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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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Coffin Cam - Pay-per-view funerals go online
2008-04-02 02:36:00 PAY-per-view funerals go live online in Britain today, allowing mourners who cannot attend services in person to pay their last respects via the internet. Despite criticism of the scheme as macabre, the company who launched the service, Wesley Music, is planning to offer it to crematoria across the country who will charge a one-off payment of ... More About: Online , View , Coffin , Pay Per View
Thomas Beatie - From burly woman to heavily pregnant man
2008-04-02 02:33:00 These are the amazing before and after photographs of “pregnant man” Thomas Beatie. They show the 34-year-old and his “wife” Nancy posing for gay magazine Odyssey in skimpy bikinis before his sex-change operation and, now, about five months pregnant. The latest image surfaced as the Hawaiian native insisted his pregnancy was real and claimed he is “perfectly ... More About: Pregnant , Woman
Kids? show puppet stabs Bush to death
2008-04-01 03:05:00 A CHILDREN’S program made by Hamas TV in Gaza shows a puppet stabbing US President George W. Bush to death in revenge for killing his family. The puppet represents a Palestinian child. In the episode aired on Sunday, the child-puppet is shown confronting a George Bush puppet and accusing him of killing his father in Iraq, his ... More About: Kids , Show , Death , Puppet
Little Old Lady Killer jailed for 759 years
2008-04-01 03:00:00 Mexico’s “Little Old Lady Killer ,” a female ex-wrestler who strangled and beat to death 11 elderly women in their homes after offering them domestic help, has been sentenced to life in prison. Juana Barraza, dubbed Mataviejitas in Spanish, murdered at least 11 people in the capital since 2000 and may have killed close to 40 in ... More About: Years
F1 boss Max Mosley allegedly caught in Nazi sex video
2008-03-31 09:59:00 THE president of the body governing world motor racing - the son of a notorious wartime fascist - has allegedly been caught on video cavorting with prostitutes in a Nazi role-play sex game. Max Mosley - the son of British Union of Fascists party founder Oswald Mosley - was reported by the News of the World ... More About: Video , Humorous , Boss , Caught
Families angry over sealers? deaths
2008-03-31 09:57:00 THE families of four Canadian seal hunters who drowned when their trawler flipped while being towed say the coast guard killed them. Two crewmen from L?Acadien II were pulled from the icy waters of the Gulf of St Lawrence by another sealing boat after the accident on Saturday, but captain Bruno Bourque and crewmen Gilles Leblanc ... More About: Bad News , Deaths , Angry , Families
Vicar offers stress relief in grave
2008-03-30 00:49:00 A VICAR in Germany who had the novel idea of helping parishioners escape the stresses and strains of daily life by letting them lie in an open grave was upset when intrusive journalists spoiled the atmosphere. “I meant it as a meditative exercise,” pastor Thorsten Nolting said. “I wanted people to think about what weighs on them ... More About: Offers , Stress , Grave , Relief
Court issues arrest warrant for ?God?
2008-03-30 00:21:00 A MAGISTRATE today issued an arrest warrant for a man who failed to turn up to court because he is “God” and above the law. Richard James Howarth was remanded to appear in the Ipswich Magistrate’s Court to answer a string of traffic offences, including four counts of driving with a blood alcohol content more than ... More About: Arrest , Issues
Plane hits dog, skids off runway
2008-03-29 03:44:00 AN Indian commercial plane taxiing for takeoff in Bangalore skidded off the runway after hitting a dog which strayed into its path. None of the passengers or crew on the Kingfisher Airlines flight IT 2427 to the neighbouring southern city of Hyderabad were hurt and they were immediately evacuated, airline spokeswoman Beena Omprakash said. “The plane was ... More About: Runway , Plane , Hits
Michael Tait allegedly said woman with tumors was ?hypochondriac?
