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May 9 1950 L. Ron Hubbard publishes the first edition of Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. This follows on the heels of a feature article in the pulp sci-fi magazine Astounding Science Fiction. A book review in the The New Republic describes the work as "a bold and immodest mixture of complete nonsense and perfectly reasonable common sense, taken from long-acknowledged findings and disguised and distorted by a crazy, newly invented terminology." The subsequent movement goes on to become one of the scariest, most powerful pseudo-religious cults in modern history.
May 9 1978 
The body of former Italian premier Aldo Moro is discovered
in the back seat of a Renault. He had been kidnapped 54 days
prior by the Red Brigades, who demanded the release of their
incarcerated comrades. When Italian authorities refused to
give in, Moro's captors killed him. Above is a photo of
the hostage holding a newspaper announcing his own death.
May 9 1979 Northwestern University graduate student John Harris opens a cigar
box left sitting on a table in the Technological Institute. The
resulting blast only manages to inflict minor lacerations and
burns. It is later determined to be the second explosive device
fabricated by the Unabomber.
May 9 1980 35 people are killed in Tampa, Florida when the Liberian
cargo ship Summit Venture smashes into a supporting pier
of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Seven vehicles, including
a Greyhound bus, topple into the water 150 feet below.
May 9 1983 The infallible Pope John Paul II retracts the Catholic Church's condemnation of astronomer Galileo Galilei,
issued in 1633 by the infallible Pope Urban VIII. The Church had convicted the
scientist of heresy, sentenced him to house arrest, and forced him to recant
central scientific truths. In the end, this error only took 350 years to correct.
May 9 1995 The CDC in Atlanta identifies a new strain of filovirus in blood
samples taken from 14 disease victims in Kikwit, Zaire. Designated
"Ebola," this new pathogen proves to be so tremendously virulent
that the government of Zaire is forced to place the entire city of
Kinshasa under quarantine in order to contain the outbreak.
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Yesterday in Rotten History |
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May 8 1842 Following a birthday celebration for King Louis Philippe, 59 Parisians
returning home by train are trapped in their railcars and incinerated
when their train collides with another. In these early days of rail
travel, coaches were locked and no means of escape was available.
May 8 1902 
Mt. Peleé erupts on the West Indies island of Martinique.
A wall of superheated ash and rock cascades down the
slopes, slamming directly into the community of Saint Pierre.
The shockwave and intense heat even manage to destroy twenty
ships in the harbor. Only two of the town's 28,000 residents
survive the cataclysm.
May 8 1988 Science fiction author Robert A Heinlein dies of emphysema, leaving behind a legacy of subversive novels -- many of which meditating on unconventional sexual mores.
May 8 1991 In a room at Little Rock's Excelsior Hotel, Arkansas
Governor Bill Clinton exposes his penis to state
employee Paula Jones and propositions her to perform
fellatio. In her civil deposition, Jones will later
claim to have witnessed certain "distinguishing
characteristics" of the governor's genitalia, the
precise nature of which soon becomes the subject of
much speculation. For her trouble, Jones eventually
receives an out-of-court settlement for $850,000 and
a nude pictorial in Penthouse magazine.
May 8 1998 Former Senator and onetime Presidential candidate Bob Dole tells television interviewer Larry King that he participated in the Viagra impotence drug trials, and thoroughly enjoyed himself in the process. Dole's name soon becomes synonymous with erectile dysfunction.
May 8 1999 Actress Dana Plato, who played Kimberly Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes, dies in Oklahoma of an overdose of Valium and Loritab. Just the previous day, Plato had appeared on the Howard Stern syndicated radio program claiming to be clean and sober.
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May 7 1915 The ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed by German submarine U-20
off the coast of Ireland. The ship goes under in just 18 minutes. In
their panic, the crew only manages to launch 6 of the 48 lifeboats.
As a result 1,201 are killed. Contrary to published reports of the
time, the passenger ship was smuggling 3,863 boxes of ammunition and
323 bundles of guncotton into Britain.
May 7 1945 German admiral Carl Doenitz unconditionally surrenders to Allied forces at Reims, France, thus ending the war in Europe.
