http://akuse.com/Blog/holy-romania/ Purple thoughts on random topics. Politics, Current affairs, Design, Lifestyle, Architecture, Transportation, This n That Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:43:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://akuse.com/Blog/holy-romania/comment-page-1/#comment-31 This & That, Ceci et Cela » Romanian hands over wife to pay debt Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:39:05 +0000 http://akuse.com/Blog/holy-romania/#comment-31 [...] An update from the land of sex, pork, and laidback clergy: A Romanian man has handed over his wife to a creditor as payment for his debts.  Emil Iancu, from Tighisu Nou, gave his wife Daniela to 72-year-old Jozef Justien Lostrie when he turned up on his doorstep to collect a £1,800 debt.  Iancu said: “I had no money to pay the debt and when I told Lostrie he said he would take my wife instead.  I was scared of what he would do and so I signed a document saying Daniela would live with him.”  But Daniela says the deal has proved better for her.  “Before I had to clean the house and look after our three children on my own, while Emil did nothing, but now I’m treated like a guest and hardly have to raise a finger,” she said (Ananova). [...] [...] An update from the land of sex, pork, and laidback clergy: A Romanian man has handed over his wife to a creditor as payment for his debts.  Emil Iancu, from Tighisu Nou, gave his wife Daniela to 72-year-old Jozef Justien Lostrie when he turned up on his doorstep to collect a £1,800 debt.  Iancu said: “I had no money to pay the debt and when I told Lostrie he said he would take my wife instead.  I was scared of what he would do and so I signed a document saying Daniela would live with him.”  But Daniela says the deal has proved better for her.  “Before I had to clean the house and look after our three children on my own, while Emil did nothing, but now I’m treated like a guest and hardly have to raise a finger,” she said (Ananova). [...]

]]> http://akuse.com/Blog/holy-romania/comment-page-1/#comment-26 This & That, Ceci et Cela » Romanian clergy laid back like that Sun, 21 May 2006 03:08:10 +0000 http://akuse.com/Blog/holy-romania/#comment-26 [...] As reported before, the air must be a bit different in Romania. This certainly bolsters the notion: Police in Romania say they have caught a thief who stole money from a priest’s car while he was in a strip club. The 43-year-old priest was allegedly spotted by the thief in a club called No Problem in Suceava town, reports Evenimentul Zilei newspaper. Witnesses say he was being free with his money, hiring all of the dancers to perform for him and his friends. Police say the thief found out which was the priest’s car and broke into it, stealing £4,000 he found in a suitcase. But officers managed to track him down and recover the money, after studying CCTV footage from the club’s carpark. Church authorities said they will start their own investigation into the priest’s moral qualifications for his job (Ananova). [...] [...] As reported before, the air must be a bit different in Romania. This certainly bolsters the notion: Police in Romania say they have caught a thief who stole money from a priest’s car while he was in a strip club. The 43-year-old priest was allegedly spotted by the thief in a club called No Problem in Suceava town, reports Evenimentul Zilei newspaper. Witnesses say he was being free with his money, hiring all of the dancers to perform for him and his friends. Police say the thief found out which was the priest’s car and broke into it, stealing £4,000 he found in a suitcase. But officers managed to track him down and recover the money, after studying CCTV footage from the club’s carpark. Church authorities said they will start their own investigation into the priest’s moral qualifications for his job (Ananova). [...]

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