Daily Rotten Archives April 3, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Giant Worm Destroys Aquarium Daily Mail | Submitted by: Azrael "Workers at the Cornwall-based attraction had been left scratching their heads as to why the coral had been left devastated and -- in some cases -- cut in half... After staking out the display for several weeks, the last resort was to completely dismantle it, rock by rock. Halfway through the process the predator was revealed as a four-foot polychaete worm." [With picture.] Read article... Comments (319) Gunman Interrupts Citizenship Exam BBC News | Submitted by: pussy gun "A gunman has killed at least 13 people after taking dozens hostage in the US state of New York... The gunman had entered a room where people were sitting exams for US citizenship. It was in the middle of a test. He just went in and opened fire." Read article... Comments (67) Give An Earful, Lose An Ear WISH-TV 8 Indianapolis | Submitted by: DonkeyHotey "Cross encountered a bicycle that he found frustrating to get around"... Both men exchanged hand gestures. The driver "jumped out and said, 'What you say??', and I said, 'You need to watch where you are going, there's kids here'... He come bum-rushing me and grabbed me like this, and started taking chunks out of my ear and spitting them at me." Read article... Comments (33) Oedipus Texts NBC2 News | Submitted by: anonymous Jocasta complicit: Police found a series of text messages from a mother and her 16 year old son planning the murder of her new husband, who was stabbed 15 times. The husband has been quoted as saying, "I didn't, I guess, know her as well as I should have." Read article... Comments (20) Police Doubt Reliquary's Provenance London Telegraph | Submitted by: DaveClarkes'sPubes "A human skull, femur, and other bones were found on the altar, and detectives were investigating whether human sacrifices were carried out at the church in Argentina... Police arrested the 44-year-old priest after allegations that he forced female followers into prostitution to raise money for the Umbanda cult, a spiritualist religious group which has followers throughout South America." Read article... Comments (21) Condos Hide Multiple Meth Labs Elkhart Truth | Submitted by: DonkeyHotey "Residents were allowed to return to their homes Wednesday morning, after officers from the Elkhart County Health Department deemed the rest of the building safe, other than two apartments -- the apartment with the active meth lab and another that contained meth precursors... This isn't the first time the building has had meth trouble. On Oct. 16, a meth lab exploded in a different apartment there, sending two people to a Fort Wayne burn unit." Read article... Comments (15) Get The Cheese Right, Bitch Philadelphia Inquirer | Submitted by: Lester Lipspray "The 44-year-old woman, whom cops did not identify, was preparing dinner last week in her Kingston Road home when Toppin "became enraged due to the victim not placing cheese on his hoagie roll correctly"... Toppin grabbed a knife from the other room and slashed her finger, causing a deep laceration, then wrapped his teeth around his girlfriend's left wrist and refused to let go." Read article... Comments (28) Chinese Bombers As Parts Per Million London Telegraph | Submitted by: BlastedPubes "Two office workers were injured when the man detonated explosives he was carrying in a black satchel after entering an office building in Urumqi... The bomber said he was owed wages after working for a construction company... Suicide bombings are extremely rare in China, however there was a spate of incidents in the late 1990s when millions of workers were laid off in the wake of the Asian financial crisis." Read article... Comments (19) Senators Threaten University's Money Hole Baltimore Sun | Submitted by: azdollarbill "The University of Maryland, College Park, has canceled this weekend's screening of a hard-core pornographic film after state lawmakers objected and threatened to cut funding to the flagship state university... Sen. Andrew P. Harris, a Republican from Baltimore and Harford counties, suggested amending the state's annual budget to deny any funding to a higher education institution that allows a public screening of a film marketed as an "XXX-rated adult film," unless it is part of an official academic course." Read article... Comments (14) Serial Shooter Given Six Death Sentences Nationale Poste | Submitted by: WFern "Dale Hausner, an Arizona man known as the "Serial Shooter," was sentenced to death yesterday for murdering six people in a killing spree that terrorized Phoenix area residents three years ago... Earlier this month, Hausner was convicted of the six murders and 74 other crimes committed in night-time drive-by shootings of people and animals in 2005 and 2006." Read article... Comments (22) Child Forgets Rules Of Serial Killer Pravda | Submitted by: furpo "He grabbed a kitchen knife and began to frighten other children with it... The children ran away from the boy to another room and shut the door behind them at the moment when the boy was running after them holding a knife in his hand. As soon as the children shut the door, they heard the boy crying. The kids opened the door and saw that 'the serial killer' had stabbed himself in the head." Read article... Comments (14) Robot To Replace Graduate Students Financial Times | Submitted by: S.Conner "A laboratory robot called Adam has been hailed as the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators... Adam formed a hypothesis on the genetics of bakers' yeast and carried out experiments to test its predictions, without intervention from its makers at Aberystwyth University." Read article... Comments (13) The Great British Body Part Treasure Hunt '09 BBC | Submitted by: Pussy Galore & Staffa "A human head found in a Leicestershire field comes from the same body as an arm and a leg found dumped in Hertfordshire, police have revealed... The male's head was found on Tuesday at Asfordby, while the arm was found in Cottered on 22 March and the leg in nearby Wheathampstead a week later." Read article... Comments (10) Alberta to DNA Test Dogshit Edmonton Sun | Submitted by: F.e.l.i.X "DNA testing will be the latest tool in the city's arsenal to nab deadbeats who don't pick-up their doggie's doo... Bylaw officials will begin using a new $1-million DNA analyzer to track down pet owners who fail to scoop their dog's poop... It's hoped the $1M cost of the machine will be paid off in less than a year." Read article... Comments (34)