Wasn't really sure where to post this one...
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face - WOW!
Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off organ
Published - May 31 2009 06:02PM EDT
By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press Writer
A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own BallPark Frank
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 reproductive organ, said a police official.
The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena, one of Egypt's poorest and most conservative areas that is also home to the famed ancient Egyptian ruins of Luxor.
The man was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added citing the police report filed after the incident.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press, added that the man was still recovering in the hospital.
Traditionally, marriages in these conservative part of southern Egypt are between similar social classes and often within the same extended families _ and are rarely for love.
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Life's not pharaoh, of course, and those Muslims DO like to beHead people, but I think he got things a bit mixed up
If nothing else, I'll bet he'll think things out more carefully "next time".
