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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. Articles
Doctor ?Butcher of Bega? linked to 15 deaths
2008-05-04 03:40:00 AT least eight babies and seven women died in suspicious circumstances under the care of disgraced ex-doctor Graeme Reeves, it has emerged. The claims were made at a secret meeting attended by relatives of the alleged victims at a Sydney hotel last Wednesday. The Nine Network’s Sunday program will today report on the link between Reeves ... More About: Deaths , Doctor , Bega
Rioting inmates decapitate prison boss
2008-05-03 03:02:00 ANGRY Guatemalan prisoners decapitated a senior prison official during a riot, emergency officials said today. Jorge Augusto Mendoza, deputy director of the prison, was beheaded in the riot in Chimaltenango prison last night, said Mario Cruz, an emergency services spokesman. The dead man’s body was also missing an arm, Mr Cruz said. “The deputy director was killed ... More About: Boss , Prison
Death-row prisoners in rodeos
2008-05-03 03:02:00 INMATES at a US prison are taking part in violent rodeos to let off steam and win money. Angola Prison, in Louisiana, lets its prisoners be trampled and gored before a crowd of thousands at its biannual rodeo in a bid to help them momentarily forget about the lethal injection, or life behind bars, the Daily ... More About: Death , Prisoners
Severed finger regrown with ?pixie dust?
2008-05-02 12:49:00 SCIENTISTS are claiming an amazing breakthrough - regrowing a man’s severed finger with the aid of an experimental powder. Four weeks after Lee Spievack sliced more than 1cm off the top of one of his fingers, he said it had grown back to its original length. Four months later it looked like any other finger, complete with ... More About: Finger
Fritzl children growl and coo to ?speak? to each other
2008-05-02 12:48:00 THE children cut off from the outside world from birth by their father developed an animal-like language of their own, growling and cooing as their mother tried to give them a “normal” upbringing. A picture is emerging of day-to-day life in the Austrian cellar. It showed the remarkable protective efforts Elisabeth Fritzl went to in raising the ... More About: Children , Bad News , Vienna , Speak
Obese inmate sues jail over weight loss
2008-05-01 00:46:00 AN obese inmate awaiting trial for murder is suing authorities after he lost more than 45kg because of prison food. US man Broderick Lloyd Laswell has filed a federal lawsuit which says Benton County Jail in Arkansas doesn’t give its inmates enough food after complaining he was down to 140kg after eight months inside. He is accused, ... More About: Weight Loss , Weight , Loss , Obese
Woman raped, saw son die - then jailed
2008-05-01 00:37:00 A WOMAN who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched. He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. She had put up with her mistreatment for three months ... More About: Woman
Big Brother?s Midget Rima in porn shock
2008-04-30 01:35:00 BIG Brother has only been back on the box for less than 24 hours in Australia and already scandal has erupted, with nude shots of diminutive diva Rima already doing the rounds. The sexually provocative snaps of the 1m-tall professional belly dancer from Melbourne carry the logo of a website that encourages women of all ... More About: Big Brother , Shock
Jimi Hendrix pops up in sex video
2008-04-30 01:30:00 A US pornography company said it is releasing a 40-year-old amateur sex video allegedly starring legendary musician Jimi Hendrix and two women. “Jimi Hendrix, the iconic rock-n-roll guitarist, will be seen in a new role - as an adult film star - in Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape,” said Vivid Entertainment, the world’s biggest producer ... More About: Video
Scientists post live webcam of giant squid
2008-04-29 01:51:00 FOR those of you who have trouble defrosting a steak in the microwave, spare a thought for New Zealand scientists tasked with thawing out a 500kg squid. The massive colossal squid - the largest ever found - has been creating a headache for researchers trying to extract it from a giant block of ice. The creature was ... More About: Post , Live , Webcam , Giant , Scientists
Schoolboy, 12, bombarded with porn videos via mobile phone
