Daily Rotten Archives January 2, 2008 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Head impaled on fence Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by: Alex "A 21-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital with neck lacerations after he impaled himself on a piece of metal while trying to gain entry to a beach-side New Year's Eve event by scaling a fence..." Read article... Comments (414) Blam! WPLG-TV 10 Fort Lauderdale | Submitted by: Flossy666 "An 11-year-old boy who was hiding behind an old piece of furniture at an Opa-Locka apartment was shot and killed after his neighbor celebrated the New Year by shooting a gun into the trash." Read article... Comments (75) Fatal Dunk Edmonton Sun | Submitted by: cnrl cocksucker "The man, believed to be between 30 and 40 years old, was seen and photographed by many in the crowd wearing a large florescent green inflatable octopus." Read article... Comments (30) House Go Boom Aftenposten | Submitted by: FireyFlyingPubes "The blast lifted the house off its foundations and moved the outer wall several centimeters." ... "That is bullshit. We only used normal fireworks." Read article... Comments (21) New Christmas Bike Crime Library | Submitted by: snatcunt "She was only supposed to ride on the sidewalk." Read article... Comments (41) Too Hot to Handle CNN | Submitted by: larry "Firefighters found a second victim Tuesday inside a condominium building destroyed by a fire so intense crews were ordered away before they could find out if anyone was trapped." Read article... Comments (32) Shot with high-powered rifle WYFF-4 | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "In the midst of an extreme drought, a North Carolina town has lost hundreds of thousands of gallons of water that leaked from bullet holes discovered in the town’s water tower." Read article... Comments (46) Beauty Queen Busted KPHO-TV 5 Phoenix | Submitted by: Tom Violence "A beauty pageant winner and law school student clerking for a federal judge faces charges that she kidnapped and tortured an ex-boyfriend." ... More from Tucson Citizen: "Police also seized a butcher knife, blue plastic gloves, diamond earrings and assorted other items, including the book How to Win Friends and Influence People." Read article... and This article... Comments (41) FBI still working D.B. Cooper case CNN | Submitted by: anonymous "The FBI is making a new stab at identifying mysterious skyjacker D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of an airliner in 1971 and vanished." Read article... and This article... Comments (46) Chief Constable of North Wales: Legalisation "inevitable" BBC | Submitted by: happy new year mg "Ecstasy is a remarkably safe substance -- it's far safer than aspirin," he said. Read article... Comments (27)