You wouldn't know it watching him take care of his chickens on the family farm, but according to his birth certificate and official Mexican ID, Manuel Garcia Hernandez is 121 years old.
Garcia, who may just be the world's oldest man, was born on 24 December 1896, according to his birth certificate from the Mexican state of Veracruz and his official identity card from the National Electoral Institute.
He has never bothered calling the people at Guinness World Records to make it official.
But if his documents are correct, he is more than eight years older than Masazo Nonaka of Japan, the man who currently holds the title -- born on 25 July 1905.
Anyway, age is only a number. Garcia says he doesn't feel a day over 80.
He says he only has two regrets in his very long life: losing his father at a young age, and the fact he can no longer work.
Yet he is impressively spry as he tosses feed to his chickens at the home he shares with his daughter Tomasa in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico.
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2 comments:
He was 56 when I was born.
That's funny. The illegals say there is no work in their country. No money, no opportunities. Wonder why they do not look like they are starving when they come here. Hmmmmmm. Must be lying.
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