Tuesday November 03, 2009 Submit a story for publication. Want to support Daily Rotten? Buy a membership at Pornopolis! Also: Visit the Rotten Store Two-Headed Child Howls From Ditch Austrian Times | Submitted by: twelver "Police in Hanzhuang, central China, found the hours-old infant after reports of a baby crying in the middle of the night. Doctors say the child has one fully formed head and another, smaller, head with only partially formed features... it It is amazing that he survived after being dumped in the ditch. It was filled with rubbish and mud and old water. When officers picked him up they at first did not realise he had the defamation and thought it was just rubbish stuck to the child." Read article... Comments (21) Unquiet Spirit Claims Trick-Or-Treater Boston Globe | Submitted by: dngrdnky "Pelham Police Lt. Fisher said the fourth-grader was with a group of about 20 children being shuttled to front-door candy stops on a hay ride. At this particular stop, Christian was the first child to collect his candy and wait for the hay-filled trailer at the side of the road... Suddenly, a white birch tree snapped at its stump, about 4 feet off the ground, crushing the boy... Just days earlier, Christian's uncle's brother was shot to death by an off-duty special police officer after viciously stabbing a Massachusetts General Hospital psychiatrist." Read article... Comments (8) Chest Contents Of Unknown Origin Boston Police Department | Submitted by: she's a spy "Upon arrival, Officers met with security personnel who pointed out, what appeared to be, internal organs on the ground. Ultimately, a Doctor from the Medical Examiners Office responded and conducted a preliminary investigation which led her to believe they were not from a human. The organs were identified as a heart, lungs and an esophagus. The Medical Examiners Office collected the organs in order to conduct more conclusive testing." Read article... Comments (6) More And More Bodies Dug Up ABC News | Submitted by: general "Albuquerque police are preparing for what they say could be the biggest homicide investigation in the city's history as investigators look into who buried bodies -- 11 so far, including a first trimester fetus -- in the ground in a wide expanse of desert mesa... "It's very methodical and it's very businesslike," he said of the bodies' placement in the mesa." Read article... Comments (9) Bear Defeats Invading Militants BBC | Submitted by: Littlefuzzy "A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir... The militants had assault rifles but were taken by surprise -- police found the remains of pudding they had made to eat when the bear attacked." Read article... Comments (12) Giant Sea Creatures Terrorize Japan London Telegraph | Submitted by: commhealy "The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba`as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura's jellyfish... Each of the jellyfish can weigh up to 200 kg and waters around Japan have been inundated with the creatures this year... The crew of the fishing boat was thrown into the sea when the vessel capsized." Read article... Comments (5) Cable Modem Hacker Indicted Wired | Submitted by: twitch game "An Oregon hardware hacker and author has been hit with federal criminal charges arising from his longstanding business of selling unlocked cable modems that can be used to steal extra speed from a broadband provider, or obtain free service... The group's work has been a boon to cable modem "uncappers," who use the customized modems to crank up the speed of their internet access by downloading special configuration files from an ISP's server." Read article... Comments (5) Claude Levi-Strauss Dead At 100 New York Times | Submitted by: claude ballz "In his analysis of myth and culture, Mr. Lévi-Strauss might contrast imagery of monkeys and jaguars; consider the differences in meaning of roasted and boiled food (cannibals, he suggested, tended to boil their friends and roast their enemies); and establish connections between weird mythological tales and ornate laws of marriage and kinship... For Mr. Lévi-Strauss, the savage was not intrinsically noble or in any way "closer to nature." Mr. Lévi-Strauss was withering, for example, when describing the Caduveo, whom he portrayed as a tribe so in rebellion against nature -- and thus doomed -- that they even shunned procreation, choosing to "reproduce" by abducting children from enemy tribes." Read article... Comments (4) A Quick Jerk In The Evidence Room Berkshire Eagle | Submitted by: hard sandwich "According to state police reports, Vigiard, who is married with two children, allegedly downloaded and viewed child pornography in the Adams Police Department evidence room... Also on the CDs were images and a video clip of a male masturbating in front of a computer monitor, the reports state -- the male's head is never in view, but the background was clearly identified as the Police Department's evidence room. According to police, the man in the video had a distinctive scar on his left hand that matched one a state trooper noticed on Vigiard's hand when he was arrested." Read article... Comments (9) Russia's Continuing Struggle With