Daily Rotten Archives December 29, 2010 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Motel Party Leaves Motor Running Miami Herald | Submitted by: Jaybegood "The group had borrowed a friend's 2008 Kia Optima for the night, but needed a jump from another pal when the Kia wouldn't start. They left the car running in the single-car garage attached to their motel room, fearing the car wouldn't start if they turned it off... The group was discovered around 2 p.m. by a motel cleaning lady. The smell of gasoline filled the room." [Submitter wonders: Where do you find motels with garages under the rooms?] Read article... Comments (73) Sex Accident Kills Cougar CNN | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Arthur was up-front with police: He would often put a gun to his wife's head during fantasy sex play at their Oklahoma City... The 50-year-old broad died when the handgun went off in their bedroom." Read article... Comments (42) Life Imitates Atari Squelch Greenville Online | Submitted by: Guitarded "Dixon said the friends were talking about the game Frogger when the man yelled GO and ran out into traffic on the four-lane highway. [And then] "No one in the SUV was injured, Dixon said, but they were "extremely emotional." Read article... Comments (30) Truth Serum Or Dare Courthouse News | Submitted by: Toodles Pookie "In the midst of his questioning, defendant pulled his pants down in front of plaintiff and injected himself in the groin area with sodium pentothal... Plaintiff became extremely alarmed given the highly inappropriate course of conduct of defendant Kronson at this purported job interview." Read article... Comments (14) One Good Turn Deserves A Mauling Daily Mail | Submitted by: P Ray "His family had taken pity on the lost dog after seeing it shivering near their home in Wolverhampton... But as the family watched the Coronation Street Christmas special, the animal 'launched itself through the air' with no warning to attack Finn... "No one had shouted or made any sudden movements to frighten the dog -- it just launched itself through the air without any warning at all and clamped itself on to Finn's face." Read article... Comments (30) Gootchie Goo Wire Services | Submitted by: avocado "Bank robbers hiding Kalashnikov assault rifles in a baby carriage fatally shot two guards and a man walking his dog in St. Petersburg today before making off with hundreds of thousands of dollars... Lavrenko said the robbers got away with 25 million rubles, or about $817,000 in cash." Read article... Comments (13) Bus Avenges Itself On Driver New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: P Ray "A bus driver is in a critical condition after being run over by his own bus outside Waikato Hospital in Hamilton this morning... The Orbiter bus rolled about 40 metres from a bus stop outside the hospital's main entrance before crashing through a pedestrian crossing pole and a give way sign." Read article... Comments (16) Domino Killer Lost In The Funhouse KAKE | Submitted by: Bryan "Rackhan and another man got into an argument while playing dominoes. Rackham, 40, was stabbed once in the torso, fatally... The suspect was found hiding in an abandoned building at Joyland Amusement Park." Read article... Comments (16) Convoy Showcases New Defense Technique Stuff NZ | Submitted by: P Ray "The attack, shortly after midnight, had been "a random, violent ambush" by at least two carloads of people -- "There were at least 15 of them, and they all started bashing them." When her partner's sister tried to take a picture of the cars, a woman leapt out of a car and "bit her in the face" so bad her family thought "a dog had been at her." Read article... Comments (14) Boy Boiled In Geothermal Font New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: P Ray "The boy was yelling my hands, my hands and I saw all the skin on his hands peeling off. I then saw the burns were all the way from his head to his feet." "He would say my feet, my feet, then after the water he was saying my face, my face then back to his hands again." Read article... Comments (28) Girl Gang Terrorized Victorian London Guardian | Submitted by: lamequota~ "Presided over by a formidable "queen", the Forty Elephants were responsible for the largest shoplifting operation ever seen in Britain between the 1870s and 1950s. The gang was first mentioned in newspapers in 1873, but police records suggest it had existed since the late 1700s... Dressed in specially tailored coats, cummerbunds, muffs, skirts, bloomers and hats sewn with hidden pockets, they mounted raids on London's West End shops, where they plundered goods worth thousands of pounds." Read article... Comments (13) The Lamo Logz Nobody Cared About Salon | Submitted by: Dr. Sputnik "At no point -- through today -- have Poulsen or Wired ever bothered to disclose that the person who "helped [Lamo] to turn over [Manning] to the FBI and Army intelligence" is (a) the same person who put Poulsen is prison for several years, (b) a regular contributor to Wired and (c) a long-time associate and source for Poulsen... What bad luck that Manning would confess to the felon Lamo, who at the time Manning contacted him, was working with this group -- Project Vigilant -- whose self-proclaimed mission is to inform federal authorities of crimes taking place over the Internet, and whose general counsel is the former head of the DOJ's Computer Crimes Unit." Read article... Comments (16) Microfinance Dreams Up In Smoke Bloomberg | Submitted by: ditchley "Selling debt is like selling drugs. Selling debt to illiterate women in Andhra Pradesh, you’ve got to be a lot more responsible." More than 70 people committed suicide in the state from March 1 to Nov. 19 to escape payments or end the agonies their debt had triggered." [Great lede, check it out] Read article... Comments (21) North Korea Opens Poop Exchange Wire Services | Submitted by: BushJaw "Shops selling human excrement began operating in North Korea this year, as acute shortages of fertiliser in the sanctions-wracked country put a price on faeces... Aid groups have said human waste has long been used on domestic crops in the impoverished communist state, but there is now a trade in the readily available commodity." Read article... Comments (28) Missed It By That Much New York Times | Submitted by: emptyhead "Two other patients were overdosed before the hospital realized that the device, a linear accelerator, had inexplicably allowed radiation to spill outside a heavy metal cone attachment that was supposed to channel the beam to a specific spot in the brain." [Before/after photo] Read article... Comments (70) God Hates A Coward Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ "A motorist reported the man carrying a tomahawk and covered in blood on City Road in South Melbourne at about 7:00am... It is believed the man had been involved in fight with a group of men. He was found with a cut to his head but police are still investigating how he was injured." Read article... Comments (1126)