Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 18, 2015
Transcript:
Meat go boom! In 1970, Charles Godfrey of California patented a system for tenderizing meat using explosives! Indian diamond trader Mahesh Savani paid for 111 fatherless brides from humble backgrounds to get married at a ceremony in the city of Surat in November 2014. In December 2014, the Dutch explorer Manon Ossevoort reached the South Pole and a Massey Ferguson tractor, completing a 25,000 mile journey from the Netherlands.
spaced man spliff over 9 years ago
What route did he take?
Templo S.U.D. over 9 years ago
If TNT can tenderize meat, good luck scraping all the leftover scraps to make your hamburger patties, your meatloaves, etc. off the walls.
bruce.june.06 over 9 years ago
He didn’t marry them, he paid for their weddings!!!
cripplious over 9 years ago
Exactly just because a man wants to play father of the bride, does not mean hes a sexual deviant.
MJKesquire over 9 years ago
It said, “fatherless brides”! Maybe he did it because he never had a daughter!
MJKesquire over 9 years ago
To Juice-Bruce, the problem I have is only in the typing of my comments maybe once a week. The problems I have been having for over a week is kind of like a freeze up where I canmove my curser but I get no response when I click on some-thing & I cannot scroll up or down. All this started happeningabout a week ago!
Guilty Bystander over 9 years ago
Did that tractor have pontoons? You still have to cross water to reach Antarctica.
tuslog64 over 9 years ago
Hope that MF had a good grade of anti-freeze!
tuslog64 over 9 years ago
Re meat tenderizing: At one time someone experimented with running high voltage through roasts, but have not heard of it since. (Probably too dangerous to the user)
Angry Indeed Premium Member over 9 years ago
He didn’t marry them. See: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/india-diamond-trader-throws-wedding-111-fatherless-women-too-poor-afford-ceremony-1477525
Charlie Fogwhistle over 9 years ago
Regarding the Indian diamond trader, in India the dowry custom involves the bride’s family making payment to the bridegroom’s family. The fatherless brides from poor backgrounds would have no way to pay a dowry, thus would be destined to marry someone in equally poor circumstances. What the diamond trader would have been doing, is making the dowry payment on behalf of these poor young women, allowing them to make a better marriage.