May 7 1959 
Small-time boxing promoter Don King is arrested in Cleveland on suspicion of drug dealing. His criminal record includes a 1955 arrest for arson, a 1954 arrest for murder, and others.
May 7 2001 Ronnie Biggs, England's escaped "Great Train Robber," returns
to face the music after 35 years as a fugitive. After serving
just fifteen months of a 30-year sentence, Biggs escaped from
prison and fled to Brazil, where he avoided extradition by
fathering the baby of a 19-year-old stripper. Partially
paralyzed by a couple of strokes, Biggs returns to England
for one last pint of beer before he dies. Instead he is
taken into custody at Heathrow airport and promptly sent to
Belmarsh prison to serve out the remainder of his sentence.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"Never has our ability to shield our affairs from prying eyes been
at such a low ebb. The availability and use of secure encryption may
offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of the privacy we have
lost. Government efforts to control encryption thus may well
implicate not only the First Amendment rights of cryptographers
intent on pushing the boundaries of their science, but also the
constitutional rights of each of us as potential recipients of
encryption's bounty."
US Appeals Court Judge Betty Fletcher
"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public
as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
Jack Valenti, MPAA
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom."
Dwight Eisenhower
"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."
Groucho Marx
"WHO CARES ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IF THE GOVERNMENT SHOT MARTIN LUTHER KING? THE POINT IS I'M HUNGRY."
Spigot, Jerkcity
"I'm a bad motherfucker
don't you know
And I'll crawl over fifty good pussies
just to get one fat boy's asshole"
Stagger Lee, Nick Cave
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Bear Hanged
Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Camp Bear Lover
"Shortly after 6 a.m., a town employee, acting on the instructions of a provincial conservation officer, cut the bear loose and the carcass was washed down the Kicking Horse River and lost."
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Flushing You Down The Drain
Fox News | Submitted by: Canoodler
"Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest — dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain."
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Stinking Up The Place
KTVU-2 | Submitted by: gargoyle1
"Port officials in San Francisco puzzled over a large, foul-smelling dilemma Thursday night as authorities tried to figure out how to remove a 25-to-30 foot dead whale carcass that somehow became lodged underneath Pier 27 along the Embarcadero at the foot of Battery Street."
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Santa-No-Pockets and his Magic Candy Cane
CNN | Submitted by: anonymous
"Wayne Nelson Corliss, an actor and comedy writer who sometimes played Santa Claus and painted faces at parties, was arrested late Wednesday. Friends and neighbors said they never could have imagined him being involved in such crimes before investigators released his picture worldwide."
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Run Over By Mommy
Contra Costa Times | Submitted by: kornfreak987
"The death remains under investigation, but it appears to be an accident and the girl's mother will likely not be cited or prosecuted..."
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Toilet Baby
WCAU-TV 10 Philadelphia | Submitted by: Buddy List
"According to the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office, the 14-year-old from Bridgeton was attending the Cinco de Mayo festival when she allegedly gave birth to the baby in the toilet at the fairground.
She's accused of taking the child out of the bowl and placing him in the toilet tank..."
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Self-tracheotomy with steak knife
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: furpo
"Wilder said he didn't call 911 because he didn't think help would arrive in time. So, the 55-year-old says, he got a steak knife from the kitchen and made a small hole in his throat, allowing air to gush in."
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Nearly Raped by Students
WJZ-TV 13 Baltimore | Submitted by: Morbid Librarian
"Teachers and administrators are now advised not to stay in schools alone after dark after a chilling attack at the Calverton Middle and Elementary campus. What's supposed to be a safe haven turned dangerous for an assistant principal there Sunday. Police say two 13-year-old students broke through a window and tried to rape her."
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TorrentSpy: Not gonna pay ridiculous $111M fine
Wired | Submitted by: anonymous
The MPAA, he said, wants "other torrent owners and operators to look at the $111 million figure and say, 'I'm getting out of the business.'" The TorrentSpy case, Baker said, "is another example of the studios eating these guys to death. They haven't tried the merits of the case."
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Singing Condom
Telegraph UK | Submitted by: RubberyPubes
Titled "Protective Cover", its lyrics include: "I am the condom friend ever useful to you" and "I am made in different colours with fragrance".
