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Bad News Day - Bad News BlogBad News Day - Bad News BlogA daily news bit for the morbidly inclined. Featuring 'bad news' and the humorously ironic. 
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Crocodile vs Shark
2008-05-24 02:28:00 THERE’S no need to be scared of sharks when you’re in the Northern Territory - the crocs usually get to them first. Paul van Bruggen snapped these amazing pictures of a 2.5m saltie dining out on a shark on the banks of the Daly River, The Northern Territory News reports. “We went past one section of the ... More About: Shark
President threatens to behead gays
2008-05-23 01:53:00 ECCENTRIC Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has threatened to behead gays unless they leave the country, according to reports. “The Gambia is a country of believers … sinful and immoral practices (such) as homosexuality will not be tolerated in this country,” the president told a crowd at a political rally on May 15, local journalists said today. He ... More About: Bad News , Humorous , Gays
Teen girl dies fleeing ?happy slap? gang
2008-05-23 01:51:00 A VICAR’S daughter plunged from an attic window to her death while trying to escape a “happy slap” girl gang in London. ?Happy slapping? is a craze involving an often violent attack on an unsuspecting person and usually filmed. According to The Sun, police believed Rosimeiri ?Rosi? Boxall, 19, was held captive by the gang and tortured ... More About: Girl , Gang , Dies
Boasting dummy posts crimes on YouTube
2008-05-22 02:06:00 A BRITISH man has been branded Leeds’ “dumbest criminal” after he posted more than 80 videos of himself committing various crimes on YouTube. Andrew Kellett, 23, was banned from boasting about his criminal activities on the internet after posting videos of himself and others taking class A drugs, racing cars at high speeds and trespassing and ... More About: Youtube , Crimes , Posts , Dummy
Pilot?s prayers answered by Jesus sign
2008-05-22 02:04:00 TWO men prayed for divine intervention when their microlight ran out of fuel mid-flight and received it when they landed safely next to a “Jesus is Lord” sign. New Zealand Pilot Owen Wilson told his passenger Grant Stubbs, a petrol station owner, to pray as they desperately tried to find a place to land, the Marlborough ... More About: Prayers , Sign
Boys confess to killing 2 year old girl
2008-05-21 02:00:00 A TODDLER has been found hanging from a wall with wire around her neck after a brutal killing by boys aged just seven and nine. The murder of the two-year-old girl by youngsters from the same impoverished quarter of Buenos Aires has sent shockwaves across Argentina. Jaquelin Milagros was found dead on Monday, just a few hundred metres from her home. An autopsy ... More About: Girl , Boys , Year , Killing
Miraculous survival from speedboat crash - must see pic
2008-05-21 01:56:00 THESE are the dramatic images showing a professional speedboat racer’s brush with death. Remarkably, this speedboat fanatic will walk again after flying out of his boat and then being hit by another. Windy conditions caused this speedboat to flip during a Budweiser Drag Boat Nationals race on Sunday, but ace driver Joe Peroceschi survived. Peroceschi, of Muskego, Wisconsin, ... More About: Crash , Survival
Pub urinal computer games launched
2008-05-20 01:30:00 TWO Belgian beer fans have launched a video game named Place to Pee, which allows players to fly down ski slopes or kill aliens while relieving themselves at urinals. Werner Dupont, a software developer and Bart Geraets, an electrical engineer, got the idea while drinking beers. The Place to Pee’ booth is designed for two users at ... More About: Games , Computer , Humorous , Computer Games , Launched
Angelina Jolie in Drug Den Video
2008-05-20 01:23:00 ANGELINA JOLIE hangs out at a drugs den ? in a grainy video of the Hollywood babe before she spectacularly turned her life around. The Tomb Raider beauty is seen wide-eyed and babbling in the seedy amateur footage ? as a woman next to her casually smokes heroin. Angelina, now 32, pregnant and a model mum of ... More About: Video , Angelina Jolie , Bad News , Jolie , Drug
Rubbish-bag Darth Vader evades capture
