By gum; that were a bad thing what happened...

We know that we shouldn't laugh at other people's misfortune, but this takes the cake; Idiot of the Day reports:

An unlucky British man seems doomed never to get his ex-wife off his back after his decision to have her portrait tattooed on his body backfired when she left him for another man.

Alan Jenkins endured 20 painful hours of needlework — as well as forking out almost $2000 — to have the life-size faces of his wife Lisa and two daughters forever etched on his back.

However, his 36-year-old wife had the image of another man burned into her heart — a Latvian fitness instructor 11 years her junior.

Here's the offending tattoo:

People who get tattoos need to remember that they are far more permanent than the life events that they often represent. Still, at least Mr Jenkins won't be able to look at his  two thousand quid painful reminder too much!