Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off organ

By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 4 mins ago
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.

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I guess that will show his family huh?

there is, uh...absolutely nothing i can say that could top that.

uh...

I have heard cutting off your nose to spite your face.. but this is way over the top...

I'm not sure how I would feel knowing some guy did that for me

glad you don't have to marry him? and...secretly ensuring that you never do?

didn't Picaso cut off part of the ear and mail it to a woman??? i'd hate to see this in my mailbox lol

I don't have that part...but it hurts me reading it

and he voluntarily did it!!!!!!! who is that going to teach a lesson to except him???

Wow I could think of a lot of things to do but to cut off my body parts who actually in the end are you making and example of?

Shshshshhsh all I have to say is OUCH!!!!

I got 2 mods in my thread and i'm not even in trouble

now I know what brings the mods out

hehe...

does anyone else find it ironic that the title of the thread is "family axes wedding"?

the only ones that would be taught a lesson by this guy's...uh...sacrifice are those that are seriously co-dependent. i'm thinking he needs serious psychiatric help, not a wife.

Why would a guy Bobbitt himself?

Hehehehe and ya know it is a fluke I'm even in here shshsh I don't normally check out these forums unless I have too.

But have to admit the title did catch my attention

No, it's Van Gogh you're thinking about. And last month, it came out that it might have been done by another painter to him.

Dang, the guy needs a shrink...

Very sad.

Are you sure this post wasn't meant for April 1st?

Isn't there a difference between a fools and insane people. LOL

His family denied him love. so, he has denied his family reproduction of them...

drastic yes, and if he is not the only son of the family, then he is not accomplishing anything...however, if he is, he denied his family.

wow...that had to hurt!

Just call him a tally whacker- OFFer..

I guess he can leave the toilet seat down now!

you are right sully lol...I took benadryl today after mowing grass so I'm more scatter brained than normal lol

now I know how to get people in the threads....talk about idiots that castrate themselves