2008-03-29 03:42:00 CONTROVERSIAL GP Michael Tait is under investigation over allegations he diagnosed a woman as a hypochondriac even though she was keter found to be riddled with tumours, and tried to put her on a $2000-a-month anti-ageing therapy. For 15 months, Elizabeth Orchard consulted the New Zealand and British-trained GP - now facing deregistration over his unconventional ... More About: Woman
Katie Holmes collapses amid health fears
2008-03-28 00:05:00 Katie Holmes isn’t herself lately. She’s been spotted out in publicly looking down, pale, slimmer than Posh, and noticeably without baby Suri. According to the US’s Star Magazine, reports are that Katie is starting to “crack” under the strain of being with Tom. Sources say that she’s been having frequent dizzy spells and such strong headaches ... More About: Health , Fears
Woman forced to remove nipple ring
2008-03-28 00:00:00 A Woman in the US says she was forced by airport security guards to remove her nipple rings with a pair of pliers before she could board a flight. The passenger’s celebrity Los Angeles lawyer, Gloria Allred, has made the allegation in a statement. “The woman was given a pair of pliers in order to remove the ... More About: Forced , Ring
Pregnant man says he feels incredible, locals say he is
2008-03-27 00:17:00 A TRANS GENDER man says he is five months pregnant with a baby girl. Oregon resident Thomas Beatie told the The Advocate that carrying a daughter for his wife, Nancy, and himself was an “incredible” experience. But a Portland television station that has been investigating the story has questioned the veracity of Mr Beatie’s claims. “Quite frankly, I ... More About: Pregnant , Incredible
French serial killer couple hunted virgins
2008-03-27 00:09:00 He is a bespectacled, chess-playing lover of literature, she a quiet, devoted wife ? but this seemingly ordinary couple made a sordid pact that she would help him find virgins to rape if he killed her first husband, according to prosecutors.Sitting side by side in court, Michel Fourniret and his wife Monique Olivier will hear ... More About: French , Killer , Couple , Serial Killer , Serial
Dead man says he feels pretty good
2008-03-26 02:31:00 An Oklahoma man who was about to have his organs removed by doctors after they declared him brain dead says he feels “pretty good” four months on. Zach Dunlap, 21, was pronounced dead at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas on November 19 after he was injured in a quad bike accident. His family ... More About: Dead Man , Dead , Pretty , Good
Millionaire goes back to McDonald?s job
2008-03-26 02:27:00 A British lottery winner has gone back to his old job serving burgers at McDonald’s. Luke Pittard, 25, shared a $3 million jackpot with his girlfriend 18 months ago. After taking a break Pittard, who has since married his partner, has decided to go back to his old job part-time, where he earns just $200 for 15 ... More About: Millionaire , Back
Son hires stripper for dad?s funeral
2008-03-25 06:57:00 A MAN hired a stripper to perform at the funeral of his father - who happened to have a fondness for gentlemen’s clubs, according to reports from Taiwan. Taiwanese newspaper the United Daily News reported that Cai Jinlai had been promised a stripper for his funeral if he lived to 100. Jinlai was 103 when he died ... More About: Stripper , Funeral
Pilot?s gun fired on landing approach
2008-03-25 06:54:00 A Gun belonging to the pilot of a US Airways plane discharged as the aircraft made its approach to land in the US state of North Carolina.The “accidental discharge” on Easter Saturday aboard the flight to Denver, Colorado, was not a danger to the aircraft or the 124 passengers, two pilots and three flight attendants ... More About: Bad News , Fired , Pilot , Landing
First picture of son leaves mum horrified
2008-03-24 07:53:00 Sandra Gendron handed the anaesthetist attending her a camera before she went under the knife to deliver her first baby and asked him to record the birth. The first photograph of little Daniel Gendron was not at all what she had expected. “I was so upset,” she said yesterday. “One leg is dangling and one leg is taking ... More About: Picture , Leaves
Woman sues over Oprah audience pushing
2008-03-23 01:57:00 A woman claims in a lawsuit that she was injured in a dash for seats at Oprah Winfrey’s talk show in Chicago.Orit Greenberg’s lawsuit seeks some $US50,000 ($A54,860) in damages. Greenberg claims Harpo Studios failed to control the audience on December 5, 2006. The lawsuit says audience members were told to sit wherever they wanted. The ... More About: Humorous , Woman , Audience