Alcoholism New York Times | Submitted by: Effect "The government does not want to deprive poor people of cheap vodka," Dr. Nemtsov said. "Because it is better for them when people are drunk. You probably know that Catherine the Great said it is easier to rule a drunk public. That is the root of the evil..." Russians consume roughly 4.75 gallons of pure alcohol a person annually, more than double the level that the World Health Organization considers a health threat. The consumption figure for the United States is about 2.3 gallons." Read article... Comments (42) Monday November 02, 2009 Crusted Killer Leaves Chemical Trail Cleveland's Own Fox 8 | Submitted by: Effect "He was crazy," she said from her porch Saturday. "Sometimes he would just go off if he didn't have his way..." Another woman claims Sowell asked her to "drink beer" with him and when she refused he "punched her in the face and dragged her to his house..." Suspicions gag the bodega: "He came into my store last week and reeked so bad, I had to open the front and back doors. I asked why he stunk. He shrugged, bought his beer and walked out." [More on Saturday's story, with photo of crawlspace inspectors] Read article... and This... and This... Comments (32) Mexican Farm Union Leader Assassinated Los Angeles Times | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Montes, his wife and two children were traveling in a small convoy with at least 11 other relatives and staff members to a rural hacienda Friday afternoon when they were ambushed by several assailants armed with large-caliber weapons, investigators said. All 15 were shot to death... Montes was the head of the General Popular Union of Workers and Farmers, which has tens of thousands of members. He has led peasants and squatters in claims for vast chunks of countryside, disputes that have on occasion turned violent." Read article... and This article... Comments (19) Boy Spits Out Bird Head Timaru Herald | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "According to the Timaru police, the 16-year-old Geraldine boy recorded himself on his cellphone. A Timaru police constable said the video appeared to show the boy stroking the beak of a live bird in his hand, before he bit the head off the bird, throwing both the body and head twitching to the ground... "You just get some silly people doing some silly things and sadly its not always just young people." Read article... Comments (26) Family Discovers A Stray Hindquarters Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: zilchAinycrOOsingsingtrife "Three children and their father have discovered the lower half of a man's body at the bottom of a creek on the New South Wales mid-north coast... Specialist police, divers and State Emergency Service volunteers are searching the creek and surrounding bushland for the rest of the body... Police believe it had been washed into the creek by floodwaters, which have since receded." Read article... Comments (8) Burmese Host Burn Barrel Party Wire Services | Submitted by: Sho Mei YorPaprs "Prime Minister Thein Sein attended the torching ceremony Saturday in Kokang, a mainly ethnic Chinese region of Shan state, where clashes broke out between the regime and rebels in August, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported... The report said the drugs were seized from 50 different hideouts in Laukkai, the region's main town, beginning with a raid by security forces on a factory owned by Kokang rebel leaders... This sparked fighting with the Kokang group in breach of a 20-year-long ceasefire, which prompted an exodus of more than 30,000 refugees into China and earned Myanmar a rare rebuke from Beijing, usually its closest ally." Read article... Comments (9) Dismembered Body Thrown From Pier Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "The hearing was told Coombes was with Ms Betts in a Phillip Island home when they had an argument. Police allege Coombes put her in a headlock and strangled her, before dismembering her body and throwing her remains off a pier... Her leg and other body parts were found washed up on Phillip Island several weeks later." Read article... Comments (7) Wife Asks Hooker For Refund Stuff NZ | Submitted by: Bukster "The sports star's wife wanted $3000 back from the former naked TV newsreader and celebrity streaker... "I need you to repay back the money my husband gave you," the man's wife said in a text message sent on Tuesday evening. "I am giving u the chance to do the decent thing first. We have 6 young children to support and we need that money repayed." The New Zealand Prostitutes Collective said the financial dispute involving the sportsman and Lewis was an unusual situation, but had nothing to do with the man's wife." Read article... Comments (24) Child's Sudden Fatness Questioned Wire Services | Submitted by: missunderstood "I'm not going to play with toys anymore -- I have a new toy now. She is so beautiful, I love her... Violeta is the child and I must grow up. I am not going back to school -- I am a mother now." Kordeza said she did not realise she was pregnant until her grandmother pointed out her weight gain. "I just thought I'd eaten too many burgers." Read