Halfway House: Divorcing Couple Literally Saw Their House Apart

Posted by Richard Metzger, October 9, 2008 2:29 PM | permalink

From the Daily Mail:

"A married couple who decided to go their separate ways agreed to divide their home and its contents literally - by sawing the house in half.
One day the house was standing on stilts in a Cambodian village. The next, only half was there.

The wife will keep the half that is standing, while the husband has carried off bits and pieces of the home to put them up in a nearby field."

The house LITERALLY sawn in half by divorcing couple (Thanks, Tara McGinley!)

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#1 posted by grimc , October 9, 2008 2:59 PM

Cambodian villagers are Robert Altman fans--who woulda guessed?

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#2 posted by TJ S , October 9, 2008 3:11 PM

What happened to their child!?!

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#3 posted by controlbroke , October 9, 2008 3:12 PM

i hope they didn't have any kids

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#4 posted by Brainspore , October 9, 2008 3:50 PM

This is like an "I Love Lucy" plot taken a couple of steps too far.

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#5 posted by Heath , October 9, 2008 3:55 PM

The mediator in their diovorce, Mr Solomon, is quoted as saying "I was just trying to judge who was the rightful owner of the house. I didn't think they'd go through with it"

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#6 posted by Gary61 , October 9, 2008 3:55 PM

"I have half a mind to take this house .... "

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#7 posted by EH , October 9, 2008 4:08 PM

Copycats. Gordon Matta-Clark did this in the 70s.

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#8 posted by morris , October 9, 2008 4:34 PM

This reminded me of a classic TV show I used to watch with my Grandfather called Steptoe & Son. Whenever I think of the show I always remember an episode where they divide the house in two:

http://www.albertandharold.co.uk/48.html

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#9 posted by Kieran O'Neill , October 9, 2008 5:11 PM

Lol. Someone just posted this in-game, and I thought "I should suggest this on Boing Boing."

Beat me to it!

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#10 posted by help i cant comfirm my username themelonbread , October 9, 2008 7:54 PM

@7: lol, if a divorcing couple can be inspired to do exactly the same thing as this self-proclaimed artist, and if it has the exact same effect once you disregard all the social commentary and statements of intent that he put into his accompanying abstract, then it just goes to show you that maybe not everything proclaimed as art is art.

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#11 posted by dculberson , October 9, 2008 9:40 PM

@#10, I do not think it means what you think it means.