Isabelle Hood
Wedding vows often mention accepting each other for better or worse, but one Algerian groom found the ‘worse’ part too hard to swallow when he saw his bride without makeup. In a surreal twist to their wedded bliss, the husband woke up the morning after their wedding to find an unfamiliar face beside him. His bride, now without makeup, looked so different that he didn’t recognize her. Startled, he even thought she was a thief who had snuck into his home.
The dramatic scene unraveled further when he realized that the ‘intruder’ was in fact his wife, without her makeup. Feeling deceived, he decided to take the matter to court. The accusation? His wife had inflicted ‘psychological suffering’ on him by ‘cheating’ him with her makeup. He claimed that the lady he had married was not the same one he woke up next to, and for this ‘deception’, he sought a whopping $20,000 (£13,000) in damages.
According to local newspapers, the distraught groom claimed in court that he was deceived by his wife, who had always used makeup before their marriage. He had found her beautiful and attractive but woke up to a scare when he saw her natural face, which led him to mistake her for a thief. The absurdity of the case, with the groom demanding such a hefty amount for his ‘psychological suffering’, surely makes this one for the books!
Once upon a time, a man had a dream. He wanted to swim with a big, beautiful killer whale. One day, he hid at SeaWorld after it closed. When no one was looking, he jumped into the whale’s tank. But the whale hurt him and he didn’t survive.
In the aftermath of this tragic event, the man’s parents initiated legal action against SeaWorld. Their primary contention was the lack of public warning about the potential dangers posed by killer whales. They argued that SeaWorld was negligent in not explicitly cautioning visitors that these marine giants, despite their name, could indeed inflict fatal harm on people.
But the parents’ accusations against SeaWorld went further, SeaWorld was selling toy whales in their shop. This made whales look friendly. The parents said that was wrong and misleading. They believed that’s why their son thought it would be safe to swim with a whale.
And from that day on, every toy whale sold at SeaWorld came with a tiny life jacket and a warning label, “Do not attempt to swim with the real ones!” But, of course, this is just a joke – tiny life jackets for toy whales are not actually a thing at SeaWorld. At least, not yet!