article... Comments (27) Yakuza Lifestyle Wears On The Liver 60 Minutes | Submitted by: ferret "Generally speaking, Yakuza get rid of bodies by dumping them in the foundations of buildings. They own a lot of construction companies. So, you know, you're pouring a new building. You throw the body in, like, the cement. And nobody ever finds it. The buildings go all up, all the time in Tokyo... Physically, the tattoos take their toll on your body. The tattoos are so dense that it's very hard to sweat, which means when you can't get rid of the toxins in your body, that's also very hard on the liver." Read article... Comments (18) Cheney Pleas Ignorance To FBI San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: twelver "On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy... The Cheney interview reflects a team of prosecutors and FBI agents trying to find out whether the leaks of Plame's CIA identity were orchestrated at the highest level of the White House and carried out by, among others, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff." Read article... Comments (14) They Pull You Back In St. Petersburg Times | Submitted by: ferret "I had the order and the pressure to find them," Morehead said, referring to people in charge of security above him. "And God forbid I did not find them." Staff deployed to airports and bus stations. They called all hotels along likely escape routes. They called airlines and pretended to be the runaway checking a reservation. They phoned relatives. The intensity of the chase mostly depended on what a runaway knew... "It all had to do with the hierarchy of how close you were to Miscavige, how much you knew about him and how damaging what you knew might be." Read article... Comments (18) Known Fornicator Shunned By Community London Telegraph | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Photographs of the anrgy showdown, taken by a startled neighbour, were uploaded to a local community website. They show Sun perched on the first floor ledge while his lover is confronted by her un-named husband inside. "My family is ashamed and none of my own neighbours will talk to me any more." Read article... Comments (7) Man-Eating Lions Exaggerate Body Count Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: gingeroot "According to the man who finally caught them in 1898, the two maneless Kenyan lions munched their way through as many as 135 people before they were shot, skinned, sold, stuffed and put on display in Chicago... But after analyzing fragments of the lions' bones and fur, scientists at the University of California in Santa Cruz have determined that the true number of humans eaten by the lions was likely closer to 35." Read article... Comments (194) Saturday October 31, 2009 Pedestrian Limbs Tossed Up By Traffic CBS5 | Submitted by: myballsitch "Arriving CHP and Martinez police officers confirmed that a pedestrian on the roadway had been struck, probably numerous times before the reporting party's vehicle struck it, and body parts and pieces were scattered in all lanes. The entire southbound portion of the highway was closed to accommodate an investigation and cleanup of the victim." Read article... Comments (35) Baby Smashed Like Ripe Gourd Lohud | Submitted by: scarred 4 life "A 5-month-old infant was in critical condition at Westchester Medical Center on Friday after he was slammed to the sidewalk at least two to three times by his mother, who was naked and screaming in the street... One of the many bystanders who watched in horror as the 23-year-old woman raised the baby above her head and then slammed him to the ground was able to snatch the baby away and deliver him into the hands of the waiting Police Commissioner." Read article... Comments (22) Those Dead Girls Of Cleveland CNN | Submitted by: furpo "What they did find were the badly decomposed remains of two bodies on the third floor of the house... A subsequent search on Thursday revealed what appeared to be a freshly dug grave under the stairs in the basement... On Friday, investigators returned to the house, dug up the grave and found a third body... A further search of the house and property found two more bodies in a crawl space and a sixth body was found in a shallow grave outside the home... "He apparently is a serial rapist," Stacho said about Sowell, who he said makes his living as a "scrapper." Read article... Comments (16) Johnson Sacks Nutt Over Frank Pot Talk BBC | Submitted by: Vlad "The UK's chief drugs adviser has been sacked by Home Secretary Alan Johnson, after criticising government policies... Professor David Nutt, head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, had criticised the decision to reclassify cannabis to Class B from C... Prof. Nutt said he was not prepared to "mislead" the public about the effects of drugs in order to convey a moral "message" on the government's behalf." Read article... and This article... Comments (14) Leniency For Failed Shrew Tamer Australian Broadcasting | Submitted by: JJ "Sherna killed his partner of 18 years with a dressing down cord, and buried her in the backyard of their home at Tarneit last year... The court was told Sherna had been emotionally