Woman Claims to be 157 Years old

[Cermage]

Census workers in Indonesia have come across a woman who claims to be 157 years old.

Don't believe her? You could always ask her 108-year-old adopted daughter.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide (RNW) reports the woman, identified only as Turinah, lives in a small village on the island of Sumatra. She doesn't have identification papers because she burned them in 1965 so she wouldn't be connected to communists, she told authorities.

"There's no authentic data to prove her age but judging from her statements and the age of her adopted daughter, who's now 108 years old, it's difficult to doubt it," statistics bureau official Jhonny Sardjono told global news agency AFP Monday.

AFP reported the woman still works around her home and has smoked clove cigarettes all her life.

"Despite her age she still has an incredible memory, clear sight and has no hearing problems. She speaks Dutch quite fluently," Sardjono said.

If it's true, it means the woman has outlived the only person verified to have lived more than 120 years. Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122.

RNW says Turinah claimed to be born in 1853 and is able to describe the huge eruption of the Krakatao volcano between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia in June 1883, which she said she saw with her own eyes.

In the year of her birth, street signs were authorized in San Francisco intersections for the first time, the first electric telegraph was used, the U.S. began minting $3 gold pieces and Giuseppe Verdi's Opera La Traviata premiered in Venice.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/2010/...8/14306001.html

pretty cool eh.

 

[Depravo]

Cut her in half and count the rings. It's the only way to be sure.

 

[Snorlax]

Cut her in half and count the rings. It's the only way to be sure.

This man is onto something...
Someone get him a scalpel! o:

 

[Bladexdsl]

this reeks of bullshit! who is she related to professor farnsworth?

 

[Lube_Skyballer]

Holy shite! She saw the f-ing eruption of the Krakatau with her own eyes? These things just blow my mind

 

[nutella]

Holy shite! She saw the f-ing eruption of the Krakatau with her own eyes? These things just blow my mind

i see what you did thar

 

[Joe88]

I saw Lincoln get shot, i can haz world record now?
though i have no proof what so ever of my age, but you trust me

 

[Veho]

though i have no proof what so ever of my age

We could always cut you in half.

And leave it at that.

Rings? What rings? I just want to cut this guy in half.

 

[ddetkowski]

I'm into cutting.
Lets go, boys!!

 

[Cyan]

she's name Luca and will gives you the spear if you meet her at the water pala.. Oh, wait

Isn't any way to know the age of a person with biologic analysis ?
Like cells life cycle, bone's size, radiography, magnetic resonance imagery, Carbone14 .. oh humanity curiosity will kill her quicker just to know her real age.

If it's real, and she still enjoy life, I wish her to live even longer.

 

[mrfatso]

this reeks of bullshit! who is she related to professor farnsworth?

maybe she's farnsworth's wife?

 

[Theraima]

Don't believe her? You could always ask her 108-year-old adopted daughter.
Could be lying.

She doesn't have identification papers because she burned them in 1965 so she wouldn't be connected to communists, she told authorities.
Shouldnt there be quite many ways to prove your age? And I doubt this thing most.

QUOTE

RNW says Turinah claimed to be born in 1853 and is able to describe the huge eruption of the Krakatao volcano between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia in June 1883, which she said she saw with her own eyes.

Cant everyone do that? Describe something. Quite easy.

 

[Veho]

Shouldnt there be quite many ways to prove your age?

Name a few.

 

[nasune]

Well the parts of the skull fuse more and more the older one gets, but I doubt we have some comparison to see the truth (most likely the only thing we can say with that is that she'd be old, or not that old).

 

[luke_c]

Woah! If this is true that's incredible! Smashed the previous record!

 

[Theraima]

Name a few.

Passport, Driver License, State issued identification card, Military ID or Dependent Card.

Enough?

 

[T-hug]

What about this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Ching-Yuen

 

[Cermage]

Name a few.

Passport, Driver License, State issued identification card, Military ID or Dependent Card.

Enough?

she burnt all her identification bro.

there's no of doing it without cutting her open.

 

[Hadrian]

Have they even looked into researching her parents? She could steal someones name of course.

 

[Theraima]

she burnt all her identification bro.

there's no of doing it without cutting her open.

Or what Gaydrian said.