Daily Rotten Archives February 9, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Vampyre Betrayed By Online Girlfriend St. Louis Today | Submitted by: souldesqueeze "The girl, 16, told police they began dating online. She said she tried to end the online relationship but the self-described vampyre, 44, refused to let her. She said that "in a desperate attempt" to get him to leave her alone, she e-mailed him that she was a member of an elite vampire hunter society and for the two of them to continue their relationship would put him in danger." Read article... Comments (367) Recidivist: Jail Is Awesome WLKY The Rusty Wheel | Submitted by: Jean "A suspected bank robber is in police custody, but investigators said his motive was not stealing money... "The teller complied with the suspect's demand and the suspect had a seat and indicated he was going to wait for police... He indicated he was tired of living with his parents, that he did not have a job, did not have a vehicle and wanted to go back to prison." Read article... Comments (35) Little Pig Little Pig Let Me In Detroit News | Submitted by: el is a sound of dong "Mom cooks me like a turkey in the oven. I felt fire. It burned my back"... The mother of five is being held under allegations that she burned her 4-year-old daughter in an oven, used a hot nail or screwdriver to singe her eyelids and beat her 5-year-old daughter's leg with a pry bar." Read article... Comments (25) AQ Khan Exits House Arrest Jerusalem Post | Submitted by: Gen .J. De'Ripper, invoking 'Wing Attack Plan 'R' "A Pakistan court declared disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan a "free citizen" Friday after years of de facto house arrest because of his alleged role in leaking atomic weapons technology to countries including Iran, North Korea and Libya... Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear program, took sole responsibility in 2004 for leaking the nuclear secrets but was immediately pardoned by former President Pervez Musharraf." Read article... Comments (19) Divine Will: Commit Grandma To Porcelain God Juneau Cty Star Times | Submitted by: quiet but sudsy "Alan Bushey, the Necedah religious leader charged last May with telling a follower to hide the corpse of a church member in her home, pleaded no contest in a Juneau County courtroom on Thursday... The parishioner left the body for more than two months on the toilet of a home in Necedah she shared with her two children, ages 12 and 15." Read article... Comments (17) The Folks On Dildo Blvd. News Corporation | Submitted by: foetus Sex toys dumped on roller-headed lady's front lawn: "I know they aren't new. They look used." Mr Johns said he counted the sex toys on Friday morning, and the number had decreased within 24 hours. "Yeah, some of the bigger ones are gone," he said. Many of the devices are still lying outside the Osbeck Rd home -- most crushed under the wheels of passing cars." Read article... Comments (20) The Great Rice Heist News Corporation | Submitted by: HungryPubes "Two of our men were doused with petrol and burnt to death along with their patrol vehicle by a rioting mob... who were protesting the death of five smugglers from the town in an accident.. The five smugglers died when the car they were driving in fell into a ditch while pursuing the officers that seized their luxury bus loaded with the rice they smuggled into Nigeria through the border with Niger." Read article... Comments (23) Study: Megan's Law Ineffective Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by: furpo "A federally funded study on Megan's Law in New Jersey has found that it does not deter first-time sex offenders or help prevent convicted sex offenders from re-offending... The study, released Thursday, concludes that there is little evidence, despite the popularity of the sex-offender notification laws, that they are effective." Read article... Comments (32) Arsonist Sponsors Outback BBQ The Age | Submitted by: Licketyslit "At least 173 people are dead and 24 blazes remain out of control as Victoria's bushfire crisis enters its fourth day... Police say they are closing in on an arsonist thought responsible for the deadly Churchill-Jeeralang fire in Gippsland and recent fires at nearby Boolarra. Fire authorities fear the worst of the fires could take weeks to contain." Read article... Comments (25) Laureate's Lizard Shit Collection Vanishes BBC | Submitted by: He-Manatee "Daniel Bennett had been studying the butaan lizard for more than five years in the Philippines and was working towards a doctorate. He had built up a large collection of faeces samples which were stored at Leeds University and then disposed of... Mr Bennett said he spent seven years of painstaking work searching the rainforest to find the faeces of the large and mysterious lizard." Read article... Comments (18) Islamic Investment Skates Through Downturn San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: WhoIsTheRealPubes "As credit markets have imploded, triggering a global economic crisis, Islamically correct investors have seen a change of fortune: The conservative principles this small group of devout Muslims clung to during the economic heyday has insulated them from the worst of the past year's suffering... Their renunciation of the interest-based economy kept them away from investments in financial services companies, whose stocks have collapsed, and out of traditional mortgages." Read article... Comments (13) Shanghai: Happy New Year! Daily Mail | Submitted by: FlamingPubes "A new 44-storey luxury hotel in downtown Beijing was engulfed in flames today after being showered with sparks from fireworks set off during China's biggest holiday... The Mandarin Oriental hotel, still under construction, caught fire as the skies above the Chinese capital were filled with fireworks -- part of celebrations of the lantern festival that follows the Lunar New Year." Read article... Comments (33)