When ‘Separation of Property’ has gone too far…

I’ve first seen the image above in Brown Pinay’s blog. Apparently, it’s an actual house in rural Cambodia wherein a couple terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement which involved sawing their conjugal home and separated it into two equal parts.

Here’s an excerpt of the news report about this incident:

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(via Yahoo! News) “Very strange, but this is what my husband wanted,” the separated wife 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. [READ MORE…]

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Separation is such a downer to blog about, but this one is just too amusing to pass up. 😀