Daily Rotten Archives February 11, 2007 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Fined for Erecting Snow Boner Cambridge News | Submitted by: anonymous "Police fined a Cambridge student £80 - for making a 4ft phallus in [Thursday's] snow. John Knowles built a snow penis in his lunch-break on Parker's Piece [Thursday] and was pleased when crowds gathered to admire his handiwork and passing motorists beeped their horns in appreciation." Read article... Comments (49) Rapists Bashed The Age | Submitted by: redrubberballs[salty] "Two brothers serving time in a NSW jail for a series of gang rapes have been bashed by eight other inmates, leaving one of them in a critical condition." Read article... Comments (59) Stoned to Death CNN | Submitted by: ikthool "Two Italian women were killed in a brutal attack on a Cape Verde resort island, and one of them might have been alive when she was buried by her killer [because some dirt was found in her lungs]." ... Witness quote: "It was like a horror film." Read article... Comments (31) Teens get ten years for puppy torture AOL | Submitted by: Snudgey Wuggles "Two teenage brothers were each sentenced to 10 years in prison for torturing a puppy by cooking it in an oven." ... "A necropsy on the 3-month-old dog found its paws and snout had been duct taped and it had been doused with paint before being placed in the oven, prosecutors said." Read article... Comments (70) MOO Sheboygan Press | Submitted by: DystopiaNoir "A truck driver distracted by a digital music player overturned his semitrailer early this morning on Interstate 43, spilling nearly 40 tons of cow intestines and bones." Read article... Comments (34) Slap-happy Toronto Star | Submitted by: athenstexman "A judge has broken new legal ground by ruling that a man who admitted to slapping and neglecting his frail elderly mother, allowing her to lie in squalor for days, is guilty of manslaughter in her death. It is believed to be the first time in Canada that elder abuse has been declared an indirect cause of manslaughter." Read article... Comments (17) Return of the American Bandit London Observer | Submitted by: Geto Gladiator "The names may have changed, but the grand tradition of American bank robbers like Machine Gun Kelly, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson is alive and well and enjoying a revival. Now meet the Paparazzi Bandit, Panama Jack and the Harry Caray Bandit who robs banks dressed as a much-loved American sports announcer." Read article... Comments (15) Operation Midnight Climax Redux Edmonton Sun | Submitted by: Crazy Quagga Prostitutes, drugs, and coerced behavioral studies: "Many ethical questions are involved in this, namely procuring the use of marginalized women who are valued so little," the whistle-blower [said]. Read article... Comments (19) Teacher accused of snorting coke in class Jacksonville First Coast News | Submitted by: Sinthyia "Lewiston Police say they found trace amounts of a white powder in the classroom. They say they later went to Donatelli's Lewiston home where she admitted to using cocaine in front of the students." Read article... Comments (22) Didn't see that coming Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "The extrasensory perception lab at Princeton University will be shuttered at the end of the month. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory will close after 28 years of studying ESP and telekinesis, research that embarrassed university officials and outraged the scientific community." Read article... Comments (41) Get hung on fish hooks for $600 San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Night Light Allen Falkner likes to tickle his students with thoughts of trauma. "Somebody's skin is going to tear tomorrow," he said. "Hopefully." Read article... Comments (19) Granny Stalking WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: anonymous "A registered sex offender in Orange County, Fla., is accused of stalking an elderly woman and performing sex acts on her clothes." ... "Detectives said he outlined the activities in a diary." Read article... Comments (12) Unintentional overdoses all the rage CNN | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray "Unintentional fatal drug overdoses in the United States nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004, overtaking falls to become the nation's second-leading cause of accidental death, behind automobile crashes, the government reported." ... "OxyContin has been blamed for hundreds of deaths across the country in recent years, becoming such a scourge in Appalachia that it is known as hillbilly heroin." Read article... Comments (11) Dog Fucker Arrested Macon Telegraph | Submitted by: redrubberballs[salty] "A Macon man has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty after failing to get medical care for a severely injured dog, according to a Macon police report." ... "[Police] said a rape kit has been conducted on the dog to search for human DNA evidence." Read article... Comments (19) Raped in a porta-potty Oregon Live | Submitted by: redrubberballs[salty] "That man, right there." Read article... Comments (21) Dumped on Skid Row AZ Central | Submitted by: azdollarbill "A hospital van dropped off a paraplegic man on Skid Row, allegedly leaving him crawling in the street with nothing more than a soiled gown and a broken colostomy bag, police said." ... "Police said the incident was a case of homeless dumping and were questioning officials from the hospital." Read article... Comments (19) Unfit for Duty Hartford Courant | Submitted by: New World Order "U.S. soldiers in Iraq are still killing themselves at high rates, although the military says it is trying harder to screen troops for mental illnesses." ... Perhaps, as a chaplain says, "the pressures of the Army are greater than ever." Read article... Comments (29) Tough-guy optician assaults 75-year-old reporter KEYE-TV | Submitted by: Cody Garrett "A Toronto optician has been charged with assaulting a 75-year-old CityTV reporter in Toronto, Canada, according to CityTV." ... "CityTV reported that Plimmer was later arrested by the police, and now faces one charge of assault and one charge of assault with a weapon. The optician is now out on bail." Read article... Comments (20) Voyeur loves wet soapy college boys WTHR-TV 13 Indianapolis | Submitted by: Flossy666 "Indiana University students, faculty and staff are on the alert after police found secretly recorded videotape taken inside a men's locker room and shower on campus. Investigators caught a 40-year-old electronics employee with a camera sitting in a gym bag." ... Also: This is how we do it Read article... and This article... Comments (17) Sunday Morning Free-for-All: Bad Bird The Press | Submitted by: anonymous "The parrot, which belongs to Ms Bedford's lodger and lifelong friend, Vinnie James, is known to squawk out a string of expletives, along with rude sayings like show us your knickers, and children's nursery rhymes like Pop Goes The Weasel." Read article... Comments (389)