Daily Rotten Archives January 3, 2007 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Smash-and-Grab Mannequin Fetishist Faces Life MSNBC | Submitted by: nice marmot "A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a stiff sentence for his latest arrest." ... "The potential life sentence is because prosecutors charged him as a habitual offender." ... "He had been out of prison for less than a week [before smashing] a window at a cleaning-supply company to get at a female mannequin dressed in a black and white French maid's uniform." Read article... Comments (81) Nothing to see here folks CNN | Submitted by: ikthool "Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," Cory said. "That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low (cloud) ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things." Read article... Comments (83) I only have eyes for moo BBC | Submitted by: kuremoo "One had what has been described as a Mohican-style haircut." Read article... Comments (35) Not Helping San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Graehme de Parke, Esq. "Two arrests were booked today following a fatal shooting in East Palo Alto on Friday in which two suspects shot at each other in the act of defending two women in a fight, their bullets instead hitting both women, killing one." Read article... Comments (28) Slip Slidin' Away WCBS-TV | Submitted by: anonymous "He slipped through the bars on Christmas Eve," said Svein-Erik Jacobsen, operation leader for the Oest-Finnmark Police District. The unusual escape made national news in Norway on Wednesday. Also: The Opposite Problem Read article... and This article... Comments (27) Mean Girls MSNBC | Submitted by: anonymous "But the most infamous photo of all was taken in a Condoms To Go store. Five smiling cheerleaders dressed in uniform posed with large candles shaped like penises. At least one of them appeared to be simulating fellatio." ... Quote from a lawyer: "It would be an overstatement to describe any of the photographs as pornographic, but it would be an understatement to describe them as harmless high jinks." Read article... Comments (69) Lose Ten Ugly Pounds Fast News 24 South Africa | Submitted by: Hubito Machogrande "A holiday job at a store in Cape Town ended in a horrible death for a Hanover Park teenager when he stuck his head out of a half-open goods lift door to see why it was not working..." Read article... Comments (35) Dad-of-the-Year on the run KHOU-TV 11 Houston | Submitted by: anonymous "Alleged victims of a suspect local police call one of the worst child predators they’ve ever seen said it will take an international manhunt to bring him to justice." Read article... Comments (22) EVERYBODY PANIC Washington Post | Submitted by: anonymous "Boys and girls reported similar rates of binge drinking -- 67 percent and 61 percent, respectively. And among the students who engaged in binge drinking, 69 percent reported doing so multiple times in the past 30 days." Read article... Comments (28) Strange Brew Fox News | Submitted by: The Elegant One "A 51-year-old Emmonak woman died after drinking antifreeze she mistook for home brew, Alaska State Troopers said." Read article... Comments (37) Library gives up Santa Rosa Press Democrat | Submitted by: deathgiraffe "Every afternoon at Maplewood Middle School's final bell, dozens of students pour across Baker Street to the public library. Some study quietly. Others, library officials say, fight, urinate on the bathroom floor, scrawl graffiti on the walls, talk back to librarians or refuse to leave when asked. One recently threatened to burn down the branch library. Librarians call the police, sometimes twice a day." Read article... Comments (75) Club Gitmo Washington Post | Submitted by: Mohammed "They acknowledged that soldiers and interrogators had kicked the Koran, had stood on it and, in one case, had inadvertently sprayed urine on a copy." ... "In a previously unreported allegation, one interrogator bragged to an FBI agent that he had forced a prisoner to listen to Satanic black metal music for hours, then dressed as a Catholic priest before baptizing him." Read article... Comments (176) Get your lying-in-the-road permit today WCNC | Submitted by: Night Light In almost a third of the deaths, the official cause was listed as "lying illegally in road." In those cases, the pedestrian often had been drinking, safety officials said. Also: BOOM Read article... and This article... Comments (404) With picture of demented Keebler Elf-looking dude CNN | Submitted by: FaerieBad "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that." Read article... Comments (63) "You know what's going on..." San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: anonymous "...I'm cooking meth." Read article... Comments (450)