Married Cambodian couple saw home in half after separation .

A
married couple in Cambodia who had "finally had enough" of each other
have gone their separate ways by literally cutting their home in half.




The wife will stay put with the upright half while her husband has
carried away his half to start again on the other side of the village.Neighbours
said the couple saw the radical action as the most cost-efficient and
equitable way to avoid each other in a country where divorce lawyers
can be expensive.Vorng Morn, the headman of Cheach village, fifty miles from the capital Phnom Penh, told the Phnom Penh Post:
"We tried to persuade them to think clearly before they did this
because they had been married for nearly 40 years. But they did not
listen."Mr Morn refused to identify the couple to protect their privacy.The
impetus for the break up was the husband's alleged malingering, or the
wife's alleged lack of care, depending on your point of view."His
wife said that if her husband got sick and stayed at home, she was made
to pay for his medicine, but if he stayed at his parent's house, she
wouldn't have to pay. So they separated," said Mr Morn.Following
the spat, the husband's friends helped him move his wife's belongings
to one side of the property, before chiselling and sawing half of the
building off, in a drastic move that even Steptoe and Son did not quite manage.Until he reconstructs his half of the marital home the husband will live with his mother and father.







I wonder if this would catch on here ? LOL