Posted by Nick on May 31, 2009 ·
CAIRO – A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday. After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his [...]
Posted by Nick on August 16, 2008 ·
A Poulsbo woman was jailed after being accused of beating up her fiance at their prenuptial party. Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies said the woman’s 12-year-old son told her he saw her fiance kissing one of her women friends early Thursday morning.
Deputies said the woman, 31, gave her friends [...]
Posted by Nick on December 26, 2007 ·
Some people get surprise birthday parties. Ilda Ruth Southey gets surprise weddings.
Twice in her life Southey was surprised with a wedding ceremony on Christmas Eve, both times to Francis Southey.
Her future husband planned their original wedding for Christmas Eve 1942 while he was stationed in Sherman, [...]
Posted by Nick on December 17, 2007 ·
The honeymoons are over for a 26-year-old woman who authorities say has at least 10 husbands.
Eunice Lopez has been charged with bigamy, accused of marrying 10 men between 2002 and 2006 without divorcing any of them, federal immigration authorities say. The Miami Herald reported Saturday that a records [...]
Posted by Nick on August 13, 2007 ·
An off-duty Elko County sheriff’s deputy was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol after her husband, a fellow deputy, pulled her over.
Charlotte Moore, 36, a jail deputy, was off duty driving her 2004 Pontiac Grand Am on Saturday when she was pulled over by her husband, [...]
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Posted by Nick on July 13, 2007 ·
The world’s tallest man married a woman who’s two-thirds his height and half his age, holding a traditional Mongolian ceremony Thursday with great fanfare at the tomb of Kublai Khan.
Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, met his bride earlier this year after searching high [...]
Posted by Nick on April 11, 2007 ·
A Saudi man lost a bit of his nose in a joint assault by his two wives after he jokingly threatened to marry a third woman.
Judaie Ibn Salem had thought his threat would help resolve an argument over dividing up his house.
“I swore that I would do it because … they were impolite and that’s [...]
Posted by Nick on April 10, 2007 ·
A Saudi man lost a bit of his nose in a joint assault by his two wives after he jokingly threatened to marry a third woman.
Judaie Ibn Salem had thought his threat would help resolve an argument over dividing up his house.
“I swore that I would do it because … they were impolite and that’s [...]
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Posted by Nick on April 10, 2007 ·
A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message.
David Brown, 24, says he woke up one morning after a night out with friends with a telephone number constantly running through his head. He decided to contact [...]
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Posted by Nick on March 30, 2007 ·
Kathleen Tarbell “fell head over my stomach” for her husband Waldo when they met at a dance. They married in 1927, during Calvin Coolidge’s presidency. This weekend, they’ll celebrate their 80th anniversary.
Waldo is 101 and Kathleen will turn 100 in June. The anniversary party [...]
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Posted by Nick on March 11, 2007 ·
A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.Police in the eastern town of Sonneberg said on Friday the trained mason measured the single-storey summer house — which was some 8 meters (26 feet) long [...]
Posted by Nick on March 11, 2007 ·
An Indian woman, despairing over her lover’s accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.
“It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then as a widow,” K.M. [...]
Posted by Nick on March 7, 2007 ·
It wasn’t the most romantic of honeymoons.
Police said a groom is in jail, accused of trying to run over his new wife after a weekend wedding in Las Vegas.
“We have a wedding certificate for (March) 4th. They were still honeymooning when he ran her over,” said Lt. Paul Jaroscak, a spokesman [...]
Posted by Nick on March 7, 2007 ·
LONDON (Reuters) – They are flirtatious, love to target older men, are weighed down with designer accessories and within minutes of meeting a man want to know his bank balance.
Watch out! Toxic Wife Syndrome is rampant and droves of gold diggers are prowling in search of rich prey to join the [...]
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Posted by Nick on February 28, 2007 ·
Italian police arrested a jealous husband in the north of the country who forced his young wife to stay at home for two years because she was “too lively” to be let outside.
“She was too lively. She absolutely had to be locked up otherwise who knows what she might have done,” [...]