Thursday November 19, 2009 Submit a story for publication. Want to support Daily Rotten? Buy a membership at Pornopolis! Also: Visit the Rotten Store Dangling Kite String Garrotes Skateboarder New York Post | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "Jared was skateboarding outside his Flushing co-op apartment building in October 2009 when he was clotheslined by a downed kite string. The glass-encrusted wire ripped into the then-12-year-old's throat and left him scarred from ear to ear from a wound his lawyer said took 400 to 500 stitches to close. The boy also lost two lymph nodes in the accident." Read article... Comments (30) Boy Ignited By Aerosol Torch McClatchy | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "Two Anchorage men who told investigators they were horsing around with a "redneck flamethrower" set a 5-year-old boy's head on fire and have been charged with felony assault and reckless endangerment, according to police and court records... "It was described to the troopers as an accident. I mean, a child, two guys, can of Quick Start, Bic lighter: How could this not go wrong? Read article... Comments (20) No, Daddy, No! ABC News | Submitted by: ratass "According to Cherry, the 15-year-old had admitted to having "inappropriate contact" with his 3-year-old half-sister... Thus Jamar Pinkney Jr. was shot in the head Monday by his father, Jamar Pinkney Sr., who allegedly made the teen strip his clothes off and kneel in a vacant lot before he was killed by a single bullet... The boy spent the last moments of his life pleading, "No, Daddy! No!" Read article... Comments (44) Child Killer Starts Young San Francisco Examiner | Submitted by: Ratass "After two days of searching a heavily wooded area near her home, police received a handwritten note that lead them back to the house where Elizabeth was last seen... After interviewing the 15-year-old girl who resides in the house authorities were taken to the already-searched woods and shown the three-year-old's body. She had been strangled, slashed across the throat and stabbed." Read article... Comments (26) L'Chaim! Coke Fuels Rabbi Sex Party BBC | Submitted by: GangstaPubes "A rabbi financed a drug-dealing business and offered cocaine to girls in exchange for sex, a court heard... Our case is that Abbas and Chalomish were dealing in controlled drugs. They were running, we say, a commercial cocaine supply operation from an apartment-hotel in Shudehill, Manchester... Rabbi Chalomish also had a substantial store of drugs, cocaine, and cash at his home address." Read article... Comments (14) Man Loses Keys, Suffocates Daily Mail | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "Wells shouted and screamed 'please help me' for up to an hour in the middle of the night, but no-one came to his aid because they thought they were hearing drunken antics... It was not until the next morning that the 32-year-old's body was found with his leg sticking out of the 2ft-by-1ft drain. He had suffocated in the mud and slime at the bottom of the drain." Read article... Comments (14) Holocaust Denier Doc-Dropped The Register, Wikileaks | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Self-proclaimed anti-fascist hackers have struck a major blow at controversial World War II historian David Irving by taking down two of his websites and publishing scores of his emails and private information... The 16,000-word missive posted to Wikileaks contains the names and contact details of supporters of Irving, who -- among other things - claims that Adolf Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust." Read article... and This article... Comments (14) Prison For Scientology DDOS New Jersey Star-Ledger | Submitted by: chum "A 19-year-old Verona man today was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for participating in a cyber attack against the Church of Scientology's websites almost two years ago... On Jan. 17, 2008, Guzner and an undisclosed number of cohorts launched a distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS for short, against the religious organization's Web presence.. and kept up the attack for at least 12 days." Read article... Comments (10) Lax Shipmanship Blamed For Sub Crash BBC News | Submitted by: Capt. Sack, Yellow Submarine... "Fifteen sailors were injured when the nuclear-powered USS Hartford collided with the USS New Orleans, a navy ship, in the Straits of Hormuz... Sleeping, slouching and a radio room with music speakers were tolerated on board the submarine... Five submariners would routinely sleep on watch, and the navigator took an exam while listening to his iPod." Read article... Comments (13) Americans Scrutinzed After Mumbai Attack Daily Mail | Submitted by: StarsandPubes "Two Chicago men are being investigated by the FBI over their possible involvement in the terrorist attacks that killed 166 people in Mumbai in November last year... For now, the only firm association the FBI is indicating between the men and the Pakistani terrorist organization is related to the alleged plot against a Danish paper, although they say the men talked about possible attacks on other foreign targets." Read article... Comments (8) Morbidly Obese Man Dies In Recliner San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Veggie "In March of this year, her son had hurt his knee and was treated at the hospital, returned