Daily Rotten Archives January 17, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Continental Airlines Demands Sacrifice CNN | Submitted by: Whis Creagle "A mechanic standing near a Boeing 737 at El Paso International Airport in Texas was sucked into one of the engines and killed Monday, officials said." ... "It doesn't happen very often," spokeswoman Liz Verdier said. "It has happened in the past." Read article... Comments (83) Smooshed chron.com | Submitted by: xxxtinct species reader57 "A Texas Department of Transportation employee was killed Sunday when he stepped in front of a moving 25-ton roller." ... "Witnesses said Hayes stepped in front of the machine as it was backing up. The machine, known as a pneumatic roller, compacts pavement." ... Quote: "He was a very experienced man, and for some inexplicable reason, he walked out in front of one of those rollers." Read article... Comments (61) Boo! CNN | Submitted by: anonymous "There is a very high probability that a terrorist group will strike using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said in comments published Tuesday." ... "As catastrophic as a nuclear attack would be, it would be self-contained. But if you look at a worst-case scenario for a biological attack, it would be difficult to determine whether or not it was a terrorist attack, and it would be far more difficult to contain." Read article... Comments (69) Eat Me 365gay.com | Submitted by: xxxtinct species "A man on trial in Germany for killing and then eating a gay man testified Monday that the victim begged for weeks to be slaughtered." ... "Brandes had agreed to be castrated and the two sautéed his penis and testicles. They washed down the meal with a German white wine." ... More from the BBC: German cannibal 'not a murderer' ... Read article... and This article... 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While behind bars, he tried to have witnesses in the case wiped out, prosecutors said. He was sentenced to death in 1982 for hiring a hit man who killed a witness and two bystanders." Read article... Comments (38) Porn Homework Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: georgedublubusch [head pooba] "A school assignment on Internet porn was canceled after parents complained." Read article... Comments (44)