Daily Rotten Archives April 3, 2008 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Stop! Stop! Stop! Washington Post | Submitted by: S. Frued, (snorting) "But he just ignored me. He didn't stop. He just kept hurting her." The boy said he grabbed a knife and swung, slashing 64-year-old Salomon Noubissie across the neck and opening an artery. Noubissie was fatally wounded. Read article... Comments (515) Bloodbath Canada.com | Submitted by: Fort McMurray CityWorkerGangBang "I hear boom boom - non-stop. I looked up by the back door. . . . I assumed it was firecrackers." ... "It was smokey coming from the kitchen. I seen everyone on the floor." Read article... Comments (30) Abuse most foul The Australian | Submitted by: furpo "Nothing prepared me for the foul undercurrent of society revealed in the evidence to the inquiry," the commissioner wrote, prefacing his 564-page report released yesterday. "I had no understanding of the widespread prevalence of the sexual abuse of children in South Australia and its frequent devastating and often lifelong consequences for many of them." Read article... Comments (25) Poo Fire Attack News Corporation | Submitted by: anonymous "The blaze caught on to the curtains and travelled up into the ceiling, causing $15,000 worth of damage before fire fighters put it out." Read article... Comments (13) Unintentional Porn Channel Stuff NZ | Submitted by: Alorria "A technician at a French Polynesian television station has been suspended from work after accidentally screening a porn movie he thought he was watching alone." ... "The error happened about 2pm, 20 minutes after a religious programme on the channel ended." Read article... Comments (24) Playing Firefighter WIS-TV 10 Columbia | Submitted by: anonymous Chief Davis says a man showed up posing as a firefighter and broke a hose, causing danger. "It was pulled across the fire and burning embers and it actually burned a hole into the hose," says Chief Davis. ... "At that point, firefighters realized he had no relation to the fire service." Read article... Comments (24) Nobody Notices Jailbreak Wire Services | Submitted by: lose something? "Law enforcement officials are trying to understand how a convicted felon managed to escape from a privately owned jail across the street from the police headquarters without anyone noticing his absence for a full day." Read article... Comments (22) Bleach + Mountain Dew WKMG-TV 6 Orlando | Submitted by: Flossy666 "A recent survey that found some Florida teens believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew will stop pregnancy has prompted lawmakers to push for an overhaul of sex education in the state." Read article... Comments (70) Case of Mistaken Identity Daily Mail | Submitted by: SniffyPubes Heroin mistaken for Cocaine: "The drug caused organ failure resulting in brain damage through oxygen starvation and he died two months later." Read article... Comments (27) 3 out of 10 are dropping out Wire Services | Submitted by: ferret "Three out of 10 US public school students do not graduate from high school, and major city school districts only graduate one out of two students, according to a study released Tuesday." Read article... Comments (49) Wal-Mart plays nice CNN | Submitted by: ikthool "A former Wal-Mart employee who suffered severe brain damage in a traffic accident won't have to pay back the company for the cost of her medical care, Wal-Mart told the family Tuesday." Read article... Comments (27) Cosmetic Castration Reuters | Submitted by: (The Late) Liberace, suffering in Piano_Hell "Thailand's health chiefs barred hospitals and clinics on Wednesday from castrating would-be ladyboys amid growing concern about the operation being seen as a cheap and quick alternative to a full sex-change." Read article... Comments (23) Cane Toad Killing Day CNN | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Obviously we're not idiots. We understand a lot people will be highly reluctant to fill their fridges and freezers with dying cane toads, but at the moment that is the only humane way that we can recommend." Read article... Comments (23) School Crotch Inspector Reason Magazine | Submitted by: anonymous "There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who think it's perfectly reasonable to strip-search a 13-year-old girl suspected of bringing ibuprofen to school, and the kind who think those people should be kept as far away from children as possible." Read article... Comments (40) My Family Is Dead San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: anonymous "They're dead. I thought they were just kidding around. I thought it was a joke. It's not a joke. They're bloody and beaten to death," Danielle said. "They're dead. My family is dead. What else do you want me to say? I don't know who did it, I don't know how it happened, all I know is that they're all dead!" Read article... Comments (14) 19 New York Times | Submitted by: doczzz "It has been one of the more lingering questions surrounding the shooting of Sean Bell: How can anyone sustain 19 gunshot wounds and live to tell about it?" Read article... Comments (21) Playing Dead Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: You Only Die Once "Police and the Crespo Funeral Home said Wednesday they had no idea what the 23-year-old Spanish man was trying to steal..." Read article... Comments (14) Hot Dog Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by: acetylene "South Korea's capital has always been ambivalent about dogmeat. To avoid adverse publicity before the 1988 Olympics, the city banned dogmeat and snakemeat as abhorrent food. The order is now largely ignored and an estimated 500 dogmeat restaurants operate in Seoul alone." Read article... Comments (24) Backpack Hanging The Columbian | Submitted by: general "In the backpack, an officer found about a dozen 40-ounce bottles full of beer..." Read article... Comments (14) "A Wonderful Cook" Daily Mail | Submitted by: RatsPubes "[S]cientists were still able to find clearly visible blobs of the green poison, which can cause internal bleeding, in the fruitcake." Read article... Comments (9) Flush Twice MyFox Houston | Submitted by: Bilywtchdrdotcom "Child Protective Services will investigate the welfare of a 14-year-old student who birthed an infant inside a Baytown middle school restroom but allegedly drowned it during an attempt to flush it down the toilet." Read article... Comments (23) "mass criminalisation of millions of young people" BBC | Submitted by: anonymous "Downing St has signalled that Gordon Brown remains determined to tighten the law on cannabis - against the advice of an independent panel of experts." Read article... Comments (27) Toddlers can no longer marry in Arkansas Minneapolis Star Tribune | Submitted by: anonymous "Arkansas' marriage-age crisis is over." Read article... Comments (17) Frozen Food London Telegraph | Submitted by: ChiliPubes "The danger of attack by polar bears is ever-present: signs outside most shops ask you to kindly leave your rifle outside." Read article... Comments (21)