Daily Rotten Archives March 2, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Galileo's Flipped Bird Displayed In Reliquary London Telegraph | Submitted by: Betsy the cow "The finger -- the middle digit from Galileo's right hand -- is mounted on a marble base and encased in a crystal jar. It will be among 250 objects which will go on display in Florence as part of an exhibition entitled Galileo: Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope, which opens next month in Florence." Read article... Comments (281) Classic Dis Paid For In Kind South Town Star | Submitted by: FRAUDZILLA "Wilson, 30, was asked to leave the apartment in the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue and, as he walked out the door, allegedly threw a beer bottle at it, according to prosecutors. Nelson, who felt Wilson "disrespected" the women through his actions, told them they "need to beat him up" and went to the kitchen to grab a knife... Police followed a trail of blood to Cox's apartment, according to prosecutors." Read article... Comments (38) Sex With Dozens Of Bodies Cincinnati Dot Com | Submitted by: mencken "If Douglas is to be believed, he could have had sex with as many as "over a hundred" bodies in the 16 years he worked as night attendant at the Hamilton County morgue... Deters said he was stunned by so many aspects of the case: sex with a corpse, sex with violently mutilated or damaged bodies, sex with dozens of bodies." Read article... Comments (47) Unruly Children Traded For Bird The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: kushed "Investigators have determined that Greenwell is not the mother of the children, a four-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy. It appears as if the children, whose mother is a criminal fugitive, have resided with various families over the past several years, and have spent the past year in the custody of Greenwell, a convicted pedophile with a lengthy rap sheet... Greenwell denied trading the children for the bird, which she claimed was simply given to her by the Romeros." Read article... Comments (27) Household Clutter Strangles Hoarder Columbus Dispatch | Submitted by: DonkeyHotey "Jackson's sister, who called her daily, and Jackson's niece became concerned when they could not reach her Monday. They went to Jackson's house, where they found the garage door open, the car gone and the front door unlocked... They searched the house, but because it was so crammed with belongings they did not find her body." Read article... Comments (16) Seattle Deputy Beating The Shit BBC | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Tap Dancer "Prosecutors in the American city of Seattle have made public a video which they say shows a sheriff's deputy using excessive force against a teenage girl... The video showed the attack beginning after the 15-year-old entered a jail cell and kicked off one of her shoes towards the deputy. The deputy is accused of using excessive force but his lawyers have said the video is misleading." Read article... Comments (84) Mauritanian Girls Fattened For Marriage Guardian | Submitted by: Lord RedPubes "Leblouh is intimately linked to early marriage and often involves a girl of five, seven or nine being obliged to eat excessively to achieve female roundness and corpulence, so that she can be married off as young as possible. Girls from rural families are taken for leblouh at special "fattening farms" where older women, or the children's aunts or grandmothers, will administer pounded millet, camel's milk and water in quantities that make them ill." Read article... Comments (44) Immolation #1: Wal-Mart Lunch Break Chicago Breaking News | Submitted by: (From) The Heart Of Walmart "A 58-year-old Wal-Mart employee who said he "couldn't take it anymore" lit himself on fire in a parking lot near the Bloomingdale store where he worked late Thursday night... At least 10 people, including some teenagers, witnessed the suicide and several attempted to help the man by throwing their coats on top of him in an effort to put out the flames. He said he didn't want any help and threw the coats off." Read article... Comments (23) Immolation #2: The Burning Bathtub Chicago Breaking News | Submitted by: cyran0 "Vishv told his mother that his father took the boys to buy toy cars, stopped to buy some gasoline, and then went to the family home. Vishv said that their father 'told them in get into the bathroom and to get into a green tub... Vishv said Daddy poured something over them and he knew it was gas, not water. It burned his eyes as it was poured over him. Vishv then said Dad stood up with a lighter, he heard some noise and him and his brother were hurt." Read article... Comments (16) Immolation #3: Monk Shot, Then Extinguished Guardian | Submitted by: kushed "He doused himself in petrol. The armed police could not get near him because he was burning... Witnesses heard three gunshots fired. The monk fell to the ground and the police managed to put the flames out. He was immediately put into a van and taken to an undisclosed location. His present condition is unknown." Read article... Comments (17) Immolation #4: Yeah, It's My Mother Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: anonymous "A 32-year-old woman accused of killing her mother was matter-of-fact when an officer questioned her at the scene, saying "yeah, it's my mother and I set her on fire"... Pak purchased $1 worth of gasoline and a box of matches about 10 minutes prior to the confrontation... She then went home, threw open the front door and doused her 58-year-old mother with gasoline before igniting her with a match." Read article... Comments (15) Eat Placentas, Don't Flush Them Urbana News-Gazette | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray "On Thursday, for the third time in a month, employees at the Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District spotted what was later identified as a placenta, believed to be from a human, in filtering equipment at the plant on East University Avenue in Urbana... 'It's a body part. According to EPA rules, you're not allowed to flush. It falls under potentially infectious medical waste. We're hoping this is some kind of mistake. They'll read this and quit doing it.'" Read article... Comments (16) Japanese Bidet Technology Stymied Stateside Guardian | Submitted by: The sweet, crenalated cleft "The New York Times reported a 40% rise in sales of luxury brands of toilet paper in 2008. Paper companies are anxious to keep those percentages up, even as the recession bites. And Reuters reported that Kimberly-Clark spent $25M in its third quarter on advertising to persuade Americans against trusting their bottoms to cheaper brands." Read article... Comments (34) KFC Prankster Wins Gold WMUR | Submitted by: anonymous "A manager pulled a pin for the restaurant's fire suppression system, which rained chemicals on her and others, because she was told to by a man on the phone claiming to be her boss from the corporate office... And then they were told by this person on the phone to go outside and disrobe and actually urinate on one another to decontaminate each other." Read article... Comments (39) Dude Stuffs Cat In Bonzai Bong Wire Services | Submitted by: ik "Deputies discovered the cat trapped in the device after responding to a domestic disturbance call... Upon re-entering the house, Stebbing said, deputies saw the suspect smoking marijuana through a piece of garden hose attached to the duct-taped, plastic glass box, in which the cat had been stuffed." Read article... Comments (28) Corrections Tethers 1 in 31 Americans Wire Services | Submitted by: Banglia "One in every 31 U.S. adults is in the corrections system, which includes jail, prison, probation and supervision, more than double the rate of a quarter century ago, according to a report released on Monday by the Pew Center on the States... The study, which said the current rate compares to one in 77 in 1982, concluded that with declining resources, more emphasis should be put on community supervision, not jail or prison." Read article... Comments (39)