Daily Rotten Archives January 15, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Suicide Geese Down Airbus Over NY Times | Submitted by: bouganville "The Airbus A320 had taken off from New York's LaGuardia airport six minutes earlier, bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, when it hit a flock of birds that disabled two engines, officials said. The pilot told the passengers to brace for impact before the aircraft glided on the Hudson River just off Manhattan's West 48th Street. The Federal Aviation Authority said the plane was only aloft about three minutes." Read article... Comments (808) Amy Winehouse At Her Best Daily Mail | Submitted by: Buttarazzi "[Amy Winehouse] drank so much one night this week that hotel staff refused to serve her any more alcohol. But determined to carry on boozing, she crawled around the restaurant on all fours and apparently tried to take drinks from under diners' noses... A spokesman for the singer said: Amy was not stealing drinks off people's tables. She could have been doing anything in those pictures." Read article... Comments (726) The Seduction of Hal 9000 Fox News | Submitted by: BA(GO CELTICS) "Knick center Eddy Curry was slapped with a shocking sexual-harassment suit yesterday by his former driver, who claims the 6-foot-11 hoopster tried to solicit gay sex from him... Stunning court papers charge that Curry, a married father of several kids, repeatedly approached chauffeur David Kuchinsky "in the nude," saying, "Look at me, Dave, look" and, "Come and touch it, Dave." Read article... Comments (24) Cat Burglar Plays Naked Charades nineMSN | Submitted by: weejimmymcangus "A suspected burglar who got stuck on a house roof in an exclusive Melbourne suburb stripped naked to show police he wasn't carrying any weapons... "Initially he didn't want to come down but now it's a matter of getting him down safely." [Mostly video.] Read article... Comments (15) Desperate Frog's Makeshift Claws New Scientist | Submitted by: white ribbit "Trichobatrahcus robustus actively breaks it's own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog's toe pads, probably when it's threatened... The researchers say there are salamanders that force their ribs through their skin to produce protective barbs on demand, but nothing quite like this mechanism has been seen before." Read article... Comments (29) Cat Lady Runs Amok In Ant Farm NBC Philadelphia | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "Mom is in her 80's and the daughter in her 60's. The mother told the PSPCA that her daughter had been collecting the cats and that she'd finally gotten an order signed to get her daughter psychiatric care... "It's like the city dump. It’s just like a landfill, smells like it. If you’ve ever been to a landfill, all that’s missing is the seagulls." Read article... Comments (15) Thailand Disposes Of Illegal Immigrants At Sea BBC | Submitted by: Graehme de Parke, Esq. "Thai soldiers are detaining illegal migrants from Bangladesh and Burma and forcing them back out to sea in boats without engines, survivors say... About 400 migrants were put on a huge boat by soldiers. It was equipped with only two bags of rice and two drums of drinking water... When the boat finally drifted close to an Andaman island, there were only just over 100 still onboard." Read article... Comments (44) Israel Shells UN Gaza Office MSNBC | Submitted by: prat's fall "The Israeli attack on the U.N. compound triggered a fire that engulfed a warehouse and destroyed thousands of pounds of food and other aid intended for Gaza's beleaguered citizens... U.N. officials said hundreds of people sheltering in the compound were forced to flee, and that the Israeli shells contained white phosphorus, an incendiary agent that can cause horrific injuries." Read article... Comments (42) Vatican Secret Tribunal For Extra Special Sins MSNBC | Submitted by: Mine Tastes Like Purple "These include defiling the Eucharist, which Catholics believe is the body and blood of Christ. Stafford said this offense is occurring with more and more frequency, not just in satanic rites but by ordinary faithful who receive Communion and then remove the host from their mouths and spit it out or otherwise desecrate it." Read article... Comments (36) Bush Official: US Tortured Prisoner Washington Post | Submitted by: Flag Hag "The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with techniques that included sustained isolation, sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged exposure to cold, leaving him in a life-threatening condition." Read article... Comments (46) Trader Personally Profits $3.7B From Downturn Portfolio | Submitted by: Soylent "In an era in which losers are universal and making a profit seems somehow shady, Paulson is the most conspicuous of Wall Street's winners. Paulson & Co.'s funds (with an estimated $36 billion under management and growing by the day) were up a staggering $15 billion as the markets teetered in 2007; one fund gained 590 percent, another 353 percent. All this reportedly garnered him a personal payday of $3.7 billion, among the biggest in history. In 2008, his funds didn’t climb nearly as much but were still successful enough to put him at the very top of his profession." Read article... Comments (21) Physics Boffins: Reality Is Giant Hologram New Scientist | Submitted by: John "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram. The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level." Read article... Comments (82)