2008-04-29 01:48:00 CHILDREN are viewing graphic pornography, including acts of bestiality, on their mobile phones and parents appear powerless to stop them without banning their phones completely. A concerned southern Tasmanian grandmother has contacted The Mercury after her 12-year-old grandson received pornographic videos from a high school student. The primary school student was sent more than 30 explicit videos ... More About: Videos , Mobile , Phone , Mobile Phone
Elisabeth Fritzl kept captive 24 years by dad, has seven children
2008-04-28 01:43:00 A 73-year-old man is accused of locking his daughter in a windowless cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her. Three of the children were locked up with their mother since birth and had never seen sunlight or received any education, police said. The father entered the basement prison through a small hidden door, operated by ... More About: Children , Years , Elisabeth
Grand Theft Auto IV leaked online
2008-04-28 01:43:00 GRAND Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) has already been leaked online before the official release later this week. Pirate copies of the game have spread on file-sharing network BitTorrent after the first file was uploaded last week, according to gaming blog Kotaku. The original 6.32GB file is accompanied by a document claiming that the contents are ... More About: Online , Grand , Grand Theft Auto
Nine hacked to death in jail machete riots
2008-04-27 04:14:00 NINE prisoners were killed with machetes and knives today during a riot in an overcrowded prison in northern Honduras, the Government said. “Nine prisoners, eight from gangs, died after a fight … in the San Pedro Sula penitentiary,” said Security Ministry spokesman Hector Mejia. TV images showed blood-stained corridors in the jail in Honduras’ second city following ... More About: Death , Hacked , Jail , Machete , Riots
Operator, there?s an alligator in my kitchen
2008-04-27 04:06:00 A WOMAN who was confronted by a huge alligator that had wandered into her kitchen had trouble convincing emergency services it wasn’t an iguana. US woman Sandra Frosti called 911 after finding the 2.4m alligator in the kitchen of her Florida home after investigating the source of some strange noises. ?I heard a noise from the kitchen ... More About: Kitchen , Humorous , Operator , Alligator
Zoo plea after hoax: Stop calling our animals
2008-04-26 03:23:00 DUBLIN Zoo has appealed to the public not to be taken in by hoax text messages that have led to its switchboard being jammed by an estimated 100,000 calls in two weeks. People are receiving text messages to their mobile phones asking them to ring the zoo’s phone number for an “urgent message”. The texts are signed ... More About: Animals , Stop , Calling , Hoax
Children recruited as suicide bombers
2008-04-26 03:21:00 IRAQI children are being recruited as suicide bombers by various militias and insurgent groups, a UN official said today after a fact-finding visit to the country. “Since 2004, an increasing number of children have been recruited into various militias and insurgent groups, including as suicide bombers,” Radhika Coomaraswamy told a news conference in the Jordanian capital ... More About: Children , Bad News , Suicide
Amanda Brooks publishes Internet Escort?s Handbook
2008-04-25 14:07:00 When most schoolgirls were playing with their Barbie dolls, Amanda Brooks was dreaming of growing up to be a prostitute. “When I was in fourth grade, it sounded like a good idea for me. To me it sounded like a really interesting way to make a living and not having to follow other peoples’ ... More About: Internet , Handbook
Artist Gregor Schneider wants volunteer to die as artwork
2008-04-24 02:14:00 PRIZE-winning German artist Gregor Schneider has caused an uproar by launching a search for a volunteer willing to die for art. The enfant terrible of the German cultural scene is looking for someone whose dying hours will be spent in an art gallery with the public admiring the way the light plays on the flesh of a ... More About: Artwork , Artist , Volunteer
Bin-bag Darth Vader strikes Jedi
2008-04-24 02:09:00 A DRUNK man wearing a bin-liner and a cape attacked the founder of a Jedi church while shouting “Darth Vader ”, a court has heard. Arwel Wynne Hughes, a 27-year-old from Anglesey in England?s west, admitted to committing two counts of common assault after drunkenly attacking two men with a metal crutch, the BBC reported. The court was ...
