Michigan: Woman, 104, forced to lie about age on Facebook

Marguerite Joseph can be forgiven for lying about her age on Facebook. The 104-year-old Michigan woman’s granddaughter says Joseph is unable to list her real age on the social media site.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Marguerite Joseph can be forgiven for lying about her age on Facebook. The 104-year-old Michigan woman’s granddaughter says Joseph is unable to list her real age on the social media site.Gail Marlow says when she tries inputting her grandmother’s birth year as 1908, Facebook changes it to 1928. So for the past two years, the Grosse Pointe Shores centenarian has remained 99 -- online, anyway.Joseph is legally blind and can’t hear well, but Marlow reads and responds to all of her Facebook messages.Marlow tells WDIV-TV she "would love to see” Joseph’s real age displayed on Facebook and chalks up her inability to do so to "a glitch in the system.”---------------------------------India: 5-year old made to drink own urine by teacher A five-year-old student was forced to drink urine allegedly by his teacher at a private school in Anaparthy, East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh in southern India.Sources said that students at Satyabhama English Medium School had complained to their English teacher Gouri that the child had urinated in a plastic mug in the toilet. The enraged teacher then allegedly forced the boy to drink it. The matter came to light when he returned home in the evening and told his parents about the incident. The boy’s parents went to the school next morning and lodged a protest with the management and sought action against the teacher. When they did not get a proper response, they approached the police.----------------------------------Sweden: Swedish woman arrested for having sex with skeletons A Swedish brunette is accused of licking and hugging human skulls in her flat in Gothenburg. The alleged necrophiliac faces up to two years in jail for "disturbing the peace of the dead".Prosecutors say the 37-year-old kept at least six skulls, a spine and "a large number of other bones" in a secret compartment, along with a drill, body bags and pictures from a mortuary.The woman, who comes from south-western Sweden, was charged at Gothenburg District Court, but has denied the allegations - claiming she collected the bones out of historical interest.--------------------------------------India: World's shortest woman enters Bigg Boss house Jyoti Amge, world's shortest woman, enters the mud house of Bigg Boss 6 as a participant. The 19-year-old from Nagpur, who has been officially declared the world's smallest woman by Guinness Book of Records with a height of 62.8 cm (24.7 inches), said she wanted to participate in the show because she thinks it will give her chance to be a part of showbiz.