From Harper’s Weekly
A six-year-old boy and a five-year-old-girl were detained in Germany, on a train to the airport; they explained to police that they planned to fly to Africa to be married. The couple, disguised in sunglasses, had brought along several suitcases, a pink blow-up doll, swim fins, and the boy’s seven-year-old sister, who planned to act as witness. “What struck us was that the little ones were completely on their own,” said a police spokesman, “and that they had lots of swimming gear with them.”
The happy couple — identified only as Mika and Anna-Lena — were apparently “very much in love” and “fed up with the near-Arctic temperatures at home.” Mika had previously visited Italy with his parents, and managed to convince Anna-Lena that Africa would be even warmer. They didn’t bother to tell their parents, Anna-Lena said, because they didn’t plan to be gone for very long.
Ten bucks says that if these two end up getting married in 20 years, Hollywood comes knocking with a movie deal.
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1 Asher Vijay // Jan 14, 2009 at 9:50 pm
(”Temperatures in Germany have been as low as -10C since Christmas.”)
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