2008-05-19 01:40:00 A RUBBISH bag-clad Darth Vader has escaped a jail term for bashing a group of Welsh “Jedi Knights”. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, donned a cape made from a black rubbish bag and bashed Jedi church founder Barney Jones - aka Master Jonba Hehol - with a metal crutch, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates Court . He also hit ... More About: Capture , Rubbish
Man charged with infecting partner with AIDS
2008-05-19 01:37:00 A FATHER-of-three will be prosecuted for infecting his former partner of more than 10 years with HIV. Brian James Montgomery, 37, has been charged with maliciously causing his former partner to contract a grievous bodily disease sometime between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 2003. When the couple embarked on a sexual relationship, the woman, then aged ... More About: Partner , Aids
Dungeon family harassed by paparazzi
2008-05-17 23:23:00 A Photographer was caught trying to scale a wall up to the psychiatric ward in Austria where a woman has been recovering from an ordeal as a captive, press reports said today. The Austrian daily newspaper Oesterreich quoted the victim’s lawyer as saying the man on Thursday tried to reach the balcony of the ward where ... More About: Family , Paparazzi
9 year old girl in martial arts fight - is this wrong?
2008-05-17 23:18:00 What is your reaction after seeing this? Thanks to MMA Fight Video Share This More About: Martial Arts , Bad News , Arts , Humorous
Boys record rape on 10 year old girl
2008-05-17 05:51:00 TWO boys have been charged in France for the rape of a 10-year-old girl that they recorded on mobile phone video and showed to friends at their Paris area school, a judicial source says. The rape occurred after one of the boys, aged 11, had watched a pornographic film with his 12-year-old friend and his sister, ... More About: Girl , Record , Rape , Boys , Year
Woman stabs lover in sex game
2008-05-17 05:49:00 A CANADIAN woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing her boyfriend, nearly killing him, in a botched sex game in which he asked her to carve a heart-shaped symbol on his chest. Catherine McCoubrey, 25, was sentenced to three years’ probation for the February 2007 assault, said the daily Winnipeg Free Press. The couple had been drinking alcohol ... More About: Lover , Game , Woman
MySpace spammers ordered to pay $247m
2008-05-15 01:56:00 A JUDGE has ordered a pair of accused spammers to pay MySpace about $US230 million ($247m) in what could be a record-setting punishment for such internet abuses. US federal district court judge Audrey Collins issued a judgment against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines this week after they didn’t show up in her California courtroom for a ... More About: Myspace , Spammers
Hookers and Xbox on dad?s credit card
2008-05-15 01:55:00 A 13-year-old boy from Texas who stole his father’s credit card and hired two prostitutes has been convicted of fraud. Ralph Hardy confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his dad’s existing credit card company and taking his pals on a US$30,000 spending spree after which they ended up playing Halo on an Xbox with the hookers ... More About: Card , Credit , Credit Card , Hookers
Woman mistakes naked thief for hubby
2008-05-14 02:05:00 A WOMAN woke up to a real-life nightmare when she discovered the naked man who slipped into her bed in the middle of the night was a thief, not her husband. The 36-year-old Malaysian woman was asleep when the thief, noticing that her husband was fast asleep on the couch, quietly stripped off and lay down ... More About: Woman , Thief
Murderer goes for gun in court
2008-05-14 02:01:00 A MAN attacked a sheriff’s deputy and tried to grab his gun from its holster just seconds after he was found guilty in court of murdering his wife and child. Michael Fisher, 43, of Batle Creek in Michigan, was sitting quietly, listening to the judge read out a verdict in the double murder case when ... More About: Court , Murderer
10,000 killed in China earthquake
2008-05-13 01:48:00 THE most devastating earthquake to hit China in more than three decades has killed close to 10,000 people, with the death toll almost certain to rise. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao this morning said the situation in southwest China was “worse than we previously estimated and we need more people here to help”. The quake, with a magnitude ... More About: Earthquake , Killed
