Daily Rotten Archives February 4, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Puppy Roast Squelched By Busybody Daily Mail | Submitted by: CrunchyPuppyPubes "Yelping in panic and distress as their fur began to burn, the pair struggled desperately to escape the children's clutches... The commotion attracted a walker who ran over to the bonfire and ordered the gang to release them immediately... Miss Johnson, from Rochdale, added: Most of the kids were aged 12, 13 or older. But some were as young as ten. I was ripping mad and still am to think that anyone -- least of all children -- could do this." Read article... Comments (362) Cannibalism: Because They Were Hungry MSNBC | Submitted by: Col. Tibbets "A teenage girl may have been killed and partially eaten by two men, Russian prosecutors said yesterday... Karina Barduchyan, 16, disappeared after leaving for school in St Petersburg on January 19... Body parts believed to belong to her have been found in plastic bags scattered around the city." (from 2nd story) "The arrestees said they ate the girl's body parts because they were hungry, Kapitonov said." Read article... and This article... Comments (32) Zombie Threat Spreading Wire Services | Submitted by: aging disgracefully "Pranksters in at least three states are messing with electronic road signs meant to warn motorists of possible traffic problems by putting drivers on notice about Nazi zombies and raptors. And highway safety officials aren't amused... Authorities haven't figured out how pranksters access the signs. Gasaway believes the Illinois sign was changed remotely." Read article... Comments (19) Mexico: Drug Fighter Doesn't Even Last 1 Day CNN | Submitted by: DS "A recently retired Mexican army general whose bullet-riddled body was found Tuesday near Cancun had taken over as the area's top antidrug official less than 24 hours earlier... Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez, his aide and a driver were tortured before being killed, said Quintana Roo state prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo. He said there was no doubt Tello and the others were victims of organized crime." Read article... Comments (35) Triple-Decker-Drunk Steals Car From His AA Sponsor Buffalo News | Submitted by: CannibalDave "His latest arrest came early Tuesday, when he stole a car from a man who drives him to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Niagara County sheriff's deputies said. Barry registered a blood-alcohol reading more than three times the legal limit after he was pulled over on Lake Avenue, deputies said." Read article... Comments (14) Cloning Update: Custom Manimals For Your Sexual Pleasure Newsweek Blogs | Submitted by: CleanLivin "Scientists have transferred DNA from an adult human cell into a human egg, and made the egg to reprogram the donor DNA back to its embryonic state, producing a pattern of gene activation like that in normal IVF embryos -- and therefore, it seems, the pattern necessary to create an embryo." Read article... Comments (9) 16-Year-Old Sports Shiny New Vagina London Telegraph | Submitted by: Change'o'Pubes "German teenager Kim Petras has become the world's youngest transsexual after undergoing an operation at the age of just 16... I was always against such operations on children so young but after seeing how happy one of my patients was and how well adjusted after returning from having the operation abroad while still a teenager -- I realised that in some cases it is the right decision." Read article... Comments (37) The Ruse: Cow vs Bunnies The Press Association | Submitted by: ElmerPubes "A driver-cum-rifleman was cunningly camouflaged behind a picture of a tree above the cow. Maximum angle of fire was achieved by pointing the air-rifle through a horizontal slit above the cow, not unlike the firing positions in Second World War pillboxes... It has to be said that not all rabbits are entirely fooled. Whereas cattle obviously do move around, trees usually don't and that may be a problem." Read article... Comments (11) K'Plah! 7-Eleven Robbed by Klingon KMGH-TV 7 Denver | Submitted by: Niggerus Maximus "Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon-type sword, called a bat'leth... The Startrek.com Web site describes the Klingon weapon as crescent-shaped and about a yard long. However, the weapon that the man was wielding appears to be smaller than that. The bat'leth has points on both ends, two points in between and a handle on the outside." Read article... Comments (15) Women Squatters Secede From California Sacramento Bee | Submitted by: aging disgracefully "About the same time, two printed signs appeared on the front window, one of them warning against trespassing and claiming the home was the "Private Property of sovereign Woman of republic of California" and that federal and state employees could not access the property... The sign mentioned freeman, an apparent reference to the radical anti-government group that gained fame in 1996 during an 81-day standoff with federal authorities in Montana." Read article... Comments (11) Black Senator Demands Confederate Holiday Fox News | Submitted by: Darrel Echt "There's no love in this state between black and white basically, but if you go out there in real South Carolina, it's hatred and I think we can bring our people together." "Every municipality and every citizen, should be, well, forced to respect these two days and learn what they can about those two particular parts of our history," Read article... Comments (8) Aeroflot: Passengers Eject Confused Pilot Moscow Times | Submitted by: Randy Nasty "We really had a legitimate complaint, and the flight attendants were telling us that we were crazy and we should either get back in our seats or get off the plane... When we insisted on seeing the captain to make sure he was sober, they sent another pilot out who told us that everything would be fine because he would be flying the plane... The man was in no condition to fly... It took him three attempts to say the words 'duration of the flight.' Even after Aeroflot personnel asked him to do so, he barely made it out of the cabin. All of this is a fact. I will make sure that this person will never again touch the controls of an airplane." Read article... Comments (10) Surgeons Remove Kidney Thru Vagina CNN | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out "In what is being heralded as a first-ever procedure, surgeons removed a healthy kidney through a donor's vagina, the Johns Hopkins Medical Center has announced... The kidney was successfully removed and transplanted into the donor's niece, and both patients are doing fine, Dr. Robert Montgomery, chief of transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins, said in the release." Read article... Comments (14) Super Volcano Took Earth's Cherry Discovery Channel | Submitted by: lord asshole "Now a team of researchers led by Henrik Svenson of the University of Oslo in Norway have performed a series of experiments, showing the volcano employed an arsenal of deadly weapons during its 200,000-year-long assault on the biosphere... This is the first geologically realistic evidence that ozone collapse during the end-Permian could have actually happened." Read article... Comments (7) NYPD Corruption At Its Best New York Post | Submitted by: Blackie White(Boston Blackie) "A shocking video showing NYPD cops raiding a bar, smashing gambling machines and shoving confiscated cash into their pockets has become an Internet hit and led to an internal probe of the officers involved, The Post has learned... An undercover sergeant wearing a Yankee cap and dark jacket enters, and the bald cop hands him the stack of cash. He pulls off some bills, folds them and thrusts them into his pocket after handing back the rest - as another officer bashes the game with a sledgehammer." Read article... Comments (16) Hindu Jihad on Valentine's Day London Telegraph | Submitted by: PubeSahib "The threat [against Valentine's Day couples] comes days after the group's activists stormed a bar in the south western city of Mangalore, dragging out and beating women they accused of acting obscenely and going astray... Gangadhar Kulkarni, an activist in the group, which is a radical wing of the Hindu nationalist movement, said: If people celebrate the day despite our warning, then we will definitely attack them." Read article... Comments (18)