Daily Rotten Archives January 26, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Amputee Child Beggars of Mumbai Daily Mail | Submitted by: Preistly - ('pederastic') - Beastly "For in Mumbai, as well as in other major Indian cities, hundreds of young children have had their arms and legs chopped off; scores of others have been blinded. The gangs also pour acid on to the children's bodies, leaving them with suppurating wounds... The shocking truth about the beggar mafia emerged last year. In what was dubbed the 'arms for alms' scandal, doctors were filmed by Indian journalists agreeing to cut off the healthy limbs of children for just £100." Read article... Comments (529) Serial Killer Mails Useless Digit The Australian | Submitted by: furpo "Milat cut off the little finger on his left hand and placed it in an envelope he had addressed to the High Court of Australia, which he handed to a prison officer during lock-up time... The 64-year-old, who is serving a life sentence at the Supermax facility inside Goulburn jail for the murder of seven backpackers, seemed calm after severing his finger inside his cell and did not exhibit any symptoms of shock, senior prison officers said." Read article... Comments (17) Tanzania's Albino Trade Healthy, Despite Ban BBC | Submitted by: PallidPubes "Witchdoctors in Tanzania are defying a government ban announced on Friday, intended to stop the killings of albinos for ritual medicine... In the most recent case, an albino was eating dinner at home when some people called and asked for his help. When he went outside he was strangled, before his assailants chopped off his leg and made away with the limb." Read article... Comments (22) Conan: The Child Killer BBC | Submitted by: keysersoze "Conan strangled his girlfriend before stabbing her 20 times. He then played with their four-year-old son Patrick, before smothering him... The youngster was then taken back to his room and "laid out ceremoniously" with items put around him, including a toy dagger and guns and a torch in his hand. "The ritual nature of laying out is bizarre. It's as if the little boy has been sent off for a journey." Read article... Comments (20) Iceland's Government Collapses CNN | Submitted by: newsby "Iceland's ruling coalition resigned Monday, three months after the collapse of the country's currency, stock market and several major banks, and following months of public protests... Iceland sought IMF help after its government was forced to nationalize three banks to head off a complete collapse of its financial system. Trading on the country's stock market was suspended for nearly a week, and inflation jumped to more than 12 percent." Read article... Comments (41) Drunken Studs Prove Best London Telegraph | Submitted by: Three sheets in the wind "Rather than curbing a man's prowess in bed, new research from Australia claims that alcohol can actually improve sexual performance... The new findings are based on a study of 1,580 Australian men, carried out by Western Australia's Keogh Institute for Medical Research and published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine." Read article... Comments (26) Power Company Makes Popsickles Michigan Live | Submitted by: FearlessFreep "A pathologist said a 93-year-old Bay City man froze to death inside his home -- his body found days after city workers said they limited electricity flowing to the house... Marvin E. Schur suffered a slow, painful death inside his home at 1600 S. Chilson St. on Bay City's southwest side, said Dr. Kanu Virani, who performed an autopsy on the body." Read article... Comments (19) 2nd Floor Church Drive-Thru nineMSN | Submitted by: Yustax "The bank acted like a springboard, propelling the black Skoda about 35m forward and straight into the church's roof frame, where it remained wedged 7m off the ground, police said in a statement. We've never ever had a case of a car landing in a church before, said Frank Fischer, a spokesman for Chemnitz police in the state of Saxony." Nice photo. Read article... Comments (14) Herpes Killing Coral LiveScience | Submitted by: CleanLivin "Rebecca Thurber, one of Rohwer’s postdoctoral researchers, also took pieces of coral and changed conditions such as nutrients, temperature and water pH, then cut up the coral and sequenced the DNA of the microbes that grew on their surface. And what was the number one disease affecting the corals? Herpes viruses. They dominate almost all the viruses that are present, Thurber told LiveScience." Read article... Comments (14) Man Tries to Rape Racooon, Loses Penis Sun | Submitted by: tetheredgoat(se) "A feisty raccoon has bitten off a pervert's penis as he was trying to rape the animal. Alexander Kirilov, 44, was on a drunken weekend with pals when he leapt on the terrified -- but toothy -- fur ball. When I saw the raccoon I thought I’d have some fun, he told stunned casualty surgeons in Moscow." Read article... Comments (28) India Doses the Earth Wire Services | Submitted by: aging disgracefully "When researchers analyzed vials of treated wastewater taken from a plant where about 90 Indian drug factories dump their residues, they were shocked. Enough of a single, powerful antibiotic was being spewed into one stream each day to treat every person in a city of 90,000." Read article... Comments (15) Mother of David Koresh Murdered Daily Mail | Submitted by: WackyPubes "The mother of infamous Waco leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death and her sister taken into custody charged with her murder. The body of Bonnie Clark Haldeman, 64, was found Friday afternoon at the home of her sister, Beverly Clark, 54, in a rural area near Chandler, near Houston, Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt said." Read article... Comments (26)