What Goes Up, Must Come Down!

In Turkey, a wedding turned into a senseless tragedy when a groom accidentally killed his father and two aunts with celebratory gun fire. As is tradition in Turkey for large celebrations, the groom fired an automatic weapon into the air, killing the three family members and then began to swing the gun around after he lost control of it, wounding eight other relatives in the process. Instead of cutting the cake, the groom was arrested and will spend his honeymoon in custody. Turkey has tried in the past to implement harsher punishment for the firing of weapons into the air, but even the fear of death hasn’t stopped partygoers from indulging in the illogical tradition.

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8 Comments

  1. Lillian T.
    Posted August 9, 2010 at 6:48 pm | Permalink

    “the groom was arrested and will spend his honeymoon in custody.” <—for some reason I just really like that sentence.

  2. Idiosyncratic
    Posted August 9, 2010 at 6:57 pm | Permalink

    Honeymooning on homicide charges? …Kinky..

  3. Michelle Ziliak
    Posted August 9, 2010 at 8:25 pm | Permalink

    That started the marriage off with a bang.

  4. Kazuki Skellington
    Posted August 9, 2010 at 9:27 pm | Permalink

    wow! thats really cool to know about this! this tells me not to have a wedding in Turkey!

  5. Posted August 10, 2010 at 8:30 pm | Permalink

    This behavior used to be popular in New Orleans as well, until someone fired a gun in the air for New Year’s and killed someone on a balcony above them.

  6. Lydia Sirena
    Posted August 11, 2010 at 2:13 am | Permalink

    I bet he’s got one really pissed off wife… Ex wife by now probably.

  7. Angie
    Posted August 11, 2010 at 6:06 pm | Permalink

    LoL, so we’re not the only ones who have hillbilly weddings? Jeezus, and the nerve of it all, the BRIDE should get first access to the automatic weaponry. Yeesh.

  8. Unknown Person
    Posted October 20, 2010 at 2:38 am | Permalink

    he should have used a Race gun with Blanks as bullets.. how dumb of him to fire a Weapon in a crowded place.. at least he’s gonna have a fun Honeymoon in Prison with his Jail Buddies..

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