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'130-year-old' woman in world record bid
Posted on Thursday, 11 March, 2010 | 6 comments
A woman who lives in a remote Georgian village is claiming to be the world's oldest person at 130 years old.
Antisa Khvichava claims she was born in 1880 and has birth documents to prove it, if genuine then she will take the title currently held by a 114-year-old Japanese woman as world's oldest human being.
A Georgian woman is claiming to be the oldest person in the world. Her birth documents show that she was born on July 8 1880 and will turn 130 this summer. Antisa Khvichava, who lives in a remote village in Georgia, enjoys playing backgammon and drinking vodka.
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#2 Posted by REBEL on 11 March, 2010, 0:03Retired & started collecting her pension before i was even born...and still cruising!
#3 Posted by Lizardian_guy on 11 March, 2010, 3:59Those usually turn out to be fake. The person either has the same name as a parent or is just plain lying. "I'm Antisa Khvichava, born in 1880!" "No, that's your mother. You're Antisa Khvichava, born in 1921." Hell, just watched the video in the article... Obvi...
#4 Posted by Bill Hill on 11 March, 2010, 4:26you always have to barter with these people... how old is she? "130 years old" No really... "120 years old" No really "110 years old"
#5 Posted by san girl on 11 March, 2010, 22:02HAHHAHAHA LMAO!!! True!
#6 Posted by Fluffybunny on 11 March, 2010, 22:29Yeah, this is bogus...I am sorry but the numbers do not add up or make sense. The confirmed oldest people are in the range of 115 or so, and all the people that try to say they are decades older come from countries with shady record keeping and the tendency to add years to a persons life as a sign o...
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