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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
Mark Dixie regrets sex with dead model Sally Anne Bowman
2008-02-20 00:40:00 A Former Perth chef accused of murdering a British model has told a London court he regretted having sex with her dead body. Sally Anne Bowman was found dead in a pool of blood in the driveway of her home in Croydon, south of London, in September 2005. The prosecution at the Old Bailey ... More About: Model , Dead , Mark
Woman denied psychiatric medication by Scientologist parents kills
2008-02-19 00:29:00 A Sydney woman will stand trial on charges of murdering her Scientologist father and teenage sister. The 25-year-old, who cannot be named, is facing two counts of murder and a third of maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent to murder, after a frenzied stabbing at her southwestern Sydney home in July last year. It is alleged ... More About: Woman , Parents , Medication
Mohamed Al Fayed drags Tony Blair into Diana murder conspiracy
2008-02-19 00:26:00 Princess Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed were murdered, his father has told an inquest, claiming she had voiced fears that senior royals were trying to “get rid” of her. Testifying for the first time at the coroner’s inquest into the couple’s death, Mohamed Al Fayed also said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair was implicated ... More About: Murder
Dead student victim of serial rapist
2008-02-17 23:40:00 A 19-year-old college student missing since she was abducted nearly a month ago was strangled by a serial rapist who has attacked at least two other women and may strike again, Reno police said Saturday. An autopsy confirmed that a dead woman found Friday in a brush-covered field near a business park was Brianna Denison and ... More About: Student , Dead , Victim , Serial
Space songs could attract alien danger
2008-02-17 23:34:00 Aliens could misinterpret earth’s classic songs as declarations of war if they are recklessly broadcast into space, some scientists say. Last week NASA broadcast a Beatles song, Across the Universe, towards the North Star, in the hope it would be noticed by extra-terrestrial beings. But scientists have urged NASA to be more cautious, saying aliens could misinterpret ... More About: Space , Songs , Alien , Danger
More on the Valentine?s Day university campus Shooter
2008-02-17 04:25:00 The gunman behind the deadly Valentine ’s Day US university campus shooting rampage sported a freshly inked tattooed of a gruesome image from an Aussie horror movie franchise. Steven Kazmierczak committed suicide after shooting dead five students and injuring several more at Northern Illinois University this week. Disturbing tattoos etched onto Kazmierczak’s arms, including the trademark doll from ... More About: Campus , Shooter
Meet the world?s smallest bodybuilder
2008-02-17 04:19:00 At just 2ft 9in, India n muscleman Aditya ‘Romeo’ Dev is the world’s smallest bodybuilder.Pint-sized Romeo is well-known in his hometown of Phagwara, India - for his ability to lift 1.5kg dumbbells - despite his overall 9kg body weight. Every day, crowds flock to the local gym to the see the mini-muscleman in training. Unlike many dwarfs, Romeo ... More About: World , Humorous , Meet , The World
Mass shooting at University of West Chicago
2008-02-15 01:30:00 A gunman has gone on a shooting rampage at a university west of Chicago , with up to 20 people injured, some with critical head wounds. “It has been confirmed that there has been a shooting on campus and several people have been taken away by ambulance,” Northern Illinois University said on its website. “People are ... More About: West , Shooting , Mass
Mum pulled out baby?s fingernails
2008-02-15 01:18:00 A young mother has been ordered to face a jury trial accused of forcibly pulling out her baby daughter’s fingernails. The four-month-old baby was missing eight fingernails and had lesions on her body when she was taken to Frankston Hospital on April 7, 2006, Melbourne Magistrates Court heard. The 22-year-old mother allegedly told a social worker that ... More About: Baby
Backpackers fume at sexist Nazi artwork
