An Indian man who believed he had been cursed for stoning to death two dogs has atoned for his sin by marrying another dog in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony. How about that: More bizarre news stories from around the worldP. Selvakumar, a 33-year-old farm labourer from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, married the four-year-old stray bitch after it was bathed and processed to his village temple dressed in an orange sari and garlanded with flowers.  | | Friends and relations attend P. Selvakumar's wedding to a dog |
The marriage took place on the advice of the man's astrologer who said it was the only way to atone for his actions of more than 20 years ago. He was reported to have suffered a series of physical ailments after stoning the dogs to death and hanging their bodies from a tree. “After that my legs and hands got paralysed and I lost hearing in one ear,” said Mr Selvakumar after the ceremony with his new "bride", whose name is Selvi. A reception attended by some 200 guests was held for the newlyweds in the groom's house during which Selvi grew restless and ran away. However she was subsequently recaptured and returned to her husband who gave her milk and a bun to eat. It is understood that the groom is still free to find a human wife should he be inclined. Mr Selvakumar is not the first man to have hit the headlines for having romantic relations with animals. Last year a Sudanese man was forced to marry a goat after village elders discovered him having sex with her. The goat died shortly afterwards. | 
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2008-01-0318:20:00 The goat died from shame I imagine. The message here is that, sometimes, things get out of hand. If goats were hanging around just waitng to be abused where were the sheep?!!!! The dog probably had the upper hand in this relationship so I hope the dog was a bitch. If not, then this really is nasty.
2008-01-0320:05:00 LOL, i can understand where this is going though. His Karma obviously got the better of him and he had to do something to rectify (sp?) it otherwise his karma could have followed him to his next life of which who knows what could have happened, for all we know he could have been stoned to death or worse. At least he has began to make ammends even though what he did do is now unable to remedy, sheesh, complicated religious stuff, westerners have a real hard time understanding some of this, lol.