Daily Rotten Archives February 24, 2008 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Beware of Fairy Cakes Daily Mail | Submitted by: Pubesonfilm "Someone suggested seeing how quickly they could eat the mound of fairy cakes that were left." ... "But suddenly one of the bar staff started choking." Read article... Comments (486) High Level of Violence Canadian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "Police are having a hard time identifying the body of a man found near Chestermere because it went through a high level of violence and is missing the head..." Read article... Comments (32) Murder by Wasp Modesto Bee | Submitted by: anonymous "Angela Nellany didn't admit that she tried to kill her estranged husband with a can of wasps. Friday, she pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon." Read article... Comments (46) Clever Workaround Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: anonymous Having patrons become "actors" when entire bar is turned into a "stage" started as a one-night experiment 2 weeks ago, but now it's becoming a way around state law. Read article... Comments (28) Stupid Ravers Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by: anonymous "Heavy surf pounded around the party, with waves washing at times onto the dance floor lit with strobing coloured lights powered by a generator that also powered the music." Read article... Comments (23) Free Ride Myrtle Beach Online | Submitted by: myrtle the turtle Suspect stole deputy's car: [Police] said Williams hit the cruiser's top speed of more than 140 mph during the chase. "From what we've seen so far, he reached that several times," he said. Read article... Comments (25) $1.2 billion dollar smoke'n hole Wire Services | Submitted by: texasman1000 "A board of officers will investigate what caused the bat-like aircraft to crash at 10:30 a.m., shortly after taking off from a runway. It was the first crash of a B-2 bomber, said Capt. Sheila Johnston, a spokeswoman for Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia." Read article... Comments (56) Learned Behaviors KMGH-TV 7 Denver | Submitted by: Flossy666 "Police say a 4-year-old girl demonstrated to them how to smoke marijuana from a joint, a pipe and a bong -- and learned the techniques from her mother." ... Also: Strip-searched by the lunch lady Read article... and This article... Comments (30) Japan Man Arrested CNN | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "The crime caused an international uproar, in part because he blamed the 1981 attack on robbers, reinforcing Japanese perceptions of America as a violent country." Read article... Comments (30) The Geek Defense Washington Post | Submitted by: anonymous If Hans Reiser testifies in his own defense, his attorney said the risk is that "this guy is so weird, it's a little tricky to wrap yourself around it if you're a juror." He described his client as borderline for Asperger's Syndrome, a condition that self-described geeks call unusually common in the computer industry, combining as it does an exceptional ability to focus with an inability to read social cues. Read article... Comments (42) Pakistan blocks YouTube BBC | Submitted by: Vomit "Pakistan has blocked access to the popular YouTube website because of content deemed offensive to Islam." Read article... Comments (31) Hope he got to sample the harem Sympatico/MSN | Submitted by: Moulay Rachid "A Moroccan man has been sentenced to three years in prison for usurping the identity of a prince, but he only created a fake profile on Facebook as a joke, his sister told CTV.ca Saturday." Read article... Comments (24) TSG Mug Shut Roundup The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: anonymous "While most of the mug shots in this end-of-the-week photo potpourri are self-explanatory, here are a few important notes: 1) The guy's temporary tattoo in photo #2 advertises a band. 2) The bow-tied gentlemen in photo #4 are unrelated and were busted in different states. 3) The ink on the female arrestee in photo #7 is permanent. Permanently fabulous. 4) We can only assume that the perp in photo #10 has an expectorating problem." Read article... Comments (38)