Daily Rotten Archives January 1, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Paramedics Ignore Man "Not Worth Saving" London Telegraph | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out "Apparently their first reaction was to comment on the untidy and unkempt state of the house. Then they are heard to comment on seeing Mr Baker and allegedly saying that it was not worth bothering to try to carry out resuscitation to try to save him. They then are heard discussing what to tell ambulance control and allegedly decide to say that he was already dead when they arrived... Obviously the crew did not realise that the phone was still connected and, of course, the 999 call was all recorded on tape." Read article... Comments (1447) Steward Pummelled By High-Altitude Shitstorm WOWT-Omaha | Submitted by: nude koln "It began with a middle-aged man leaving the plane's lavatory covered in his own feces. Oh, it was awful. It was worse than that... I hear all of this ruckus and this yelling and I kind of turned around and the poor flight attendant is on his back and the guy is like punching him and I'm like, oh my gosh." Read article... Comments (482) Abstinence Pledges Will Have Sex, But Unsafely Washington Post | Submitted by: onthemac Law of unintended consequences, although anyone with half a brain already knew this would happen: "Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today." Read article... Comments (55) Zunes Celebrate New Year with Mass Suicide MSNBC | Submitted by: anonymous "Users of the 30GB model began reporting problems on a Microsoft message board early Wednesday. Customers similarly are saying that their digital music players get stuck on the Zune logo screen as it appears to load, and efforts to unjam the device are mostly fruitless." Read article... Comments (36) The Geocache Terror Chronicles Springfield News Sun | Submitted by: larry "The man drove off when officers arrived. Police found 35-mm film canisters with a metal plate and electrical tape in the post, Lingrell said, and considered it suspicious-looking... Upon opening the canisters, investigators found paper with numbers and the names of players who had found the object written on it." Read article... Comments (23) Family Dog Fetches Armless Baby Fox 10 TV | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "A homeowner called 911 Monday afternoon, when the family's dog (a three-legged dog named Coco) came out of the woods, carrying the body of the newborn [human]... The family whose dog found the body says, it appeared the baby was missing an arm. That has not been confirmed by the Sheriff's Office." Read article... Comments (37) Japanese Man Stays 3mo in Mexican Airport Canoe | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "A Japanese man who had been living in Terminal 1 of the Benito Juarez International Airport since Sept. 2 -- for no apparent reason -- left under equally mysterious circumstances. Authorities searched the terminal for Hiroshi Nohara on Monday but he was nowhere to be found, said an airport official who was not allowed to be quoted by name." Read article... Comments (23) Swedish Bestiality Ring The Local | Submitted by: vlad "Any of the times I did anything with her [the dog] was the one who backed into me and provoked it. She was in heat and made herself available. There were also times later when she didn't want to and then I backed out immediately... [The Donkey Man] has a goat and a couple of donkeys. We tried with a donkey but it didn't work. But we did have sex with the goat." Read article... Comments (27) Saddam's House of Horrors Daily Mail | Submitted by: lord asshole "The museum will showcase torture devices such as a man-shaped metal cage where, in the Iraqi Olympic Centre, Saddam's son Uday used to lock under-performing athletes for weeks at a time -- and set them naked under the burning sun, the metal searing their flesh." Read article... Comments (43) Penis Pictogram Force-Tattooed on Inmate's Back Daytona Beach News-Journal | Submitted by: Jethro Bodine "The men threatened Norman, saying he would get a worse beating unless he allowed them to apply a tattoo, the report shows. Harris told Norman the tattoo would be of a capital and lowercase B... But instead, as Collina held Norman down, Harris -- equipped with a makeshift tattoo kit -- applied a drawing of a penis on the back of the victim's right shoulder, the report shows." Read article... Comments (24) Bats: Big Brains or Big Balls, Not Both Fox News | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out "n the study, Pitnick and colleagues analyzed 334 species of bats and found that in species with promiscuous females, the males had evolved larger testes but had relatively small brains... In some bat species, the male's testes can make up as much as 8.5 percent of body mass. Of all mammals, bats have the widest range of testes mass: between 0.12 percent and 8.5 percent of body mass." At the high end, assuming average US adult male of roughly 190 pounds, such testicles would be over 16 bat-pounds. Read article... Comments (18) Reverse Engineering the 1918 Flu Wire Services | Submitted by: lord asshole "Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly -- a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia... [Scientists] painstakingly substituted single genes from the 1918 virus into modern flu viruses and, one after another, they acted like garden-variety flu, infecting only the upper respiratory tract." Read article... Comments (20) The International Debutante Ball London Telegraph | Submitted by: methlabia "Forty-seven young women donned white gowns and greeted guests at the International Debutante Ball, a holdover from an era when the daughters of the upper crust were presented to society as a preface to meeting suitable mates." Read article... Comments (49)