Daily Rotten Archives February 12, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Strangled with a Shoelace Brisbane Courier-Mail | Submitted by: WEE MAD "A Sunshine Coast court has been told how an accused double-murderer cradled one of his dying victims in his arms for three hours before finally strangling him with a shoelace because he could not stand his death throes any longer. The victim was later found by police wrapped in bedding in his back yard – his hands tied behind his back with phone cord, the shoelace still around his neck and with both of his eyes removed." ... "I think I sliced her neck and stabbed her a few times . . . there was blood everywhere . . . we were slipping around and all wrestling and we were covered in blood and I think Earl copped it next. Earl got stabbed in the chest, back and neck, I think." ... "I hit him over the head several times with this iron bar because he was screaming and I couldn't handle his screaming." Read article... Comments (74) Boy charged with felony for carrying sugar Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: anonymous "A 12-year-old Aurora boy who said he brought powdered sugar to school for a science project this week has been charged with a felony for possessing a look-alike drug, Aurora police have confirmed." ... "Juveniles who have prior criminal records could also be placed in a residential treatment program if convicted." Read article... Comments (117) Child Thinks Illegal Drugs Are Candy, Shares Them The Hawaii Channel | Submitted by: anonymous "A 10-year-old boy thought he was giving candy to his friends on the school bus. But prosecutors in Fort Wayne, Ind., said the youngster was actually passing out the illegal drug Ecstasy." ... "The hallucinogenic pills were about the size of an aspirin and had a check mark on them, similar to the Nike swoosh trademark. Authorities have yet to file charges in the case." Read article... Comments (44) Boy admits to stabbing mom 111 times CNN | Submitted by: SomeOneFeedTheMonkey "A 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty Friday to murdering his mother by stabbing her 111 times last year after she discovered he was trying to learn how to make a bomb." ... "Under a deal with prosecutors, Christopher Dankovich agreed to serve up to 34 years in prison." ... "He didn't want to leave prison in a casket," prosecutor Lisa Ortlieb Gorcyca said. Read article... Comments (57) Don't Mess With Utah Deseret News | Submitted by: anonymous "Around here," Wyler said, "you're pretty much related to everybody." Read article... Comments (111) Air Force eases rules on proselytizing Washington Post | Submitted by: anonymous "The Air Force, under pressure from evangelical Christian groups and members of Congress, softened its guidelines on religious expression yesterday to emphasize that superior officers may discuss their faith with subordinates and that chaplains will not be required to offer nonsectarian prayers." Read article... Comments (81) Never eating at Dunkin' Donuts again Cape Cod Online | Submitted by: black sugar "Two Dunkin' Donuts employees face criminal charges for spitting and urinating in coffee they served to patrons of the North Street shop where they worked, authorities said." ... "Police do not identify anyone as having directly observed any employee of the coffee shop urinating in coffee." ... "If convicted, Rodrigues and DaSilva could face up to five years in prison." Read article... Comments (58) Geezer on Geezer Gunplay Houston Chronicle | Submitted by: xxxtinct species-reader57 "An 87-year-old grandmother was jailed this morning after being charged with shooting her 80-year-old caretaker." [With picture of Granny.] Read article... Comments (30) Partially? What a quitter! Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: kingfarkle Police sources said the victims were "partially decapitated." Read article... Comments (21) THAT'S not a wire hanger... THIS is a wire hanger! BBC | Submitted by: Jonny Plasma "Australia's Senate has voted to take control of a controversial abortion pill away from the government. The current system means the RU486 pill is effectively banned in Australia." Read article... Comments (45) Sometimes You Shouldn't Flush Canoe | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "I looked in the toilet bowl and I could see movement, and the baby was enclosed in the sac and everything," Carmody told Denver television stations. He pulled the baby out of the toilet with rubber gloves. Read article... Comments (44) Jiffy Balls Canoe | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "I get caught very, very rarely," Whetton said Friday. "But, when I do, the worst that can happen is you get licked to death." Read article... Comments (23) Bus driver literally tosses woman off bus San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: anonymous "A transit bus driver grabbed a woman by the hair, knocked her head into a pole, opened the door and tossed her into traffic after she yelled at him for missing her stop, police said. The 52-year-old woman, who was not identified, suffered a broken shoulder." Read article... Comments (56) Backpack full of dead baby Canoe | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "A teenager who walked into a suburban hospital with a dead newborn in her backpack hours after giving birth has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, police said Friday." ... "An autopsy showed the baby died of asphyxiation." Read article... Comments (24) Don't play here. Child molestor lives here. KATV | Submitted by: beck "Officials in Benton County say a woman hung a sign on a neighbor's door warning people that the man who lives in the Bella Vista home is a sex offender. Sheriff's deputies say she had the wrong house." Read article... Comments (56) Confucius Say: (expletive) CNN | Submitted by: Anonymous "A box of X-rated fortune cookies was mistakenly delivered to a fundraiser hosted by a Brooklyn politician." ... The 350 cookies stuffed with "the most graphically lurid" fortunes got mixed up in a batch of 1,750 cookies ordered for the Chinese New Year event, Borough President Marty Markowitz said Friday. Some guests "were stunned, to say the least." Read article... Comments (38) How 'bout a little head? San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Depleted Your Cranium "Airport baggage screeners found a human head with teeth, hair and skin in the luggage of a woman who said she intended to ward off evil spirits with it, authorities said Friday." Read article... Comments (29) Bad Day on the Midway (Sunday Morning Free-for-All) Rotten.com | Submitted by: Editor [So, uh, a power outage killed some of our servers on Friday afternoon. Most machines returned to service without complaining... But not the Daily Rotten server. The thing would run for a while then die, usually when I was in the can or trying to take a nap between failures. After beating the shit out of the machine in front of the other servers, everybody fell back into line. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Discuss whatever you like here, I suggest plans for world domination or favorite recipes.] Read article... Comments (182)