Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan

In rural Kyrgyzstan men still marry their women the old-fashioned way: by abducting them off the street and forcing them to be their wife. Bride kidnapping is a supposedly ancient custom that's made a major comeback since the fall of Communism and now accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts. We traveled to the Kyrgyz countryside to follow/aid and abet a young groom named Kubanti as he surprised his teenage girlfriend Nazgul with the gift of marriage/kidnapping.

Hosted by Thomas Morton | Originally aired in 2011 on http://VICE.com

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[testosteron4sale]

nothing is shocking after the donkey fucking columbians

[TheAfghan72]

Fucking mongols are everywhere!

[MrRedPajamas]

I wanted to kidnap my future bride but, she hit me in the head with her metal lunchbox and the middle school principal chased me away and called the police. I'm fifty years old BTW. Oh well...

[Kenneth Wong]

I wish happy life together. Westerners are just jealous, and try to intervene and makes more problems. Leave them to their culture to how it is.

[Fenathegreat]

Girls will be happy if they get married crying- I am so sick of the whole world treating girls and women like shit. Ffs.

[Khairul Nizam]

This tradition or culture must stop.

[713jlopez213]

Damnnn i need to shoot out to dat country ill b kidnapping all day n night haha n specially when im horny is like my homies ask me where u going fool kidnapp me a huge booty chinies girl haha i would have da tyme of my life man da states should have this type of culture who agree wht me ...u know wht ima send a kite to da president haha change da world so girls get ready fo da apocalypse ending my dick up ya ass ha

[vagabondroller]

Yeah, I want to slap the shit out of him. He ruins otherwise good stories.

[bobhopecares]

She doesn't want to get married.

[playlistnation2005]

ok thank for clearing that out

[jai10121977]

lol..... i watched that too!!! dont know why. 

[Fernando Guimarey]

lmao i guess thats another way of gettin out the friend zone