Daily Rotten Archives February 26, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Long Sleeves Or Short Sleeves? Christian Science Monitor | Submitted by: lord asshole "In Sierra Leone, rebel units often asked civilians if they wanted a "long sleeve" or a "short sleeve," and then chopped off a hand for the former answer, and the entire forearm for the latter answer... The civil war in Sierra Leone was a precursor to many wars of the current decade -- most notably the Democratic Republic of Congo -- where warlords and their ill-trained armies carry out horrific attacks on civilian populations. Nearly 500,000 people were either killed or mutilated between 1991 and 2002." Read article... Comments (1098) No Free Ride For Decedent North Country Gazette | Submitted by: Jean "A funeral director has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse after a decomposed body was found in a shipping container in the back of hearse parked on his property with junk vehicles... Watson had stored the corpse in the funeral home for over a year and when he could no longer stand the smell and couldn't reach the woman's family, decided to store it in the hearse where he had been about two months before it was found." Read article... Comments (533) I Hope The Exit Bag Is Joyful Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: lord asshole "The death had been planned for months, authorities say. Two helium tanks were purchased, along with an exit bag, or hood to be placed over the suicidal man's head... Two members of the Final Exit Network would observe the death of the man they were told suffered from pancreatic cancer... In the interview, Goodwin said he had already witnessed the deaths of 12 people who had come to Final Exit looking for a way out." Read article... Comments (53) Camgirl Coaxed Toward Filmable Death Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Suicide is Justified Here GIRL: I'm going to jump instead in the river and hopefully I'll go under the water without breaking anything. HIM: Do you have a webcam? GIRL: Yes. HIM: Go to Home Depot, get a rope and I'll show you, through the webcam how to hang yourself, so it will be less painful. If you wanted to do hanging we could do it together online so it would not be so scary for you... I've got the ropes, stuff ready. Do you have a webcam? Read article... Comments (44) Teen Finds Cure For Head Lice Evansville Courier-Press | Submitted by: reader57 - xxxtinct species "According to the 911 run card, dispatchers learned almost immediately that the injuries happened as the victim was trying to kill lice with gasoline... The fumes had built up in the apartment as Brooks let the gasoline set in. They were ignited by the pilot light of the nearby water heater." Read article... Comments (69) Dartmouth Girl Learns Vocation The Chronicle Herald | Submitted by: furpo "A teenage girl, years behind in her math education but with an advanced knowledge of S&M paraphernalia, is at the centre of a child protection hearing... The girl was 15 and living with her mother and two teenage brothers above a sex dungeon in a Dartmouth apartment building late last year when two people reported that the girl was doing makeup for a porn film and was exposed to drugs and living in filth." Read article... Comments (24) Radioactive Paedophile On The Loose! Daily Mail | Submitted by: Communist Motherfucker "Leopold, 42, absconded days before his trial after having large doses of radiotherapy treatment for an overactive thyroid... Judge Price said: 'Please warn officers that when he is arrested he might be radioactive. This is not a joke." Read article... Comments (23) Toilet Patrol Sniffs Out Crack Wire Services | Submitted by: hey ceffe what sup "A bathroom break while on patrol led to the arrest Friday of an Elkton man. A Cecil County Sheriff's Deputy stopped at Wawa on Fletchwood Road around 6 p.m. and found the men's room occupied... While Lines is outside he detected the odor of crack [cocaine]" and arrested the stall occupant. Read article... and This article... Comments (25) Bono Learns Finance From Globalist Chums Irish Times | Submitted by: Bono's Boner "Protesters have demonstrated outside the Department of Finance against U2's decision to move their tax affairs to the Netherlands to avoid paying tax on their royalties in Ireland... Bono has championed the call for increases in aid to impoverished countries, yet in his personal life he is engaged in tax avoidance issues and it is tax avoidance that is undermining the possibility of developing countries fighting their way out of poverty." Read article... Comments (59) Australian Net Censorship Stalled Sydney Morning Herald | Submitted by: purple microdog "The Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started... This week Senator Conroy said there was "a very strong case for blocking" other legal content that has been "refused classification". According to the classification code, this includes sites depicting drug use, crime, sex, cruelty, violence or "revolting and abhorrent phenomena" that "offend against the standards of morality". Read article... Comments (35)