Daily Rotten Archives March 10, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 First Rule of Fight Club: No Drooling CNN | Submitted by: mInARChiST "Workers at a Texas state school for mentally handicapped adults are believed to have been staging a fight club among residents, encouraging them to physically battle one another, police told CNN Tuesday. A cell phone containing videos of the alleged abuse at the Corpus Christi State School in Corpus Christi, Texas, was turned over to police last week, and authorities are expecting to file arrest warrants this week." Read article... Comments (339) Let Cooler Heads Prevail CNN | Submitted by: ikky "Five human heads were found in ice chests on Tuesday under a ficus tree in the central Mexican state of Jalisco, police said... Each head was found in a separate ice chest beside a road leading to the city of Guadalajara... The tops of the ice chests were inscribed with messages, among them, one that threatened further violence." Read article... Comments (45) Woman Bites Police After Dogs Taken New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: anonymous "Police were called to an Avalon Drive property after the woman refused to hand over her three dogs to city council dog control officers, who had a warrant to seize them... She was arrested by police and bundled into the back of a patrol car where she tried several times to bite the accompanying officer on the way back to the station, police said." Read article... Comments (20) São Paulo Police Moonlighting as Death Squad News Corporation | Submitted by: McPubes "Nine members of Sao Paulo's Motorised Police were charged today with being in a death squad dubbed The Highlanders that last year killed at least 12 people, five by decapitation... The nine allegedly rogue cops were arrested after a passerby witnessed the murder of a mentally handicapped 31-year-old, whose head and hands were severed, and took down the licence plate number of the killers' car." Read article... Comments (21) The Family That Immolates Together Gulf News Dubai | Submitted by: Avery "The governor of China's western region of Xinjiang says three people who set themselves on fire in downtown Beijing last month came to the city after their unreasonable demands for compensation for a lost home were not met." Read article... Comments (11) Corpse Fucker Was Totally Out of Control Cincinnati Enquirer | Submitted by: Matthew Keene "Authorities never will know how many corpses Kenneth Douglas had sex with in his 16 years as an employee of the Hamilton County morgue... That’s because, Prosecutor Joe Deters said today, Douglas has no idea. He told us he was out of control, Deters said today after Douglas was arraigned on two more charges of abuse of a corpse." Read article... Comments (22) Wingnuts Crying Over Wikipedia London Telegraph | Submitted by: ObePubeKanobe WorldNetDaily is up in arms over Wikipedia's treatment of Brack Obama: "Topics routinely scrubbed, it was claimed, include Mr Obama's alleged ties with such controversial figures as the so-called Weatherman terrorist, Bill Ayers, as well as the religious leader, Rev Jeremiah Wright, even though users had complied with Wikipedia rules requiring them to link additions to credible reports from news outlets." Of course, the links between Ayers and Obama are so minor that they barely deserve consideration, but that somehow never makes it into the article. Read article... Comments (35) Corrupt Texas Town Targets Negroes Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: Blackie White(Boston Blackie) "More than 140 people reluctantly accepted that [forfeiture] deal from June 2006 to June 2008, according to court records. Among them were a black grandmother from Akron, who surrendered $4,000 in cash after Tenaha police pulled her over, and an interracial couple from Houston, who gave up more than $6,000 after police threatened to seize their children and put them into foster care, the court documents show. Neither the grandmother nor the couple were charged with any crime." Read article... Comments (34) Snow Peppers ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: Avery "Some shoppers in Queens got more than they expected when they bought some peppers. When they cut into the peppers, they found cocaine. A handful of different customers bought the vegetables at the Liberty Avenue store in the Ozone Park section. They got them home and cut them open, only to find plastic bags of cocaine inside, according to police." Read article... Comments (41)