Wednesday, March 05, 2008http://friskodude.blogspot.com
Most of the oddball stories I find coming from Southeast Asia are from Thailand, but Cambodia is a close second, as shown by this bizarre tale of snake marriage in Phnom Penh. The wedding reception feast of live chickens was a nice touch, but sadly, no photos available, so it's the Cambodian snake kid above.
A pair of pythons have been married in Cambodia after the happy couple went on a hunger strike until they were delivered from living in sin, police and local media said on Wednesday.
Python pair "Increasing Fortune Friday," so named because he slithered into Secretary of State for the Defence Ministry Neang Phat's villa on a Friday in January, and his mate, "Lucky Saturday," who joined him a day later, have been joined in holy matrimony, Kien Svay police chief Pha Samet said by telephone.
"I have no details because I was too busy to join the reception, but I can confirm they got married yesterday," said the police chief. A guest estimated the happy couple to each be about 2-metres long.
The secretary was perplexed about why the snakes refused to eat since they arrived at his home, but then spirits appeared to him in a dream and advised that the serpentine lovers wished to comply with Cambodia's controversial 2006 monogamy law, according to Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper.
The law outlaws adultery and extra-marital relationships. "The process of the wedding ran exactly as the wedding of a human couple," the paper quoted Phat as saying - except, perhaps, for the reception buffet of live chickens. After the ceremony, which took place about 12km outside the capital, the pythons almost immediately consented to eat, the paper reported.
A pair of pythons have been married in Cambodia after the happy couple went on a hunger strike until they were delivered from living in sin, police and local media said on Wednesday.
Python pair "Increasing Fortune Friday," so named because he slithered into Secretary of State for the Defence Ministry Neang Phat's villa on a Friday in January, and his mate, "Lucky Saturday," who joined him a day later, have been joined in holy matrimony, Kien Svay police chief Pha Samet said by telephone.
"I have no details because I was too busy to join the reception, but I can confirm they got married yesterday," said the police chief. A guest estimated the happy couple to each be about 2-metres long.
The secretary was perplexed about why the snakes refused to eat since they arrived at his home, but then spirits appeared to him in a dream and advised that the serpentine lovers wished to comply with Cambodia's controversial 2006 monogamy law, according to Rasmei Kampuchea newspaper.
The law outlaws adultery and extra-marital relationships. "The process of the wedding ran exactly as the wedding of a human couple," the paper quoted Phat as saying - except, perhaps, for the reception buffet of live chickens. After the ceremony, which took place about 12km outside the capital, the pythons almost immediately consented to eat, the paper reported.
1 comment:
its a croc to to me.
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