home, and placed in the reclining chair, where he had been since... The obese man was covered with sores and had been urinating and defecating on himself since then. The man's wife told deputies that her husband had been in the chair since March and that she was unable to move him due to is weight, but she would clean him as best she could." Read article... Comments (23) Jackson Apparition Haunts Womb Shields Gazette | Submitted by: The Oncoming Storm "Mum and dad-to-be Dawn Kelley and William Hickman, from Sunderland, couldn't believe their eyes when looking at this scan of their unborn baby and seeing the face of the King of Pop staring back at them... "I've had plenty of scans before and none of the photos have ever looked like this. It's a bit spooky. But it is my seventh child, and seven is a mythical number." Read article... Comments (177) Wednesday November 18, 2009 Landguards Slice Up Argumentor Ghanian Chronicle | Submitted by: baldheadedho "One of the boys in the area confronted one of the landguards who was wearing dreadlocks, and dared him to go ahead with the demolition exercise. This triggered a heated argument, which resulted in the death of one person whose left arm was amputated." [Gratuitous gory photo of Ghanaian included.] Read article... Comments (19) Crocodile Devoured By Hippos Daily Mail | Submitted by: Cheese Nip "This young reptilian predator paid the price for swimming too close to a mother and her calves while they bathed. As 50 hippos gathered into a defensive circle around them, the crocodile panicked and raced over their backs in a bid to escape... "It was the worst choice the reptile could ever have made and it was definitely its last. The island of hippos suddenly erupted with teeth and all I could see was the crocodile being repeatedly crushed in their huge mouths." Read article... Comments (21) Piranha Introduced Into Florida Toilet Treasure Coast Newspapers | Submitted by: anonymous "The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission is alarmed over the discovery a 14 year old boy made in October in a retention pond near West Palm Beach. On the end of the hook was a red-bellied piranha... FWC biologists returned to the pond Tuesday. They are dumping a chemical called rotenone into the water to make sure the fish are gone." Read article... Comments (8) Dead Deer Heap's Spreading Stench Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Submitted by: Keystoner "About 200 rotting deer carcasses piled up in the backyard of a North Buffalo residence are expected to be removed today... In an interview with WTAE-TV, Good said one of his trucks broke down and he has become overwhelmed recently with the volume of roadkill he has had to pick up... Pyle sent a strongly worded e-mail last night that he wanted to get the "deer mound" of carcasses removed from Good's yard that "is creating a health hazard and ferocious odor all over North Buffalo Township." Read article... Comments (13) Piss On A Mall Cop Michigan Live | Submitted by: baldheadedho "Regan said the women broke away from a security guard who attempted to detain them at the front door. The security guard ran after the women and attempted to block Cole from getting into the getaway car... Regan said Cole "head-butted" the security guard, who fell backwards into the vehicle... "He grabbed his phone and called 911, but she fought for the phone and then urinated on him." Read article... Comments (21) The Strife Of Love In A Dream BBC | Submitted by: Hot Pinoy "The trial of a husband accused of murdering his wife as they slept in a camper van has heard he killed her while he dreamt she was an intruder... Swansea Crown Court heard Brian Thomas, 59, of Neath, accepts he killed her but says he has a sleep disorder which had been triggered by "boy racer activity." Read article... Comments (14) Emasculating Phthalates Threaten Our Boners US News & World Report | Submitted by: baldheadedho "Swan reported that some phthalates were associated with a slightly shorter distance from the anus to the end of the penis in boys (a research measurement that until her study had been used only in rodents). She also found a small difference in the width (but not the length) of the penis with one phthalate." Read article... Comments (18) Shednapper To Receive Porno Treatment San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: honkrrr "We want to capture how sad this story is, but also how interesting. We're trying to figure out a way to do that so it's not exploitative." And this is coming from a man behind such classy titles as "Warning: Pedophile Released" and "Sex Kids Party." Child psychologist Dr. Debra Moore said she "cringed" when she heard about the movie." Read article... Comments (12) Fiend With Machete Haunts Elevator Canoe | Submitted by: kushed "A woman yesterday described being forced into her apartment by a machete-wielding stranger and then being tied up, drugged, raped and violated with a booze bottle... She said the man kept pressing buttons, but didn't get off the elevator so she got scared and exited to the stairs. However, the man followed her and pulled out a knife she described as one used to hack away jungle vegetation." Read article... Comments (13) Deer Hunter Hears A Rustling Richmond Times-Dispatch | Submitted by: we want answers "One Ferrum College student was shot fatally in the chest and another