Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Virgin Mary in Springfield, Massachusetts, Hospital Window Make Weird News

Lyn Lomasi, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Oct 2, 2008 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."

At times there are events in the news that are slightly offbeat or out of the ordinary from what we are used to hearing in the news. This occurrence has simply come to be known as "weird news." Weird news can be found daily if you look hard enough. Here are two of the latest weird news events, one occurring in downtown Las Vegas and one in a San Francisco hospital.

According to the Water Cooler, the weird news column at CBS in Denver, the city of Las Vegas will be home to a unique museum featuring organized crime, or as some say, "The Mob." Named The (redacted) Museum: The Las Vegas Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, its first name redaction involved removing the word "mob" from the title.

Logos for the mob museum look like blacked-out court papers. T-shirts state "There is no such thing as a mob museum nor have I ever been there."

Mayor Oscar Goodman happens to have represented figures in organized crime, as a criminal defense lawyer. On the mob museum, he jokingly stated "They've been in my backyard trying to dig up some of the old relics, but so far I've fended them off. We'll have a lot of Oscar-abilia in there."

The FBI supports the opening of the mob museum in Las Vegas, as it will be a history lesson on organized crime and how it affected the city, including how law enforcement handled certain aspects of organized crime. The mob museum is set to open in 2010 at the old courthouse in downtown Las Vegas.

Other weird news this week includes the vision of Virgin Mary being seen in a Springfield, Massachusetts, hospital room window. According to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle, the hospital is fast becoming somewhat of a tourist attraction.

The image is in the window of an unused office on the second floor of the office. At least 300 worshipers and gatherers were seen outside of the hospital window. Some were praying and some snapped pictures of the phenomenon.

Sister Kathy Sullivan, who is Senior Vice President at Mercy Medical Center, stated that even though the origin of the Virgin Mary image was not clear, she was subdued by the amount of faith shown by onlookers.

The church does plan to investigate the source of the Virgin Mary image appearing in the hospital room window. However, a spokesman for the church mentioned that such an investigation could take years to complete. One woman who came to the hospital to have a look at the Virgin Mary image said that it was comforting in times where the nation is in distress.

Sources:

CBS4 Denver
http://cbs4denver.com/watercooler/mob.museum.vegas.2.831053.html

San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/10/01/national/a125131D02.DTL

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Mob Museum in Las Vegas, Virgin Mary in Springfield, Massachusetts, Hospital Window Make Weird News

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