Daily Rotten Archives March 9, 2007 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Mr. Tweeker Goes Shopping AZ Central | Submitted by: Raygunyouth "A Chandler man has been arrested after his condominium caught fire while he was cooking methamphetamine in a toaster oven, authorities said." ... "He unsuccessfully attempted to stop the fire with water and window cleaner. He then went to Wal-Mart to buy a fire extinguisher." Read article... Comments (139) Drink up! News Corporation | Submitted by: Night Light "A Melbourne barmaid who allegedly served a patron a shot of cleaning fluid has been charged." Read article... Comments (36) Pearl Harbor Day Massacre Time | Submitted by: ZebraBob "The day before the Congressional hearings, Michael Battle, the Justice Department official who had made the telephone calls to dismiss six of the eight prosecutors, announced he was leaving his job. The Department described the sudden departure as long planned, having nothing to do with the controversial terminations he had been required to carry out." Read article... Comments (47) Flash Mob St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: Night Light "That boy's friend, a female student in the 10th grade, told the driver that she would show him her chest if he gave back the drink. According to students' accounts to investigators, the driver smiled and pointed to the bus security camera." Read article... Comments (82) Car-Eating Rats Town Online | Submitted by: blondenerd "The rats invading Cambridge aren’t just snacking on leftover trash anymore." Read article... Comments (21) Second Amendment rights returned to DC residents BREITBART | Submitted by: anonymous "A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias." Read article... Comments (53) One (1) kidney = Six (6) months WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: ZebraBob "Inmates in South Carolina could soon find that a kidney is worth 180 days." Read article... Comments (40) Let's Dance, Grandpa Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: MotherMarvin "All of that Florida sun must be getting to Maine snowbird Roland Fortin. The 91-year-old has laid down a challenge to box fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who's 92." ... Funny: "It'd be a gentleman's fight, obviously." Read article... Comments (9) Film is a Crime Tacoma News Tribune | Submitted by: MonkMonk "Internal affairs detectives are investigating an incident in which a Tacoma police officer told a college student he couldn’t use his video camera near the Port of Tacoma, the site of anti-war protests this week." Read article... Comments (20) Tard Jolted Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: lookout "Most of the time, if he starts acting up and beating his head, we just show it to him and that's sufficient," Fran Bernstein said. "We had a judge sign an order saying it was OK to do with proper care, to let him live a decent life. The whole point of doing this was to protect him." ... Also: High School Read article... and This article... Comments (37) Wait your turn! Wire Services | Submitted by: synesthesia "A Paraguayan man walked free on Wednesday after spending 19 years in prison without ever being tried." Read article... Comments (12) Man accused of giving STD to five-year-old KGBT-TV 4 Harlingen | Submitted by: Sinthyia "Twenty-three-year-old Daniel Ramirez Jr. is accused of sexually assaulting a 5-year-old and possibly giving her a sexually transmitted disease. That is the mother's main fear, as a result of abuse her little girl may now have a serious infection." Read article... Comments (30) Good defense, dude BBC | Submitted by: kurestrikeone "A husband accused of killing his wife and three children says he blanked out and woke up in a bath with the murder weapon in his hand." ... Also: I'm going to Disney World! Read article... and This article... Comments (14) Whatever became of the zipless fuck AP | Submitted by: ZebraBob Hookups, she adds, which she rejected for herself long ago but some of her friends still embrace, "are like Thanksgiving for guys. They don't have to do anything to get sex!" And she bemoans the amount of time fellow students can spend on hookups: "It can be like a full-time job." Read article... Comments (26) Land of Fruits and Nuts CBS-TV 2 Los Angeles | Submitted by: bigbuttehead During the arrests, one man reportedly told officers, "thank you for arresting us, it's about time. This is not right for us to be doing this." Read article... Comments (707) Whirlpool of Hell southwalesargus.co.uk | Submitted by: Sandy71 "After an inquest into her death yesterday, her parents Alan and Kim Harris described their heartache at watching their "bubbly and polite" daughter spiral into a world of drugs and crime. And they issued a warning to other youngsters not to get involved in drugs." ... Also: Pay your TV fee, I'd hit that Read article... and This... and This... Comments (28) Friday Evening Free-for-All: The Stereoscopic Skin Clinic Rotten | Submitted by: Soylent [Ha: Tugboats are not like that] Read article... Comments (747)