The team of sheathed singers continue: "Some men and women say I don't satisfy their desire.
"I am good-natured and provide satisfaction. I am for you, do not neglect me.
"I save you and increase your longevity."
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Thursday May 08, 2008
Pizza Pizza
AP | Submitted by: Little Ceasar
"A 44-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of killing her own babies after her grown children found the bodies of three infants stashed in the family's freezer while looking for a frozen pizza..."
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Your coke or your bollocks
WCBS-TV | Submitted by: Sht. Joe Friday, (just gettin' the facts as he feels, er, ah, se
"A sadistic gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured scores of East Coast cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers..."
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National Security Letter fail
Wired | Submitted by: anonymous
"The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning."
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College Drug Sting
CNN | Submitted by: azdollarbill
"They weren't picky about who they sold to," he said, alleging that undercover officers would simply call them and say, " 'Hey, I heard you deal. Will you sell to me?' And they did."
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Milf Shocked
Everett Herald | Submitted by: dr. texas
"Marci Milfs went to Urban Outfitters to find clothes for her teenage son. She was surprised to find sexually charged books that she believes have no place in a clothing store for teens and young adults."
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Nun of the Above
BREITBART | Submitted by: Mother_Theresa, (touching herself!)
"About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph."
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Using cell phones to find missing persons
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Submitted by: anonymous
"Missing persons cases present an unusual problem for police -- it's not a crime to disappear. Without a crime, police can't get a search warrant. In a criminal case, no warrant would mean no phone records for authorities."
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Monkey Murder
Canadian Television | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Camp Monkey Lover
"The average person doesn't have a clue how to take care of an exotic monkey," said Henderson. She also said Mia could be a danger to the public since she is traumatized and will likely be in a fighting mood."
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Neither fish nor fowl
Wire Services | Submitted by: Veggie
"Arguably the oddest beast in Nature's menagerie, the platypus looks as if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete."
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Sunday May 04, 2008
Tasers Don't Kill People!
AZ Central | Submitted by: Soylent
"Excited delirium has been cited in police custody-death cases for decades. It is now being blamed more and more by medical examiners for deaths that occur following a police Taser strike... Taser has funded excited delirium studies and has been involved in promoting its research. The company maintains that excited delirium is a valid syndrome, and some doctors say it will gain acceptance as more research is conducted."
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Teach Her a Lesson
Canoe | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Camp Fuck4Reno$
[Marr] admitted tying up his victim with tape from her home, raping her over a lengthy period and keeping his identity secret throughout. "These are not the actions of a person who 'panicked,'" said Hughes. "He made the decision to break into her home (and) wait in the darkness so he could teach her a lesson."
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Operation D-Day
WTVJ-TV 6 Miami | Submitted by: anonymous
"I asked them why they came to my house, they said a neighbor or somebody called and said I had a hydroponics lab in my house," Llorente said. "Then I asked them if a marijuana plant could grow inside my underwear drawer."
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Kill Kill Kill
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: anonymous
"A mountain lion jumped a 5-foot-high chain-link fence on a farm near Gilroy and attacked and killed five goats Friday before fleeing when the homeowner came outside..."
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Accused Rapist Auctioned Off
Tennessean | Submitted by: ferret
"He was auctioned off as an eligible bachelor for a charitable cause, helping Habitat for Humanity raise nearly $10,000. He was a popular teen who went to his prom with a date and a best friend, and his only brush with the law was a couple of speeding tickets."
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Friday May 02, 2008
Gonna fuck me a penguin
BBC | Submitted by: bonerjams2k8
"An Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex with a king penguin. The South African-based scientists who witnessed the incident say it is the most unusual case of mammal mating behaviour yet known."
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Powell's + Dark Horse team up to block state law
Portland Tribune | Submitted by: anonymous
"Portland bookseller Michael Powell and owners of a dozen independent bookstores and community organizations are suing the state attorney general and all 36 county district attorneys to block enforcement of a law forbidding the sale of sexually explicit material to people younger than 18." ... "Powell’s has in stock over 2 million volumes constituting over 1 million titles," Powell said in his affidavit. "We receive on an average over 5,000 new titles per week. Obviously we cannot read each new title to determine whether there are any sexual explicit portions and if so whether such portions ‘serve some purpose other than titillation’ (even if I knew what that meant)."