abused by Ms Wild for years, including being banned from parts of his house, and restricted in using his own toilet... Sherna was found not guilty of defensive homicide and murder." Read article... Comments (11) 112 Year Old Somali Living The Dream Guardian | Submitted by: anonymous "Dhore -- who says he was born in 1897, the year that Queen Victoria celebrated her diamond jubilee -- already has 13 children by five wives, but said he would like more with his newest, a 17-year-old girl... Dhore has 103 grandchildren. His oldest son is 80 and three of his wives have died. This was his first marriage for three quarters of a century." Read article... Comments (20) Oral Stimulation Improves Fruit Bat Love New Scientist | Submitted by: Perv with a dog "Female short-nosed fruit bats have been observed performing fellatio on their partners during copulation. Mating pairs spent more time copulating if the female did so... The bats copulate dorso-ventrally, with the male mounting the female from behind. During mating, the females reached over to lick the base of the male's penis in 14 of the 20 pairs that copulated." Read article... Comments (16) Unquiet Spirits Haunt Coroner's Sedan Chicago Tribune | Submitted by: cyran0 "All of the doors started locking and unlocking and the windows started going up and down by themselves... When he got out of the car to get her out, the car doors all locked and the car was [turned] off." Sometimes at night, sitting at a computer a few feet from the cooler where bodies are kept, he swears he hears knocks coming from inside... Other times, he has seen out of the corner of his eye a person walking in the autopsy room -- even though there's no one alive except him." Read article... Comments (15) Face Torn Away By Dog Breath TwinCities.com | Submitted by: Vlad "About 9:30 p.m. Sunday, Stewart was watching TV in the basement with the dog when Klinefelter heard a noise. "It was like a thumping sound, like someone hitting a ball"... She went downstairs to see a nightmarish scene -- the dog standing over a barely conscious Stewart. Blood was spattered about, the skin of the lower half of Stewart's face was hanging loose, and one of his ears was on the floor... "He was not barking," she said. "He just looked at me." Read article... Comments (18) Whale Blob Washes Ashore Timaru Herald | Submitted by: Pants "That's a big white rock on the shore line ... that wasn't there four days ago'." As she got closer to the thing she thought it could be a piece of driftwood – a really big bit of driftwood... Cautiously, and ready to run should the thing suddenly leap into life, Miss Fraser lobbed a rock at it, then prodded it with a stick. Whatever it was, it sat there, not moving. All it did was emit a slight odour." Read article... Comments (13) Drunk Driver's Cop Sense Goes Haywire San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Simon drove over several marked parking stalls and parked crookedly in a spot. He got out of his car and walked into a Starbucks coffee shop, where two CHP officers had just observed his bad driving... Belmont took one look at the officers and told them, "I have a lot of balls to be walking in here." He was promptly arrested." Read article... Comments (402) Thursday October 29, 2009 Seventh Foot In A Seventh Shoe The Province | Submitted by: inhalien "Two men walking along the beach at No. 6 Road and Triangle Road in Richmond found the sneaker-clad foot lying in the sand Tuesday night. Inside the size 8 1/2 white Nike running shoe was the decomposing remains of a human right foot. It’s the seventh sneaker-clad discovered on B.C. shores since 2007... "There’s no indication if it’s a male or female as of yet... At first glance it doesn’t match any of the other feet." Read article... Comments (32) Cleaver Snatched From Solomon Daily Telegraph | Submitted by: Ross "A woman accused of murdering a newborn baby admitted under intense police questioning to giving birth to the boy and cutting him in half... The mother, 53, is facing a committal hearing in Cairns Magistrates Court over the death of a newborn boy whose torso was found in a suburban driveway in May 1996... She gave birth to the child, cutting it in half and leaving it in a creek to "try and hide the evidence." Read article... Comments (19) X-Ray: Bezoar Farmer Praises Pica Daily Mail | Submitted by: general "She seems to have been suffering from some sort of obsession and every time she sat down for a meal she would ignore the food and eat the cutlery... Surgeons in Rotterdam in the Netherlands were flabbergasted when X-rays showed 78 different items of cutlery in the 52-year-old woman's stomach. They rushed her to surgery in a desperate attempt to remove the dozens of forks and spoons trapped inside her body one by one." Read article... Comments (16) Sharpless Burglars Hoisted By Sir Marksalot nineMSN | Submitted by: JJ "Two accused burglars in the US who covered their faces with permanent marker as a disguise were arrested soon after an apartment robbery with their faces still blackened... After a caller described the burglars as having "painted faces", police pulled over their car a few blocks away to see their faces still covered