Thursday, July 08, 2010

And Keep Off Her Lawn!

Georgia claims it has world's oldest person, 130 - Yahoo! News: "Authorities in the former Soviet republic of Georgia claim a woman from a remote mountain village turned 130 on Thursday, making her the oldest person on Earth.

Antisa Khvichava from western Georgia was born on July 8, 1880, said Georgiy Meurnishvili, spokesman for the civil registry at the Justice Ministry.

The woman, who lives with her 40-year-old grandson in an idyllic vine-covered country house in the mountains, retired from her job as a tea and corn picker in 1965, when she was 85, records say."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, amazing story. Or in other words, bullsh!t.

Jeff

Deb said...

I'm having trouble with the logistics here--she's 130 and her grandson is only 40...that would make one of the grandson's parents reeeeeeeeeally old when he was born.

Back when one of the yogurt brands was trying to say that everyone in Soviet Georgia lived to be 100 because they ate yogurt every day, weren't a lot of these "old Russian folks" exposed as frauds? Apparently, they just added years (decades) to their lives to avoid conscription, war service, etc.

But just to be on the safe side, I'll stay off her lawn.