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Hanged
Wire Services | Submitted by: MRSCAPSLOCK
"The so-called D.C. Madam vowed she would never go to federal prison for running a high-end Washington prostitution ring. Not even for a day."
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Good use for notorious drug
New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: anonymous
"We're talking about 10 tonne tractors rolled on top of people ... or typical quad bike idiots on Muriwai Beach. They flip it and they've got two broken legs below the knee pointing at right angles but otherwise they're uninjured. "You've got to straighten these limbs out and splint them. If you try to do that without this sort of agent, it's horrible - you cause excruciating discomfort. So to be able to do this in the field is a major bonus."
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Beware the apeman's coming
The Scotsman | Submitted by: anonymous
Dr MacKellar said he feared the consequences if scientists made a concerted effort to cross humans with chimpanzees. He said: "Nobody knows what they would get if they tried hard enough. The insemination of animals with human sperm should be prohibited."
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Angry letter targets Orlando cops
WFTV-TV 9 Orlando | Submitted by: anonymous
The author is angry and wants justice served; if not, someone will pay the price. The letter says that if OPD doesn't arrest an officer accused of pushing a woman down the stairs, a sniper will target cops and "blood will … flow like the river Jordan."
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Bloated Justice
WCBS-TV | Submitted by: Fescue
"A Long Island music shop owner accused of selling knockoff Gibson Les Paul guitars has been arraigned in a pickup truck in a courthouse parking lot after his lawyer said the 500-pound defendant couldn't walk into the courthouse."
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Booze + Coke + Teens + Hotel + Teacher's Aide
WTAE-TV 4 Pittsburgh | Submitted by: this bitch is sick
"Police said she rented a Clarion Hotel room where they found beer, 9.5 grams of crack and teenage boys and girls on Feb. 22. But New Kensington police are now saying Swogger lured two girls to the hotel in the hopes of getting them drunk and high and then wanted them to have sex with her. The new charges include unlawful contact with minors and delivery of controlled substances."
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IDOT fails to see humor
Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: anonymous
"The snide and comical remarks in octagonal shapes under stop signs in Oak Lawn were supposed to be a funny way to get motorists to halt and pay attention instead of flying through intersections..."
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Free Boners!
WPLG-TV 10 Fort Lauderdale | Submitted by: Flossy666
"A working-class suburb of Chile's capital began handing out free Viagra to senior citizens on Wednesday."
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Porno Overload
BBC | Submitted by: anonymous
"A local council employee in Japan has been punished after it was discovered he had accessed porn websites at work more than 780,000 times in nine months."
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Wednesday April 30, 2008
He was the most horrible
AOL | Submitted by: azdollarbill
"It was 1941, and an 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic with a foot inflammation. Heim asked him about himself and why he was so fit. The young man said he had been a soccer player and swimmer. Then, instead of treating the prisoner's foot, Heim anesthetized him, cut him open, castrated him, took apart one kidney and removed the second, Lotter said. The victim's head was removed and the flesh boiled off so that Heim could keep it on display."
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Jason unimpressed with police response
BBC | Submitted by: HaHaThePube
"They were heavy-handed and getting all wound up. They were just quite rude. There were children laughing at them which didn't help." ... "I didn't even have the engine running on the chainsaw and the mask was on my head, not covering my face."
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Tard Rape
blogs.ocweekly.com | Submitted by: juanholmes
"When police arrived, Reyes tried to blame the consumption of 13 beers and, perhaps sensing he wasn’t winning sympathy, finally suggested that he'd mounted the girl only to save her from an alleged epileptic seizure."
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Chairsniffer
London Telegraph | Submitted by: anonymous
"One of Australia’s most senior conservative politicians broke down as he tearfully admitted sniffing the chair of a female colleague shortly after she vacated it."
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A Nice Kid
Palm Beach Post | Submitted by: ferret
"Jason Shenfeld had sex with a woman in his bedroom with a dead body in the closet, but he didn't want to spend an entire night alone in that room. So the next day he told his girlfriend, Mia Dipadua, he was locked out of the house..."
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