News of the bizarre...

Those that know me know that I love a weird news story. Like the one the other day about the life-sized sculpture of The King. Not the King of the Ages... the King of Rock-n-Roll: Elvis Presley.

It seems that the State Fair of Texas in Dallas will feature a life-size butter sculpture of the late, great Elvis Presley. According to the AP news story, the real Elvis was no stranger to the State Fair. The man known as the King of Rock and Roll performed at the Cotton Bowl in 1956.

The sculpting is being done by a New York artist -- Sharon BuMann (boo-man). The annual expo runs September 30th through October 23rd.

Stranger than that, however is the story from Sydney reported by Reuters: "Power Dressing Man Leaves Trail of Destruction."

It seems an Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building.

Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together.

When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet.

"There were several scorch marks in the carpet, and we could hear a cracking noise -- a bit like a whip -- both inside and outside the building," said fire official Henry Barton.

Firefighters cut electricity to the building thinking the burns might have been caused by a power surge.

Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters.

"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said.

"I've been firefighting for over 35 years and I've never come across anything like this," he said.

Firefighters took possession of Clewer's jacket and stored it in the courtyard of the fire station, where it continued to give off a strong electrical current.

Read the full story HERE.

Photo by John Drysdale from Getty Images (Hulton Archive, image #ji4343-001 or 51245660)