Daily Rotten Archives April 2, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Surprised Amputee Fights Back With Stump Independent.ie | Submitted by: Lordgreenpubes "Mr Rogers had been in the pub with a number of friends that day when he heard someone shout, 'there's the cunt' before he was struck from behind with a hammer... Russell severed Mr Roger's hand at the wrist with his first swing of the sword and his hand fell to the ground. He said that the victim did not notice that he had lost his hand, which, he said, must have been due to shock... Mr Rogers continued to struggle with Russell and at one stage punched the accused in the face with the stump of his arm." Read article... Comments (260) Barren Housewives At Play Pocono Record | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray "The girl's mother is no longer able to have children but wanted to have a baby with her current boyfriend... The pair decided to drug the girl so Calloway, 40, could have sex with her without her knowledge, he added... In a search of the Brown residence, police said they found an empty rum bottle, Tylenol PM and a pill crusher." Read article... Comments (198) Funeral Home Trims Corpse Daily Mail, London Telegraph | Submitted by: ShortstuffPubes, Jean "Police have launched an investigation after claims an American man's legs were severed so he could fit into his coffin... Investigators in South Carolina exhumed the body of James Hines, who was 6ft5in, yesterday... His widow, Ruth Hines, told local media: 'According to the measurements on the casket, and the funeral director, we asked him, 'Was this suitable for his length?' and he said, 'Yes that will be perfect.'" Read article... and This article... Comments (45) Pretoria: Suburban Slaughterhouse Daily Mail | Submitted by: RhinocraticPubes "Stunned officers discovered the heads of at least 13 recently-executed lions and several rhino carcasses among the grisly contents of the illegal abattoir in Pretoria, South Africa... Police spokesman Console Tleane said: 'The carcasses were lying all over the floor, everywhere in the house. It was the most horrific incident we have seen.'" Read article... Comments (17) Raining Bowling Balls in Ypsilanti WDIV-TV 4 Detroit | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "When police arrived after to M-14 and Joy Road around 12:20 a.m. they discovered two 40-pound water softener bags full of salt, a destroyed computer monitor and two bowling balls on the roadway... Investigators said they have responded to reports of teens throwing rocks from the overpass, but never 40-pound bags or bowling balls. Police said this kind of crime involved planning and a vehicle because of the sheer weight of the objects." Read article... Comments (32) Detroit Raccoon Feast Presages Cannibalism Detroit News | Submitted by: redrubberballs "While economic times are tough across Michigan as its people slog through a difficult and protracted deindustrialization, Beasley remains upbeat. "Starvation is cheap," he says as he prepares an afternoon lunch of barbecue coon and red pop at his west side home... "Today people got no skill and things is getting worse," he laments. "What people gonna do? They gonna eat each other up is what they gonna do." Read article... Comments (48) Sex-Ed: Show Us Your Balls Western Daily Press | Submitted by: Daos "A Bristol secondary school has tried out a new style of sex education by letting teenage pupils examine a line-up of naked men... The pupils at Hanham High School, aged 14 to 16, watched a screen in the main hall showing a live feed of different men who were being filmed in the school's gym. The youngsters were told to ask which areas of which man's body they wanted to look at, with the idea of showing them that every person's body is different." Read article... Comments (17) Prison Smuggling Ring Trains Pigeons Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: MonkMonk "Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern city of Sorocaba noticed a pigeon resting on an electric wire with a small cloth bag tied to one of its legs last week. The guards nabbed the bird after luring it down with some food and discovered components of a small cell phone inside the bag... The birds were apparently bred and raised inside the prison, smuggled out, outfitted with the cell phone parts and then released to fly back. "Pigeons instinctively fly back home, always," the investigator said." Read article... Comments (22) Playmobil Passion Play Daily Telegraph | Submitted by: anonymous "It's true that I did use a hairdryer to soften the figure for the crucifixion scene because the fingers wouldn't spread out properly otherwise," he said. "Then I had to let it harden again before I could nail it to the cross." But the montage attracted the wrath of Germany's favourite toy company, which produces the Klicky figures used by the pastor, after a series of pictures were published on the internet." Read article... Comments (11) Rave Police Blacklight Boogers BBC | Submitted by: GlowingPubes "An ultraviolet torch which shows certain drugs as glowing green is being used to catch cocaine-using clubbers... Developed by JNE Marketing in Wrexham, the torch shines up traces of cocaine and amphetamine as bright green... The 'cocaine torch', used by police, highlights traces of the substances on the nostrils and cheeks of users. Read article... Comments (19) Afghanistan: No Rape Until Marriage London Telegraph | Submitted by: A. P. Palled "Afghan President Hamid Karzai has signed a law the UN says legalises rape in marriage and prevents women from leaving the house without permission... Mr Karzai has been accused of electioneering at the expense of women's rights by signing the law to appeal to crucial Shia swing voters in this year's presidential poll." Read article... Comments (17) The Loneliest Corpse WLTX-TV 19 Columbia | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "The Calhoun County Coroner's Office has begun to piece together the story of 74-year-old Mary Sue Merchant. They believe it's her body they found in a home in the Sandy Run community, and no one noticed she was gone... Merchant's sister-in-law discovered the woman's phone had been disconnected. "She only assumed that she might have had it cut off and got a cell phone instead," Porth says." Read article... Comments (10) Brawler Cops: Cruising For Trouble Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: FRAUDZILLA "Cook County prosecutors said three Chicago Police officers charged in a bar brawl at the Jefferson Tap & Grille were wayward cops who wanted to "open a can of whoop ass." "Why did they do it? Because they felt like it, judge. That's why... Calling them victims is an insult... They are loud mouth drunks." Read article... Comments (12) Robots Taught To Smell Fear Times | Submitted by: M. Atta, in the flames "Law enforcement agencies are seeking scientists to develop an artificial nose that can detect the smell of fear as terrorists pass through security at airports... The US Department of Homeland Security is advertising for specialists to devise airport scanners that will sniff out 'deceptive individuals'... The nose will isolate the tangy smell of adrenaline, the stress hormone, so that nervous passengers or those with a guilty conscience can be singled out." Read article... Comments (18) The Folly Of Deckhand Twaddle ABC TV affiliates | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "A school field trip turned into a horrifying incident for a group of elementary school children Friday after a deckhand choked to death while trying to amuse the students... To amuse the children, deckhand Jeff Twaddle put a bait fish in his mouth. It lodged in his throat, and he lost consciousness. Attempts to dislodge the fish and to perform CPR failed, and 54-year-old Twaddle died." Read article... Comments (14) Massachusetts Censors Eye Cripple Porn Boston Herald | Submitted by: furpo "Perverts preying on the elderly or disabled could soon face harsh new penalties under a first-of-its-kind proposed law that would punish peddlers of geriatric and handicapped porn the same as child pornographers... Fueled by a rise in sex abuse against the elderly and disabled and a string of cases involving photography and cyber postings... "Obviously with the technology evolving, the crimes committed using that technology have increased. That's clearly the case." Read article... Comments (19) Berlin Buses Run On Dogshit The Local DE | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "The programme, called "Poo Power Berlin," will begin in three of Berlin's largest parks... City workers will place compost bins around the parks, complete with biodegradable balsa wood spades for picking up the Hundescheisse. The bins contain environmentally friendly chemicals that will break down the waste into a sludge that will be periodically transported to biofuel processing facilities in the city's Marzahn district." Read article... Comments (12) Lenin Statue Rips One BBC | Submitted by: whatsnew74 "One of Russia's most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear. The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin's coat." Read article... Comments (33)