Daily Rotten Archives January 16, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Legalize Urination ABC News | Submitted by: georgedublubusch [head pooba] "Ken Ortmann, an alderman who owns a local tavern wants to lower the penalties for public urination before the Feb. 25 Mardi Gras Parade. Ortmann said his bill would allow police to issue different citations for public urinators who try to be discreet than they might for those who are more open about it." ... "Public urination is now classified as lewd and lascivious conduct, which carries a penalty of 90 days in jail, a $100 to $500 fine, or both." ... Update: Fined for pretending to urinate in public Read article... and This article... Comments (96) Is There Videotape Evidence? Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: Reel 10 "A private Christian academy is defending its right to expel a female student for kissing another girl off campus." ... "According to the suit, Bradley attended a sleepover party off campus with several other female students April 22. At the party, she kissed another student and at an earlier date had kissed a different female student, according to the suit." Read article... Comments (94) "Extraordinarily blatant abuse of eminent domain" Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: anonymous "A year after Los Angeles seized three acres from a private company to construct a public building, a city councilman wants to sell the land to another private firm for a commercial development. Both companies are furniture manufacturers. But executives with the company that would buy the land have political connections and have made $17,600 in campaign contributions to key city leaders." Read article... Comments (57) Plenty of Murder for Everybody MSNBC | Submitted by: pillager "All four Harveys -- Bryan, 49; Kathryn, 39; Stella, 9; and Ruby, 4 -- had been bound with tape and beaten. Their throats were slit." ... "Five days later, police acting on a tip went to a working-class neighborhood a mile from the Harveys' home and found three more bodies. Like the Harveys, Ashley Baskerville, 21, her mother, Mary, 47, and stepfather, Percyell Tucker, 55, had been tied up before being slain in their home." Read article... Comments (80) Camera dealers feel the Web's wrath c|net | Submitted by: hmoob "The last best address leads to a metallic gray warehouse by the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Trash haulers go about and there is a dull buzzing sound in the hallway. Graffiti gives information that white people are devils. Envelopes marked Price Rite Photo are stacked by a door. No one has picked up the mail since the business quit the premises two months ago, said Robert Colon, the handyman. Telephone calls to the company go unreturned." Read article... Comments (31) Slay suspect saw himself as savior of children Washington Post | Submitted by: Buddy List "The inmate on trial for strangling a child-molesting defrocked priest, John Geoghan, considered himself a savior of abused youngsters, an investigator testified Friday." ... "Joy Charon, a nurse's assistant in the prison hospital unit, testified Friday that Druce received "lots of fan mail" after Geoghan's killing." Read article... Comments (63) FINDME San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: georgedublubusch [head pooba] "Arlie Bichlmeier's personalized license plate reads FINDME. Thanks to the plate, authorities did find him about 90 minutes after he allegedly tried to rob the Security National Bank branch in Laurel on Wednesday." Read article... Comments (30)