In February in Pattaya, Thailand, the woman who was the
former Guinness Book record holder for living in a cage with
scorpions was married to the man who holds the equivalent record
for time spent with centipedes, with consummation immediately
afterward in a coffin. (Kanchana Ketkaew had stayed 32 days with
3,400 scorpions and Bunthawee Siengwong 28 days with 1,000
centipedes.) (2) After Ms. Sohela Ansari told friends in their
village in West Bengal state in India that her husband had
mumbled "talaq, talaq, talaq" in his sleep, word got to local
Muslim authorities, who declared the couple divorced. (A Muslim
husband may obtain a divorce merely by the utterance, and the
West Bengal clerics ruled that he need not be awake at the
time.) [BBC News, 1-27-06] [Reuters, 3-27-06]
