Daily Rotten Archives April 17, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 What's Dewey Decimal For Potty? Fox 10 TV | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Disgusting is the best way to describe what library workers found on Wednesday. This is a filthy and despicable act of vandalism, said Mayor Jamie Tillery. Empty shelves show where the books were located in the Bay Minette Public Library. Workers say someone urinated on 41 books." Read article... Comments (63) ASBO For Noisy, Ugly Love Daily Mail | Submitted by: GrossedoutPubes "A woman has been slapped with an Antisocial Behaviour Order (ASBO) after magistrates were forced to sit through tapes of her loud love-making sessions. Caroline Cartwright, 47, was also fined £515 after being found guilty of breaching a noise abatement notice served on her after 25 complaints to police about her marathon sex romps with husband Steve. He escaped prosecution because he was less noisy than his more enthusiastic wife." Read article... Comments (53) McDonald's Golden Arches Mash Elderlies Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: cyran0 "A giant set of golden arches outside a McDonald's in eastern Arizona toppled in high winds Wednesday, crushing a Naperville couple's Chevy Trailblazer as they sat inside the parked vehicle. Retirees Russell and Carolyn Janke suffered multiple injuries. They had stopped at the McDonald’s on the Navajo Nation reservation in Window Rock as they were making their way back to suburban Chicago from their winter home near Tucson." Read article... Comments (32) But I Did the Drugs Yesterday Sun Gazette | Submitted by: Skorch "I don't know how I can be arrested for being under the influence when I did the drugs yesterday, the 26-year-old woman allegedly told the officer. When Dormin asked her what drugs she took, Digenakis told him that she used marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Feb. 9, according to the officer's affidavit." Read article... Comments (19) Special-Ed Kid Autodarwinates With Plastic Parachute Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray WWE Smackdown Lover "A 9-year-old wrestling fan jumped off his Brooklyn apartment roof wearing a homemade parachute in a fatal imitation of his favorite video game character, friends said... Shakar, Damori's best friend, said his pal was imitating his favorite PlayStation2 game, WWE SmackDown vs Raw. He tried to do a swan dive like (Jeff Hardy) does in SmackDown. That was his favorite game. He played it all the time, Shakar said." Read article... Comments (60) Stomping Goths Daily Mail | Submitted by: Fagula The Fabulous Multiple assailants. "The young couple were so badly injured that paramedics, who found them lying side by side covered in blood, were unable to tell which was which. Miss Lancaster died 13 days later without regaining consciousness. Mr Maltby, a 21-year-old art student, suffered a fractured skull and has made only a partial recovery." If you've ever wondered what it looks like when a Goth is actually crying at a real funeral, now's the time. Read article... Comments (55) Bybee Memo: Not Torture Without Intent of "Severe Pain" CNN, US Government | Submitted by: DS, azdollarbill "Because specific intent is an element of the offense, the absence of specific intent negates the charge of torture... We have further found that if a defendant acts with the good faith belief that his actions will not cause such suffering, he has not acted with specific intent." It should be separately noted that the United States executed Japanese subjects after WWII for war crimes because they tortured Americans by... waterboarding. Read article... and This article... Comments (28) Man Bites Off Own Penis NBC New York | Submitted by: anonymous "Damiene Iriarte was found naked and bleeding behind a building in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn after having bitten the tip off his own penis, police told a local newspaper." Read article... Comments (61) Baby Back Ribs: Infant BBQ Couple Sentenced Detroit Free Press | Submitted by: anonymous "A Detroit couple accused of trying to cremate their dead 2-year-old son on a barbecue grill, and then hiding the remains while collecting welfare benefits for the child, were both sentenced to prison today... Reid and Miller told police that they tried to cremate Deuntay in a barbecue grill to avoid funeral costs." Read article... Comments (46) Nunavut: 7,000 Foot Splat Edmonton Sun | Submitted by: manitobamadman "The aviation community in the North is abuzz with praise for a flight crew who managed to land a small plane in Nunavut after a distraught passenger opened a door at 7,000 metres and jumped... RCMP say the drama began when the flight crew on the plane enroute from Yellowknife reported that a passenger had become unruly. They told police they tried everything they could to prevent the man from jumping but were unsuccessful." Read article... Comments (23) Africa More Fucked Than Previously Thought London Telegraph | Submitted by: ThirstyPubes "In the past, many scientists thought the drought in the Sahel zone – a band that runs just below the Sahara -- was caused by humans overusing natural resources in the region. But a new study in the journal Science shows that they are a natural part of weather pattern of the area for the last 3,000 years." Read article... Comments (34) Pirate Bay Guilty, Perhaps a Pyrrhic Victory The Guardian | Submitted by: Flag Hag "As NME editor Conor McNicholas pointed out on Radio 4's Today programme this morning, the 'capturing' of music within pieces of plastic is a relatively recent phenomenon. For centuries, music existed only in the ether, shared vocally between people and only paid for through performances. What these companies are protecting is not the music, but the business model around the music." Read article... Comments (24) Bucket Full of Biker Toronto Star | Submitted by: Bugs Bunny "Police surveillance officers watched with binoculars as two men and a woman carried buckets back and forth outside the barn of accused mass murderer Wayne Kellestine the day after eight bullet-riddled bodies were found near his farm, court heard today... The buckets seemed heavy, Jones testified. She was walking slow, walking with purpose." Read article... Comments (14) Choking Game: We Have A Winner KING-TV 5 Seattle | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "By all accounts 15-year-old Kevin Tork was a happy, well-adjusted kid, but behind his bedroom door he kept a quiet secret. It was there that he played 'The Choking Game', also knows [sic] as 'The Good Kids Game' because so many of the teens who take part don’t do drugs or alcohol." Read article... Comments (30) Living With Pigs BBC | Submitted by: Darrel Echt "I was visited by an expert who taught me some piggy vocabulary and that led to some real breakthroughs. At times they were sucking my toes and nibbling my ear, which is apparently a sign of real affection. I returned the compliment once or twice... On my last day I visited an abattoir to see how pigs are exterminated on a massive scale. I was put through the whole process with the pigs and it was absolutely clear to me that they had a very good idea that life was taking a significant turn for the worse." Read article... Comments (753)