Posted on 05/24/2016 2:11:13 PM PDT by bkopto
For the eighth time, Peruvian actor and environmental activist Ricardo Torres has symbolically married a tree as part of an ecological awareness campaign to urge others to care for the environment.
The wedding took place at a landmark location, the town of Santa Maria del Tule, which is home to an ancient 2000-year-old cypress tree. The tree's estimated weight is more than 544.3 million kilograms.
Torres left the house of his godmother, accompanied by a committee of village elders, friends and family, and walked down the Sabino street towards a cluster of Cypress tree leaves to start with the ritual procession.
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Torres placed a ring on one of the tree's branches and kissed it as guests threw rice at the "newly wed" couple.
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At the end of the ceremony, he threw a bouquet at the wedding attendees.
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I suppose rumours of a budding romance were true,but I still suspect graft may be part of it.
shotgun marriage, no doubt...someone was itching to pull the twigger, I bet...
My wife wants to know if it was a chainsaw wedding?
He's a love 'em and leaf 'em kinda guy.
544 kilos to lbs is 544 x 2.2 = 1199.31471 pounds.
1200 million pounds?
So they’d have us believe the dude married a tree that weighs... I dunno - a lot.
The responses on this thread give yet more proof that FR is at the same time the most awesome and most horrible site on the entire internet.
After seeing all the incredibly witty comments I was going to write a sappy haiku, but I was stumped.
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