Sewing Machines Believed to Contain Red Mercury

Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour Al-Turki described the rumors “as false and deceptive” in a recent statement. Following the rumor, the price of a Singer machine reportedly catapulted last week. “There is no such thing as red mercury except in the world of superstition and magic,” said Khaled Kamakhi, former rector of the Institute of Research and Consultancy at Taiba University in Madinah.