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01 Jun 2009, 1:58 am

Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off organ

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CAIRO – A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis 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.



I guess it would really suck to be a 25 yo man and not be free to marry whoever you wish...



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01 Jun 2009, 7:57 am

This phenomenon is fairly common in third world countries at North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and most of South East Asia.



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01 Jun 2009, 8:22 am

I could understand him being upset enough to do a lot of things.

But to go so far by cutting his........

Now that's love.... :heart: :?


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01 Jun 2009, 10:25 am

They should have eloped.


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01 Jun 2009, 10:29 am

Or something. Cutting off your own Willy Wonka isn't a very rational thing to do.



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01 Jun 2009, 12:01 pm

MattShizzle wrote:
Or something. Cutting off your own Willy Wonka isn't a very rational thing to do.


I'd say so; that'd be extremely painful - not to mention dangerous.


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01 Jun 2009, 12:24 pm

I'm guessing by now he regrets it. Brings new meaning to "cutting off your nose to spite your face."



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01 Jun 2009, 12:52 pm

Maybe they can grow him a new one...


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01 Jun 2009, 7:53 pm

Glad I don't live in Egypt.



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04 Jun 2009, 11:25 pm

Did he get any type of Severance Package???



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05 Jun 2009, 1:18 am

[quote="hiker7"]Did he get any type of Severance Package???[/quote}

He did get a severed package... I wonder if he left the nutsack intact, or did he lop that off too?



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05 Jun 2009, 3:11 am

That song "I'm half the man I used to be" suddenly comes to mind.



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05 Jun 2009, 2:42 pm

normally_impaired wrote:
That song "I'm half the man I used to be" suddenly comes to mind.


ZING!! ! :lol:


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05 Jun 2009, 2:47 pm

It did take balls to do that...



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05 Jun 2009, 2:48 pm

jrknothead wrote:
He did get a severed package... I wonder if he left the nutsack intact, or did he lop that off too?



One version of the story I saw on the abc news site said he mutilated them.



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06 Jun 2009, 12:23 am

MattShizzle wrote:
It did take balls to do that...


Yeah too bad he cut them off.