Man arrested for collecting human body parts from cemeteries
Budapest, June 23: Police in Hungary have arrested a 30-year-old man who investigators say collected human body parts that he’d gathered from abandoned cemeteries and from his workplace at a hospital.
Hungary’s National Bureau of Investigation arrested the man in Budapest on June 17 after receiving information that he had been storing the body parts at work and at home. The man is employed as an orderly at a hospital, police said in a statement on Tuesday.
During a search of the man’s apartment, investigators seized skulls, a complete lower leg and a hand, as well as a reconstruction of a human face prepared from facial skin. Other bones were found stored in a suitcase.
A heart in a jar was also found, which police were trying to determine whether it was of human or animal origin.
The man, who admitted collecting the body parts during questioning, said that he was particularly attracted to human body parts, and that he had prepared food from such parts and eaten them.
He is being held on suspicion of illegal use of human bodies. (AP)
Guinness crowns Canberra town crier as world’s loudest person at 122.4 decibels
Melbourne, June 23: Joseph McGrail-Bateup, an Australian professional air conditioner cleaner and honorary town crier, has been recognised as the world’s loudest person.
Guinness World Records last week acknowledged the 58-year-old Canberra resident recorded the loudest ever shout by an individual. He yelled “now” at 122.4 decibels.
That broke the previous record of 121.7 dB set by Northern Ireland schoolteacher Annalisa Flanagan in 1994. She had yelled an ear-piercing “quiet”.
That is in the noise range of a chain saw, a jet aircraft taking off and an ambulance siren at close range.
The record attempt was not something McGrail-Bateup could train for, he said Tuesday.
“It took me seven attempts just for one word, which was the word now,’ and my voice was shot for the next couple of days as well. It was husky. It was terrible. So no, you can’t really practice for it. But it’s a lot of fun when you’re doing it,” he added.
McGrail-Bateup considered himself the world’s loudest man rather than the loudest person, he said. There was no previous record for the loudest man. (AP)
