Daily Rotten Archives March 23, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Marijuana Can Make You Think You Are Married Stuff NZ | Submitted by: single and sober "The man could not remember a wedding ceremony taking place but always believed they had been married. He told the court the details must have slipped his mind because he was stoned at the time. Indeed he had no meaningful recollection of significant portions of the relationship." Read article... Comments (1005) Space Underwear Never Needs Changing London Telegraph | Submitted by: PoopyPubes "Throughout his stay, he will be wearing underpants that have been specially designed to handle the rigours of the human body in space. Developed by researchers at the Japan Women's University and five clothing companies, the underwear is made of a material containing threads of antibacterial polymers that reduce the smells that build up in normal clothing." Read article... Comments (688) Romania May Decriminalize Incest Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Incest Lover "Three European Union countries -- France, Spain and Portugal - do not prosecute consenting adults for incest, and Romania is considering following suit. Laws exempting parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters from prosecution for incestuous acts if they are not forced upon adult family members are decades old in France, Spain and Portugal. Not everything that is immoral has to be illegal." Read article... Comments (110) Mom Forced Daughter Abortion, Threw Fetus in Trash Miami Herald | Submitted by: Cheesegrits "After forcing the 16-year-old girl to take pills obtained from a receptionist at a Miami-area clinic, the 38-year-old Miramar woman went out to Cafe Iguana for the night. When she came home around 3 the next morning, her daughter aborted the fetus into a toilet. Rainey then placed the fetus in a bag and set it out with her garbage for curbside pickup." Read article... Comments (80) Sylvia Plath's Son Joins Mother In Suicide Times | Submitted by: Cheesegrits "The son of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has taken his own life, 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept. Nicholas Hughes hanged himself at his home in Alaska after battling against depression for some time, his sister Frieda said yesterday." Read article... Comments (56) Creationists Seek End Run Around Accreditation The Raw Story | Submitted by: anonymous "Texas State Representative Leo Berman has proposed House Bill 2800, which would exempt any private non-profit institution that requires students to complete substantive course work from having to acquire a certificate of authority from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Berman admits that his inspiration for the bill was the Institute for Creation Research Graduate School." Extra bonus, it makes Texas the butt of even more jokes. Read article... Comments (53) I Double Dare You Moscow Times | Submitted by: lilmadguy "Authorities in the Novgorod region have arrested two men suspected of murdering a woman on a bet after one of them bragged that his military tour in Chechnya had prepared him to kill... His drinking buddy's skepticism apparently too much for him to handle, the vet went with his friend to the apartment of the victim, a 50-year-old female acquaintance identified by authorities as N. Klyuyeva." Read article... Comments (15) Google Street View = Anarchy In the UK Independent | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "Google has had hundreds of requests for images to be removed since it launched Street View on Thursday, including pictures of members of the public leaving sex shops or vomiting in the street. But the pictures of young children suggest the service could be exploited for more sinister purposes." It is the ultimate irony, the most surveilled society in this history of mankind crying privacy foul. Read article... Comments (47) WTC Replacement Being Made From Toxic Slag CNN | Submitted by: anonymous "About 44 percent of fly ash found uses, mostly as a substitute for some of the portland cement in concrete, a use the EPA especially encourages because any heavy metals in the ash are trapped forever." Trapped unless, of course, airplanes fly into your buildings made from this heavy-metal cement, and nobody would consider doing such a thing to the World Trade Center replacement structures, made from this very substance. Doh! Read article... Comments (40) Columbus Brought Negroes to New World Live Science | Submitted by: CleanLivin "Teeth from exhumed skeletons of crew members Christopher Columbus left on the island of Hispaniola more than 500 years ago reveal the presence of at least one African in the New World as a contemporary of the explorer, it was announced... I would bet money this person was an African, Price says of one of the three individuals whose teeth were subjected to analysis." Read article... Comments (68) Hakani Chocolate Cake News Corporation | Submitted by: SuspiciousPubes "A video made with the help of US missionaries and depicting Amazon Indians burying children alive is faked and inciting racial hatred, a group campaigning for tribal rights said... The short video, Hakani, has been watched more than 350,000 times on the YouTube video-sharing website... It depicts scenes of Indians in an isolated forest village digging graves and burying several live children in them." Read article... Comments (45) Dinner Service Made From Cocaine Daily Mail | Submitted by: fuglyfrank "A 42-piece crockery set made entirely of compressed cocaine has been seized by Spanish police. Forty-five pounds of the drug were sculpted into a cheerful set of plates, cups, pots and saucers -- painted blue and decorated with sunflowers." Read article... Comments (31) Barclays Avoids $2B in Taxes, Still Wants Bailout Guardian | Submitted by: Flag Hag "The internal Barclays memos were leaked by a mole to the Liberal Democrats. The new allegations reiterate claims that the bank's main purpose in entering into these schemes was to make profit from tax avoidance through an intricate circuit of offshore Cayman Islands and Luxembourg companies. The profits are said to be enormous and the deals so complex that HM Revenue & Customs struggles to unravel them." Read article... Comments (95)