Friday Funny: Divorcing Couple Cut House in Two

40 years of marriage was apparently too many, as a man in Cambodia cut his home in two, moving his half to his parents' property.

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October 17, 2008, 2:00 PM PDT

By Tim Halbur

"'It is the strangest thing I've ever seen,' said May Titthara, who wrote about the case for The Phnom P'nh Post, an English-language newspaper in the Cambodian capital. "People there never saw this happen in a divorce. It is very interesting for them.'

The husband and wife had been living together in the house in a village in the Prey Veng province of southern Cambodia, roughly 50 miles (80 km) from the capital."

FULL STORY: A house divided: Estranged couple's home cut in half

Thursday, October 9, 2008 in CNN

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