Daily Rotten Archives April 15, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 Doctors Remove Tree Growing in Lung Daily Mail, RIA Novosti | Submitted by: seizureman, FurPubes "Surgeons in Russia's Urals Region were staggered to find a 5-centimeter high spruce growing inside a man's lung, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported on Monday. The discovery was made while Artyom Sidorkin, 28, from the Urals city of Izhevsk, was undergoing surgery." Of course, it is difficult to believe any Russian news source. Read article... and This article... Comments (85) Panty Thieves at South Dum Dum Kolkata Mirror | Submitted by: KnickerPubes This story is only slightly amusing, but it has "I wake up in the mornings to find that only my undergarments are stolen. Why would anyone want to steal underwear and not take anything else?" and "Whoever sees any person stealing undergarments should beat the thief as it is not possible for us to be there all the time, said a senior official at South Dum Dum Municipality, on condition of anonymity." Read article... Comments (35) Heating Acetone Not As Safe As Previously Thought Baltimore Sun | Submitted by: Meekrat "Two state agencies have launched investigations of a Northwest Baltimore salon where a woman was badly burned Saturday after a bowl of heated acetone [!!!] ignited while she was having her artificial nails removed... The liquid splashed onto Andrews' arms and hands and into her lap, causing second-degree burns on 40 percent of her body, he said. Cartwright said his department is still determining what ignited the acetone." Read article... Comments (35) Burger King Midget Equals International Incident London Telegraph | Submitted by: LosPubeos "Mexico's ambassador to Spain said posters for the new Texican whopper, a cheeseburger with chilli and spicy mayonnaise, inappropriately display the Mexican flag, which is draped over the diminutive wrestler like a poncho... This advertisement denigrates the image of our country and uses improperly Mexico's national flag," Jorge Zermeno wrote in a letter to Burger King in Spain, the Reforma newspaper reported on Monday." Read article... Comments (38) Arrested By Pigs Sun | Submitted by: furpo "I was held by them for almost seven hours because having the stone pig apparently counted as harassment. Neighbour PC John Ablett called in his colleagues following a simmering 18-month feud over a footpath that splits his back garden from Robin's in Witney, Oxfordshire. The traffic cop insists the former pig farmer has no right to use it." Read article... Comments (23) Food Adulteration #1: Fecosprayer Sentenced BBC | Submitted by: ascott "The court heard shoppers and staff in both stores saw Daifallah with a black laptop computer with a vapour coming from the bag being sprayed on the shelves. The cost of damaged products and lost business due to resulting store closures was estimated at £700,000." Read article... Comments (34) Food Adulteration #2: Booger Bread, Fart Salami WCNC | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Two Conover Domino's employees are facing criminal charges after posting video on YouTube that showed them doing disgusting things to customers' food. A Domino's Pizza spokesman said that Thompson wrote an e-mail, claiming that the videos were a prank and said the food was never sent to customers." Mmm Hmm. Read article... Comments (24) Blueberry Disaster Narrowly Averted NBCPhiladelphia | Submitted by: WafflePubes "Abruzzese, 38, is an employee at Kellogg. He got stuck in the [blueberry waffle] silo when he went to check the flour levels, only to find himself waist deep in the white, powdery mix, according to the fire chief." The man declined medical treatment. Read article... Comments (12) Metarie's Live Action Cannibal New Orleans Times-Picayune | Submitted by: Hungry pubes "A Metairie ["met'tree"] resident is recovering after a stranger bit a chunk of flesh out of his arm and swallowed it Saturday afternoon... Lancellotti said he tried to defend himself with a garden rake. As the men struggled over the rake, the stranger bent over and bit Lancellotti on his right forearm, the report said. Lancellotti's flesh ripped away as he fell to the ground. The man then got on top of Lancellotti and began choking him, the report said." Read article... Comments (25) Hong Kong Rebuilding Noah's Ark, To Bibspec Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: PorkLipps McFudd "This city's three billionaire Kwok brothers have just the answer for the rising waters threatening the global economy: the world's first life-size replica of Noah's ark, built to biblical specifications off the coast of this recession-struck Chinese financial center. The message in its 450-foot-long hull, its rooftop luxury hotel and 67 pairs of fiberglass animals: The financial tsunami will be over, says Spencer Lu, the Kwoks' project director at Noah's Ark, which is opening soon." Read article... Comments (11) To Crippled Bus Driver: Get Back To Work Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Fuck U 2 "Todd Kirby's vision is impaired, his hands so swollen that he can barely grasp a steering wheel and he's heavily doped up with morphine to ease his pain... He's been diagnosed with sarcoidosis, the rare autoimmune disease that killed comedian Bernie Mac, and has been unable to work for the last five years, yet Kirby's employer has been threatening to fire him unless he gets back behind the wheel." Read article... Comments (24) Columbine Under The Trenchcoats USA Today | Submitted by: billbudd "A decade after Harris and Klebold made Columbine a synonym for rage, new information -- including several books that analyze the tragedy through diaries, e-mails, appointment books, videotape, police affidavits and interviews with witnesses, friends and survivors -- indicate that much of what the public has been told about the shootings is wrong." Read article... Comments (32) I Know This Looks Really Bad The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Fuck Her and PETA Too "Cops responded at 5 AM to a report of a male and female yelling at Beck's apartment, they discovered that Rex's body was completely encased in packing tape. When Officer Kara Jurczenia asked what was on the side of the fridge, Toll replied, The dog. Toll added, I know this looks really bad." Read article... Comments (34) The Carbon Footprint of Spam McAfee | Submitted by: Flag Hag Globally, annual spam energy use totals 33 billion kilowatt-hours (KWh), or 33 terawatt hours (TWh). That’s equivalent to the electricity used in 2.4 million homes in the United States, with the same GHG emissions as 3.1 million passenger cars using two billion United States gallons of gasoline." Read article... Comments (698)