Monday, 22 July 2013

Man claims he's world's oldest person at 141!

AN INDIAN man has claimed to be the world's oldest person - at an astonishing 141 years of age!

Feroz-ud-Din Mir, Kashmir, world's oldest man, India, Guinness World RecordsFeroz has been married five times and has more than 10 children [Kashmir Life]
Feroz-ud-Din Mir is believed to have a government-issued birth certificate showing his date of birth as 10 March, 1872.
Feroz, from north Kashmir, has been married five times and has more than 10 children.
Despite suffering with poor eyesight and a struggle with speech, Feroz can still manage to walk with the assistance of family members.
Guinness World Records are now thought to be investigating his claims to be the world's oldest living person.

“As the life started becoming easy, people couldn’t live easily with each other”
Feroz-ud-Din Mir
Japan's Misao Okawa is officially the current oldest living person in the world, at the age of 115.
Feroz's present wife Misra, who is over 80, loves listening to her elderly husband's stories.
"He is witness to some of the most significant events in history in the past century,” she toldKashmir Life.
Feroz himself claims life used to be a lot less complicated in his younger days.
"In early days there was no concept of electricity and all the other comforts," he said.
"As the life started becoming easy, people couldn’t live easily with each other.”

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