Daily Rotten Archives January 14, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Turkey As Squat Toilet: Eurozone Boundary Dispute Telegraph | Submitted by: squatz the clown "A sculpture hanging in the main EU Council building in Brussels has been revealed as a fake and has caused anger over its portrayal of national stereotypes. The artist said he had wanted to include 27 European artists but "failed for different reasons" and decided to invent names of artists instead... Bulgaria is particularly outraged at its depiction as a Turkish squat toilet. "I cannot accept to see a toilet on the map of my country," Betina Joteva, first secretary for the Bulgarian office to the EU complained." [See picture #3] Read article... Comments (356) Police Abduct Little Adolf Hitler MSNBC | Submitted by: 54-46 "Adolf and his two sisters -- one-year-old JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and 8-month-old Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell -- were removed from their parents' home Tuesday night by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services.. It is unclear why the children were removed from their parents' home. Gilson said his department did not receive any reports of abuse or negligence." Read article... Comments (96) Lost & Found: 1,800 Dead Germans Spiegel | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out "The first skeletons were unearthed by construction workers last October. A pit dug for the foundation of a new hotel in the Polish city of Malbork revealed the remains of dozens of corpses, all heaped together in what was apparently a World War II-era mass grave. They apparently died as the Red Army marched through Poland -- and some of them appear to have been executed... Since then, they have exhumed around 1,800 corpses." Read article... and This article... Comments (25) Dentist's Boob Massage Has Logical Explanation Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: BA "A Woodland dentist accused of fondling his female patients was trying to massage their chest muscles to treat a stress-related jaw disorder... The muscles of the face, neck, shoulders and chest are all interconnected, he told jurors, using anatomical drawings to explain his point... When one woman wrote Anderson an angry letter, saying he had sexually assaulted her, the dentist sent her a card with "a cartoon picture of a bunny rabbit" on the front that said, "Oops." Read article... Comments (36) Marvel Comics Unleashes Batman Competitor London Telegraph | Submitted by: BananaPubes “It was only a matter of time before we had our first gay superhero. And if there is one man who can make him a success it is Stan Lee... Lee has reportedly created a character called Thom Creed, a high-school basketball player who is forced to hide his sexuality as well as his superpowers. It is not known what kind of powers Creed will display." Read article... Comments (47) Frisco Toilets Under Attack KTVU | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Another portable toilet was set ablaze in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood early Wednesday, at least the 18th such incident in the area since November... The petroleum-based outhouses, commonly called porta-potties, are highly flammable and can turn into a big puddle of blue goop within minutes, scorching anything in its way, a porta-potty salesman said. 'Catch on fire? No problem. Light up the toilet paper and that'll start it. Boom. They'll be down in five minutes." Read article... Comments (21) Update: Head Born Full Of Feet London Telegraph | Submitted by: BA "Surgeons removed the growth from Sam Esquibel's head days after his birth in October, and the three-month-old boy is now said to be fit and healthy. New photos of the operation show the blood vessels inside the tumour, which also included other partially-formed body parts including a second foot, a hand and a thigh." [Second picture is hidden, click on "next."] Read article... Comments (23) Rapist Botches Sex Slave Surgery Mainichi Daily News | Submitted by: UglyPubes "I thought nobody would like my burns. I wanted to make a woman my sex slave and obedient pet... Hoshijima stabbed Tojo in the neck with a kitchen knife, mutilated her body and then hid most of her body parts in a refrigerator and other places in his room, according to the charges pressed against him. He boiled her bones in a pot and flushed them down the toilet, prosecutors allege." Read article... Comments (17) Grand Mufti: Marrying 10 Year Old Girls Is Fine Daily Mail | Submitted by: TinyPubes "Ten-year-old girls are ready for marriage, according to Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric. Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh, the country's grand mufti, told Al Hayat newspaper that those saying ten or 12-year-old girls are too young to marry are being unfair to them... The commission's statement followed a ruling by a court in Oneiza in central Saudi Arabia last month that dismissed a divorce petition by the mother of an eight-year-old girl whose father married her off to a man in his 50s." Read article... Comments (42) Sex Offender Wins Lottery Dedicated To Rape Victims CNN | Submitted by: whatsnew74 And who better to win such a prize than the spectre of Delicious Irony: "An Alaska lottery held to raise money for a group that helps sexual abuse victims had a surprise winner: a convicted sex offender. Alec Ahsoak, who according to the state sex offender registry was convicted in 1993 and 2000 for sexual abuse of a minor, came forward Saturday with the winning ticket for the $500,000 Lucky Time Pull Tabs jackpot." Read article... Comments (28)