Posted on 09/17/2013 8:32:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some marriages hit the rocks quicker than others it seems. A Frenchman was sentenced to 18 months behind bars this week for a violent attack on his new husband, just hours after they had tied the knot.
Most married couples dream of spending their wedding night together, but for two French newly-weds it didn’t quite work out as planned on Sunday. One man spent the night nursing a black eye while his attacker, none other than his new husband, spent the special night in a prison cell.
The two 22-year-old men from Alencon in Normandy, northern France, became embroiled in a dispute just hours after they had said "yes" and exchanged the rings in the local Town Hall.
As the row escalated into violence, one husband launched a fierce blow to the head of his new spouse that has resulted in them spending their first months of married life apart.
French newspaper Ouest-France reported that a court had taken a dim view of the violent dispute and sentenced the aggressor to 18 months behind bars on Monday.
The sentence was handed down despite him receiving the support of his husband who wanted the charges to be dropped.
The problem was it was not the man’s first offence. His previous convictions have ensured that it will be a while before the newly-weds see each other on the outside.
However the time spent in jail may be for the best and allow a much-needed cooling off period, before they can pick up where they left off in 18 months time.
A Frenchman was sentenced to 18 months behind bars this week for a violent attack on his new husband
...all their dreams went Poof!
Wait, I guess in French that’s pouffe!
No. the story is about two young men.
No kidding. Who knew? Thanks for the much needed correction.
You should have turned left at Albuquerque, Bugs!
How many wives beat up their husbands? It happens, I know, but I’d bet it is the husband who’s leaving his tearful wife for an 18 month stint of hard labor picking up soap in the shower.
I think they actually meant, “Pervert to spend first 18 months of Marriage in Jail”
delenda est...
Wait, that was last week's big story.
well apparently “lastchance” in post #9, and maybe a few others needed the correction, unless they were just being cute or ironic and thought it was a story about straights full of “typos”.
Two young men are no more married because of some legal fiction than putting a dog in at top hat and calling it Lincoln makes it president.
I had a gay friend in Seattle who was adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage. I asked him why one time and he said that gay marriage wasn’t the problem but that gay divorce would kill people. He wasn’t joking, either. I told him that straight marriage was like that too sometimes and he just shook his head and said no, it wasn’t anywhere close. I’ve often wondered since then if maybe he was right.
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