was injured in a hunting-related incident near the campus in Franklin County yesterday... The incident occurred about 4 p.m. as three students were walking along an access road in a wooded area near an industrial property about a mile west of campus, authorities said. The hunter told authorities he heard a rustling and fired once from a highpowered rifle, hitting two of the three students." Read article... Comments (20) Scientology v. Australian Senate nineMSN | Submitted by: weejimmymcangus "Senator Xenophon told parliament on Tuesday there was criminal activity within the church and has called for a Senate inquiry into Scientology's tax exempt status... "Many people in Australia have real concerns about Scientology," Prime Minister Rudd said. "I share some of those concerns. Let us proceed carefully and look carefully at the material he has provided before we make a decision on further parliamentary action." Read article... Comments (14) State Secrets Inhibit Patriot Act Debate Salem News | Submitted by: baldheadedho "Senators asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to declassify key information pertaining to the law's "business records" provision... [which] sets the standard that the government must meet to obtain an individual's personal information from banks, hospitals, libraries, retail stores and other institutions.... "Informed discussion is not possible when most members of Congress -- and nearly all of the American public -- lack important information about the issue." Read article... Comments (8) Holder Supports Patriot Act Extension Main Justice | Submitted by: baldheadedho "Here is a summary of the provisions which the Senate bill extends... Lone wolf: Allows government to track a target without any discernible affiliation to a foreign power, such as an international terrorist group. It has never been used by the government... Business records: Allows investigators to compel third parties, including financial services and travel and telephone companies, to provide them access to a suspect's records without the suspect's knowledge... Roving wiretaps: Allows the government to monitor phone lines or Internet accounts that a terrorism suspect may be using, whether or not others who are not suspects also regularly use them." Read article... Comments (11) Sleuthing Blogmeister Gets Troll Sacked Ars Technica | Submitted by: dngrdnky "The Post-Dispatch had posted a story last Friday on its blog about the "craziest thing you've ever eaten." Kurt Greenbaum, director of social media for the Post-Dispatch who had made the post, noticed that one commenter had posted [probably the word ANUS]... That's when Greenbaum got irked. In a new blog post, Greenbaum described to the world about how he noticed the IP address of the poster in question and identified it as belonging to a local school... A few hours of investigation later, the school was able to identify and confront the employee. That person supposedly resigned "on the spot." Read article... Comments (329) Tuesday November 17, 2009 Deputies Redecorate With Dildoes Dayton Daily News | Submitted by: anonymous "While James was handcuffed in the cruiser, the complaint says the officers spent roughly four hours searching the home. While there, the suit claims the officers seized his girlfriend's sex toys, turned them on and left them in plain sight "for James to see that they had found them," and did the same with pornographic video tapes they found... The officers also "placed a hat, Christmas lights and goggles on deer antlers that were affixed to James' wall." Read article... Comments (17) Teacher Puts Out Contract On Student WSB-TV 2 Atlanta | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Ma, you're not going to believe this but Mr. Forde offered another student money to kill me..." Forde, a 10th-grade substitute math teacher at Mundy’s Mill High School in Clayton County, is accused of trying to persuade another student to kill a 16-year-old boy." Read article... Comments (18) Maggots, Filth, Feces And Sores Goup State | Submitted by: hoborg "A Union man has been charged with homicide by neglect following the death of his 67-year-old mother, who arrived at a hospital last month covered in maggot-filled sores... According to the Union County Sheriff's Office, the home that Williams shared with his mother was covered with piles of trash, as well as human and animal feces." Read article... Comments (10) Object Lesson In Across The Street Livingston Daily | Submitted by: olde meme A Birmingham man was hospitalized Sunday after intentionally sawing off his left hand in the woods at Kensington Metropark on the Oakland-Livingston county line... Near the severed hand, police found the knife and a cutting board used in the incident." Read article... Comments (17) A Walk In The Woods Guardian | Submitted by: Veggie "A 90-year-old former member of the Nazi SS has been charged with 58 counts of murder over the killings of Jewish forced labourers in Austria... "On 29 March 1945, the accused and his accomplices brought the forced labourers in several groups to a nearby forest area, where they had to give up their valuables and kneel by a grave. The accused and other SS members then cruelly shot the Jewish forced labourers from behind." Read article... Comments (50) Drunken Ninja Impaled On Fence Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: Francis Hedge "A drunk man believing himself to be a ninja drew the help of Seattle police and aid crews late Monday after impaling himself on a First Hill fence post... The man's ninja skills, it seems, were bested by the 4- to 5-foot-tall fence he attempted to vault, according to the police statement... He ended up stuck on a spike atop the fence in the 600 block of Seventh Avenue... An officer in the area heard the man's screams and located him at about 11:15 p.m." Read article... Comments (9) Wee Burglar In Stomping Boots Daily Mail | Submitted by: TeenyPubes "The teenager kicked and stamped 60-year-old Eric Rider to death on a communal grassy area in Plaistow, east London. He used such force that an imprint of his trainer was left on the victim's face... The youth still had the victim's blood on their clothes when they broke into the home of a young family, the court heard. But when the owner of the house made a citizen's arrest and called the police, the teenager begged for mercy. He pleaded: "I will get on my knees. I want to apologise. Please let us go. I'm going to have double trouble. I killed someone down the road." Read article... Comments (17) Hand Severed In Attack Guardian | Submitted by: i'm bored of all of you "Police last night arrested the husband of a woman found with severe head injuries and her hand severed in a suburban street in west London who later died in hospital... "My son went out of the house and more or less slipped in the blood." Read article... Comments (10) Documents Suggest Mass-Wiretap Catch 22 Wired | Submitted by: Abort "The documents, unearthed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, also suggest the administration was wary it might first have to concede that the telcos were complicit in the alleged dragnet surveillance to garner congressional support for the amnesty bill... We'll never know for sure, but perhaps the concerns expressed in the documents highlight why the final bill allowed Mukasey to deny telco participation and still win the immunity legislation. (If the companies did not participate, why would they need immunity?)" Read article... Comments (8) Lake Kivu Breathes Death New York Times | Submitted by: Effect "But there is another, more mysterious threat as well: large reservoirs of methane and carbon dioxide lying deep beneath Lake Kivu's surface and along its shores. While the gases can be tapped for energy, they can also kill. Mr. Masha is believed to have died instantly when he hid in an invisible bubble of carbon dioxide, known as a mazuku, or 'evil wind' in Swahili." Read article... Comments (173) Monday November 16, 2009 A Spindle In The Overbrush Daily Mail | Submitted by: PoledancerPubes "The pole was the gateway and was hanging loose but had been almost covered by overgrown bushes... It went straight through my chest and out the back. There were seven or eight feet of pole sticking out. It was only two or three inches from my heart..." Firefighters cut him out of the vehicle: "That was the worst bit, when they clamped the jaws of the cutters on the pole and it started turning inside me." Read article... Comments (31) Bird Plague Strikes Fancier League London Telegraph | Submitted by: TweetyPubes "The birds were among hundreds lined up in their cages ready to be judged Gwynedd Budgerigar Society Open Show in North Wales when disaster struck. One toppled off his perch then others began "dropping like dominoes", according to the organisers... "They were dying by the second," he said. "The odd thing is, I have asthma but I was unaware of anything." Read article... Comments (16) Chinese Integration Continues Apace Washington Post | Submitted by: ferret "The security will beat you with irons like you are a goat," he said. "The way they treat the blacks is very, very bad." He and others pointed out the spot where in July several Africans jumped from an upper-floor window to escape an immigration raid. One migrant was reported critically injured in the fall, and a large number of Africans marched on the local police station in protest." Read article... Comments (26) Qaddafi Calls Up Rent-A-Harem Daily Mail | Submitted by: ConverttoPubeism "Libyan dictator Colonel Qaddafi asked an escort agency to supply 500 'beautiful Italian girls' for a gala evening at which he tried to convert them to Islam, it emerged today... The women, all glamorously dressed, were told to meet at a hotel in the centre of Rome, where Qaddafi is attending a summit on world food security, before being taken to the Libyan ambassador’s residence in the city... The all-female event took place at the same time as other leaders' wives were attending a forum to discuss food poverty." Read article... Comments (21) Willing Participants In Taiwanese Sex Scam London Telegraph | Submitted by: ApplaudingPubes "Hsu Shian-ming, who was arrested on Saturday, allegedly posted photos of a youthful male model online, claiming to be that person, and attracted numerous calls from women interested in romantic liaisons... Hsu would then use the telephone conversations to tell his victims he had a father whose medical condition required constant sex to stay alive, sweet-talking them into doing what was necessary to save him, it said." Read article... Comments (14) Mom Spoils Suffocation Jerk Croatian Times | Submitted by: Mr Frauf "Babic smashed his mum Silvana over the head with