohio State study determined that eagles would swoop down, pierce monkey skulls with their thumb-like back talons, then hover while their prey died before returning to tear at the skull. Examination of thousands of monkey remains produced a pattern of damage done by birds, including holes and ragged cuts in the shallow bones behind the eye sockets." Read article... Comments (39) Sex Offender's parrot may inherit assets Rocky Mountain News | Submitted by: Mephistopheles "The Boulder Canyon home of a child-sex offender found dead with his wife Saturday of apparent suicides may become a bird sanctuary, with a parrot named Greeny the chief beneficiary of the couple's estate." ... "They wanted to make sure the parrot was taken care of for the rest of its life. The property would become a bird sanctuary." Read article... Comments (31) Sex Offender tries to attend High School KARE-TV 11 Minneapolis | Submitted by: Oobatz "At first, his interest in the school didn't seem terribly strange. He called himself a prospective student." ... "The visitor told students his full name was Caspian James Crichton IV, and his royal title was the 5th Duke of Cleveland." ... "At the school newspaper, they thought, if Caspian's story were true, it certainly would make an interesting feature." ... "Then the young journalists found the visitor's picture on another Web site: Florida's registry of sex offenders." Read article... Comments (53) Unbelievably Lame Excuses CNN | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga "A man who claimed he killed a retired police officer because he thought the "A" on the victim's University of Alabama baseball cap meant he was the Antichrist has been sentenced to death." ... Also: 9/11 made me do it! Read article... and This article... Comments (41) Donner Family Not Cannibals After All San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: anonymous "There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday." ... "The sawed and chopped animal bone fragments, recovered during an archaeological dig over the past three years, do suggest extreme desperation and starvation, the study said. One of the animals eaten was a pet dog — presumably Uno, mentioned in some of the children's later writings." Read article... Comments (30) You can leave your hat on News Corporation | Submitted by: More fun than you really wanted "An Egyptian cleric's controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars. According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University's faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage." Read article... Comments (64) I Vant Your Vote! Wire Services | Submitted by: pillager "Minnesota voters, who eight years ago elected a former professional wrestler as their governor, may find a self-proclaimed vampire on the ballot for the office this year." ... "Sharkey also pledged to execute convicted murders and child molesters personally by impaling them on a wooden pole outside the state capitol." ... Sharkey told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he's a vampire "just like you see in the movies and TV." Read article... Comments (58) Vandals Sadly Mistaken BBC | Submitted by: anonymous "Vandals took apart dozens of supermarket trolleys in the mistaken belief they contained £1 coins." ... "Police believe they did not realise the £1 coins are returned when shoppers take the trolleys back." ... Quote: "We can only guess that those responsible have never used a supermarket trolley before, otherwise they would know where the money goes." Read article... Comments (25) Double life of a Death Row killer San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: anonymous "The former warehouse manager served as a church deacon, raised two boys and became a successful business owner in Fresno. But in his 40s, he embarked on a violent crime spree with a gang of misfits. One thing led to another, including murder -- and then, three additional murders." ... More: Families grieve for 3 killed at store in 1980 Read article... and This article... Comments (24) Patient Smothered KCRA | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga "The Sacramento County Coroner has ruled the death of a 3-year-old while he was undergoing a dental procedure a homicide." ... "According to authorities, the little boy was being prepped to have crowns placed on decaying teeth, when something went wrong. The Sacramento County Coroner's report says that "the decedent's nose and mouth were covered by the dentist's hand to calm him, while a 4-by-4 gauze pad or sponge ... was left behind in the mouth," which caused him to smother and likely choke on the gauze pad during the dental procedure. The pad had been left behind in the mouth and acted as a gag, according to the report." Read article... Comments (37)