Daily Rotten Archives January 22, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Eye Injury! Sun | Submitted by: keysersoze Tis' but a scratch: "A cop was so determined to make his first arrest he chased a suspect despite having a branch stuck in his eye. PC John Nash, 25, only realised the horrific extent of the injury after the man he arrested told him: 'cheers mate but you ought to go to hospital.'" Read article... Comments (352) Loogie Cursed Cop With Barren Balls Brisbane Times | Submitted by: BA "A Gold Coast police officer who contracted a disease after being bitten and spat on during an arrest may no longer be able to have children of his own... Queensland Police Union (QPU) spokesman Ross Musgrove believed the officer, whose name has been withheld for privacy reasons, contracted the transmittable disease while arresting a suspect." Read article... Comments (40) Britain 'Fucked' Guardian | Submitted by: anonymous "Privately, something close to desperation is starting to develop inside government. After watching the slide in bank shares on Friday, one cabinet minister did not altogether joke when he said: "The banks are fucked, we're fucked, the country's fucked." Read article... Comments (51) Christmas In The Congo Human Rights House | Submitted by: anonymous "The rebels waited until December 24 for the most devastating of their attacks, waiting until people had come together for Christmas festivities, then surrounding and killing them by crushing their skulls with axes, machetes, and large wooden bats... Most of the few who survived also had head wounds, but two 3-year-old girls had serious neck injuries, suffered when LRA combatants tried to twist off their heads." Read article... Comments (39) Get That Head On Ice London Telegraph | Submitted by: Jeff Dahmer (...slavering...w/ the munchies!) "Hitmen cut off police chief Martin Castro's head and left it in an ice cooler in front of the local police station... The incident came as 16 other people were also killed in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua in attacks the authorities believe are linked to the country's drug wars." Read article... Comments (20) Get That Head On Rye Google | Submitted by: traumaphiliac "A female graduate student at Virginia Tech was killed Wednesday night when a man she knew attacked her with a knife and decapitated her... Yang, 22, from Beijing, China, was killed at the Au Bon Pain restaurant in the Graduate Life Center at around 7 p.m." Read article... Comments (31) Baby Grows Extra Buttocks London Telegraph | Submitted by: BottyPubes "Faith Mwampe has the feet of an unformed twin protruding from her buttocks, meaning she may never be able to walk unless it is removed... The Zambian baby, who was born in April last year, is set to undergo the five-hour operation at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka next Thursday." Read article... Comments (30) Rikers Transforms Prisoners Into Guards New York Daily News | Submitted by: frissage "Three correction officers created a sadistic secret society on a Rikers Island cell block, ordering prisoners to shake down and beat other inmates, prosecutors charged Thursday... The brutality was so codified that the cellblock was broken up into two groups -- north and south -- that fought among themselves, prosecutors said. The inmates on the south side were inflicting severe injuries on each other -- so Nelson brought them to the north side to show how the beatings should be delivered." Read article... Comments (11) At The Moment of Coma Daily Mail | Submitted by: HurrahforBritishPubes "Horrific images captured with a mobile phone camera show grammar schoolboy Jack Blanchard being kicked in the head and stamped on during the sickening assault... The keen footballer, who was described as a 'bright pupil', was beaten by boys from another school in an attempt to prove who was the 'hardest'." Read article... Comments (22) Broomstick Etc. KRQE-TV 13 Albuquerque | Submitted by: BA "On Wednesday morning a 14-year-old freshman testified he used the bathroom in a cabin where upperclassmen stayed at the out-of-town camp. For that the freshman said he was punished in what became a hazing ritual at the training camp. "They grabbed me, and then they threw me on the bed," the boy testified. "They held my arms down, and I was trying to get away. And then Michael told Jarek to go get the broom." Read article... Comments (23) Mengele's Village of Twins Daily Mail | Submitted by: PubeOfDeath "Baffled scientists had been struggling to come up with a reason for the high proportion of twins in the tiny Brazilian town of Candido Godoi -- most of them blond-haired and blue-eyed... The residents of the Brazilian town claim Mengele made repeated visits there in the early 1960s. He first claimed to be a vet but then offered medical treatment to the women, providing them with strange potions and tablets and asking for blood samples." Read article... Comments (20) Hungry Men Dismember, Eat Dog WTVC-TV 9 Chattanooga | Submitted by: furpo "The men first told deputies that that had just killed a deer in the backyard. But, Sheriff Ensley said authorities then found a bloodied ax in the back yard next to a chopping block where a dog's head had been cut off. The men then admitted to deputies that they had skinned their own dog, and put its meat in the freezer... Authorities say all three men were drunk, and Fuller told deputies he had "just carried out God's plan." Read article... Comments (22) 25 Days Adrift In An Icebox New York Times | Submitted by: BA "Two Burmese men floating in an industrial-size icebox off Australia's northern coast have been rescued by the authorities, ending what the men said was a 25-day ordeal on storm-battered seas with only rainwater and a few raw fish regurgitated by sea birds for nourishment." Read article... Comments (11) The Tale of the Inaugural Toilets McClatchy Washington | Submitted by: BA "Among other things, the inauguration of President Barack Obama was "the largest temporary toilet event in the history of the United States," an official of Don's Johns, the firm that provided most of them, said Wednesday. Here's the mystery, however: Did it have to be? Most portables were about a quarter full Wednesday morning. Harrell had thought they'd be half full, as they are after most events." Read article... Comments (40) Global Frog Market Reaches One Billion BBC | Submitted by: FUCK PISS SHIT "Indonesia emerged from Professor Bradshaw's analysis as both the largest exporter of frogs -- 5,000 tonnes per year -- and a major consumer... Frogs legs are on the menu at school cafeterias in Europe, market stalls and dinner tables across Asia to high end restaurants throughout the world... Frogs are liquidised to make a health drink in parts of South America." Read article... Comments (29)