Daily Rotten Archives April 1, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Spree Murder In Alzheimer Ward MSNBC | Submitted by: Ellis Dee "Stewart arrived at Pinelake, a 110-bed nursing home, armed with more than one weapon, and witnesses said he was shooting both a "deer gun" and a shotgun as he blasted his way through the parking lot and into the facility... Several people inside the home called police, pleading for help: "There's a man in here with a double-barrel shotgun shooting people! White man with a beard." Read article... Comments (530) Spree Killing Survivors: The Morning After Wire Services | Submitted by: MDMBA "The 64-year-old dialysis patient wishes she could rid her mind of the sound of spent shell casings hitting the polished floor as a gunman made his way up her hall. She wishes she could dispel the images of a janitor's mop bucket filled with gore, and of three sheet-shrouded bodies being wheeled past her room on gurneys. Many of her fellow residents -- those who are stricken with Alzheimer's disease or dementia -- don't remember, can't remember. But her mind is clear, and in a way, she envies those who won't be able to replay what happened." Read article... Comments (19) Weed Cult Inflicts Munchie Torture Washington Post | Submitted by: pedophobe "Ricky Ramkissoon said One Mind allowed him to visit his sister twice before he made clear he didn't want to join. He said he once saw Queen Antoinette blow marijuana smoke in Javon's face. Members of the group believe that marijuana "frees your soul," he said... In December 2006, Javon stopped saying "Amen" at mealtimes. Queen Antoinette told members the boy had developed a demonic spirit and needed to be cleansed through fasting and by being denied water." Read article... Comments (20) Sheriff To Prisoner: You're A Peter Eater 610 WTVN | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "The inmate alleges that Cantwell and another deputy, Phillip Barnett, brought a bologna sandwich to his cell to eat on March 13... 'As soon as he had finished eating the sandwich Deputy Cantwell taunted him, and took out his cell phone on which he displayed a photo of another inmate in the jail with his penis on the bologna sandwhich,' the statement said." Read article... Comments (23) Sloppy Teens Hold Weiner Roast Daily Tribune | Submitted by: Wardsizedude "A middle-age man charged with supplying alcohol to teens at his house suffered a severe groin burn when one teen lit the man's pants on fire after he passed out, police said... "It's a nasty wound," said Ferndale Police Lt. William Wilson. "It's a third-degree burn that went through the flesh and into the muscle." Read article... Comments (17) Jersey's Furry Necropolis MSNBC | Submitted by: anonymous "Beneath a veil of hundreds of flies, there was row after row of cages with the mummified remains of animals, some of which were so badly decomposed that officers had to use wire cutters to peel them from the cages. Animal feces was everywhere; a prosecutor who walked inside the Barnegat Township house wearing a haz-mat suit said "the floor squished" with each step he took... Piles of bones and fur that might have been a ferret or two were on the floor. And in the freezer, individually wrapped in towels, then tucked away in zip-lock plastic bags, were the bodies of 28 kittens." Read article... Comments (21) Singing Serial Killer Plans Media Blitz News Corporation | Submitted by: MercyPubes "His autobiography, The Untold Story of Ryan, includes maps to the graves in his parents' backyard, as well as photographs that chart his progress from village boy to Koran recital teacher, to simpering, shirtless male model... "I can't explain how it happened. I was furious and jealous. I only realised he was dead after I saw cut-up pieces of his flesh on my lap... the blood, the bad smell." Read article... Comments (11) McDonald's #1: Blaow Blaow Your Fries Suck Salt Lake Tribune | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "When a clerk told her the restaurant was serving only items from the breakfast menu, the woman drove to the second window, police said. Two men got out of the car, and one pulled a sawed-off shotgun out of the trunk, police said. He fired once or twice into the drive-though window before the two men and the woman left on 500 South and turned north on 300 West, police said." Read article... Comments (17) McDonald's #2: Pimped Out For Nuggets News Corporation | Submitted by: AlexP-Gosford, NSW "Ronald Vikash Gander, 27, and his 16-year-old girlfriend devised a plan to prostitute a teenage girl so they could afford the weekly $1050 rent on a serviced inner-Brisbane apartment... The court was told the girl made $4500 for having sex with five middle-aged men in June last year. Gander and his girlfriend used the money for living expenses and paid the girl nothing except for the occasional box of chicken nuggets." Read article... Comments (18) Testicular Stem Cells Isolated In Lab hplusmagazine.com | Submitted by: anonymous "Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and at UC-San Francisco have succeeded in isolating stem cells from human testes. The cells bear a striking resemblance to embryonic stem cells -- they can differentiate into each of the three main types of tissues of the body... The cells could be induced to differentiate into decidedly non-testicular neural cell precursors and they expressed the telomerase enzyme essential to keep pluripotent cells young and unspecialized." Read article... Comments (14) The Cloaca of Calcutta London Telegraph | Submitted by: PoopyPubes "Government guidelines say that sewer workers must be equipped with protective gear, including helmets, gloves, goggles and instruments to check for poisonous gases. But, clearly, not all contractors follow these guidelines... Despite a rise in the number of deaths of manhole workers every year, workers regularly go into the manholes without any protective gear." [Submitter notes: A pictorial extravaganza.] Read article... Comments (17) Chinese Datarats Nest In Foreign Networks CNN | Submitted by: shots "The discovery of GhostNet grew out of suspicions that the office of the Dalai Lama had been hacked... The Dalai Lama investigation led to the discovery of hundreds more infected machines in locations from The Associated Press in Britain and Deloitte and Touche in New York, to the ministries of foreign affairs in Indonesia, Iran and the Philippines. The office of the prime minister of Laos was also snared, as was a single non-secure computer at NATO... Infected computers "checked in" with control servers as early as May 2007 and as recently as March 12 of this year, the report adds." Read article... Comments (16) Narrow Miss For Spear Fisherman Daily Mail | Submitted by: SpearofPubestiny "A Brazilian man is lucky to be alive after he astonishingly managed to shoot himself in the brain with a fishing spear... Emerson de Oliveira Abreu was fishing off the coast of Rio de Janeiro when he took the devastating shot. The spear ricocheted off some rocks -- and slammed into Abreu's head." [With X-ray.] Read article... Comments (13) Human Smugglers' Ark Capsizes Daily Mail | Submitted by: BobalongPubes "Authorities said there were 20 confirmed deaths with another 200 people missing four days after the accident. The boat, which a Libyan police official said had a capacity of just 50, overturned Friday in high winds with about 250 on board... The bodies of six migrants pulled from the water on Sunday, at least three of them women, were laid out among piles of nets and frayed ropes on the deck of one of the fishing boats that took part in rescue efforts." Read article... Comments (12) Fire Trucks Collide In Houston Houston Chronicle | Submitted by: dxm0047 "A Houston Fire Department ladder truck ran a red light before colliding with a pumper truck in a Montrose intersection Monday morning.. Both firetrucks were en route to what had been reported as a possible fire when they crashed... Before overturning and coming to rest on a four-door Infiniti, the ladder truck struck a bicyclist and snapped an electric pole and tree. The collision injured 11 people, the bicyclist critically." Read article... Comments (13) Gonna Fuck Me A Pinecone Sun | Submitted by: Hubito Machogrande "Surgeons have revealed that the embarrassed spinster is recovering after getting steamy with the seedy item in the Serbian capital, Belgrade... Dr. Sava Bojovic explained: 'She was lonely and she took a pine cone from a tree and unfortunately it got stuck and she needed surgery to get it out." Read article... Comments (28)