Daily Rotten Archives March 13, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Meet Little Tandoor! BBC | Submitted by: keysersoze "A six-year-old Indian boy is recovering after doctors removed a two metre iron rod that speared his body when he fell from a terrace... Mehul was playing on the Indian festival of Holi when he fell on the rod in a terrace under construction at his grandparents' home." Excellent photograph. Read article... Comments (703) Still Easy To Fraudulently Obtain Real US Passport Wire Services | Submitted by: An accidental survivor "Using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year-old boy, a government investigator obtained US passports in a test of post-9/11 security. Despite efforts to boost passport security since the 2001 terror attacks, the investigator fooled passport and postal service employees four out of four times, according to a new report made public Friday." Read article... Comments (504) Guilty Plea in Hitler Bookmark Case Wire Services | Submitted by: ikthool "A Seattle-area man has admitted trying to sell a stolen bookmark that reportedly was given to Adolf Hitler by his mistress after the Nazis lost the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II... The 18-carat gold bookmark, engraved with a portrait of Hitler, an imperial eagle and a swastika, was forfeited to the U.S. government." Read article... Comments (15) Reciprocating Saber Saw Is Not A Sex Toy MSNBC | Submitted by: ban norace "Maryland State Police airlifted the 27-year-old woman to Prince George's County Hospital Center early Sunday morning after she was injured in an incident involving a sex toy attached to a saber saw blade... The man who called 911 about the incident admitted attaching the sex toy to the saw and then using the high-powered, homemade device on his partner, according to the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office." Read article... Comments (37) What A Surprise: Car Dealers Ripping Off Buyers CBS 13 | Submitted by: aging disgracefully "It's true, a dealership has 30-days to produce the title, but a lot can happen in those 30-days. We've learned Jason's truck has changed hands four times. But that pink slip hasn't moved once. Jason traded the truck in to Carmean Dodge, who sold it to a local auction house. Then that auction house sold it to the dealership on Auburn Blvd, where we found it, ready to be sold again." Read article... Comments (20) Method Acting Taken To Extreme Conclusion KRQE-TV 13 Albuquerque | Submitted by: Mirai "A judge locked up killer Clifton Bloomfield for 195 years, but now the multiple murderer is out -- on video -- in a movie role he filmed between homicides... Bloomfield described himself as trustworthy and reliable a year and a half ago when casting director David Córdova was auditioning extras for the Sony Pictures movie Felon starring Steven Dorff and New Mexico resident Val Kilmer." Read article... Comments (13) Be Sure To Eat Your Spinach Wire Services | Submitted by: ban norace "This undated photo provided by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety shows a seized spinach can filled with marijuana. Police with the New Mexico Motor Transportation Division found 1,200 pounds of pot packed in cans labeled as spinach during a stop at the Gallup, N.M. port of entry on March 6, 2009." Read article... Comments (24) Man Bites Elevator Hampton Roads Pilot | Submitted by: JG the Jerk "A 24-year-old man who said he was high on cocaine was found biting an elevator door at the Westin Hotel at Town Center and then fought a police officer who tried to arrest him, according to court records... Foss subdued Catoe and took him to a local hospital, where Catoe reportedly admitted injecting cocaine that was crazy and bad." Read article... Comments (11) Scientists Test Claims, Penis Extender Actually Works Live Science | Submitted by: CleanLivin "With hopes of finding a safe, non-surgical method to increase the penis length of men with less than 1.5 inches flaccid or 2.75 inches stretched (a proxy for erect), urologist Paolo Gontero and his colleagues at San Giovanni Battista Hospital at the University of Turin, Italy, decided to test claims made by one commercial vendor of a penile extender." Read article... Comments (27) Forbes Billionare List Offends Mexico CNN | Submitted by: ikthool "[Guzman Loera] ranked 701th on Forbes' yearly report, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion. Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora expressed outrage at the publication and described Forbes' calculations on Guzman Loera's fortune as mere speculation." Read article... Comments (17) Culture Nazis Feeling A Little Disappointed Wire Services | Submitted by: Lucifer (getting pissed...) "Thus far, I have been disappointed to see little give. There's been a lot of take, said the Rev. Frank Page, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention who serves on a month-old advisory board to Obama's White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. I've seen little give in the area of relating to the evangelical community as far as life issues." Oh irony! Read article... Comments (54)