2008-02-15 01:16:00 A Northern Territory hostel displaying posters of Nazi soldiers degrading women has been accused of lacking moral judgment. But the hostel’s owner says the pictures are simply art, and are not intended to offend. Two female Israeli backpackers were disgusted after seeing the posters on the walls in the men’s toilets at Annie’s Place backpackers in Alice ... More About: Artwork
21st Birthday Photos hold grim body in barrel secret
2008-02-14 00:08:00 Party guests celebrating a 21st birthday were oblivious to the horrific contents of the barrel in the background of these happy snaps. As party-goers ate and drank, they could never have imagined that the body of their host’s missing wife was hidden just metres from them. The guests were marking the birthday of Michael Hegarty, whose former ... More About: Photos , Body , Bad News , Birthday , Secret
World?s fattest man drops 230kg
2008-02-14 00:05:00 The world’s fattest man, according to the Guinness Book of Records, today proudly announced he has lost 230kg - nearly half his original weight - in less time than doctors had expected. “I’m going to throw a big party,” Manuel Uribe said. “I’m getting out of my house and going for a walk” in Monterrey , where he ... More About: World
Rotting whale meat mountain
2008-02-13 00:07:00 Japan’s whalers are going broke and have been forced to slash prices because no one wants to eat their growing mountain of whale meat. The farcical truth of Japan’s whaling industry was exposed yesterday by Japanese media reports that the Institute for Cetacean Research is struggling to repay $37 million in government subsidies. The report came as ... More About: Meat , Whale , Mountain
Government move to cut internet pirates? service
2008-02-13 00:03:00 People in Britain who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week. Internet service providers will be legally required to take action against people who use pirated material. Users suspected of wrongly downloading films or music will receive a warning email for the first ... More About: Government , Pirates , Service , Humorous
Heidi Murphy victim of revenge killing in Bali
2008-02-11 23:52:00 Bali police have questioned 13 people as part of their investigation into the vicious stabbing murder of Sydney woman Heidi Murphy . They believe she knew the person who stabbed her 16 times, and that it was a revenge killing or because of unpaid fees owed to workers. An autopsy has yet to be conducted on Ms Murphy ... More About: Bali , Revenge , Victim
Traffic cop sought sex from teen
2008-02-11 23:48:00 A Traffic cop has admitted asking a young female motorist for sexual favors in return for not giving her a ticket. Sen-Constable David John Mits, 43, yesterday pleaded guilty at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court to seeking a bribe from the P-plate driver. He stopped the woman in Bayswater in January last year and later told her that female ...
Headless corpse dumped in trolley
2008-02-11 01:17:00 The headless body of a man has been found wrapped in blankets and dumped in a supermarket trolley. The body, discovered by a member of the public in North London, was bound with duct tape and left near rubbish bins belonging to a local supermarket. Police have launched a murder investigation and are searching for the head ...
Mum sues over fetus discovery shock
2008-02-10 08:59:00 A Woman was devastated to find her miscarried fetus had been mistakenly packed into a bag with her belongings by hospital staff. The woman is still trying to cope with the shock of losing her child as well as the trauma of finding the body in her bag in her Ballarat Base Hospital room in December. The ... More About: Discovery , Shock , Fetus
Man planned Super Bowl massacre
2008-02-09 01:00:00 A man furious at being denied a liquor license got within sight of Sunday’s Super Bowl championship match with an assault-style rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition. US authorities today revealed that Kurt William Havelock had vowed to “shed the blood of the innocent” in a manifesto mailed to media outlets on Sunday, the Associated Press ... More About: Massacre
New Zealand plane in hijack bid, woman held
2008-02-07 23:56:00 A Woman stabbed two pilots and threatened to blow up a plane during a harrowing mid-air drama on a New Zealand domestic flight early today, police said. The pilots reported that a passenger attacked them in the cockpit, inflicting minor injuries, before making threats that she had a bomb. One of the other passengers on board - ... More About: Plane , Hijack
