Daily Rotten Archives February 25, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Shitbuckets Drench Toga Parade 3News New Zealand | Submitted by: gadunz "As the large mass of students moved into George St, hundreds of eggs, bottles, rubbish, and buckets full of vomit and faeces, were thrown from first-floor verandas and alleyways, as well as at shop frontages... Car windows were smashed, rubbish bins were emptied on to the street, the shop window of Brent Weatherall Jewellers was cracked, shop signs were pulled down and glass littered the street." Read article... Comments (370) Mother Sets Fire To Rapist Telegraph | Submitted by: zamabatahawa "Soriano, 69, had been sent to jail for nine years in 1998, but was let out on a three-day pass and returned to his home town... While there, he passed his victim's mother in the street and is said to have called out 'How's your daughter?', before heading into a crowded bar. Shortly after, the woman walked into the bar, poured a bottle of petrol over Soriano and lit a match. She watched as the flames engulfed him, before walking out." Read article... Comments (64) Criminal Assassin Hides Out In FBI Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: J. Edgar, w/ a run in his stockings "During the investigation in California, Tran was secretly recorded by a confidential informant as he spoke generally about past murders and about other people he wanted to kill, as well as ways to avoid arrest... Tran allegedly told a government informant that he had been a sports bookmaker and wanted to kill people across the country who owed him hundreds of thousands of dollars." Read article... Comments (12) Motorist Must Keep Warm WCVB-TV 5 Boston | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Early this morning, a man from from Marstons Mills walked into the Hyannis Fire Department to get help with burns from starting a fire inside his car to keep warm... Larue was parked in his rental car while talking on his cellphone. After his car ran out of gas, Larue started a small fire inside the car to stay warm, but when he began to feel dizzy he extinguished the fire." Read article... Comments (23) Best of Both Worlds: Prince Edward Maryland OC Weekly Blogs It | Submitted by: juanholmes "When they returned to OC, the man who has Hollywood producer, director and screenwriter credits, decided to accuse his wife of having an affair. It wasn't true, but that didn't matter... During a four-day drug and alcohol binge, Maryland repeatedly beat his wife with his fists, whipped her buttocks, stomach, legs and face with a metal coat hanger, slugged her with a phone, dragged her around the apartment by her hair" et cetera rape et cetera. Read article... Comments (22) Going To Need A Wider Lens San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: cmu sucks Production house Vivid Video has offered the Octomom $1 million to star in what could be the worst stroke film ever: "Suleman gave birth to octuplets at a Bellflower hospital on Jan. 26, and already had six other children. The home the unemployed single-mother lives in is facing foreclosure." Read article... Comments (54) Former Tenor Whistles Past The Grave Miami Herald | Submitted by: gov. eliot crappacola "A former tenor with the Greater Miami Opera chorus shot and killed his wife and two daughters Wednesday morning as his 16-year-old son fled their South Miami-Dade home, Miami-Dade police said." From there, the article descends into Facebook-stalking of the decedent's remaining daughter. Read article... Comments (6) To a Good Home: US Navy Stealth Ship Fox News | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "Anybody want some top-secret seagoing vessels? The Navy has a pair it doesn't need anymore. It has been trying to give them away since 2006, and they're headed for the scrap yard if somebody doesn't speak up soon. One is called Sea Shadow. It's big, black and looks like a cross between a Stealth fighter and a Batmobile. It was made to escape detection on the open sea." Read article... Comments (28) Plaintiff Seeks To Loot Museums As Judgement Fox News | Submitted by: Flag Hag "Several survivors of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem in 1997 sued the government of Iran, accusing it of being complicit in the attack. They won a $412M default judgment from a judge... when their lawyer began looking for places to collect, he turned to the past... He decided to try to seize the [ancient] tablets, along with collections of Persian antiquities at the Oriental Institute and other prominent museums. The goal: Sell them, with the proceeds going to the bombing survivors." Read article... Comments (28)