Daily Rotten Archives January 7, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 4-Year-Old Takes Revenge On Sitter London Telegraph | Submitted by: ButtheadPubes "The child was apparently angry after Mr. Beavers trod on his foot, witnesses said, and stormed off to his bedroom saying he was going to get a gun. Those present assumed he was going to fetch a toy... But the toddler reappeared clasping a shotgun taken from a bedroom cupboard and fired at Mr. Beavers." Read article... Comments (495) Family Fun: Razor-Blade Abortion BBC | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out "The family of a 14-year-old Afghan rape victim face prosecution after her foetus was removed without anaesthetic. The mother and brother of the girl are accused of cutting her open with a razor blade to perform an abortion... [The father] said a dog had bitten her so that people in the area wouldn't know what had really happened." Read article... Comments (27) Suicidal Pelicans Lose Will To Live Seattle Times | Submitted by: azdollarbill "These birds are on the freeway, getting run over... A bunch we've seen have been hit. They've been landing on yards five miles inland. When some of the people have captured them in parking lots, they just sit in the corner. They just go pick them up... Hundreds of birds, disoriented or dead, have been observed across the West Coast." Read article... Comments (25) Thieving Hulk Abandons Used Sex Dolls Cairns Post | Submitted by: furpo "A pervert has twice broken into a Cairns adult shop and had sex with blow-up dolls before abandoning the vinyl vixens in a nearby lane. However, police are on his tail, because the thief left his DNA on a doll and possible fingerprints on its face along with three other inflatable dolls and lubricants... His method of entry is to smash through walls and squeeze through tight holes." Read article... Comments (25) Dignity Lost In Chairlift Malfunction The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: Jean "The mishap apparently occurred after the male skier, 48, and a child boarded a high-speed lift in Vail's Blue Sky Basin. It appears that the chairlift's fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap." [With photos.] Read article... Comments (25) Billionaire Pussies Out of Financial Meltdown Financial Times | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "Adolf Merckle, one of Germany's wealthiest men, committed suicide after weeks of talks with creditors designed to save his businesses from being consumed by disastrous investments and the global financial crisis. The billionaire, 74, was said by his family to have been "broken" by the sight of his business empire, which ranged from pharmaceuticals to cement, crumbling. He died on Monday evening, apparently hit by a train a few hundred metres from his home in southern Germany." Read article... Comments (36) Cocaine Finances Anti-Drug Charity Daily Mail | Submitted by: SnifflyPubes "Karen Stott, whose slick operation was like a pizza delivery service, employed her two sons to take care of the business during the night and when she was abroad on luxury holidays.... The court heard that while doing so, Stott, from Regent's Park, North London, also ran a charity called The Fair Project, educating youngsters about the wrongs of drugs, racism and gangs." Read article... Comments (7) Landfills Sifted For Unwanted Children KATU-TV 2 Portland | Submitted by: conculcate "Authorities combing through 60 tons of trash at a dump site Monday found the body of a baby boy who was allegedly killed and put in a garbage can in Port Angeles, Wash." And in the second story: officials search a Kentucky dump for a stillborn, improperly disposed of by the morgue. Read article... and This article... Comments (11) Ubi Sub Ubi, Aborigines Bild | Submitted by: lord asshole "Politicians in Indonesia have clashed with natives from Papua New Guinea - after declaring that their penis sheaths are offensive and pornographic... Decorative koteka have been worn by male inhabitants of New Guinea to cover their manhood for centuries... But last October, Indonesian authorities passed an anti-porn law which empowers authorities to jail people for any sexually suggestive performance." Read article... Comments (18) Garbage Habitrail Claims Architect Daily Mail | Submitted by: BurrowingPube "An eccentric loner is believed to have died of thirst after becoming trapped in a bizarre and intricate network of tunnels built from rubbish in his home... Police called in a specialist diving team last Friday afternoon because the smell from the house in Broughton, Buckinghamshire, was so overpowering. They discovered a confusing system of tunnels networking around the interior of the building, with Mr Stewart lying dead inside." Read article... Comments (13) Token Rectal X-Ray Sun | Submitted by: sirmalek "We had X-rays done to localise the object and then we carried out the operation. The patient was fine after it. She was very embarrassed. She was clearly in a lot of pain, however it got there... This was not just a little can of deodorant, this was a massive can of hairspray." Read article... Comments (26) Imminent Death of the Galaxy Predicted London Telegraph | Submitted by: J. Beauregard Marshmellowpeep "The Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course and will hit one another earlier than scientists had previously predicted... The galaxies will be dramatically stirred up, but they are very squidgy, so they will stick together and eventually all the stars will die out, and it will become one huge, dead galaxy." Read article... Comments (28) I Like Big Butts News Limited (Australia) | Submitted by: Reubens "Women can stop worrying about pear-shaped figures -- fat bottoms have been scientifically proven to be a sign of good health... New research, published in the journal Cell Metabolism, suggests the fat responsible for producing the pear shape flaunted by celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce may be active in protecting women from diseases by releasing certain hormones." Read article... Comments (37)