Kirsten Dunst checks into rehab
2008-02-07 23:54:00 The Spider-Man actress ? whose partying lifestyle has lead to her being nicknamed ?Kirsten Drunkst? by gossip bloggers ? has reportedly checked into Utah?s Cirque Lodge facility to receive help for an unknown problem. A source inside the facility told America?s Star magazine: ?She desperately needed help. She seemed to be intoxicated when she checked in ... More About: Kirsten Dunst , Rehab , Dunst
Video shows al-Qaeda training children
2008-02-07 02:02:00 AL-QAEDA fighters in Iraq are training young children as gunmen and kidnappers, the US and Iraqi militaries allege, releasing a video of masked and armed youngsters. Watch the footage here Rear Admiral Gregory Smith, a US military spokesman, said five videos showing children being trained by adult militants were seized in a December 4 raid on ... More About: Video , Children , Training , Al Qaeda , Al-Qaeda
KKK?s vile response to apology
2008-02-07 01:59:00 Townsville police are investigating a Ku Klux Klan video that appeared on the internet featuring a burning cross and a white-hooded man making racist comments in response to the national “Sorry” motion. Aboriginal activists, police, and race discrimination experts yesterday condemned the “vile” and “frightening” film posted six days ago on video-sharing website YouTube (warning: video ... More About: Apology , Response
Homicidal Maniac admits to sex with corpse, denies killing
2008-02-06 00:20:00 A “homicidal maniac” has admitted to having sex with the corpse of a British model, but has denied stabbing her in the neck seven times to kill her. Mark Dixie, a chef, is accused of murdering the 18-year-old model, Sally Anne Bowman, the Daily Mail reports. Bowman was killed in the driveway of her south London ... More About: Killing
Cops tell man ?your girlfriend used to be a man?
2008-02-06 00:12:00 Garrick Jacobson was in custody at Sydney’s Surry Hills police station when he apparently discovered his girlfriend used to be a man. Within hours of being released on bail, he went to her apartment and started “belting the hell” out of her, Downing Centre Local Court heard yesterday. The two NSW police officers who allegedly revealed the ... More About: Girlfriend , Humorous , Cops
Barack Obama T-shirts
2008-02-05 12:47:00 This post is a review of the new Barack Obama Tshirts Site. I just checked the online store out for myself (http://www.zazzle.com/tshirtsobama/produ cts) and although their range is quite small at the moment, I did get a laugh out of three or four of their designs. My favorite design is pictured left, ‘Vote for the candidate with ... More About: Shirts , T-Shirts
Toddler hurled from burning building
2008-02-05 00:12:00 A two-year-old child thrown from the window of a burning building by his frantic parents survived the three-storey fall after he caught by police officers waiting below. The toddler was flung from the building of flats in the German city of Ludwigshafen as emergency workers edged along the building ledge towards ... More About: Building , Burning , Toddler
Red tape prevents man from returning from the dead
2008-02-05 00:05:00 Red tape is preventing a Polish man from returning from the dead. Piotr Kucy, 38 and from the city of Polkowice in southwest Poland, was wrongly identified by authorities last August as a drowned man, only to show up a few days after his own funeral. Despite pointing out the fact that he was alive to government ... More About: Dead , Red Tape
Floating rubbish dump bigger than the US
2008-02-04 13:46:00 It has been described as the world’s largest rubbish dump, or the Pacific plastic soup, and it is starting to alarm scientists. It is a vast area of plastic debris and other flotsam drifting in the northern Pacific Ocean, held there by swirling ocean currents. Discovered in 1997 by American sailor Charles Moore, what is also called ... More About: Floating , Rubbish
Aussie teen stalked, raped, shot in India
More articles from this author:2008-02-04 13:42:00 The mother of a teenager shot by a stalker has asked Australians to pray for her youngest daughter as she fights for her life in an India n hospital. Lila Salter was shot three times by a man who had raped her at gunpoint just hours earlier, her mother, Susan Manning, told The Daily Telegraph. Lila, who was ... More About: Shot , Aussie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