with permanent marker." Read article... Comments (24) Coyotes Find Taste For Folk Musician Stuff NZ | Submitted by: the dude "Two coyotes attacked and killed a young Canadian woman while she was hiking alone in a national park in eastern Canada... Police who were in the area reached the scene quickly and shot one of the animals, apparently wounding it. But the wounded animal and a companion coyote managed to get away... Mitchell was already in a critical condition when paramedics arrived on the scene and had multiple bite wounds over her entire body." Read article... Comments (34) Kept Woman Subjected To Stabbings Merced Sun-Star | Submitted by: Electric Buttaloo "Interviews with both victims, who officials declined to identify by name, revealed what police described in a press release as a "house of horrors"... The fellow refused for months to let his girlfriend leave their apartment. They say he subjected her to beatings, rapes, sodomy, burnings and stabbings... She said he tried to cut off her fingers and that he once stabbed her and left her to bleed until she lost consciousness." Read article... Comments (17) Breaking Up: Ex-Girl's Flying Eyeball BBC | Submitted by: McPubes "I seen a metal thing in his hand. It was like a paper clip opened out." Murphy then turned to her and said: "I am taking your eye out.' He had the hook or the coat hanger and he was trying to get that into my eye." He then tried to get his thumb and two fingers into her eye, she said, then put his hands round her throat and strangled her until she blacked out." Read article... Comments (20) Castro's Sister Spied For CIA Voice Of America | Submitted by: Dr. Sputnik "Juanita Castro, sister of former Cuban President Fidel Castro, says she collaborated with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency against her brother's rule in the 1960s... Castro, now 76, said she was approached by the CIA in the early 1960s. She said she used her home in Havana to shelter those persecuted by her brother's government before she went into exile." Read article... Comments (8) RICO Comes To New Zealand New Zealand Herald | Submitted by: bukster "Under the new Criminal Proceeds Act police can demand answers from people about their "unexplained wealth" and seize assets without having to prove a criminal conviction against the person holding the assets... Mr Broad said the unit would use new legislation passed by Parliament -- the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act -- to do its work." Read article... Comments (21) Fusion Reactor Relies On Coconuts H+ Magazine | Submitted by: anonymous "The coconuts will be used to generate a cooling vacuum essential to ITER's operation. In the central chamber, some of this vacuum separates the plasma from the surrounding solid walls and allows fusion to proceed unhindered by air molecules. The vacuum pumps suck air out of ITER and "adsorb" waste helium from the fusion reaction, along with other debris created when hot plasma smashes into the reactor wall." Read article... Comments (18) Rube Plooker Gets While Getting's Good KVUE-TV 24 Austin | Submitted by: ferret "When he went back a few days later to ask the clerk if his ticket was a winner, the clerk said it wasn’t. Investigators say it was a winning ticket, but the clerk held onto it for himself... A grand jury recently indicted the clerk, but he hasn’t been seen since he claimed the prize. Officials believe he left the country and is hiding in his native Nepal... Willis continues to play the lottery, but at a different convenience store." Read article... Comments (13) Street Life In Old Napoli Daily Mail | Submitted by: IlPubio "Tarracino is seen smoking a cigarette outside a bar in the central Sanita neighborhood. The killer enters the bar, where there are at least six people, then emerges and shoots Tarracino at point blank range. When Tarracino falls on the ground, the killer finishes him off with a bullet to the head... A woman is seen rubbing off her scratch-and-win lottery card as Tarracino is killed in front of her. A cigarette-seller moves his stall a few meters down the road, while a man holding a toddler in his arms looks at the victim and walks away." Read article... Comments (426) Wednesday October 28, 2009 Cellmate Comes To Wretched End Daily Mail | Submitted by: LightattheendofthePubes "Clement throttled his cellmate with a T-shirt in September 2003 because he was Satan's 'hands and eyes'... Hesketh, who was serving four months for driving while disqualified, was found dead on the floor of the cell he shared with McNally in Manchester's Strangeways prison... Clement claimed to worship the devil and decorated his cell with satanic symbols... He made it perfectly clear that he would kill again if the opportunity arose and the urge to kill was of sufficient intensity." Read article... Comments (44) Queen Decries: Let Him Eat Nothing WJZ-TV 13 Baltimore | Submitted by: BoogerSandwich "Home video of the boy doesn't hint at the dark future awaiting them, when they became swept up in the religious cult of Queen Antoinettte. Authorities say cult members starved the 1-year-old because he did not say "Amen" after meals... His body was packed in