Obese relative may have crushed boy
2008-03-23 01:56:00 A two-year-old boy who died with a fractured skull may have been accidentally crushed by a morbidly obese relative, authorities say.Investigators believe the woman fell on the child, who was pronounced dead on Tuesday, said Bobby Contreras, Hidalgo County justice of the peace. “It didn’t look like there was any foul play from what I saw,” ... More About: Bad News , Obese
Woman?s body found sitting in 80cm freezer
2008-03-22 02:39:00 Japanese police have arrested a Brazilian man after discovering a woman’s body in a freezer at his apartment, coording to news reports. Giovani Mikio Claudino, 35, was held in the central city of Numazu late yesterday on charges of abandoning a body, Jiji Press news agency and other Japanese media said. Police are investigating whether Claudino’s killed ... More About: Body , Bad News , Woman , Freezer
Man crucified for 22nd time
2008-03-22 02:38:00 A Man has been crucified for the 22nd time in a gruesome Easter ritual. Devout Roman Catholic Ruben Enaje donned a crown of thorns before being nailed to a cross. The 47-year-old decorator was the first of 19 men in this northern Philippines village of San Pedro Cutud who underwent the bloody Easter crucifixion ritual, an extreme form of ... More About: Time
Man uses suicide machine to shoot himself
2008-03-21 02:32:00 An elderly man has been shot by a home-made “suicide machine” he built using plans from the Internet. The 81-year-old man from Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast was found dead in his driveway yesterday next to complex mechanism, The Gold Coast Bulletin reports. The man ? who lived alone ? had left suicide notes of his ... More About: Machine , Suicide , Shoot
Woman killed when ray leaps onto boat
2008-03-21 02:31:00 A Stingray leaped onto a boat off the Florida Keys and knocked a woman to the deck, killing her, wildlife investigators said. “It’s a bizarre accident,” said Jorge Pino, an officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The US woman and her family were aboard a boat in the Atlantic Ocean, off the city of ... More About: Woman , Boat , Killed
11-year-old marries 10-year-old cousin
2008-03-19 08:48:00 An 11-year-old boy has married his 10-year-old cousin in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported. Mohammed al-Rashidi and his unidentified cousin will seal the marriage they contracted under the sharia laws of Islam and move in together after a ceremony to take place in the summer, Al-Shams, newspaper said. “I am ready for ... More About: Humorous , Year
Sea gypsy arrested over Swedish tourist killing
2008-03-19 08:45:00 A 31-year-old Thai man was arrested early Wednesday over the killing and attempted rape of a Swedish tourist last weekend on the resort isle of Phuket, police said. Akradet Tankae was arrested in the southern province of Ranong after his relatives contacted police and said they would turn him over, they said. Akradet is a sea gypsy, ... More About: Arrested , Bad News , Tourist , Gypsy
Callgirl Ashley Alexandra Dupre linked to Charlie Sheen
2008-03-17 23:57:00 Actor Charlie Sheen allegedly hired the same callgirl involved in the Eliot Spitzer scandal for a fantasy themed threesome. Pimp Jason Itzler, 41, claims he sent Ashley Alexander Dupre under the name of Victoria and another girl, Cheryl to Sheen more than two years ago, the Daily Record reported. He claims Sheen paid $20,000 for a threesome ... More About: Alexandra
Chantal Sebire?s euthanasia plea rejected
2008-03-17 23:53:00 A French court has rejected a request from a 52-year-old severely disfigured former schoolteacher for the right to die, in a case that has stirred much emotion in France. The high court in Dijon, eastern France, decided to side with the prosecution which argued current legislation does not allow Chantal Sebire’s doctor to prescribe lethal drugs. In ... More About: Bad News , Euthanasia , Rejected
BBC causes gatecrasher mayhem
More articles from this author:2008-03-16 23:54:00 A British mother is threatening to sue the BBC after one of its radio announcers broadcast details of her teenage daughter’s birthday party. Hundreds of gatecrashers turned up at the family’s historic 21-bedroom Georgian manor home in Devon and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage after hearing details of the party on the radio. Birthday girl Sarah Ruscoe, ... More About: Mayhem 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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