Daily Rotten Archives February 24, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Ravers Mourn The Great Fanchini BBC | Submitted by: Sumproduct "He was like the CEO of crime and used to organise crime summits in Austria, where people from the Camorra [Neapolitan mafia], the Colombian cartels, the Russian mafia, met up and divided up the world," said a Belgian reporter who has investigated Fanchini for years but does not wish to be identified. Read article... Comments (346) Knife Trumps Judo Daily Mail | Submitted by: TaiKwonPube "Ferenc Ifi, 36, bludgeoned 45-year-old judo Olympicist Tamas Bujko over the head with a hammer and stabbed him in the eyes in front of horrified commuters at a tube station in northwest London... Ifi, who worked at the five-star Goring Hotel near Buckingham Palace, had plotted the murder after the Hungarian put him in an armlock and humiliated him in front of his friends." Read article... Comments (29) OCD Couple Botch Suicide Pact BBC | Submitted by: FaithfulPubes "Officers discovered a note signed by them both, which read: 'Sorry about the mess we are leaving but we did not have any choice'... However, the hearing at Southampton heard that the house was spotless when officers arrived and Mr Pyatt told them he had been vacuuming and had cleaned his wife's body... Pyatt lived with his wife's dead body in their Hampshire house for more than 10 weeks before contacting police." Read article... Comments (18) Canadian Gangsters Do Agincourt Toronto Sun | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Franklin St Shooting Range "In the lobby, and down the entire length of the first-floor, from stairwell to stairwell, there were shell casings, bullet fragments, bullet holes and ricochet marks. They literally used [the hallway] like a shooting range with live targets and no regard for where the rounds were going." Read article... Comments (20) Three Stooges Snatch Baby, Gangrape Mother Brisbane Times | Submitted by: tower Have you seen these dipshits? "The 21-year-old woman trembled and cried as she recalled the nightmare attack, which occurred at her Mount Warren Park home on Wednesday in the presence of her young daughter. The one-year-old child was ripped from her arms before three males, believed to be aged between 16 and 18, pack raped her at knife point." Read article... Comments (32) California Ponders Tax On Purple San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Graehme de Parke, Esq. "California would become the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use under a bill introduced Monday by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco... An analysis by the Board of Equalization concluded the state would collect $1.3 billion a year from tax revenues and a $50-an-ounce levy on retail sales if marijuana were legal. The analysis also concluded that legalizing marijuana would drop its street value by 50 percent and increase consumption of the substance by 40 percent." Read article... Comments (29) Lap Dances Subject To VAT Wire Shoggoths | Submitted by: bung Strippers foot the bill: "At any one time, depending on the day, time of day and availability, there are between 20 and 140 young women available to provide the entertainment services in issue. Some of them will be those dancing on the podium. These proceedings do not, at least directly, concern that activity." Read article... Comments (10) Island Biogeographer Noses Osama Popular Mechanics | Submitted by: vlad "A new study suggests the way to find America's most wanted criminal is to treat him like an endangered species... Island biogeography suggests that bin Laden would stand a better chance staying hidden in a larger city than in a smaller one... The study isolates three buildings in the remote Pakistani town of Parachinar in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas as the most likely hideout." Read article... and This article... Comments (18) Pelagic Fish With A Transparent Head London Telegraph | Submitted by: GrossedPubes Video of a very odd fish: "New research shows that the unusual eyes can rotate within a transparent shield that covers the fish's head... Barreleyes typically live near the depth where sunlight from the surface fades to complete blackness. They use their ultra-sensitive tubular eyes to search for the faint silhouettes of prey overhead." Read article... Comments (15) Leave Everything To Me K-TOOL | Submitted by: johnnyb "Lawson is a volunteer firefighter for the Oakhurst Fire Department. The 44-year-old is accused of lighting objects on fire and throwing them out the window of his pickup... A witness reported seeing Lawson lighting a container of gasoline and throwing it into a field before running to the fire station. The witness says Lawson waited for the fire to be reported, then responded to fight it." Read article... Comments (23)