Daily Rotten Archives January 26, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 For a quick hit on time call the boss Wire Services | Submitted by: oddser5050 "Kitchens said the business card had an image of what appeared to be an alarm clock being hit by a boxing glove and said: For a quick hit on time call the boss." ... "When he answered, we agreed to buy some crack from him, we went up there, and we arrested him," Kitchens said. The arrest was made Friday. "It makes our job considerably easier when they advertise and let us know where to get ahold of them," Kitchens said. Read article... Comments (139) Thirty years in prison for enslaving tards Court TV | Submitted by: D.O.A. "The operator of a group home for the mentally ill was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for enslaving its residents, forcing them to work naked and perform sex acts, and his wife was sentenced to seven years." ... "Prosecutors contended the Kaufmans controlled the lives of their residents, including deciding who could wear clothes and forcing them to fondle each other and commit other acts that Arlan Kaufman videotaped." [With picture of Ma and Pa Kettle.] Read article... Comments (73) Bad-girl blogger busted Court TV | Submitted by: D.O.A. "What 16-year-old Rachelle Waterman seemed to want most in this tiny island village was a bad reputation. She wore a black leather dog collar and fishnet stockings to classes at Craig High School. She bragged about practicing Wicca and told people she planned to get a pentagram seared into her rear end. She dated older guys and danced suggestively with girls at school dances. She titled her blog My Crappy Life: The Inside Look of an Insane Person, and spiked it with swear words, sexual innuendos, and smirking accounts of being an outcast." Read article... Comments (71) Need for Speed: Smash, Crash Toronto Star | Submitted by: anonymous "The fantasy world of videogame street racing may have influenced two teenage boys accused of piloting real-life luxury cars in a high-speed contest that killed a taxi driver, police said Wednesday. A copy of Need for Speed, a game that allows players to select custom cars and race them through crowded urban areas, was found on the front seat of one of the suspect’s cars following the late-night crash." Read article... Comments (57) Asshole tries Matrix stunt San Diego Union-Tribune | Submitted by: MotaMan "A motorcyclist driving the wrong way on a freeway died early Tuesday after he struck a car and his body was hurled onto the top of a big-rig truck, officials said." [Submitter adds: This dickhead scared the crap out of me and nearly killed me, death on impact was too easy for him.] Read article... Comments (52) Female wrestler held in Mexico serial killer hunt BBC | Submitted by: D.O.A. "Mexican police hunting the country's most-wanted serial killer have arrested a female wrestler." ... "After reports that a woman had carried out the killings, police suspected a man in woman's clothes." ... "It meant months were spent detaining and questioning transvestites." Read article... Comments (35) Now it's the Vegan Threat WXIA-TV 11 Atlanta | Submitted by: anonymous "The ACLU of Georgia released copies of government files on Wednesday that illustrate the extent to which the FBI, the DeKalb County Division of Homeland Security and other government agencies have gone to compile information on Georgians suspected of being threats simply for expressing controversial opinions." ... "We have heard of not a single, government surveillance of a pro-war group," [the ACLU] said. "And I doubt we will ever hear of a single surveillance of a pro-war group." Read article... Comments (68) GPS tracking of molesters proposed Indianapolis Star | Submitted by: oddser5050 "The proposed laws would require that molesters be placed on lifetime parole upon being released. They also would be monitored with global positioning devices for the rest of their lives. In addition, paroled molesters would be restricted from living within 1,000 feet of a school, park or youth center." ... "Critics argue it is better to spend money to treat offenders than to monitor them." Read article... Comments (50) Internet game leads to scientific advance Washington Times | Submitted by: anonymous "California scientists using an Internet game that traces the movement of dollar bills have created a model for tracking the spread of infectious diseases." ... "We were confident we could learn a lot from the data collected at the www.wheresgeorge.com bill-tracking Web site, but the results turned out far beyond our expectations," said Lars Hufnagel, a postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and co-author of the study. Read article... Comments (13) Outdoorsmen to lose camping privileges Houston Chronicle | Submitted by: xxxtinct species-reader57 "The homeless at the site, near Minute Maid Park, scattered throughout the area as police, volunteers and workers from the Texas Department of Transportation removed a smelly mass of dank blankets, mattresses, suitcases and other materials from a private parking lot behind the kitchen." ... "Hardest for him to understand, [said a Coalition for the Homeless spokesperson], was why police chose to devote so many officers amid a much-discussed staffing shortage — and while the annual number of homicides increased more than 20 percent in 2005." Read article... Comments (26) Grandpa dies after hearing 7 kids died in crash WEWS-TV 5 Cleveland | Submitted by: anonymous "Upon hearing the news that all of his grandchildren were killed when a semi smashed into the family's car that had stopped for a school bus, Edwin Scott started feeling sick and vomiting. The children of both of his daughters were killed. Relatives called an ambulance, but family members believe he died on the way to the hospital." Read article... Comments (62) Would you say anything happened WRAL-TV 5 Raleigh | Submitted by: Anon4 "Investigators want to know how a male inmate wound up in a female holding cell with 13 women." Read article... Comments (44)