a suitcase and taken to Philadelphia, where it was abandoned in a storage room." Read article... Comments (26) Amelia Found, Scientists Vindicated Discovery Channel | Submitted by: lord redpubes "A number of artifacts recovered by TIGHAR would suggest that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, made a forced landing on the island's smooth, flat coral reef... According to Gillespie, who is set to embark on a new $500,000 Nikumaroro expedition next summer, the two became castaways and eventually died there... The reason why they found a partial skeleton is that many of the bones had been carried off by giant coconut crabs. There is a remote chance that some of the bones might still survive deep in crab burrows." Read article... Comments (27) Mashed Potatoes Salted With Cremains The Spec | Submitted by: Weiner "All she wanted was to wear her mother's ashes in a small, heart-shaped gold locket. Instead, she has been plunged into a nightmare that has included accidentally consuming some of her mother's remains when they fell into her mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner due to what she says was a leaky locket... The Casket Store has offered to reseal the lockets for free, after the dinner mishap and a subsequent unsuccessful effort to prevent the lockets from leaking." Read article... and This article... Comments (22) Woman In A Bag Washes Out nineMSN | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "He said he first noticed a foul smell and dozens of blowflies around the "soft nylon bag" which "looked like the shape of a body... I got a stick and tried looking through a cricket ball-sized hole in the side of the bag but I couldn't see anything... I thought I saw a piece of bone -- it's difficult to be clear about what I did see -- and I saw the band of a wrist watch, an old stainless band of a watch." Read article... Comments (11) Corpse Sequestered On Substation Roof Herald Sun | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "The corpse of a man has been found on the roof of a police station in northern India where it was placed over two years ago during an inquiry, a report said today... "I admit it is a horrible case, possibly the first of its kind... I joined here only recently and didn't know that the corpse was kept on the roof.'' Read article... Comments (10) Self-Made Laureates Denied Pot Profits NBC-2 | Submitted by: lord redpubes "It was apparently a family operation involving a father, mother, and two sons. And now it appears that the profits may have paid for the kids' education... Now officers from the mountain and valley marijuana investigation team or "MAVMIT" are pulling out the plants... Surprisingly the twin brothers are Davis graduates majoring in biology and biochemistry." Read article... Comments (16) Retentive Mule Breaks Hunger Strike BBC | Submitted by: Keya23 "He was taken to Pembroke Dock police station, where he refused food or drink in his cell... An officer was stationed full time outside his cell door and powers used to extend his detention... Ankrah eventually began to accept drinks after local magistrates granted police more time to detain him and on 17 July he started to eat again. On 29 July he went to the toilet and produced five bags of heroin." Read article... Comments (13) Tipplers Given A Wee Shock Metro | Submitted by: PiddlyPubes "The shopkeeper is taking a slash and burn approach to the anti-social behaviour by wiring up an electric current on the pavement outside his music shop in Co Clare... The wires spread across the pavement immediately in front of his shop and will give anyone who comes near it an electric jolt... "The wires are on the ground where I'm greeted every Monday morning with pools of their urine, mounds of their faeces." Read article... Comments (19) Rogue Geneticists Patent Cancer Genes H+ Magazine | Submitted by: anonymous "The ACLU just joined 20 plaintiffs fighting to invalidate an exclusive patent on the genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer. The patent has given Myriad Genetics exclusive rights to diagnostic tests -- which they sell for over $3,000 -- plus control over the rights to even conduct experiments on these genes... "Gene patents undermine the free exchange of information and scientific freedom," argues the ACLU, saying the patents also compromise the integrity of our bodies and eventually our health. Ultimately this case could answer the question of whether it's legal to patent a gene." Read article... Comments (14) Brakes Put On Bunny-Tossing Contest Metro | Submitted by: LepusPubes "A contest that involves children seeing how far they can throw dead rabbits has been banned in New Zealand following outcry from animal welfare campaigners... The annual 'rabbit throw' in the South Island town of Waiau has been a tradition for years but officials have had to cancel the event following complaints from the SPCA." Read article... Comments (24) Prez Karzai's Brother Subcontracts To CIA New York Times | Submitted by: heywood jabroni "The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force, known as the Kandahar Strike Force, that operates at the CIA's direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai's home... These military and political officials say the evidence, though largely circumstantial, suggests strongly that Mr. Karzai has enriched himself by helping the illegal trade in poppy and opium to flourish." Read article... and This article... Comments (17) Basement Flooded With Poop WPIX | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "The mother noticed brown water bubbling up from her basement toilet and shower Saturday afternoon. Not knowing it was raw sewage, her children started a bucket brigade and began taking the filthy water up the stairs and emptying it outside... "They told me, Miss it's not your sewer line, it's coming in from the street..." Since the problem wasn't with her septic system, Byagari's homeowners insurance won't pay. She contacted Nassau County officials, but was only told to file a notice of claim." Read article... Comments (15) Bay Bridge Disintegrates Gracefully San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: eyy doccom! "Three pieces of an emergency repair to the Bay Bridge's cantilever section made over Labor Day weekend snapped and crashed onto the upper deck of the span late Tuesday afternoon, striking three vehicles and forcing the indefinite closure of the region's busiest bridge... The area of the bridge where the pieces broke off was where, over Labor Day weekend, crews found a critical flaw on a steel structural beam, called an eyebar, helping to hold up the eastern span." Read article... Comments (11) The Biter Bit In Two Daily Mail | Submitted by: Pubes..dum..dum..dum.. "A 'monster' great white shark measuring up to 20 ft long is on the prowl off a popular Queensland beach... Swimmers were warned to stay out of the water off Stradbroke Island after the shark mauled another smaller great white which had been hooked on a baited drum line. The 10-foot great white was almost bitten in half." [Photo] Read article... Comments (254) Tuesday October 27, 2009 Online Price War Threatens Book Industry Dallas Morning News | Submitted by: lieutenant sharpless "In a letter sent to the antitrust division of the Department of Justice Thursday, the board of directors of the American Booksellers Association requested that the government begin an investigation into what the organization believes is the illegal predatory pricing policies being carried out by Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target in selling 10 hardcover titles for as low as $8.98. The ABA requested a meeting with officials as soon as possible, arguing that left unchecked, the predatory pricing policies "will devastate not only the book industry, but our collective ability to remain a society where the widest range of ideas are always made available to the public." Read article... and This article... Comments (34) French Court Convicts Scientology Of Fraud New York Times | Submitted by: ham bone "The French branch of the Church of Scientology was convicted of fraud and fined nearly $900,000 on Tuesday by a Paris court... It was the first time here that the church itself had been tried and convicted, as opposed to individual members... The case was brought by two former members who said they were pushed into paying large sums of money in the 1990s, pressed to sign up for expensive "purification courses." Read article... Comments (24) Schwarzenegger To Senate: Fuck You SF Bay Guardian | Submitted by: and you and you and you "It was hardly a bill of cosmic import, but Assemblymember Tom Ammiano's AB 1176 would have helped the Port of San Francisco with some financing issues. It's the kind of bill that legislators offer on behalf of their cities all the time -- and generally, they are non-controversial. This one was the same -- no substantive opposition, it passed both houses easily -- and normally, the governor would sign it with little fanfare. But no: Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill -- and sent Ammiano and the legislators a remarkable veto letter." Read article... Comments (26) Monaco Spymaster Turns On Grimaldis Times of London | Submitted by: dr. sputnik "Eringer paints an unflattering portrait of a feckless, indecisive prince who quickly tired of intelligence briefings in favour of go-karting and "gallivanting about"... As for Operation Hound Dog, it led to Paris, where an American entrepreneur friend of Pirnce Albert was said to be boasting about a video he had taken of Albert at his 40th birthday party. Eringer said that it showed a woman performing a "sex act" on the prince." Read article... Comments (17) Identical-Twin Burglars In Hardcore Caper Details | Submitted by: teggyname "In the next two years, the twins shot five scenes for BlackMen.net, some of which involved acts that were just shy of incest, including a threesome at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas... It was enough of a big deal that, back home, Taleon started being recognized at his kung fu–movie stand. "I've got to find another way to make money," he told Keyon. In late 2006, police say, the rooftop burglaries began." Read article... Comments (7) Trainees Hazed With Red Rocket Culpepper Star Exponent | Submitted by: lord redpubes "Five Virginia Department