Soccer Dad

Replacing spouses

In Brazil a man came up with a creative way to get rid of his wife. At least until the government stepped in.

The government has ordered an Internet auction site to remove an advertisement in which a Brazilian man offered to sell his wife for about $50.

The Secretariat of Public Policies for Women announced late Friday it had ordered Mercado Livre, partially owned by eBay Inc., to remove the ad and warned it was violating a law banning the offer or sale of “human organs, people, blood, bones or skin.”

However, in India a young lady was able to get an unfit mate replaced, on the spot (and with no internet advertising - and with a village's approval.)

Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom's more sober brother instead, police said Monday.

"The groom was drunk and had reportedly misbehaved with guests when the bride's family and local villagers chased him away," Madho Singh, a senior police officer told Reuters after Sunday's marriage in a village in Bihar state's Arwal district.

The younger brother readily agreed to take the groom's place beside the teenage bride at her family's invitation, witnesses said.

I guess if you're going get rid of your spouse, you better get approval before doing anything drastic.

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Blogdigger tags: Marriage, Drunk Groom, Wife Ad

Posted by SoccerDad at May 5, 2007 10:28 PM