Customs officials at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Airport had a startling experience yesterday. A Korean man was passing through customs when an official spotted that his passport said he was born in 979 AD, making him 1,035 years old.
Following recent aviation disasters, police are being very careful about dodgy looking passports while on the lookout for fakes. When the man was held for questioning it was found that his passport was in no way fake, it merely had a typo. He was born in 1979, not 979, and is actually 35 years old. Chinese media dubbed him the ‘Thousand Year Old Man’.
Source: news.sina.com.cn
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For gods' sake Echinacities! You could at least do a tiny bit of fact checking before you post some drivel designed to make us all see the lighter side of living in this dump.
Mar 15, 2014 13:00 Report Abuse
...and I suppose this was written by a Brit? Now you see why we need those 60 math teachers(tsk, tsk).
Mar 14, 2014 22:08 Report Abuse
this story cant be from 2014. I'm not Chinese and suck at maths but even I know that 1976 would not mean they are 35
Mar 14, 2014 18:46 Report Abuse
Hey guys, thanks for spotting our clumsy mistake. It has now been rectified.
Mar 17, 2014 13:39 Report Abuse
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