Daily Rotten Archives January 20, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Three decades in the potty Times | Submitted by: tsentsen "A 73-year-old woman is being investigated for “kidnapping and maltreating a family member” after allegedly keeping her mentally disturbed daughter locked in a darkened bathroom for 30 years." Read article... Comments (67) Swedish man murders, eats his sisters BBC | Submitted by: deadbeef ['nuff said.] Read article... Comments (62) Fuck You Pay Me Washington Post | Submitted by: anonymous "A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web sites or services priority in reaching computer users, a controversial system that would significantly change how the Internet operates. William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportunity to have its search site load faster than that of Google Inc." ... Also: Google to Feds: Suck It Read article... and This article... Comments (44) FBI sent suspect to Disney World Indianapolis Star | Submitted by: oddser5050 "When Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban's conspiracy trial ends, the cash-strapped defendant probably won't be going to Disney World. He's already been there once, courtesy of the U.S. government. During Thursday's testimony in Shaaban's federal trial, an FBI agent and one of Shaaban's former trucking company bosses testified about how federal agents helped send his family to Florida in October 2004 so the FBI could surreptitiously search his Greenfield home." Read article... Comments (23) Expose "radical" professor, get $100 CNN | Submitted by: Bitter Cynic "An alumni group dedicated to exposing the most radical professors at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty." ... "[UCLA's Chancellor] denounced the campaign as reprehensible, and school officials warned that selling or distributing recordings of classroom lectures without an instructor's consent violates university policy." Read article... Comments (73) Suicide is Funny The Register | Submitted by: zsoul "Pulling from the AFP newswire, Yahoo, CNN, and others have been reporting about how a gamer broadcast his own suicide on a gaming forum via a webcam, and that members of the forum continued to ridicule the gamer while he killed himself." Read article... Comments (108) Quadruple Amputee Mommy WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: JayRott "A Sanford mother says she will never be able to hold her newborn because an Orlando hospital performed a life-altering surgery and, she claims, the hospital refuses to explain why they left her as a multiple amputee." ... "The hospital, in a letter, wrote that if she wanted to find out exactly what happened, she would have to sue them." Read article... Comments (114) Car Surfing Cops WRC-TV 4 Washington | Submitted by: anonymous "A D.C. police officer is caught riding down a street with his legs dangling over the side of a cruiser." ... "Lamberton, who is deaf, is also a math whiz and calculated the speed of the cruisers at about 27 mph above the posted speed limit." [With funny albeit fuzzy picture.] Read article... Comments (29) Dutch open "Big Brother" prison CNN | Submitted by: anonymous "At a high-tech prison opening this week inmates wear electronic wristbands that track their every movement and guards monitor cells using emotion-recognition software." ... "Unlike the Big Brother television program, camera surveillance is limited to public spaces -- not on bunk beds or in bathrooms. Cells are equipped with microphones that relay information to the prison's control center, where software analyzes sound volume and rhythm to alert guards when a violent confrontation between inmates may be taking place." Read article... Comments (35) Freeze Frame! WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: chappy "A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to using his cell phone to secretly take pictures up women's skirts." [With surveillance photo.] ... Also: Accused coach has prior "Peeping Tom' convictions Read article... and This article... Comments (38) Santa Cruz Mushroom Hunters Find Skeleton Santa Cruz Sentinel | Submitted by: Graehme de Parke, Esq. "The only reason it was found is because this mushroom hunter went off the beaten path," he said. Mushroom hunters "find a lot of things for us." [Submitter adds: Psilocybe cubensis grows wild out by the West Gate.] ... Also: Internet Recipe For Tea Nearly Kills Teen Read article... and This article... Comments (27) $100/day San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: God Marsh, a tall, slender man with dark hair that is going gray, noted that emerging from prison in 2004 had been like "falling out of a time capsule." Pac-Man was popular when he was sent away, he said, and cell phones didn't exist. "We have a fan in the house that has a remote control to it," he said, marveling at the everyday technological advances he has had to get used to. Read article... Comments (40) Baseball Bat Beatdown Union Leader | Submitted by: popo "He is angry at Manchester police who he said he called three or four times that day to tell them about the threats. He said he called them as he was being chased down the alley by the bat-wielding men, just before they beat him. He blames police for his injuries." Read article... Comments (16) DUI Loophole CNN | Submitted by: anonymous "States are trying to toughen penalties for suspected drunken drivers who refuse to take a breath test, arguing motorists too often get a milder penalty than if they had provided evidence that could convict them." ... "We are seeing cases where people are being stopped 10, 15, 20, 30 times," said Massachusetts Rep. Todd Smola. "Every single case they are refusing the breath test, paying their lawyer a few bucks." Read article... Comments (31)