a small statue and then suffocated her at their family home in Split... He called cops after the killing and confessed, telling them he had snapped when he saw her shock at finding him masturbating while pulling on a scarf tied tight around his neck." Read article... Comments (15) Hot Arsonist On Milf Action WFSB-TV 3 Hartford | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "A man was arrested Sunday night, accused by New Haven police of setting his girlfriend on fire... Police said the 12-year-old woke up when she felt the liquid being dumped on her at about 8 p.m. They said the girl was able to escape. They said the building went up in flames, but the 12-year-old ran back inside to rescue her 3-month-old sister from her crib." Read article... Comments (19) Sin Persists After Death's Exit Metro | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "A Ugandan government official has said that the bodies of people who die from drinking an illicit local gin should be caned six times before burial as an example to the living... The bodies of those who commit suicide are also caned as a form of dishonour, and to warn against such behaviour for the living." Read article... Comments (12) Jellyfish Choke Northern Seas Associated Press | Submitted by: qua "Some fishermen have just stopped fishing. When you pull in the nets and see jellyfish, you get depressed... We have been getting rid of jellyfish. But no matter how hard we try, the jellyfish keep coming and coming... The jellyfish are becoming more and more dominant. Their growth rates are quite amazing." Read article... Comments (18) Mussolini: Hitler Still An Art Fag Telegraph | Submitted by: you've been dissed "Claretta Petacci's journals, which will be published this week, describe a meeting he had with the German leader in 1938 after British prime minister Neville Chamberlain agreed to Germany's annexation of the Sudetenland. "The Fuhrer was very kind. At heart, Hitler is an old sentimentalist. When he saw me he had tears in his eyes," Mussolini told his lover... In April 1945, with total defeat looming, the couple tried to escape to Switzerland but were caught by Italian partisans, executed and strung up from a petrol station near Milan." Read article... Comments (13) Coached Children Propelled DA's Career Associated Press | Submitted by: furpo "Since the late 1980s, all but one of 26 convictions Jagels secured have been reversed... "They basically coached me through my whole testimony, and told me that I had to say that my parents had sexually abused me. We've all put it behind us, but the one thing I would love is a verbal apology from Ed Jagels for tearing my family apart." Read article... Comments (15) Turning Back From Radical Islamism Independent | Submitted by: Veggie "Seventeen former radical Islamists have "come out" in the past 12 months and have begun to fight back. Would they be able to tell me the reasons that pulled them into jihadism, and out again? Could they be the key to understanding -- and defusing -- Western jihadism? I have spent three months exploring their world and befriending their leading figures. Their story sprawls from forgotten English seaside towns to the jails of Egypt's dictatorship and the icy mountains of Afghanistan -- and back again. " Read article... Comments (20) Mathletes Intimidated By Texas Instruments Wall Street Journal | Submitted by: Veggie "I was just being silly. I made some comment, like, 'Oh, hey guys, look at this big number," says Mr. Moody, known on calculator Web sites as FloppusMaximus... The hand-delivered letter he received afterward from a lawyer then working on behalf of Texas Instruments demanded he immediately take down his post, destroy copies of any codes -- called signing keys -- he cracked and never hack into the company's calculators again." Read article... Comments (12) Sexologists Unveil Yonic Carbohydrate Guardian | Submitted by: Veggie "Flibanserin was originally developed as an antidepressant by the German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The drug performed badly in clinical trials and was never approved, but questionnaires given to the patients revealed that an unexpected side effect for women was a boost to their libido. According to some reports, some women were unwilling to give the pills back once the trial was over." Read article... Comments (153) Saturday November 14, 2009 That Other Armenian Genocide Trend AZ, Today AZ: Xabaramiz Var | Submitted by: NO PANTS "Preliminary funds have been allocated to build the Genocide Museum in the northern Azerbaijani region of Guba 160 kilometers outside Baku... The mass grave was discovered while constructing a stadium in Guba in mid-April 2007... Excavations have uncovered the bones of around 400 people... "Arrangements are underway to construct the museum to remember the genocide committed by Armenians against the local population in Guba in 1918." Read article... and This article... Comments (19) Mass Graves Of East Timor Wire Services | Submitted by: abort the download "Families in East Timor have appealed to their own government and Indonesian authorities to help recover the bodies of dozens of loved ones still missing 18 years after being gunned down in a cemetery during Jakarta's two-decade rule... The appeal came as thousands of people gathered for a service at the Santa Cruz graveyard in downtown Dili, Timor's