Daily Rotten Archives March 19, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Texas Thunderdome Dallas Morning News | Submitted by: ZebraBob "The principal and other staff members at South Oak Cliff High School were supposed to be breaking up fights. Instead, they sent troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room to battle it out with bare fists and no head protection, records show." Read article... Comments (293) Inbreeding No Longer Recommended Times | Submitted by: Dueling Banjo with Cheese "Whereever these consanguineous marriages occur the offspring will experience an increase in susceptibility to disease. It is a concern. A disease that might not otherwise take off might could gain a foothold and spread. If you imagine an epidemic coming into a population... you probably need an unusually weak individual to get started. As soon as they get the disease the whole thing starts up." Read article... Comments (73) Bus Driver Clubs Fake Seal Chronicle Herald | Submitted by: Patti Shea "He was running across the street, brandishing this baton in his hand, running at us. A few people actually thought that he was coming for them, but he ran over to a homemade seal that we had on the ground as part of our demonstration and he started whacking the ground by the seal." Read article... Comments (41) Dog Shits $400 News and Observer | Submitted by: Cha-Cheese "Federal regulations say mutilated currency can be replaced if more than 50 percent of a bill is identifiable or if the method of mutilation and supporting evidence demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Treasury that the rest of the bill has been destroyed." Read article... Comments (28) Oops: Grenade Was Obvious Monty Python Prop Daily Mail | Submitted by: DeadPuberott "Police evacuated several buildings, cordoned off a street and called in explosives specialists after water company workers stumbled on the film prop under a fire hydrant cover in Shoreditch, east London. But the dangerous-looking weapon turned out to be the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch that featured in the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail." Read article... Comments (40) Woman Find Tiger Head! Daily Herald | Submitted by: gingeroot "The head is from a domestic white tiger, an endangered animal, according to police, who released more information on the Feb. 26 incident this week. It had fallen off the back of another truck near the intersection of routes 120 and 12 on the way to the taxidermist. Because the animal is so rare, the head is valued at more than $10,000, according to police." Read article... Comments (16) Predator X New Scientist | Submitted by: anonymous "Predator X had a head twice the size of Tyrannosaurus rex and its bite had four times the force, at around 33,000 pounds over the whole jaw. Its teeth were each around 1 foot long. The remains were discovered in June 2008 during a two-week expedition led by Jørn Hurum of the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo." Read article... Comments (34) Charles Manson: Old LA Times Blog | Submitted by: furpo "California corrections officials released a photograph taken today of aging convicted mass murderer Charles Manson, replete with receding hairline, fading forehead Swastika carving and a thick, heavily graying beard... The septuagenarian has made 11 failed bids for parole since 1978, the last in 2007 when he was ordered to continue serving life sentences. Manson's next parole hearing is scheduled for 2012." Read article... Comments (95) Killer, Bees News Corporation | Submitted by: StickyPubes "A man accused of murdering a fellow beekeeper so he could steal his honey was nabbed after one of the stolen barrels fell on him, a court has heard. Donald Robert Alcock, 34, is facing trial for shooting Anthony Ross Knight in the back as the beekeeper slept at his home at Woodford, in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, in May 2007. Mr Alcock has pleaded not guilty to Mr Knight's murder." Read article... Comments (23) Disruptive Boy Farts on Bus Lakeland Ledger | Submitted by: anonymous "Jonathan passes gas on the bus to make the other children laugh and it is so stink that you can't breathe after he does it," the bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form... If the flatulence becomes excessive, then Corbett said the bus driver has the responsibility to report it to the school administrator." Read article... Comments (60) Mosquitoes Defeated By Laser Beams Live Science | Submitted by: CleanLivin "First, to locate individual mosquitoes, the flashlights shine into the tank from across the room. Each mosquito creates its own silhouette on reflective material behind it. The zoom lens picks up the shadows and feeds the data to the computer, which controls the laser and fires it at the bug. Even better, the laser target only female mosquitoes; it uses the rate at which the wings beat to differentiate male from female." Read article... Comments (32) Japan Suicide Forest CNN | Submitted by: Tubgirl8000 "Yoshida and his fellow volunteer, Norio Sawaguchi, posted signs in Aokigahara Forest urging suicidal visitors to call their organization, a credit counseling service. Both men say Japanese society too often turns a cold shoulder to the unemployed and bankrupt, and breeds a culture where suicide is still seen as an honorable option." Read article... Comments (102) Connecticut Officer Beats Subdued Suspect Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Piggy Beatdown "A Connecticut police department has released a video showing that a former Meriden police officer kept beating a suspect after the man had stopped struggling." Read article... Comments (1003)