Daily Rotten Archives January 9, 2008 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 "propping him up and keeping him from flopping from side to side" San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Ms. Crappy Pants "Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said." Read article... Comments (481) Fifty Car Pileup WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: anonymous "I did all I could do but I watched a man burn to death today and I heard others screaming and crying." Read article... Comments (44) Decomposing Children Lose Home CNN | Submitted by: Raygunyouth "The deaths of four children whose bodies were discovered Wednesday in a Washington home are being treated as suspected homicides, but the remains are so badly decomposed, investigators can't determine how the victims died..." Read article... Comments (21) Mark of the Beast KIRO-TV 7 Seattle | Submitted by: anonymous "A man who believed he bore the mark of the beast amputated one of his hands, put it in a microwave and summoned authorities..." Read article... Comments (65) "Room 143 With The Lights Off" The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: JohnnyAloha Texas teacher charged in sex assault of 16-year-old male student Read article... Comments (41) Green pig gives birth to glowing piglets MSNBC | Submitted by: dw573 "A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported." Read article... Comments (34) "an extensive infestation" BBC | Submitted by: Andrew The Great The court heard, she found: Rat droppings on food products and bird faeces on cans of milk A large amount of food spilled out of its packaging onto the floor A dead rat under a pallet of cookie mix Rat droppings on bags of crisps Evidence rats had gnawed food including chocolate and ice cream Read article... Comments (19) Humping Tag KMGH-TV 7 Denver | Submitted by: snatch "...four counts of sex assault on a child with a pattern of abuse, four counts of sex assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, four counts of sex assault on a child -- no force, and one count of sex assault on a child -- with force." Read article... Comments (28) Tossed off Wire Services | Submitted by: texasman1000 "A day after reporting his four young children were missing, a shrimp fisherman broke down and confessed that he threw them off an 80-foot-high bridge to their deaths..." Read article... Comments (33) Hammered BBC | Submitted by: Munchkin "Someone can tell me something and I can forget it," he said. The teenager also testified that the first hammer blow was so hard it caused him to see stars and blurred his vision. Read article... Comments (33) Do not hide knives in your pants Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: Morbid Librarian "A man who hid hunting knives in his pants to try to steal them from a western Michigan store tripped while fleeing and stabbed himself in the abdomen..." Read article... Comments (27) Missing Hiker Found CNN | Submitted by: Niqqi_Sixx "A young hiker whose body was found in northern Georgia was probably alive for three days before she died from blunt force trauma to the head, authorities said Tuesday. Meredith Emerson, 24, was decapitated after her death, an autopsy also found." Read article... Comments (29) Chicken is Delicious News Corporation | Submitted by: anonymous "Gruesome footage of Jamie Oliver electrocuting a chicken and suffocating male chicks is to be aired on television this week." Read article... Comments (42) Cookies Tossed KCTV-TV 5 Kansas City | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "She said inspectors were planning Wednesday to inspect the cookies to be sure they're safe to eat." Read article... Comments (34)