capital, where Indonesian troops opened fire on pro-independence demonstrators on November 12, 1991, killing hundreds... Some of roughly 174,000 people who died during Jakarta's rule were buried in mass graves that have never been discovered or exhumed." Read article... Comments (19) Trainside Frost Closely Watched UPI | Submitted by: write me up "The remains of eight people have been exhumed near the tracks at the Czestochowa-Stradom railway station, though the mass graves could hold the remains of as many as 2,000 people, prosecutors from the Institute of National Remembrance said Friday... The graves likely contain victims from World War II, including Polish soldiers, Jews from concentration camps, and Russian and German prisoners of war who died during transport... Exhumation is to resume in the spring when it is easier to work the ground." Read article... Comments (21) Al-Qaeda Tends Torture Garden New York Times | Submitted by: spark a bowl "The color of the land turned to red. I asked a villager who was next to me whether red is the normal color of this land. He replied: "No, but a lot of blood has been shed on this land. Sometimes I wonder how these trees can be fruitful trees, and what their fruit will look like..." Then I reached the location of the mass graves. I found one large grave, an olive tree standing next to it. Many corpses of civilians inside the hole... I wanted to escape from the place quickly, leaving behind me a village of dead people and an olive tree watered with the blood of victims." Read article... Comments (16) Angola Welcomes Chinese Contractors BBC | Submitted by: WateryPubes "The Chinese embassy in Angola has advised its nationals not to go out alone at night after a spate of violent attacks on Chinese expatriates... Last month robbers reportedly poured boiling water on three Chinese workers in Luanda. In September businessman Xu Tonggou was murdered trying to resist a robbery. On the same day six armed men robbed the offices of a construction company, beating workers with batons and threatening them with AK-47s." Read article... Comments (10) Greek Orthodox Priest Mistaken For Terrorist St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: anonymous "Father Alexios Marakis speaks little English and was lost, and he wanted directions... What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground -- as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist." Read article... Comments (31) Mystery Meat Circles Maypole BBC | Submitted by: Draugen "The investigators said on Friday that the body of the man had been found in a forested area near a public transport stop in Perm. They said the three men attacked their victim with knives and a hammer... "After carrying out the attack, the corpse was dismembered. Part of it was eaten and part was also sold to a kebab and pie kiosk." Read article... Comments (15) Swan Dive Spoils Late Lunch Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: cyran0 "Then water splattered down onto his face. More water splashed onto the surrounding tables. People jumped from their seats and covered their heads with menus. Reed grabbed his cloth napkin, wiped his face and looked up... What he and the dozens of other people on St. Clair Street that day saw next was this: a man, 17 stories up, tumbling backward over the ledge of the roof and falling fast toward the street. A woman screamed. Another person yelled, "Body!" People scattered to get out of the way... "The sound and the sight," Reed recalled, still shaken weeks later. "You can't explain to someone what it was like... We turned our heads and covered our ears, which still couldn't silence the sound of his body hitting the concrete. We will never forget it." Read article... Comments (22) Junior Newsies Baited, Switched San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: honkrrr "The Lowell High School student newspaper published Friday included an advertisement for a white supremacist Web site, reportedly paid for by a group promoting a "campaign to inform, awaken and radicalize our White American youth..." [Since-expired Google cache from when the ad was first placed shows] an innocuous page offering music by independent artists, including an African American man, and links for music that went nowhere. There was no hint of white supremacist views." Read article... Comments (7) Headless Outlaw Of The Outback Guardian | Submitted by: i forget all your names "The whereabouts of the bushranger's skull is one of Australia's most enduring historical mysteries: it was separated from his body soon after he was hanged in 1880 for murdering a policeman... After a series of bank raids and a shoot-out in which three police were killed, Kelly's last stand was a 10-hour gun battle in which he was clad in homemade helmet and armour that became the stuff of legend." Read article... Comments (8) Amateur Mycologists Harvest Liver Failure San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: conculcate "Three members of a Lodi family who ate so-called death cap mushrooms are hospitalized in intensive care in San Francisco, officials said Thursday... "Eating wild mushrooms such as the death cap can result in severe and rapid liver failure, requiring liver transplantation or a lengthy hospitalization..." The snow-white mushrooms have dusted green caps and appear meaty. The tell-tale sign