I'LL TAKE MY HALF

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I'LL TAKE MY HALF
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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 8:20am

too funny. talking about taking your 1/2 to extremes...LOL


 



Cambodian couple saw house in half in divorce



Fri Oct 10, 2:23 PM ET



A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday. The husband, 42-year-old Moeun Sarim, has taken away with him all the bits and pieces of his half a house, said his 35-year-old wife, Vat Navy.


"Very strange, but this is what my husband wanted," she said by phone from a village about 62 miles east of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh. She said they ended their marriage last month.


"He brought his relatives and used saws to cut the house in half," she said, adding that she now owns the other half that is still standing. The house is made from wood with a tile roof and propped up on wooden pillars, a typical style for a Cambodian country home.


She said her estranged husband and his relatives, after ripping apart half of the house, carried all the debris to his parents' house nearby.


She said the divorce was prompted by her husband's jealousy about her alleged relationship with a policeman in the village. She denied having an extramarital affair.


"He wanted a divorce, and I said, `Let's divorce,'" she said.


The husband could not be reached for comment.


Bou Bout, a village chief, said local officials and police were present as witnesses the day the couple split their 20-by-24 1/2 foot house into half.


"Local officials tried three times to get them to mend their differences, but the husband would not budge," Bou Bout said by phone.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 9:41am
Too funny Pat,
Thanks for the morning smile :)

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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:36am
Jeepers,, what a story!
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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:36am
roflmbo too funny

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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:46am

Saw that on cable news tv. Here's a photo of the house........



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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:49am
WOW! lol

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Registered: 01-18-2003
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 1:54pm
Thanks for posting the picture....I wondered what her half looked like....unbelievable but funny!!
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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 11:19pm
the part i found funniest is he took the debris from his
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Registered: 01-18-2003
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 1:46am

How nice of him to clean up the mess....LOL

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Mon, 10-13-2008 - 7:04am

Oh thats not news in these parts - over 30 years ago in a hamlet a couple of miles from

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Registered: 09-01-2003
Mon, 10-13-2008 - 9:40am
some people just take