Let’s say that you’ve just had a brutal argument with your wife. She’s always giving you the business about something: You spend too much time with your friends...you ought to spend more time with the kids...you need to spend less time with your mistress...and so on. After a fight with his wife, an unemployed man in Uttar Pradesh had just about enough. He flew the coop, and returned two years later with the ultimate retort:

During his absence, he got himself castrated and became a eunuch, earning money by singing and dancing, a common form of employment among India’s ostracized community of eunuchs. “I was always fond of singing and dancing, but felt suffocated in my body as a man,” Nabiullah was quoted as saying. His wife, Shama Parveen, fainted when he returned home late last month... [Reuters/Yahoo!]