Elisabeth Fritzl: I can?t believe I?m free
2008-05-12 18:03:00 THE woman kept as a sex slave in a dungeon for 24 years broke down in tears when she was reunited with her mother and children, saying she could not believe she was finally free. Elisabeth Fritzl wept as she told her family she feared she would never see them again - and that she hoped ... More About: Free , Bad News
Public garden trashed after Facebook party
2008-05-10 03:19:00 A MASS water fight organised on Facebook led to an award-winning garden being trashed. Leeds City Council in Britain says about 350 people armed with water pistols and buckets destroyed the city’s Millennium Square garden, causing thousands of dollars of damage. Footage of the holiday rampage taken by participants was posted on the YouTube video website set ... More About: Party , Garden , Public , Humorous
I?m no monster, says Josef Fritzl
2008-05-10 02:53:00 THE man accused of imprisoning his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years said he was “no monster” because he saved the life of one of his children. Mr Fritzl claimed credit for saving the life of his eldest daughter but added that he could have killed his daughter and all the children. “I’m no monster,” Joself ... More About: Monster
Josef Fritzl may have raped granddaughter
2008-05-08 18:09:00 AUSTRIA’S dungeon dad Josef Fritzl may have raped his own granddaughter after keeping his daughter as a sex slave for decades, police have said. Mr Fritzl has admitted keeping his daughter Elisabeth in the soundproof, windowless basement for 24 years, repeatedly raping her and fathering children by her. Police now fear that as Elisabeth aged prematurely as ...
Extreme perversions made prostitutes refuse Fritzl
2008-05-08 02:37:00 A BARMAN at a brothel frequented by Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter in a dungeon under his house, has told how some of the prostitutes were so frightened by his perversions that they refused to accept him as a client. He listed various extreme demands made by the retired electrical engineer, who ... More About: Extreme , Made
Prison Escape just not bear-able
2008-05-07 01:39:00 The way the warden sees it, a more than 180kg black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security. “I love that bear being right where it is,” Warden Burl Cain said. “I tell you what, none of our inmates are going to try to get out after ... More About: Prison , Escape , Bear
Terrified shoppers run for their lives in Chelsea gun drama
2008-05-07 01:36:00 A GUNMAN is dead after police stormed a house to end a siege which began with a terrifying exchange of fire in an exclusive London suburb. Armed police returned fire at the gunman this morning (AEST), forcing hundreds of panicked shoppers and residents in high-class Chelsea to flee. The man then entered a house in Markham Square, close to the popular shopping ... More About: Drama , Lives , Shoppers
Josef Fritzl forced daughter to dig own prison
2008-05-06 02:07:00 ELISABETH Fritzl was forced to help build the dungeon where she was kept by her sadistic father Josef, it emerged yesterday. She told police that Mr Fritzl forced her to help drag a 270kg concrete and steel door into position to seal the dungeon. It was only when it was in place that she discovered she ... More About: Forced , Prison , Daughter
Josef Fritzl, Austria?s dungeon dad, could plead insanity
2008-05-05 02:10:00 Josef Fritzl, the Austria n who has admitted imprisoning his daughter and fathering children by her, may seek to avoid jail by pleading insanity, his lawyer has said. Mr Fritzl locked his daughter, Elizabeth, in a soundproof, windowless dungeon in his basement for nearly a quarter century where he fathered seven children by her, one of whom ... More About: Insanity
Big Brother?s Rima breaks her leg - Video
More articles from this author:2008-05-04 03:48:00 Little Rima, a professional belly dancer, fell during a challenge involving a tilting platform which housemates had to try and stop falling off to win the round. After treating her at the scene, medics took her to hospital, where X-rays revealed she had a broken leg. In a statement released by the program, Rima said: “I’ve broken ... More About: Video , Big Brother , Brother , Breaks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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