of Corrections officers have been charged with animal cruelty involving the fondling of a K-9 dog and videotaping the two incidents... "I would characterize it as hazing," the defense attorney said, claiming that Thompson was told by the others, "If you masturbate your K-9 unit, you’ll have greater control over it." Read article... Comments (14) Onlookers Idly Document Gang Rape ABC News | Submitted by: anonymous "Police in Richmond, Calif., believe that as many as 20 people may have either watched or participated in a vicious rape of the Richmond High School teenager that lasted for more than two hours in a dimly lit corner of the sprawling campus... Police were called only after someone who was not at the scene heard people talking about the attack, which was still going on." Read article... Comments (26) Concerned Parents Lynch Bibliophile BBC | Submitted by: davedou "A mob of parents have killed a book salesman and badly injured four of his colleagues after rumours spread that the men were a human smuggling ring... Boys, particularly toddlers, can fetch 30,000 yuan ($6,100) on the black market. Girls fetch much less, around the equivalent of $500, according to media reports. Child trafficking is seen as a growing problem in China, despite government attempts to crack down on it." Read article... Comments (8) Revenant Barrel Dumped In Creek nineMSN | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "The black plastic barrel was among debris pulled out of the creek in a clean-up last Saturday and had been taken to a factory at nearby Merola Way. Workers at the factory opened the barrel on Tuesday after noticing a foul smell coming from it... When the workers opened the barrel, they were shocked when they discovered the body." Read article... Comments (10) Shoplifter Defends Take With Boxcutter South Town Star | Submitted by: FRAUDZILLA "Officers found a security guard outside the store holding his right hand, which was dripping with blood, according to the lieutenant... The guard told police that a 44-year-old man had cut him with a box-cutter during an argument that ensued when the man was trying to leave the store without paying for two packages of Theraflu, police said." Read article... Comments (10) Windshield Eats Unsuspecting Bystander Daily Mail | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III "Swiridowsky drove into the group of three men standing on the side of a motorway in Providence, Rhode Island... One of the men became trapped in his windshield. But, astonishingly, Swiridowsky drove on, only stopping because he realised someone was following him... The victim survived -- but suffered two broken legs and a broken arm." Read article... Comments (9) Speeding Honda Eats Coyote Daily Mail | Submitted by: teggyname "When a brother and sister struck a coyote at 75 MPH, they assumed they had killed the animal and drove on. They didn't realise this was the toughest creature ever to survive a hit-and-run. Eight hours, two fuel stops, and 600 miles later they found the wild animal embedded in their front fender -- and very much alive..." [With pictures] Read article... Comments (14) US Spies Scrutinized Neutral Ireland Irish Emigrant | Submitted by: do you like our owl? "Due to the strategic military and political consequences of an Ireland in bed with the Germans -- the US at the time was still heavily Irish American -- Roosevelt decided that is was of the utmost importance to either confirm or otherwise contradict De Valera’s sworn neutrality... Roosevelt decided to send a trio of spies to Ireland to investigate. Two were quickly uncovered by the Irish government but the third, Major Martin S. Quigley, retained his cover and spent most of 1943 traveling the country in search of information." Read article... Comments (11) Dogs Doused With Puppy Solvent KERO 23 Bakersfield | Submitted by: gargoyle1 "Dog rescuers said the dogs had their ears cut off with box cutters or scissors and their backs doused with acid. The puppies were then left for dead in east Bakersfield... "There's a possibility these dogs were too sweet to fight so they burned them to try and make them mean, and they found them useless so they dumped them." Read article... Comments (23) Poo-Flinging Defendant Sentenced 10News | Submitted by: Turtlemeat Stealssouls "An ex-con who rubbed his own feces on the head and face of his attorney, then flung the fecal matter at jurors at his robbery trial was sentenced Monday to 31 years and four months in state prison... The replacement defense attorney said McGowan's medications were messed up when he was about to go to trial. When medicated properly, the defendant does "relatively OK," Cline said." Read article... Comments (14) Unruly Children Face The Discipline Needle Herald Sun | Submitted by: JabbyPubes "A 24-year-old female kindergarten teacher has been detained in south-west China after allegedly stabbing more than 20 children with a syringe to discipline them... The Global Times reported that Sun had confessed, saying she had pricked the children to "tame" them and that she was overwhelmed by the 37 three- and four-year-olds in her charge." Read article... Comments (141) Daily Rotten Archives..