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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
7 dead, 12 injured in Japanese stabbing frenzy
2008-06-09 01:34:00 A MAN went on a stabbing spree yesterday in a busy Tokyo neighbourhood famed for comic-book subculture, killing at least seven people and leaving around a dozen injured in Japan’s deadliest crime in years. The assailant, who later told police he was “tired of living,” drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians shortly after noon ... More About: Japanese , Dead , Frenzy , Injured
Swedish diver tells of dragon ordeal
2008-06-09 01:32:00 A SWEDISH diver who spent two nights marooned on an Indonesian island with four other Europeans told today how she had to fight off an aggressive komodo dragon with her weight belt. Helena Nevalainen said the dragon, a member of the largest lizard species in the world, lunged at her three times before it was driven ... More About: Diver , Tells , Dragon , Swedish
Zoo Keeper Killed trying to get 300 pound tiger to mate
2008-06-08 04:29:00 A SIBERIAN tiger has mauled to death a zookeeper who had been trying to encourage the animal to mate. A horrified visitor to Japan’s Kyoto City Zoo told management the 150kg tiger had pounced on keeper Atsushi Ito, a zoo official said. Zoo staff shot the tiger with a tranquiliser gun and rushed Mr Ito to a ... More About: Mate , Tiger , Pound , Killed , Keeper
Drunk mum lets one-year-old drive
2008-06-07 03:05:00 A PATROL officer has stopped a car for suspicious driving and found to his surprise a drunk mother had let her one-year-old son take the wheel. Marya Green, 29, of Goshen Township, near Cincinnati in the US, was arrested late Tuesday and found to have a 0.11 per cent blood alcohol level - well above the ... More About: Drive , Drunk , Year
Facebook message ends in grisly murder
2008-06-07 03:04:00 WHAT started as a Facebook message from a former boyfriend has ended in a gruesome murder. Talented young Bribane artist Sarah Elston was looking forward to catching up with her former flame after he contacted her on the popular social networking website. But in a crime that has bewildered her family and friends, the 22-year-old artist ... More About: Murder , Message , Ends
Teacher kills himself after child porn charges
2008-06-06 01:41:00 A QUEENSLAND teacher has committed suicide and another was taken to hospital after they were charged as part of Australia’s largest anti-pedophile investigation. More than 90 men across Australia have been arrested or summonsed to court over the child porn sweep, including an Australian Federal Police officer, four teachers, youth workers, bankers and company directors, The ... More About: Child , Teacher
September 11 accused wants death penalty
2008-06-06 01:40:00 THE accused al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks stood in a US military court today, sang a chant of praise to Allah and said he would welcome the death penalty. “This is what I wish, to be martyred,” Pakistani captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative in US custody, told the Guantanamo war crimes ... More About: Death , Death penalty , September 11 , Penalty
World Youth Day ?will be a boost for sex industry?
2008-06-05 01:54:00 THE sex industry is expected to be blessed with an increase in customers thanks to the most unlikely of sources - World Youth Day. A report by Industry analysts IBISWorld predicted the 2008-09 financial year would see strong growth for brothels, strip clubs and prostitutes, primarily on the back of a marked increase in tourism levels ... More About: Boost
Tumour turns out to be 25-year-old towel
2008-06-05 01:53:00 DOCTORS in Japan who carried out surgery on a man to remove a tumour had good news and bad news for him. The good news was he did not have cancer. The bad news: The growth that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year-old surgical towel. The patient had been carrying the cloth since 1983, ... More About: Year , Tumour
Protests over pub?s topless ?spirit dwarf?
