Daily Rotten Archives January 13, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Breeding Better Two-Headed Fish Sunshine Coast Daily | Submitted by: wonderllama "Fish veterinarian Doctor Matt Landos is calling for urgent bans and testing of agriculture chemicals he believes caused the birth of mutant two-headed bass at Boreen Point. The research associate said mature bass caught from the Noosa River in August and their eggs were used as part of a restocking program at a hatchery... About 90% of larvae that hatched from the eggs had two heads and died within two days, he said." Read article... Comments (418) Dawn Raid On Elmley Prison Daily Mail | Submitted by: Bo Raxo "Guards at Elmley Prison in Sheerness, Kent, spotted the remote control miniature aircraft flying over the walls of the jail and heading for the accommodation blocks one night after it was picked up by CCTV cameras... It had a small load beneath the fuselage, thought to contain drugs." Read article... Comments (11) Thirsty Father Sells Daughter For Meat CNN | Submitted by: uggh "Martinez had arranged through a third party to have his daughter marry the older teenager, identified by authorities as Margarito de Jesus Galindo, of Gonzales, California. In exchange, Galindo was to pay Martinez $16,000 and provide him with 160 cases of beer, 100 cases of soda, 50 cases of Gatorade, two cases of wine, and six cases of meat, Greenfield Police Chief Joe Grebmeier told CNN." Read article... Comments (36) Judge Rejects Halo 3 Defense For Matricide BBC | Submitted by: schottkey "The defence team for Daniel Petric, 17, had argued his addiction to the Halo 3 game, in which players shoot invading aliens, had made him insane. But the judge rejected this, saying he had planned revenge for weeks... Deputy prosecuting attorney Anthony Cillo argued during the trial that the teenager had planned to make it appear to be a murder-suicide by putting the gun in his father's hand." Read article... and This article... Comments (18) Weakling Nagged Into Patricide Press of Atlantic City | Submitted by: furpo "Authorities allege that Marc David Rubin, 47, of Jenkintown, Pa., was shot once in the back of the head, and that his daughter's boyfriend tried to cut up the body with a chainsaw -- apparently about a week after the slaying -- so they could more easily dispose of the rotting corpse... That proved more difficult than the duo expected; Christina Rubin said her boyfriend was "having a difficult time of cutting through the bones after cutting through so much flesh." Read article... Comments (23) Quick Turnaround On Fritzl Musical Austrian Times | Submitted by: BA "The play -- titled "Pension Fritzl" (Guesthouse Fritzl) -- will star Austrian actor Hubert 'Hubsi' Kramar who was once arrested when he turned up at a high society ball dressed as Adolf Hitler... Kramar was arrested after dressing up as Hitler for Vienna's prestigious Opera Ball in 2000. He claimed he wanted to show his disagreement with Austria's right-wing government. [Meanwhile,] Fritzl, 73, has been charged with murder, rape, slavery, incest, imprisonment and abuse -- charges that could see him behind bars for the rest of his life." Read article... Comments (9) Things Are Different In Queensland Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: weez "Burke wore a black leather mask and was armed with a large rubber dildo wrapped in duct tape, which he used to assault the 49-year-old female occupant of the house. Burke then allegedly assaulted the woman about the face and head with the dildo, leaving her with bruising and small bumps to the face... Burke and his female co-accused then taped the dog to a tree, causing it to asphyxiate and die." Read article... Comments (15) Israel's Modern Arsenal: Dimes and White Phosphorus News Corporation | Submitted by: PubesofDavid "The two medics, who were sent into the war zone by the pro-Palestinian aid organisation NORWAC on December 31, said they had seen clear signs that Dense Inert Metal Explosives (DIME), an experimental kind of explosive, were being used in Gaza... Detonating with high power over a small radius, the weapon "causes the tissue to be torn from the flesh. It looks very different [from a shrapnel injury]. I have seen and treated a lot of different injuries for the last 30 years in different war zones, and this looks completely different." Read article... and This article... Comments (36) Online Pedo Threat Grossly Overestimated New York Times | Submitted by: crobag "A task force created by 49 state attorneys general to look into the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded that there really is not a significant problem... The task force, led by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, looked at scientific data on online sexual predators and found that children and teenagers were unlikely to be propositioned by adults online. In the cases that do exist, the report said, teenagers are typically willing participants and are already at risk because of poor home environments, substance abuse or other problems." Read article... Comments (20) Feline-Ethnic Cleansing Causes Ecocide by Rabbit San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Graehme de Parke, Esq. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly: "It seemed like a good idea at the time: Remove all the feral cats from a famous Australian island to save the native seabirds... [However,] removing the cats from Macquarie caused environmental devastation that will cost authorities $16.2M to remedy." Read article... Comments (18) Vegetable Eaters Beware the Rat Lungworm Honolulu Star-Bulletin | Submitted by: Wart On Your Scrotum "The disease arises from parasitic worms, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, sometimes ingested inadvertently by eating raw produce that contains a small snail or slug. The worms migrate through the human body and usually die after several weeks... sometimes the larvae migrate into cerebral fluid, causing inflammation in the brain and spinal cord membrane and a form of meningitis." Read article... Comments (11) Transylvanian Tantrum Leaves 1 Phone Dead London Telegraph | Submitted by: ArousedPubes Video: "Presenter Adela Lupse from Oradea in western Romania started screaming at the camera, smashed the phone on the ground and then jumped up and down on it before grounding the phone under her foot. At the same time she screamed repeatedly at the camera: I want the phone to ring now. Now. Call me now." Read article... Comments (15)