Daily Rotten Archives January 5, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Fecodiamonds Escape Holocaust Miami Herald | Submitted by: azdollarbill "In 1942, when she was 11, her mother, Rachel, sewed the diamonds into the hem of her skirt before she was taken by the Nazis to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland... Zisblatt's entire family was killed in the gas chambers, and those four diamonds were the last mementoes of them. The only way Irene could keep the diamonds hidden was to swallow and retrieve them over and over again. She did this for 15 months." Read article... Comments (769) Marines: Drunk and Horny, Says Study SF Weekly | Submitted by: kahn "UCSF scientists tested and surveyed 2,157 female U.S. Marine recruits -- out of 2,288 possible respondents -- with an average age of 19. Researchers found that the young women were more than twice as likely as non-military young women to be infected with venereal diseases, And the recruits were prone to engage in behaviors likely to get them sick again." Nice photo. Read article... Comments (300) Girlmeat Found in Guangzhou Refrigerator BBC | Submitted by: Davedou The newspaper quoted another local resident as saying the man had once described human flesh as delicious. The man, who was identified by his nickname A He, is said to be a migrant worker who is thought to be mentally ill. He was described as a recluse who sometimes wore women's clothing and enjoyed watching war films." Read article... Comments (27) Steroids Gave Me Manboobs, Microballs Fox News | Submitted by: gladtheinhaler "Clark, a former LA Rams defensive lineman, used steroids for 20 years. They also took their toll on his private parts, so much so that he embarrassingly had to explain to women what was going on... My balls never really regained their size. They're kind of shriveled." Read article... Comments (31) Raising a Generation of Pansies London Telegraph | Submitted by: Not a homo! "Favourites such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Rapunzel are being dropped by some families who fear children are being emotionally damaged. A third of parents refused to read Little Red Riding Hood because she walks through woods alone and finds her grandmother eaten by a wolf." Read article... Comments (40) Parents Failed To Report Missing Child for 10 Years CNN | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Adam was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said. At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman. The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said... They feel very guilty about not doing that, he said in a telephone interview." Read article... Comments (21) Trooper: Political Meddling in Levi Johnston Case Wire Services | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray "An Alaska drug investigator and the union representing Alaska State Troopers are alleging political meddling in the Sherry Johnston drug case, including a delay in serving the search warrant until after the November election... Johnston is the mother of Levi Johnston, who became known in September when Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, announced their teenage daughter Bristol was pregnant and Levi Johnston was the father. Palin was running for vice president while Sherry Johnston was under investigation. " Read article... Comments (13) Elderly: Shoes Grown Into Her Feet Treasure Coast Newspapers | Submitted by: TCPalm.com "Police were called to the hospital after the paramedics found her unwashed, wearing clothing soaked in urine, severely underweight and emaciated, the report said... Police also noted that the shoes the victim had been wearing had not been removed for a long period of time and had grown into her feet, the report said. Her toenails had taken the shape of her shoes, police said in the report." Read article... Comments (27) Executioner Really Digs His Job Arab News | Submitted by: lord asshole "I fire bullets at the heart from the back of the criminal to make sure he or she dies quickly without prolonging the pain, he said. I have executed two women: an Indonesian maid who killed her employer and a Saudi housewife who killed her husband. He said his first job was the execution of three people who were found guilty of abducting and murdering a child." Read article... Comments (22) Taliban Sharpshooters Seattle Times | Submitted by: lord asshole "Taliban fighters increasingly are deploying precision marksmen to fire on U.S. troops at greater distances throughout opium-producing southern Afghanistan, according to the top two commanders for the southern region... The increased use of marksmen is the latest Taliban shift to asymmetrical warfare and away from confronting U.S. troops in conventional fights, commanders said." Read article... Comments (18) Vatican to Women: Stop Peeing Already Wire Services | Submitted by: ferret "The [contraceptive] pill has for some years had devastating effects on the environment by releasing tonnes of hormones into nature through female urine, said Pedro Jose Maria Simon Castellvi, president of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, in the report." Read article... Comments (23) Ticketmaster Scalping Their Own Tickets Canoe | Submitted by: Mikeisgreen "People who log on to Ticketmaster's website looking to buy tickets for concerts, plays, sports or other special events often find themselves automatically redirected to TicketsNow -- which Ticketmaster purchased in Feb. 2008 for US$265 million -- just minutes after the tickets go on sale." Read article... Comments (12) Man Encounters Wife at Brothel, Now Getting Divorce Reuters | Submitted by: Meanman "A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees... Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town." Read article... Comments (37) Texas Jail Featured Lay-Z-Boy, The Rack MSNBC | Submitted by: ZebraBob "McGaughey said some surveillance cameras' cords had been disconnected; recliners were in cells; some bathrooms and cells could be locked from the inside; and inmates had made partitions out of paper towels to block jailers' views inside their cells. One alarming discovery was a type of rack made of nails, he said." Read article... Comments (9) Knesset Member: Fags Cause Earthquakes London Telegraph | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "Six earthquakes have struck Israel and neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan in recent months, with two coming last week alone. Shlomo Benizri, of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, suggested that the tremors could be stopped through the simple expedient of repealing various liberalising laws on homosexuality that have been passed by the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, in recent years." Read article... Comments (31) Yellowstone Quakes Could Signal Super Volcano Eruption Time | Submitted by: Heinous Anus Cookies "Today, such an explosion -- 1,000 times more powerful than the explosion of Mount St. Helens in 1980 -- would not only cover most of the U.S. with ash but also throw so much dust into the atmosphere that the world's climate could change." Read article... Comments (23) Amtrak Arrests Their Own Contestant Carlos Miller | Submitted by: Flag Hag "Armed with his Canon 5D and his new Lensbaby lens, photographer Duane Kerzic set out to win Amtrak’s annual photo contest this week, hoping to win $1,000 in travel vouchers and have his photo published in Amtrak's annual calendar... The only reason they arrested me was because I refused to delete my images, Kerzic said in a phone interview with Photography is Not a Crime on Friday." Read article... Comments (10) Ketchup Chugalug: Everyone Needs a Hobby Daily Mail | Submitted by: SmokeCanada "I hope to make my family proud... I have to show the family and the community that I am a professional person... People consider me an extraordinary person, not an ordinary person... His records include taking on the world's oldest adoptee, after he legally took custody of his 61-year-old brother-in-law. Guiness also built the tallest sugar cube tower in the world, which stands at 64 inches." Read article... Comments (17)