Daily Rotten Archives June 25, 2010 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 No Sudden Moves, Grandma Courthouse News | Submitted by: anonymous "Police tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandmother in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance... The grandson said, "Don't taze my granny!" but the cop ordered otherwise when the old woman "took a more aggressive posture in her bed." Read article... Comments (101) Geezer Bandit Does It Again New York Daily News | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "The geriatric Butch Cassidy blazing a trail along the Southern California coast pulled off his 11th bank robbery Thursday... Surveillance camera images of the robbery suspect show a dapper older gentleman wearing a white newsboy cap, sunglasses and a crisp, white button-down shirt. There is a growing mystique around theories that his wrinkles and age spots might be a sophisticated disguise." [Photo of perp] Read article... Comments (19) Death By Unpaid Electric Bill Manchester Union Leader | Submitted by: anonymous "A woman, whose oxygen machine failed after a power company turned off electricity to her home, died last night... Graves said the National Grid technician followed procedures by ringing the door bell and knocking on the door at 18 Charles St. to try to make direct contact before cutting power, but was not able to reach anyone." Read article... Comments (35) Those Clumsy Amateur Baby Salesmen The Californian | Submitted by: missunderstood "A Salinas couple is expected to appear in court afternoon for arraignment on charges they tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 Tuesday night outside of Walmart." Read article... Comments (25) Dead Babies Pastured Near Roman Brothel BBC | Submitted by: PubiusMaximus "Archaeologists investigating a mass burial of 97 infants at a Roman villa in the Thames Valley believe it may have been a brothel... Archaeological records suggest infants were not considered to be full human beings until about the age of two... The Hambleden site, close to the River Thames, was excavated 100 years ago and identified as a high status Roman villa. Meticulous records of the dig were left by a naturalist and archaeologist called Alfred Heneage Cocks." Read article... Comments (12) Busy Dad Finds Time For Home Schooling New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: P Ray "The man used various weapons, including a vacuum cleaner pipe, a cricket bat, machete, a belt and a hose to assault his children between May 2001 and August 2006, and attempted to rape his eldest daughter while his wife was in Samoa at Christmas." Read article... Comments (11) 8th Grader Lacks Maturity To Babysit 9WSYR | Submitted by: GrungeX "Police say the eighth grader was baby-sitting the sisters in their home when he beat the victim and struck her in the head repeatedly, hitting the girl's head against a refrigerator and also a dresser drawer." Read article... Comments (11) Study: Fetus Is Numb for Most of Gestation Guardian | Submitted by: ditchley "The human foetus feels no pain before 24 weeks, according to a major review of scientific evidence published today. The connections in the foetal brain are not fully formed in that time, nor is the foetus conscious... The chemical environment in the uterus induces "a continuous sleep-like unconsciousness or sedation." Read article... Comments (15) Nutmeg Stop and Cavity Search Middletown Press | Submitted by: DM "Cotto filed a lawsuit in April against the Middletown Police Department claiming that he was pulled over and rectally searched in plain sight at the corner of Main and Green Streets in Middletown.... Immediately following the incident, Cotto was admitted at Middlesex Hospital complaining of "rectal bleeding" and being "jabbed" in the rectum." Read article... Comments (11) Wedding Called Off, Family Mass Suicides Times of India | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "The invitation cards were ready and the caterer had been contacted. But everything changed last week after the groom's family called up to say that they had decided to back out... On Tuesday morning, the family was rescued from a shabby hotel room: All three had consumed sleeping pills and were unconscious." Read article... Comments (13) Hitler's Prison Stint Was Cake Walk Der Spiegel | Submitted by: Ric 'Sieg Heil!' Williamson, lost in reverie "As an inmate, Hitler wanted for nothing. His wing on the second floor was nicknamed Feldherrenhügel, or the general's hill. His confidant Ernst Hanfstaengl later said, after having visited Hitler, that he felt as if he had "walked into a delicatessen. There was fruit and there were flowers, wine and other alcoholic beverages, ham, sausage, cake, boxes of chocolates and much more." Read article... Comments (12) Bionic Feline Grows Stilts BBC | Submitted by: scarred 4 life A cat that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs... "We have put a piece of metal and a flange into which skin grows into an extremely tight bone. We have managed to get the bone and skin to grow into the implant and we have developed an exoprosthesis that allows this implant to give him effectively normal gait." Read article... Comments (21) New Organs From Old Through Decellularization Science | Submitted by: ditchley "Tissue engineers are enthusiastic about a technique called decellularization that involves using detergent to remove all of the cells from an organ, leaving a scaffold consisting of the fibrous material between cells... The team started with decellularized adult rat lungs, which retain the organs' branching airways and blood vessel network, and added a mixture of lung cells from newborn rats... After up to 8 days in the bioreactor, they had coalesced into what the researchers' tests indicated was functional lung tissue... The researchers allowed the animals to breathe with the lungs for up to 2 hours before euthanizing them because of blood clots." [Video] Read article... Comments (7) Unknown Tribe Contacted In Farthest Papua Canoe | Submitted by: pro*arte "The nomadic tribe, called Koroway, numbers about 3,000 people speaking their own language and living off animals and plants in the forest. "Their houses are in trees, their life is stone age." Suntono said the tribe, naked except for banana leaves to cover their private parts, protected their area from outsiders as they said they depended on it for food, such as deer, wild boar, sago and bananas." Read article... Comments (21) Static Composition Infuriates The Unmusical New Statesman | Submitted by: Veggie An ax-wielding American confronts spectators: "They said he was so sick of the constant buzzing and honking from the vuvuzelas since the tournament began that he screamed: "I will kill you." Inebriate weaponizes the infernal horn: "A drunken German football fan severely beat a police officer with a vuvuzela horn after the national team's victory over Ghana on Wednesday night." Musical antecedents in 20th century composition: "The vuvzela's manufacturers say instead that the prototype came from America, while they have traced its use to a Chinese women's basketball game." Read article... and This... and This... Comments (8) Noggin Clunked By Toilet Lid Canoe | Submitted by: Silly Sickie "Nolet emerged from the washroom at Cowboys Dance Hall armed with a porcelain lid and struck Wong twice in the head with the intention of murdering him... The toilet tank lid killing was an act of street justice over an earlier attack." Read article... Comments (508)