Daily Rotten Archives February 10, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Poisoner Shutters T-Shirt E-Tailer News Corporation | Submitted by: 77pump "The man behind t-shirts emblazoned with slogans including Arrest black babies before they become criminals and Nothing runs like a queer is shutting shop today after on ongoing barrage of hate mail and death threats... T-Shirt Hell's proprietor was forced to close the 'Worse Than Hell' section of the website -- which carried the most offensive shirts -- after one of his opponents reportedly poisoned him, forcing him into hospital." Read article... Comments (455) Amazon Gastronomes Carve Guest CNN | Submitted by: ikthool "Five members of the Kulina tribe are on the run after being accused of murdering, butchering and eating a farmer in a ritual act of cannibalism... "They knew each other and they sometimes helped one another. They invited him to their reservation three days ago and he was never seen again. The family decided to go into the reservation and that's when they saw his body quartered and his skull hanging on a tree." Read article... Comments (23) Piss Fumes Spoil Breathalyzer Belfast Telegraph | Submitted by: Yiff "An Irish drunken driver who claimed the inhalation of urine fumes could have skewed his breath-test results has been put off the road for a year... Bullock cited two drink-driving cases from Killorglin District Court in County Kerry which were thrown out because of the danger the defendants inhaled alcohol from their own urine while in garda custody." Read article... Comments (16) Sorcerors Face Tribal Justice Solomon Times | Submitted by: SwordandPubes "Cr John Rok of the Moge Kimininga tribe, Ban village, who claimed he witnessed the incident, said only the son was chopped to death and his house set alight while the father survived despite being chopped in the back and on his hip... He claimed that about 400 villagers were involved in the incident following the death of a community leader last month, saying that bush knives and axes were used in the attack." Read article... Comments (10) Spaceman Swatted For Menacing Baby Daily Pail | Submitted by: happinessinslavery "All he did was try to make the child laugh, but the mum decided to call the police and obviously told them a man with a gun had threatened her and her baby. What happened next was truly astonishing. I've never seen anything like it. These eight cars screamed to a halt and surrounded the poor man at the bus stop. They were fully kitted out with machine guns, rifles and everything." Read article... Comments (16) Lethal Urine Injection Idaho Statesman | Submitted by: anonymous "The patient was admitted to surgery to treat an obstruction in her bowel. Two days later, while in intensive care, a visiting friend surreptitiously injected urine into the patient's intravenous nourishment... "The victim's father realized that that woman had injected the urine.. She was immediately expelled from the hospital and the serum was ordered changed, but unfortunately it was too late." Read article... Comments (16) Voodoo Made Me Drown The Kids New York Daily News | Submitted by: PatsyStoneCheers "Brewer told authorities she killed the children inside their New Cassel home because she feared they were suffering potentially fatal effects of voodoo... The decision to allow Brewer to plead not responsible did not sit well with the father of the two young boys, who is suing county officials over the deaths. Read article... Comments (16) Newborns Can't Swim WDSU Do You? | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "An infant just minutes old was found dead in Lake Pontchartrain on Tuesday afternoon, thrown there by a woman believed to be its mother... Her umbilical cord was still attached, man... Witnesses told police they saw a woman get out of a car at the boat launch, toss the baby into the water and drive off." Read article... Comments (22) Hot-Wheels-O-Philia Kansas City Star | Submitted by: Pepe "Police said the man masturbated in front of a Hot Wheels display at the Wal-Mart, but stopped the act whenever people walked near... He told police he had a Hot Wheels collection. "He seemed to be excited by the toys for some reason." Read article... Comments (20) Pretorian Suburb Explodes South Africa Independent | Submitted by: Effect "Three people were killed and six were injured when a massive blast -- believed to have been caused by a stockpile of commercial explosives -- ripped through a quiet Pretoria suburb on Tuesday... A neighbor and the gardener were talking to each other in the front garden when they noticed smoke coming from the garage of the house and paint blistering on the exterior wall [and then bang]... Police: "You can't really talk about bodies... [it is] a leg here an arm there." Read article... Comments (9) Pictorial: Australia On Fire Boston Globe | Submitted by: shit in pants "The state of Victoria in southern Australia has recently been hit with hundreds of bush fires during a record-breaking heatwave -- temperatures well above 38°C (100°F). Unfortunately, these fires have proved to be the deadliest in Australian history, with at least 166 deaths reported so far. The fires mostly appear to have been started by lightning -- however a few appear to have been arson, and are under investigation -- entire towns being declared crime scenes. Twenty-four fires are still burning, and authorities warn that the death toll will likely rise." Read article... Comments (21)