Seeing Triple
Melvyn Reed, 59, awoke after triple heart bypass surgery to find several people waiting for him to recover, including his wife, his wife, and his wife. Reed, who lives in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, turned himself in to police to face bigamy charges after he was released from the hospital. “Unfortunately,” he told astonished officers, “the timing of the visits went out of sync and they all arrived at once.” He was given a suspended jail term and paid 70 pounds (US$129) in court costs. Wives two (age 45) and three (age 55) are out of luck: wife one, 61, has apparently forgiven him and he has moved back in with her. (London Telegraph) ...“Bigamy, n.: A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.” —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914), American journalist
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