Original URL: https://www.theregister.com/2007/08/22/moscow_human_candle/

Livid woman torches ex-hubby's wedding tackle

'Monstrously painful', admits Moscow human candle

By Lester Haines

Posted in Bootnotes, 22nd August 2007 12:49 GMT

A Moscow man who ill-advisedly decided to sit watching telly in the nude in the flat he shared with his ex-missus earned himself a wedding-tackle-torching for his trouble, the Evening Standard reports.

The unnamed man's former wife evidently took exception to his vodka-swilling TV viewing, and duly set fire to his penis. A police spokeswoman admitted it was "difficult to predict" if the human candle would make a full recovery from the ordeal which he described as "monstrously painful".

He added: "I was burning like a torch. I don't know what I did to deserve this."

In case you're wondering, the couple divorced three years back, but continued to cohabit, an arrangement "common in Russia where property costs are very high". ®