Around the Weird: Bizarre News Briefs

Around the Weird: Bizarre News Briefs



MT VERNON, Md. (Wireless Flash) – The lights have gone out on the world’s foremost collector of light bulbs, Maryland resident Dr. Hugh Francis Hicks, who died earlier this week. Dr. Hicks owned what many consider to be the world’s largest light bulb collection, including bulbs from inventor Thomas Edison and the Statue of Liberty, reports the Baltimore Sun.

PHNOM, Cambodia – Two Cambodian men accused of eating human fingers and toes have been freed because there is no law on the books against cannibalism. Police say the men work in a crematorium and took the digits off of a body they found at work, and washed them down with a bottle of wine.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It sounds a bit obvious but a new study by the Middle East Media Research Institute suggests that the current rash of suicide bombers in Palestine seems to be increasing the overall suicide rate.

SEATTLE – Freedom of speech is alive and well in Safeco Field in Seattle. Officials for the Seattle Mariners have flip-flopped on a recent rule prohibiting fans from wearing shirts with the word, “sucks” on them.