2008-06-04 01:45:00 A PUB promotion involving a bare-chested and top-hatted dwarf walking the length of a bar pouring free booze down the throats of patrons has drawn protests from alcohol education campaigners. The Jagermeister promotion has been on one night a week at The Saint in St Kilda, Melbourne. Jagermeister distanced itself from the promotion, which follows the Federal ... More About: Spirit , Protests , Dwarf
Drunk driver ploughs into cycle race [pic]
2008-06-04 01:41:00 THIS horrifying picture shows the moment a US man apparently drunk and asleep ploughed into cyclists on a bike race ? killing one and injuring at least 10 others. Driver Juan Campos, 28, was charged with killing Alejandro Alvarez, 37, along the highway near the US-Mexico border. Authorities said the wreck happened 15 minutes into the ... More About: Cycle , Race , Drunk
Bouncer in photo says he had lost his balance
2008-06-03 01:34:00 THE sacked bouncer caught on camera apparently kicking a cowering man has spoken out to defend himself - saying he wasn’t being violent, just falling over. Melbourne’s Bar 20 crowd controller Eddie Attal said he could not believe he was the man portrayed in a confronting series of photos first published yesterday, Melbourne’s Herald Sun reported. Mr ... More About: Photo , Lost , Balance
Oscar-winning actress Tatum O?Neal busted with crack
2008-06-03 01:31:00 OSCAR-winning actress Tatum O’Neal , a former child star who revealed her struggles with addiction in a 2004 book, has been arrested on suspicion of buying drugs on the streets of New York City. A judge released her on her own recognisance overnight after she spent the night in jail and she was ordered to return ... More About: Oscar , Actress , Crack , Busted
China kept earthquake forecasts secret
2008-06-02 01:45:00 CHINESE officials ignored warnings from five eminent seismologists that a strong earthquake would strike the mountainous province of Sichuan this year, including one forecast that almost exactly predicted the date of the tremor that killed almost 69,000 people. The Government appeared to be trying to suppress evidence of the warnings last week and none of the ... More About: China , Earthquake , Secret , Forecasts
Hidden tribe outed ?to prove they exist?
2008-06-01 02:43:00 DRAMATIC pictures of an isolated Brazilian tribe believed never to have had contact with the outside world were published to draw attention to threats posed to their way of life, officials have said. The pictures, released by the Brazilian government’s National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), showed alarmed natives pointing bows and arrows at the aircraft carrying photographers. The ... More About: Hidden , Tribe , Exist , Prove
Man finds woman living in wardrobe
2008-05-31 03:30:00 A JAPANESE man puzzled by food mysteriously disappearing from his refrigerator got a shock when he discovered a woman had been living in his home for months without permission, police said today. The 57-year-old man who lives alone - or so he thought - in the western city of Fukuoka installed a security camera and called ... More About: Living , Woman
Giant crane plummets into New York street
2008-05-31 03:27:00 A LARGE crane has collapsed in New York , killing two people and damaging an apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side just a day after city officials investigated the crane’s operations. The crane operator and another construction worker died in the collapse shortly after 8am local time (10pm AEST), a third worker was seriously injured and ... More About: Street , Giant , New-York
Space station toilet broken
2008-05-30 01:36:00 THE international space station’s lone toilet is broken, leaving the crew with almost nowhere to go. So NASA may order an in-orbit plumbing service to call when the space shuttle Discovery visits next week. Until then, the three-man crew will have to make do with a jerry-rigged system when they need to urinate. While one of the crew ... More About: Space , Station , Toilet , Broken , Space Station
Dunkin Donuts axes terror symbol ad
2008-05-30 01:34:00 DUNKIN’ Donuts has axed an online advertisement featuring celebrity chef Rachael Ray over a fringed black-and-white scarf that critics said offered symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism. In the ad, Ray wears the scarf around her neck and holds an iced coffee. US critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf looked similar to ... More About: Terror , Dunkin Donuts
Serial killer couple given life sentences
