Daily Rotten Archives February 22, 2007 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 We Are All Doomed Washington Post | Submitted by: Jill Awf "Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the hand-crafted tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans." Read article... Comments (162) NASCAR SUCKS GO HOME Orlando Sentinel | Submitted by: apostropheess "The electronic sign on the side of Interstate 4 is supposed to warn motorists of an upcoming exit." Read article... Comments (55) Holy Roller Rapists CNN | Submitted by: redrubberballs[salty] "The victims' advocates who dogged the Roman Catholic Church over sex abuse by its clergy have now turned their attention to the Southern Baptists, accusing America's largest Protestant denomination of also failing to root out molesters." ... "In the past six months SNAP [Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests] has received reports of about 40 cases of sexual abuse by Southern Baptist ministers -- with some of the incidents dating back many years." Read article... Comments (49) Blogger buggered BBC | Submitted by: kurenoinsultsfrommefromnowon "An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president. Abdel Kareem Soliman's trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt." ... Fellow blogger Amr Gharbeia told the BBC it would not stop Egyptian bloggers from expressing opinions as "it is very difficult to control the blogosphere". Read article... Comments (35) Gone but not forgotten Daily Mail | Submitted by: kurenotcreepyatall All ten fingers, all ten toes and beating heart. Read article... Comments (60) Splash & Grab WBIR-TV 10 Knoxville | Submitted by: anonymous "The crooks take hot coffee or hot chocolate to the counter. They have no intention of paying for it. Instead, its tossed in the face of an un expecting cashier and in some cases police say the victims have been permanently disfigured." Read article... Comments (26) McCokespoon Fox News | Submitted by: akchick "Two artists stirred up some anger with McDonald's last week after marketing a golden replica of a Mickey D's coffee stirrer once popular among drug users." Read article... Comments (50) Ash Wednesday + Porn Messages + Church KOB-TV 4 Albuquerque | Submitted by: Conspiracy Theory "Santa Fe police say an Ash Wednesday service at the cathedral was disrupted by pornographic messages from three CD players duct-taped to the underside of pews." Read article... and This article... Comments (28) Tied blankets do not a rope make AZ Central | Submitted by: ZebraBob "A cab driver arrived home to find his 12-year-old son's body in a courtyard below their fifth-floor apartment, wrapped in blankets tied together like a rope." ... "The boy had learning disabilities." Read article... Comments (35) Terry Nichols sez FBI responsible for Oklahoma City bombing KOTV-TV 6 Tulsa | Submitted by: lookout "Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols now claims a former top official in the FBI was behind the bombing plot. Nichols says in a statement for a federal lawsuit that bomber Timothy McVeigh identified deputy FBI director Larry Potts as the man directing the scheme." Read article... Comments (291) 30-year-old woman gets life for killing foster son BREITBART | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray "A woman was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with parole for killing her 3-year-old developmentally disabled foster son by binding him in blankets and tape and leaving him inside a closet for a weekend." ... "The Carrolls told authorities the boy wandered off or had been snatched from a park in suburban Cincinnati, sparking a search by thousands of volunteers that lasted several days. When authorities began to suspect the story was a ruse, the Carrolls' live-in companion, Amy Baker, told them how the boy died, prosecutors said." Read article... Comments (63) "He's a good dog, you know what I mean?" WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: caloy "The boy ran and jumped into an SUV, but the dog jumped in through an open rear window. The dog, named Fatal, apparently wanted the boy's fried chicken, but instead bit him several times on the legs." Read article... Comments (32) SEX BAT BBC | Submitted by: Sinthyia "Some men are staying awake or sleeping in groups outside their homes. Others are smearing themselves with pig's oil, believing this repels attacks." ... Also: Bonk! Read article... and This article... Comments (38) No more ballsy cars Herald-Mail | Submitted by: apostropheess "Washington County Sheriff's deputy Matthew Bragunier figures that he sees, at least once a day, fake bull genitals flopping from the hitches of pickup trucks. They're only a toy, but they're also unpleasant to look at, said Bragunier, worried what his 2-year-old girl might think someday." Read article... Comments (43) Busted in 3-D KUSA-TV 9 Denver | Submitted by: B DIDDY "Many area parents have expressed sincere concern regarding the chat room as it enables children as young as 11 to create a three-dimensional character using different features such as hair color, clothing choices and so forth. Parents are also concerned because each character has the ability express different actions such as flirty, bashful or angry. Characters can also give different types of hugs and kisses." Read article... Comments (20)