157 year old woman "found" in Indonesia

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story here - she doesn't have any papers but she does have a 108yo adopted daughter!

Puts women in their 50s and 60s having DC into perspective, no?

Woah, can they not do some kind of test to find out how old she is?

carbon dating or cut her in half and count the rings

dunno - check the rings in her teeth, maybe?
Is there such a test? (I mean one that can tell how old she is without her being dead)

Jenroy

I wonder if she'll claim she is as old as she is because of 20 cigarettes and a half bottle of whiskey a day?

Awww do we have to wait till shes dead?

ah but they're clove cigarettes, so that's all right then.

nah she's 62 and it's a hoax. Smokers always look older than they really are.

wow
I hope it is true

There's no way it's true.

why not, BuzzingNoise?

where is the photo of her,
Clove cigarettes? She's never had tooth ache and smells of bread sauce.

I just don't believe it.

Can't find one on line - but they showed one on the tv here and she did look old and wrinkled! Like a weather-bashed raisin.

There must be a point where you can't get any wrinklier.

I still don't think she'd be 157. Probably really old, but surely not that old.

lol at weather bashed raisin

Get her on Jeremy Kyle to do a polygraph test or if she has a pet tortoise that psychic that can talk to animals can ask it how old she is.

If her adopted daughter has papers to prove she is 108 then the adoptive mum must have be at least 126, as I assume you have to be 18 to adopt?

LOL at Jeremy Kyle or psychic --> tortoise discussion!

Dunno how old you'd have to be to adopt in Indonesia, tbh.
I read, was it in the link I posted? that she saw Krakatoa erupt in 1883 - according to her, she would have been 26 then.

Wish I could find the photo, it was amazing really!

My dps nanna was older than her step mother though

David Dickinson could value her

but she may not be the adoptive mother, she could be lying, they could both be in it together

I do hope it is true though. I don't see why there shouldn't be some mutation or something that a very tiny number of people have that makes them age more slowly.

at they could both be in it together - in what? It was a census, not a "find the oldest person you know and tell us about them" competition!

they could still be making it up for fun - it's the sort of thing I will do to amuse myself when I am 108.