of their toxicity is the pure white gills underneath the cap." Read article... Comments (15) Poke Out Your Eyes And Move To Portland Wire Services | Submitted by: Toodles Pookie "The cafe -- in a two-story building which formerly housed a speak-easy and adult erotic club Rumpspankers -- is technically a private club, but is open to any Oregon residents who are NORML members and hold an official medical marijuana card. Members pay $25 per month to use the 100-person capacity cafe. They don't buy marijuana, but get it free over the counter from [a ghastly reanimated portmanteau]. Open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., it serves food but has no liquor license." Read article... Comments (5) Requiescat: Ex-Moonlight Bunny Burned Oklahoman | Submitted by: ferret "Two of the four victims left in a burning southwest Oklahoma City house Monday were pregnant women who had been shot to death, according to the state medical examiner's office... Phillips recently worked as a prostitute at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch near Carson City, Nev., and appeared in an HBO reality show about the legal brothel." Read article... Comments (477) Friday November 13, 2009 Dig My Futuristic Bolt Gun Blaster BBC | Submitted by: ScaryPubes "The mother screamed for help as she was attacked and managed to get outside where her 13-year-old girl shouted "Don't do it, stop it" as McFarlane shot her mother... She was shot twice in the chest and once in the left shoulder with a bolt gun normally used for stunning livestock. The killer was found later lying in a back garden having cut his arms in an apparent suicide attempt." Read article... Comments (38) Copenhagen Beset By Race War London Telegraph | Submitted by: HansChristianPubeson "Copenhagen's spiral of violence started in August 2008 when an armed man of Turkish origin was executed on the street, his body riddled with 25 bullets by a member of AK81, a Hells Angels spin-off gang... At times played out in broad daylight, the conflict has claimed seven lives and wounded 60 people since then, some of the dead and wounded being innocent bystanders." Read article... Comments (14) Militant Chop-Chop In Sulu Al Jazeera English | Submitted by: oinks pink phallus "The severed head of Gabriel Canizares, 36, was found in a bag at a petrol station on Jolo Island on Monday, three weeks after he was seized by suspected Abu Sayyaf fighters. The rest of his body has not been found... Recent months have seen the Abu Sayyaf step up its attacks, despite an intense campaign against them by the Philippines military supported by advisors from the US... It is thought to have about 400 fighters based on Jolo and nearby Basilan Island." Read article... Comments (10) Cruising The Cheesecake Factory Arizona Republic | Submitted by: blow chunk(s) "Beyond the lavish decor that the company boasts on its website was a horribly dysfunctional workplace where male workers lived in fear... The EEOC said the evidence overwhelmingly showed that the abusers touched the victims inappropriately, made sexually charged remarks and forced the victims into incidents of simulated rape. Managers also witnessed employees dragging the men kicking and screaming into a refrigerated room." Read article... Comments (28) Bionic Man Primes Electric Anus Daily Mail | Submitted by: CrapsoPubes "A man whose bowel was damaged in a motorcycle crash has been fitted with a bionic bottom that enables him to go to the toilet using a remote control... I hit it so hard that it sheered the rear axle off the car. The fuel tank from the motorbike ripped me in half. I was airborne and ended up 20 yards down the road. "Three days later I'd slipped into a coma and needed a tracheotomy to help me breathe. It looked like it was Goodnight Vienna." Read article... Comments (22) Reindeer Collapse Into Icy River The Local SE | Submitted by: DeeryPubes "More than 400 reindeer have drowned in a river in Jokkmokk in northern Sweden.. Driving conventional snow-mobiles and assisted by a helicopter, reindeer herders were taking around 3,000 animals across the river, a route that has been safely crossed on previous occasions... The ice suddenly gave way and hundreds of reindeer fell into the water." Read article... Comments (11) Deer Loses Fight With Lawn Ornament TwinCities.com | Submitted by: Scortch "The seven-point buck was killed when it rammed a 640-pound concrete statue of an elk in the backyard of Mark and Carol Brye's home in rural Viroqua, Wis... Brye said the deer shattered its skull... He laughed at the warden's tag note: "lawn ornament fight -- lost" ... Brye, 58, is considering removing the antlers from the unlucky buck and gluing them on the elk statue as a remembrance of the strange but true story." Read article... Comments (14) Mystery Package Had Turd Payload The Columbian | Submitted by: Obsydean "At 6:45 a.m., the box was found by employees outside the door to the building at 230 Davidson Ave. The box was addressed in handwriting to the mayor of Woodland... A bomb squad destroyed the box with a water cannon, only to discover that the box was filled with either human or animal excrement. "The assumption would be that this is some kind of political statement, possibly about a recent raise in city water and sewer rates." Read article... Comments (13) Poisoned Womb Of Falluja Guardian | Submitted by: Veggie "Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting... We are seeing a very significant increase in central nervous system anomalies... Before 2003 [the start of the war] I was seeing sporadic numbers of deformities in babies. Now the frequency of deformities has increased dramatically." Read article... Comments (19) Speak Unto Me, Great Mother WLKY | Submitted by: Orloxx Bleach "Louisville police officers knocked on the woman's door and said they were greeted by a man holding a gun to his head. That man locked himself inside the home... The subsequent SWAT standoff ended early Friday morning when an armed man surrendered and let officers inside a home in the 1700 blk. of Cypress Street. When police searched the home, they found a badly decomposed body." Read article... Comments (5) Out Of Phone Sex Minutes? No Problem The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: ferret "The 29-year-old rooming house resident admitted placing the calls, but "did not think he would get in trouble for calling 911..." Asked why he chose to dial 911 from among "all the numbers he could have called," Basso told police that his LG cell phone was out of minutes and he "called 911 because it was free." In an excerpt from one of Basso's calls -- which he placed while a shower was running in the background -- Basso appears to be pleasuring himself while an operator diligently tries to obtain his address." Read article... Comments (15) Bones Bleached By Endless Day San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: Veggie "Thirteen years ago, an unlucky German family on a scenic trip to Death Valley vanished into the park, leaving no trace but the wreck of their rented car... They were presumed dead from the heat, one of the hottest of the year... Hikers Thursday discovered a copse of human bones which may be the skeletal remains of the family." Read article... Comments (18) Black Jails Of Beijing Human Rights Watch | Submitted by: crotchkey The 53-page report, "An Alleyway in Hell," documents how government officials, security forces, and their agents routinely abduct people off the streets of Beijing and other Chinese cities, strip them of their possessions, and imprison them. These black jails are often located in state-owned hotels, nursing homes, and psychiatric hospitals... Local officials, with the tolerance of public security authorities, establish the black jails as a way to ensure that [rural petitioners] are detained, punished, and sent home so that these officials will not suffer demerits under rules that impose bureaucratic penalties when there is a large flow of petitioners from their areas." Read article... Comments (14) Beheaded By The Sword RTTNews | Submitted by: dullington dimbulb "Two Sri Lankan nationals and one Indian national have been beheaded by the sword in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia for the theft and murder of a Saudi woman four years ago... Naushad and Nikar entered the home of Mariam Hussein, a Saudi woman, with the help of her Sri Lankan maid Halima, and suffocated her and stole money and jewelry, said the statement." Read article... Comments (8) Prop Coke Slingers Get Jacked Newsday | Submitted by: blow me "Prosecutors said Lynch became angry the three sold him fake cocaine. Lynch and Wall abducted the men and held them at gunpoint while driving to Washington Heights in a failed attempt to find the dealer who sold them the bogus coke, while the third escaped... Lynch shot Odierno and Santos in his Queens apartment and chopped up the bodies using a power saw and hacksaw... Lynch packed their body parts in plastic bags and bins, then buried them at his mother's house in Coram and in a nearby sump." Read article... Comments (9) Scapegoating Sidwell Friends Washington Post | Submitted by: Veggie "In some ways, these kinds of experiences deeply enrich the education students get," said Bruce Stewart, who spent 11 years as head of Sidwell before he retired at the end of June. "You want to hear those voices, listen to them and make a judgment about it. That's an important thing for kids to learn... not acquiescing to it, not being duped by it, but hearing it." Read article... Comments (7) Verbal Ejaculation Of Indescribable Prurience WBZTV | Submitted by: Veggie "It really has no meaning at all... "It can mean anything you really want it to mean..." But Danvers High School principal Thomas Murray doesn't care who started it, he just doesn't want to hear it on school grounds. Murray called every student's home with an automated message and sent out a mass email banning the word from school. "Please be advised that any student who has the letters meep on their clothing or uses the words verbally will face suspension from school... The police are monitoring this situation as well." Read article... Comments (43) But What Happened To The Bodies All Africa | Submitted by: testify o death "I don't think that the rumour about two people beheaded in Suleja is true as our men have combed the area for bodies without success. I am sure all these speculations are not unconnected to the killing of a woman whose body was found strangulated and dumped in a refuse bin and the body of a man stabbed to death by unknown assailants while taking his bath in a stream. But all these deaths are not linked to ritual killings." Read article... Comments (258) Daily Rotten Archives..