Daily Rotten Archives February 18, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Nigerian For Omerta: Human Body Parts Market The Nigeria Sun | Submitted by: williams "Menumo: This expression when translated literally means seal your lips in Yoruba. The term is said in whisper and hushed tone -- menu... mo. When you say the first syllable, you pause, look around to be sure there's no third party or curiosity cat eavesdropping. When a deal is struck, you will be taken to some dank shanties and courtyard for your consignment." Read article... Comments (829) Chimpanzee Goes Apeshit Daily Mail | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out "Police have released a tape of the chilling emergency phone call made by a woman as her crazed chimpanzee went beserk and viciously attacked her friend. Hysterical with fear and grief, Sandra Herold pleaded with an officer over the phone to help her stop the animal from mauling her friend, begging them to Hurry, please! He ripped her face off. When the switchboard operator asks Who's killing your friend? Herold replies: My chimpanzee! He ripped her apart! Shoot him, shoot him!" Read article... Comments (112) Muslim Fights Stereotypes, Then Becomes One myfoxla.com | Submitted by: only me, zwd26 How To Get A Head In The Broadcasting Business: "The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes... Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan is accused of beheading his wife last week, days after she filed for divorce. Authorities have not discussed the role religion or culture might have played." Read article... Comments (30) Mr. Xian Bags Himself King Rat London Telegraph | Submitted by: MotherofPubes "The rat, which weighed six pounds and had a 12-inch tail, was caught at the weekend in a residential area of Fuzhou, a city of six million people on China's south coast... The ratcatcher, who was only named as Mr. Xian, said he swooped for the rodent after seeing a big crowd of people surrounding it on the street." Read article... Comments (22) Forced Diapering Latest Innovation in Bible Study Detroit News | Submitted by: redrubberballs "He drove her to Toledo, said Minnie Boykin, the woman's grandmother. She fell asleep in his car, and when she woke up she was in his apartment, handcuffed. Then he put her in a diaper and did all sort of crazy stuff. Toledo Police Capt. Ray Carroll said Brisport tried to suffocate Shykea Boykin in between reading aloud Bible verses." Read article... Comments (31) Fart War I: Hitler Gasses Dinner Guests Daily Mail | Submitted by: Waste 'Em All—God'll Sort 'Em Out "The Fuhrer's daily routine and uncouth behaviour were revealed in notes taken from a captured high-ranking Nazi and handed to a British agent... The statement provides a vivid personal description of Hitler in his last days and his behaviour in the bunker. It mentions a digestive disorder which could be a reference to his flatulence, but denies the rumours that Hitler was homosexual." Read article... Comments (43) Fart War II: Pull My Finger CNN | Submitted by: ikthool "First came the iPhone. Then, there was the "iFart" flatulence noise download. Now, there's Pull My Finger -- and next could come the lawsuits. A Florida-based company has accused a Colorado competitor in federal court of trademark infringement and unfair business practices over the phrase Pull My Finger. The dispute began after the makers of iFart began using phrase pull my finger in advertisements for their products." Read article... Comments (8) Bristol Palin: Abstinence Not Realistic AP | Submitted by: Barnacle Bill, the 'HIV+' Sailor Bristol Palin now understands something her mother still does not, though at the cost of getting knocked up by some boy: "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter, an unwed mother, says teenagers should avoid having sex. However, Bristol Palin acknowledges that abstinence is not realistic at all. She commented during a two-part interview recorded for Fox News Channel's On the Record." Read article... Comments (39) IRF'ing at GIT'mo Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic | Submitted by: Veggie "You could always tell when someone got IRFed, as the detainees throughout the camp would start chanting and screaming. So I could tell when the detainee on Alpha Block was IRFed that day... Later that day I came back on the block and saw the cage this detainee was IRFed in. The cement floor was a dull red color from the blood. You could tell at one point before it was washed out that there was a lot of blood on the floor of that cage." Read article... Comments (28) I Demand Geronimo Parts Washington Post | Submitted by: Veggie "His bones are still there as a prisoner of war, Clark said in his mellow drawl, referring to Fort Sill. Then he caught himself: His bones for the most part are still there... In this lawsuit we're going to find out whether the bones are there or not... It's important to his people and justice and the future and how we treat the planet and each other." The skull is allegedly a trophy kept at Skull & Bones at Yale. Read article... Comments (14) Having Trouble Affording All Your Mistresses? New York Daily News | Submitted by: Meanman This is what happens when you tell your five mistresses they are victims of the economic crisis and hold a contest, all sales final: "The 29-year-old woman, identified as Yu, drove the man and four other kept women off a mountian precipice after the double sting of losing her income and getting dumped." And then your wife dumps you. It sucks to be "Fan", if that is his real name. Read article... Comments (8) Missing: 150 Bowling Balls Utica Observer-Dispatch | Submitted by: Capt.-Superintendent Rodney Statesticle "Some area residents called the Thurston's Restaurant bowling alley in Frankfort on Friday night wanting to bowl, but there was one major problem. All but one of the estimated 150 bowling balls were nowhere to be found... Frankfort police were notified of the incident." Read article... Comments (15) Duh: Bikinis Turn Women Into Objects National Geographic | Submitted by: furpo To think this took a scientific study: "And in a shocking finding, Fiske noted, some of the men studied showed no activity in the part of the brain that usually responds when a person ponders another's intentions. This means that these men see women as sexually inviting, but they are not thinking about their minds, Fiske said. The lack of activation in this social cognition area is really odd, because it hardly ever happens." Read article... Comments (28) Death By Booty KCTV-TV 5 Kansas City | Submitted by: anonymous "The child's mother, 28-year-old Lakeesha Brown, told detectives she believes she suffocated her son by putting her legs across his head and sitting on his chest... Edwin I. Ross, the boy's father, said his 10-year-old daughter called him from Brown's house, distraught. He rushed to the house in the 3700 block of Prospect Avenue. He said Brown was sitting on the boy when he arrived, and he said it was clear the boy had been dead for hours." Read article... Comments (28) Dad Doesn't Look a Day Over Eight Sun | Submitted by: Pepe "Boy dad Alfie Patten yesterday admitted he does not know how much nappies cost — but said: I think it’s a lot. Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne." Read article... Comments (53) Freak Woman Loses Long Fingernails Deseret News | Submitted by: Prestonsgirl "A Salt Lake woman holding the current Guinness Book record for the longest fingernails survived being ejected from a vehicle after an accident involving four cars on Tuesday... Unfortunately, her record-setting nails didn't, according to the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office. Injuries to Lee Redmond were serious but not life threatening, according to police. Her fingernails, however, were broken off in the crash." Read article... Comments (25) Aliens Among Us? BBC | Submitted by: Jean "Our planet may harbour forms of weird life unrelated to life as we know it, according to Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University... The descendants of this "second genesis" may have survived until today in a "shadow biosphere" which is beyond our radar because its inhabitants have biochemistry so different from our own." Read article... Comments (26)