Teenager Sarah Walker takes own life after bullying
2008-04-23 02:21:00 The coroner will investigate the death of a Melbourne teenager who took her life after claiming she was bullied. Sarah Jean Walker , 17, died in her family’s western suburbs home earlier this month. It is believed the VCE student was involved in a spat with another teenager about a fortnight before she died on April 7. Sources said ... More About: Life , Bullying , Teenager
The world?s first YouTube divorce writ
2008-04-23 02:18:00 A Woman has delivered the world’s first YouTube divorce writ to millions of people, tearfully ranting about her sexless marriage to a man 24 years her senior. The video, by New York’s sometime actor and playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith, 52, has attracted 2.9 million viewers and offers to appear on US TV shows such as Today and ... More About: Divorce , Youtube , World , Humorous , The World
Priest floats off under party balloons
2008-04-22 02:26:00 A Catholic priest who floated away under hundreds of helium balloons in a bid to raise money for his parish is missing off Brazil. Only pieces of the party balloons have been found by searchers looking for Reverend Adelir Antonio de Carli off the coast of Santa Catarina state, the Associated Press reported. Mr de Carli, 41, ... More About: Party , Balloons , Priest
Psychics see big trouble over new laws
2008-04-21 02:25:00 Fortune-tellers, mediums and spiritual healers marched on the home of the British prime minister at Downing Street on Friday to protest against new laws they fear will lead to them being “persecuted and prosecuted”.Organizers say that replacing the Fraudulent Mediums Act of 1951 with new consumer protection rules will remove key legal protection for “genuine” ... More About: Laws , Psychics
Military issues al-Qaeda warning
2008-04-21 02:23:00 A GROUP of al-Qaeda bombers have slipped into Baghdad to carry out a wave of car bombs and suicide attacks, the US military said. The unusual warning came after a spate of deadly bombings this week struck areas in northern Iraq, where al-Qaeda Sunni Arab militants are known to be active. “Information collected by coalition forces states ... More About: Military , Issues , Al Qaeda , Warning , Al-Qaeda
Fat corpses endangering morgue staff
2008-04-19 03:28:00 PATHOLOGISTS say that almost 30 per cent of the bodies they perform autopsies on are now obese, placing the industry under heavy strain. South Australian forensic pathologist Prof Roger Byard said mortuary staff risked serious back injury trying to manoeuvre large bodies. Dissections were difficult due to layers of fat and were sometimes not possible on standard ... More About: Staff
F-111 almost downed - by a pelican
2008-04-19 03:21:00 An F-111 was left “shredded” and incapacitated and was forced to make a spectacular emergency landing after hitting a pelican. The jet was flying at 900m on a test bombing raid at Evans Head, northern NSW, when a pelican struck the fibreglass nose and was sucked into an engine. The two RAAF crew are being hailed as ... More About: Pelican
Putin to wed young nude model gymnast
2008-04-18 02:35:00 Russia’s outgoing President Vladimir Putin is reportedly planning to leave his wife of 25 years for a former Olympic gymnast and nude model half his age. The 56-year-old President secretly divorced his 50-year-old wife Ludmilla two months ago so he would be free to marry gold medal-winning rythmic gymnast and one-time nude model Alina Kabaeva, 24, ... More About: Model , Young , Gymnast
Digging gets man in deep financial hole
2008-04-17 02:38:00 A Retired engineer who spent four decades digging tunnels underneath his house has been ordered to pay more than $600,000 for structural repairs to the property. UK man William Lyttle, who has become known as ?mole man?, excavated a series of tunnels underneath his 20 bedroom house in east London and parked cars, boats and ... More About: Financial , Deep , Hole
Toddler beheaded with rusty chicken knife
More articles from this author:2008-04-17 02:36:00 Toddler Joedan Andrews died when a wild car ride went wrong and he was then beheaded with a chicken knife and buried in the bush, an inquest heard yesterday. Six years after the boy vanished from an isolated community near Mildura, a witness gave evidence that after the car smashed into a tree Joedan’s stepfather and ... More About: Chicken , Knife , Toddler 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
