Daily Rotten Archives April 20, 2009 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 30ft Dung Catapult Deemed Illegal London Telegraph | Submitted by: lilmadguy "The catapult, based on the design of a Roman boulder-throwing ballista, was originally built for a series of unsuccessful attempts to fire his wife, Mary, across the River Avon in 1976 during a colourful career as a stuntman. He gave up after one attempt in which she made it to the opposite bank only to be bounced back into the river by a safety net." Read article... Comments (45) Racy Facebook Photos Sink BC Candidate Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Horny Asian Guy "Ray Lam resigned on Sunday over the photographs, one of which showed him palming a woman's breast and another with his pants down and two people pulling at his underwear... Lam should have realized pictures from his private life, if posted online as part of his Facebook profile, would become part of the public record, Campbell said." Read article... and This article... Comments (29) Slumdog Denies Daughter Was FSBO New York Daily News | Submitted by: tss "The father of adorable Slumdog Millionaire star Rubina Ali is refuting an undercover report that he tried to sell his 9-year-old daughter... Qureshi, who lives in a Mumbai slum along with his star daughter, offered to sell Ali for nearly $300,000 to undercover reporters, the paper says. News of the World also published a photo of their journalists meeting with the family while disguised as a wealthy couple from Dubai." Read article... Comments (24) Breastfeeding Daddy Yahoo! Lifestyles | Submitted by: Nelson'sPubicColumn "After researching the idea on the internet, Georgia, 27, expresses her breastmilk as often as she can for her father to drink. He has the milk on his bowl of cornflakes every morning. It’s been his daily routine for the past six months and Tim believes the milk has given him a boost." Read article... Comments (46) Even Burnt, Amy Winehouse Still Quite the Hottie Daily Mail | Submitted by: I said no no no "Amy Winehouse showed off a painful-looking burn on her leg as she continued her holiday in St Lucia over the weekend. The glaring red mark is the result of an accident in the kitchen while she was cooking pasta, according to her spokesperson." Alternative theory: Space herpes. Read article... Comments (52) Photo Radar Operator Shot Dead AZ Central | Submitted by: azdollarbill "Doug Georgianni, 51, was parked inside the DPS-owned Ford Escape, used as a photo enforcement vehicle, on the eastbound State Route 101 near 7th Avenue when the vehicle was attacked, according to DPS spokesman Harold Sanders... DPS and police officers responded to the scene just before 9PM, where they found both the vehicle and Georgianni shot several times... Georgianni was taken to an area hospital, where he later died." Read article... Comments (19) 90% of Japanese Koalas Have Koala-AIDS Mainichi Daily News | Submitted by: PlagueofJapaneseKoalaPubes "Kyoto University's analysis of blood tests conducted on 50 koalas in captivity in Japan -- 39 born in northeast Australia and their offspring, and 11 born in southeast Australia and their offspring -- showed that all those from the northeast and four originating from the southeast were infected with the virus." Read article... Comments (23) Girl Turning To Stone London Telegraph | Submitted by: PetroPubes "Seanie Nammock, 13, from London, suffers from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), thought to affect only 600 people across the world... Even a slight knock can cause a reaction which triggers irreversible bone growth which lock her joints into place... To be told your daughter has one of the worst medical problems on the planet and that there is no cure is every mother's nightmare." Read article... Comments (31) Man Wants Date With Drunk Girl, Dials 911 Suburban Chicago News | Submitted by: gingeroot "James A. Rush was so smitten with a woman he met last week in a Naperville bar that he called in a phony 911 report of gunfire on the city's far northwest side, according to a written Naperville police report. He now faces trial on a charge of placing a false 911 call. The three-page police report indicated he did so in the hope officers who were checking on the welfare of a drunken woman would race off to investigate the "gunshots," giving Rush the opportunity to take the woman home." Read article... Comments (17) Yob Beats Woman Senseless, As Knowledge Quest Daily Mail | Submitted by: WhackAPubes "A teenager beat an 83-year-old woman senseless after telling friends that he wondered what it would be like to kill someone. Joseph Phillips, 15, repeatedly struck Kathleen Hutchings with her walking stick as she lay defenceless in her bed. Phillips shattered her eye socket and broke her left wrist, a court heard." Read article... Comments (23) Whoring Update: Baghdad Is Back New York Times | Submitted by: anonymous "Nightclubs have reopened, and in many of them, prostitutes troll for clients. Liquor stores, once shut down by fundamentalist militiamen, have proliferated; on one block of busy Saddoun Street, there are more than 10 of them. If I had my way, I'd destroy all the mosques and spread the whores around a little more, the detective said. At least they're not sectarian." Read article... Comments (23) Expanding the DNA Dragnet New York Times | Submitted by: anonymous "Until now, the federal government genetically tracked only convicts. But starting this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will join 15 states that collect DNA samples from those awaiting trial and will collect DNA from detained immigrants -- the vanguard of a growing class of genetic registrants." Read article... Comments (309)