2008-05-29 01:43:00 A FRENCH court has given life sentences to self-confessed killer Michel Fourniret and his wife Monique Olivier in one of the worst serial murder cases in recent French history. The couple showed no reaction after the court in northern France found Fourniret, dubbed the “Ogre of the Ardennes”, guilty of killing and raping or attempting to ... More About: Life , Killer , Couple , Serial Killer , Sentences
Deadly snake bites man?s penis
2008-05-29 01:39:00 A ROADSIDE toilet stop ended in pain, embarrassment and almost death for a tourist when a highly venomous snake bit the end of his penis. The deadly brown snake slithered between his legs and lunged at his manhood as he crouched on a roadside near Laura, 300km northwest of Cairns, about a month ago. Details of the ... More About: Snake , Penis , Deadly
Girl stung by scorpion hiding in fruit
2008-05-28 01:44:00 A 12-year-old girl has been bitten by a stowaway scorpion while shopping for fruit in a suburban department store thousands of kilometres away from the animal’s habitat. The girl was reaching for a seedless watermelon from a bin in the Wal-Mart store in her West Virginia town when she was stung on the hand, the Associated ... More About: Fruit , Girl
Japanese mission to brew Space Beer
2008-05-28 01:43:00 A JAPANESE brewery is planning to produce the world’s first “space beer” using barley once stored at the International Space Station. Researchers said the project was part of efforts to prepare for a future in which humans spend extended periods of time in space and might like a cold beer after a space walk. Japanese brewery Sapporo ... More About: Beer , Mission , Brew
President George W Bush joins biker group
2008-05-27 01:40:00 US President George W Bush donned a black leather biker jacket today as he was given honorary membership in the Rolling Thunder motorcycle group which paraded through Washington to honour veterans on Memorial Day. Tens of thousands of members of the biker group joined the parade down the US capital’s main boulevards in the group’s annual ... More About: George W Bush
Bride on way to wedding accused of killing man
2008-05-27 01:36:00 BRIDE-to-be Jennifer Thomas was on her way to her wedding, her bridesmaid by her side, when she drove into the back of another car at Kurrajong in Sydney’s outskirts. It was a relatively minor accident and the other driver, 79-year-old Ronald Hawkins, had no visible injury aside from a cut on his shin, Sydney’s Downing Centre ... More About: Wedding , Bride , Killing
Baby offered for sale on eBay as a joke
2008-05-26 01:35:00 GERMAN police are investigating a couple after they offered their eight-month-old son for sale on internet auction site eBay. Renee Beck, a police spokesman in the Bavarian town of Krumbach west of Munich, said the 23-year-old woman told them it was only a joke. But he said police were nevertheless continuing their investigation and the baby was ... More About: Baby , For Sale , Joke , Ebay , Sale
Divers saved after 19 hours at sea asked to pay up
2008-05-26 01:34:00 AN international bidding war has broken out, offering Richard Neely and his partner Allyson Dalton as much as $250,000 for interviews and pictures of their survival against the odds, as fellow divers cast doubt on their story. Authorities have called on the couple to pay back some of the estimated $100,000 cost of their rescue operation. A ... More About: Divers , Hours
Man arrested for selling urine as oil
2008-05-25 02:32:00 A ZIMBABWEAN man has been jailed for two years after he sold urine to residents in a mining town claiming it was cooking oil, according to state media reports. Piccard Mudzingwa, 28, approached one of the victims at a bus terminus in the southern mining town of Zvishavane selling bottles containing a liquid he said was ... More About: Selling , Arrested , Urine
Sex change approved for 12 year old girl
2008-05-25 02:30:00 A judge has allowed a 12-year-old Victorian girl to start a taxpayer-funded sex swap, despite objections from the child’s father. The girl has begun court-approved hormone treatment in the first step toward a complete gender switch. The Family Court orders also permit the girl, who cannot be named, to apply for a new birth certificate, passport and ... More About: Change , Girl , Year
Boys enjoyed killing two-year-old
More articles from this author:2008-05-24 02:33:00 TWO brothers, aged seven and nine, told psychiatrists they slowly, coldly tortured a two-year-old girl to death - a revelation that has Argentines debating whether to do away with a law prohibiting the prosecution of minors for heinous crimes. Judge Marta Pascual said the children confessed to slaying little neighbour Milagros Belizan in a shantytown south ... More About: Boys , Year , Killing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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