Daily Rotten Archives March 3, 2006 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 this bike is a pipe bomb BREITBART | Submitted by: tsentsen "Police blocked streets around the restaurant and the Columbus police bomb squad came from about 65 miles away. The bomb experts hit the bike with a high-pressure spray of water, then pried it apart with a hydraulic device normally used to rescue accident victims trapped in cars, [authorities] said. Once they had it open, they saw there was no bomb." Read article... Comments (55) A day without child abuse story like day without sun South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by: oddser5050 "I know we're supposed to be police officers and all that, but ... " said Detective Steven Hoover of the Broward Sheriff's Office, trailing off. "Whew ... Wow ... The bottom line is it's a 2-year-old boy, and that state I found him in was not a very good state." Read article... Comments (49) Kidnapped, Robbed, Raped, Dumped Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: aging disgracefully "For the past 16 months a 53-year-old woman has lived with the memory of how she was kidnapped at knifepoint from the parking lot of a Carmichael hospital, robbed, sexually assaulted, held captive for about four hours, then dumped in a muddy slough where her throat was slit and she was set on fire." [Can't login? Use BugMeNot.] Read article... Comments (28) You Have All the Pie I Want to Eat Orange County Weekly | Submitted by: hieronymus anonymous Deck: Steve here. I’m about 45 minutes from you and I work about 15 min from you. Decoy minor: Wow. Kewl . . . U know I am 13? Deck: Yeah . . . Rocky Road ice cream rules. Decoy: lol Deck: I just share your love of good ice cream. Yummm. Read article... Comments (129) The case of the telltale tattoo Boston Herald | Submitted by: anonymous "A Framingham man arrested in May on gun charges after police found an exact tattoo of the weapon, down to the serial number, on his hip was sentenced to five years in prison after he pleaded guilty to 10 charges." Read article... Comments (22) Too Gay For You MSNBC | Submitted by: Bitter Cynic "A small-town police chief was accused in a federal lawsuit Thursday of stopping a would-be rescuer from performing CPR on a gay heart attack victim because he assumed the ailing man had HIV and posed a health risk." Read article... Comments (58) Whole Lotta Love South Florida Sun-Sentinel | Submitted by: oddser5050 "Trammell, 34, claims that the couples engaged in various sex acts for hours that night, until Merola's boyfriend, Greg Winterbottom, wanted to leave, McRoberts said. Winterbottom said the party ended after a brief period, when Merola became visibly repulsed by the then 460-pound Trammell, according to McRoberts." Read article... Comments (38) Nipple pincher gets juvenile detention fortwayne.com | Submitted by: Devil_Ann "A teen who pinched and twisted another boy's nipple while standing in line at a deli has been sentenced to four days in juvenile detention because he refused to write a letter that explained his actions." Read article... Comments (45) Bastards will ticket anyone CBS 42 | Submitted by: Devil_Ann "Police in Peoria now say three parking tickets and a tow-away sticker had been placed on the sport utility vehicle in which a dead man's body was found last week." Read article... Comments (23) Satan's son gets 11 life terms BBC | Submitted by: madcow2 "He agreed to help investigators solve the killings, in return for guarantees that he would not face the death penalty. However the total number of sick and elderly patients he killed is uncertain, because he could not remember all the details, and in some cases medical records have been destroyed. By his own reckoning, it was between 30 and 40 people." ... "He was a demon from the lowest depths of hell." Read article... Comments (19) Revenge of the Nerds Indianapolis Star | Submitted by: oddser5050 "These kids were mad at student athletes for making fun of them," the sheriff said. "That's one of the motives that has surfaced. They were considering a hostage situation and taking over the entire school." Read article... Comments (31) Cannibal film banned in Germany BBC | Submitted by: Phatlor "A German court has banned the screening of a film based on the case of self-confessed cannibal Armin Meiwes." ... "The court ruled that Meiwes' rights as an individual outweighed artistic freedom and that he should not become the object of a horror film." Read article... Comments (15) No legs one arm but feeling strong New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: Peter K "Chris Fromont is feeling strong, his wife says, despite losing both his legs and an arm in a tree shredder last week." Read article... Comments (27) You can keep your hat on KXII | Submitted by: HereNow "When Officer Melson arrived he went to the area where the man was last seen. Officer Melson looked through some bushes and saw a man standing in a small cleared area north of the pool and jogging trail. The man was not wearing any clothes but was wearing a blue cap." Read article... Comments (14) Death Row in Japan Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: anonymous "Akahori remembers his legs collapsing under him, that five guards had to drag him from his cell. He remembers the nervous whispering when the guards suddenly realized they had come to hang the wrong man. It was Yamamoto they wanted. In the next cell." Read article... Comments (21) Man bungles four attempts at killing wifey Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: Rockspin (loves the boobies) "Robert Franklin Holcombe was really good at spending money, but really bad at trying to kill his wife. First, he broke a natural gas line to the water heater, hoping it would cause an explosion. Then, he tried pumping the house full of carbon monoxide by leaving a running car in the garage. After that, he tried poison — twice." Read article... Comments (14) Oh, what a night WGAL | Submitted by: TG "The lawyer for a State College man charged with the murder of a man found bludgeoned to death in his home said it could be a matter of self-defense." ... "Police said Rogers said he woke up to find himself on top of the victim." Read article... Comments (7) Pay too much, raise an alarm Scripps Howard News Service | Submitted by: anonymous "What got him so upset might seem trivial to some people who have learned to accept small infringements on their freedom as just part of the way things are in this age of terror-fed paranoia. It's that "everything changed after 9/11" thing. But not Walter. "We're a product of the '60s," he said. "We believe government should be way away from us in that regard." Read article... Comments (36) Hey cuz, join in the fun Green Bay Press-Gazette | Submitted by: Capitalistswine "Dassey will make an initial appearance today in Manitowoc County Circuit Court on charges of being a party to first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and first-degree sexual assault." [In that order?] Read article... Comments (13) Fried Hamster statesmanjournal.com | Submitted by: DodgerDean "Investigators learned that a 3-year-old girl visiting her grandmother was observing a hamster in its cage in the garage. The hamster cage was placed on a hot plate that was plugged in. The girl turned on the hot plate and the hamster cage caught fire, and fire spread to the rest of the garage." Read article... Comments (21) Beer Bellies Save Lives Forbes | Submitted by: Devil_Ann "Moderately overweight males are more likely to survive serious car accidents than either the thin or the very fat. Apparently, a bit of extra padding -- but not too much -- provides extra protection, according to the study." ... "For reasons that aren't clear, women don't get the same protection from extra weight: Being fat, thin or in-between didn't affect their likelihood of dying in a car accident, the study found." Read article... Comments (31)