Daily Rotten Archives March 27, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Malaysian Caning Brings Internet Jollies Daily Mail | Submitted by: golem22 "The caning was meted out in a jail in Malaysia, where the authorities insist that it is a legitimate punishment. However, a video of the flogging has caused an outcry after it was posted on the Internet and seen around the world. In images condemned by Malaysia's own lawyers, the unidentified male prisoner, thought to be a drug dealer, is shown being struck 20 times on his bare buttocks with a rotan -- a bamboo-like cane." With the video. Read article... Comments (1176) $206 Ticket Paid With Urine-Soaked Coins WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: jcgm97@aol.com "A [pissed off] Washington man tried to pay a more than $200 traffic ticket by sending a plastic bag filled with coins and urine to a county billing office, deputies said. That's something I can't wrap my mind around, said Sgt. Phil Anderchuk, of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. The thought process of acting consciously -- consummating the act of urinating in a box full of coins that someone is going to receive." Read article... Comments (77) Saginaw Humiliated by Vacuum Cleaner Sex Scandal Fox News | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "Jason L. Savage brought national, night-time jokester humiliation and worldwide embarrassment to the Great Lakes Bay Region by having sex with a vacuum hose in a Thomas Township car wash, Saginaw County Circuit Judge Fred L. Borchard said while scolding him at his sentencing Wednesday." Read article... Comments (50) Bobcat Walks Into a Bar AZ Central | Submitted by: azdollarbill "I said goodnight, said bartender Scott Hughes, 41. Next thing I know, they are running back in, followed by the bobcat. One jumped on the pool table, and two more jumped onto the bar. The bar's video camera recorded what happened next. The bobcat chased two people around a pool table. Then, the animal stopped. That's when people took out their cellphone cameras to get a picture... The cat jumped on Hicks' face, scratching him under his left eye and behind his right ear." Read article... Comments (34) Dirty Jersey Chick Gets Busted for Myspace Nudes Wire Services | Submitted by: Fr4th0000 "A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace -- charges that could force her to register as a sex offender if convicted. The case comes as prosecutors nationwide pursue child pornography cases resulting from kids sending nude photos to one another over cell phones and e-mail." Read article... Comments (58) Fool Me Once Wire Services | Submitted by: lord redpubes "The ousted former president of a national organization of black Baptist churches is running for the position again, a decade after he was sent to prison for stealing millions of dollars from the group. The Rev. Henry J. Lyons was forced out as leader of the National Baptist Convention USA in 1999 after an investigation revealed he abused his power in the convention to steal about $4 million." Read article... Comments (49) Mobster Gets 12 Years for 14 Hits Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: FRAUDZILLA "Mob killer Nicholas Calabrese shot, strangled or blew up 14 men for the Outfit in the 1970s and 1980s. But he got just 12 years and 4 months in prison Thursday for being the first made man in Chicago history to break the Outfit wall of silence and testify against top mobsters in federal court, dealing a critical blow to organized crime in the historic Family Secrets case." Read article... Comments (22) Fighter Pilot Survives Crash, Dies in Botched Rescue News Corporation | Submitted by: onthemac "A fighter pilot who survived the crash of his jet plunged to his death with a rescuer after a cord broke as they were being pulled up to a helicopter. The Ecuadorian pilot, identified as Rafael Durango, and an unidentified co-pilot had earlier ejected safely from their MK-89 Strikemaster before it crashed into a heavily jungled area near the Colombian border yesterday." Read article... Comments (18) Swiss Bankers Kept Chained to Alps Financial Times | Submitted by: God's banker, (STILL) hanging from Blackfrier's bridge "Switzerland’s private banks have started to ban their top executives from travelling abroad, even to neighbouring France and Germany, because of fears they will be detained as part of a global crackdown on bank secrecy... The head of one leading private bank in Geneva said the growing determination of countries such as the US and Germany to tackle tax evasion and secrecy meant banks felt they had to take extra measures to protect employees." Read article... Comments (29) Woman Missing 7 Years Found Under Junk NBC Connecticut | Submitted by: azdollarbill "In a scene reminiscent of the infamous Collyer brothers, the home was reportedly filled from floor to ceiling with hoarded belongings. Preliminary reports indicate the victim may have died by being crushed or trapped by collected piles of junk, and was simply never found, police said." Read article... Comments (21) Living in Filth II: Bottled Goodness SF Weekly | Submitted by: jk "PG&E shut off the power long ago, rendering it difficult to tell what's going on inside apartment 721. But the musty, hovering stink gives a few hints, and the crack in the door bathes a coffee table in outside light. Its surface is covered with unidentifiable, rotting food and Dr. Pepper bottles of various sizes. Some bottles, the tenant admits, are filled with [salty delicious] urine." Read article... Comments (17) Girlfriend Jumps But Survives, Splatters Boyfriend London Telegraph | Submitted by: DroppedPubes "A man has died in China while attempting to catch his girlfriend after she jumped from the seventh-floor of an apartment block in an attempt to commit suicide... According to the local newspaper, Wang was killed by the impact of his girlfriend landing on top of him, but succeeded in saving her life." Read article... Comments (28) Man Surived Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki Times Online | Submitted by: Lt. Gen. Jack De'Ripper "Mr Yamaguchi and his friends are freaks of history, victims of a fate so callous and improbable that it almost raises a smile. In 1945, they were working in Hiroshima where the world’s first atomic bomb exploded 60 years ago this morning, on 6 August 1945. 140,000 people died as a result of the explosion; by pure chance, Mr Yamaguchi, Mr Sato and Mr Iwanaga, were spared. Stunned and injured, reeling from the horrors around them, they left the city for the only place they could have gone – their home town, Nagasaki, 180 miles to the west. There, on 9th August, the second atomic bomb exploded over their heads." Read article... Comments (157)