Thursday, February 01, 2007

Time's not up

In the news this week - Emma Tillman who took out the title of world's oldest living person last week - and held it for four days. The current oldest living person is believed to live in Japan. So what does it take to make it that far - there are lots of attributions - good, clean leaving, a scotch a day - you've heard it all before. But maybe luck has something to do with it - like for the 100 year-old woman in Sydney this week who spent 15 hours trapped under a grandfather clock. She had apparently got up in the middle of the night, tripped, grabbed the clock to steady herself - and pulled it down on top of her. Neighbours heard her cries for help and she was taken to hospital where she is in a serious but stable condition. It's likely that she will be kept in hospital for a couple of days but she is expected to make a full recovery. Obviously, when time came crashing down on her, her time wasn't up yet.

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