Friday, May 14, 2010

Too much is never enough...

CONNINGHAM, Australia, April 30 (UPI) -- An Australian man pleaded guilty to bigamy after his first wife saw his second wedding photo in a newspaper and went to the police.

Nicholas Trikilis, 44, of Conningham pleaded guilty to bigamy, forgery and giving false information in Hobart Magistrates Court, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Friday.

Trikilis forged divorce papers and married his second wife in 2008, court records showed.

His first wife saw a wedding photo he submitted to a local newspaper and reported him to police.


Magistrate Michael Daly sentenced Trikilis to six months in prison, which was suspended for five years, and ordered him to pay a fine of more than $1,800.

Hold the phone... Nicholas Trik-"or Treat"-ilis had the cunning and know-how to forge his divorce papers but was dumb enough to submit a wedding photo of he and the second wife to a local newspaper that his first wife reads? There has got to be something going on here. I have two theories.

Theory 1: Forgery is just not that hard. Despite what the James Bond movies tell us, you don't need some special forgery artist (seems like in the movies there is always only 1 guy that can get the job done) to create a perfect replica for you. Most people are predisposed to believe that what you are telling them is true. My guess is that in most cases forging divorce papers or any other document is easier than a Lohan sister. Probably pull a template from the internet, throw a few John Hancocks on the thing, and there you are... sunny times.

Theory 2: Saint Nick was doing a pretty good job keeping things under wraps. He successfully fooled the local government with the phony divorce papers, he had a careful plan of where he took each woman out to dinner so that they never ran into each other or even into close friends, he had a carefully crafted cover story of a high stress job with lots of overnight trips, and he was getting more ass than the High School Musical cast. Life was pretty good for Nicky boy. Then disaster struck.

Feeling more invincible than Tiger Woods, Nick got caught up with a third woman. As his time was again divided, his second wife started to feel neglected and began nagging him about the fact that he never took her out anymore, and was he embarrassed to be seen with her. All this culminated into a blowout fight one night where Nick's second wife finally through the hay-maker... "and you didn't even submit our wedding photos to the town gazette, do you not love me?" Nick had no choice but to take drastic measures. He bided his time until he saw a big media story... in this case, ash clouds all over Europe. He then called in a favor at the town paper and got his wedding pic, posted in the middle of the wedding section, so as not to be too conspicuous. His plan seemed to go off without a hitch until one of his first wife's friends noticed the picture and the whole thing fell apart faster than one of those old cap guns.

I think the moral of this story is one wife is all any man can handle

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