Daily Rotten Archives February 24, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 The other white meat Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Submitted by: anonymous "A clerk at a GetGo station made a horrifying discovery last night after a man walked into the minimart and asked her to heat something wrapped in a paper towel in the store's microwave." ... Late update: Haw-Haw Read article... and This article... Comments (99) Tombstone kicks back WMAQ-TV 5 Chicago | Submitted by: Parkrider "Police in the central Illinois town of Roodhouse said a teen became pinned under a tombstone after tipping it over during a vandalism spree at a local cemetery. Authorities said it took four firefighters to lift a 600-pound gravestone off the 16-year-old boy's leg early Tuesday after he helped knock over that headstone and dozens others." Read article... Comments (71) Greedy funeral home harvesting corpses wroctv.com | Submitted by: Gorg "People's deceased loved ones filled with PVC piping where bones and tissue were allegedly illegally harvested and sold for transplants." ... "I'm looking to get into what's called a long bone donation program. Do you have any interest in participating in this program." Read article... Comments (56) The Animal in You The Stranger | Submitted by: zsoul Some laws come directly from God. There is a thunderbolt, the smoke clears, and there they are, the Commandments on a stone tablet. Most laws, however, do not have their origin in God but in man, which is the case with the law that will soon ban bestiality in the State of Washington. The man who inspired the creation of this earthly commandment is Kenneth Pinyan, a Boeing engineer, who, according to a King County Examiner's report, died on July 2, 2005, due "to acute peritonitis [that resulted from the] perforation of the sigmoid colon during anal intercourse with a horse." Read article... Comments (67) Acid trip pays off eventually BBC | Submitted by: Beez. Coventry. UK. "Three UK ex-servicemen have been given compensation after they were given LSD without their consent in the 1950s. The men volunteered to be guinea pigs at the government research base Porton Down after being told scientists wanted to find a cure for the common cold. But they were given the hallucinogen in mind control tests, and some volunteers had terrifying hallucinations." Read article... Comments (35) Do Not Chomp Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by: anonymous "Maymont employees are mourning the death of the park's two black bears, destroyed yesterday after one of them bit a 4-year-old boy last weekend." ... "Both bears, ages 12 and 9, were euthanized because it was not known which one bit the boy, Maymont officials said. The child and at least one parent were apparently at the rear of the 2-acre bear exhibit Saturday when the child climbed a 4-foot wooden fence into a restricted area and approached the 10-foot chain-link fence that surrounds the bears." Read article... Comments (68) Censored in Germany (Again) Ogrish.com | Submitted by: Chompy the Bot "Aus Rechtsgründen hat Google 3 Ergebnis(se) von dieser Seite entfernt. Weitere Informationen über diese Rechtsgründe finden Sie unter ChillingEffects.org." Read article... Comments (37) New York rejects skyscraper escape pods CNN | Submitted by: Kaiser Wilhelm "This is nuts. This shouldn't have to happen." Read article... Comments (34) BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM Christian Science Monitor | Submitted by: Pee-Pee Poo-Poo "Instead of embracing a citizen's duty to retreat in the face of a physical attack, states may be taking cues from the days of lawless frontier towns, where non-deputized Americans were within their rights to hold the bad guys at bay with the threat of deadly force." Read article... Comments (68) Limitless passion Marin Independent Journal | Submitted by: athenstexman "There are plenty of legendary sports tales about athletes playing through injury, but none match the local legend, Terra Linda High senior wrestler D.J. Saint James." ... "They told me I was getting surgery on my (testicles) and the nurse started to explain to my mom that if I died during surgery, she would be the one to come and tell them," Saint James said. "That's when I started to freak out." Read article... Comments (47)