No Way This Guy is 101

ridiculous, he is probably 75, 80 max

It's a scam. He might be 85 or so. I would think less.

I would think that it's been checked out several times

I thought the same thing, that he was in his 70s or 80s. I have a relative who is actually 101, and in good health, so I've seen 101 year olds. I'd say there's no way that guy is even 85. It looks like a marketing scam -- and a sucessfull one -- for the plumbing company he works for.

I thought this was a John McCain thread.

Reporters are lazy.

They could dig up his war service record.

Too young for WW1 and probably too old for WWII,

but there were plenty of Brits. in their 40's serving during the blitz.

Just need a researcher to spend an afternoon at the public records to look up his school or military record and see how many wives he's buried. Does he have any younger siblings (in their 90's)? Does he have any children in their 70's?

Remember 101 means born in 1907, so he would have been in his 30's during Churchill's time.

That track suit with all the advertising looks like a publicity stunt.

My best guess is he looks 70 to 75.

They should know by his national insurance number. NI was introduced in 1911 and he would have been allocated a number while at school and notified of it on or around his 16th birthday. Numbers up until the mid 1980s were allocated by reference to your school class and by alphabetical surname order e.g. if you had NB123456D your neighbour in your class had NB123457D etc. It would be easy for any second rate reporter to check out his story.

Born in 1906?

He married at the age of 14? 1920?

Stayed together 35 years? 1955?

Joined the British Army and Navy at 15? 1921?

Left the military in 1955? Age 49?

Worked until he was 97? That's 48 years since leaving the Army!

17 children? Where are they?

Too many questions, not enough answers.

Find me someone in their 70's, 80's or 90's that remembers him from 50, 60 or 70 years ago.

Here's a list of some of Buster's contemporaries.

http://www.nndb.com/lists/905/000105590/

He may be Buster Jr. and his dad might have been born in 1906. It would be like a scene from "Psycho" where someone goes snooping and finds a mummified corpse in the house while he collects Buster Sr.'s pension check.

You guys might be right. He's probably not 101.

Married at age 14. That doesn't sound right. He must have been 18. That would make him 105

Brittish Army at 15, no way, must have been 18 right? That would make him 104

17 children. I'm sure they must have misplaced the birth records of every single one of them.

You guys are right. It's impossible for anyone over the age of 70 to look or do anything good. I'm sure Ed Whitlock never broke 3 hrs for a marathon in his 70's either. Impossible! Ed must be a fraud too. And that Asian guy over 100 that broke the record in the 100 meters. He's a fraud. Every old person is a fraud. Can't happen. You guys are so right once again. It's a big conspiracy.

Good thing Yep is on the case...he'll ferret out the information we need...like the ferret he is.A lot of us have met Ed Whitlock and other runners in their 70's, 80's and 90's and none of them are even close to "Buster's" fitness level.Yes, we've all seen in person or on video 100 year old's doing 100 meters. Buster's going for 42,195 meters.

Yep wrote:

Ed must be a fraud too. And that Asian guy over 100 that broke the record in the 100 meters. He's a fraud. Every old person is a fraud.

Yep wrote:

You guys might be right. He's probably not 101.

Married at age 14. That doesn't sound right. He must have been 18. That would make him 105

Brittish Army at 15, no way, must have been 18 right? That would make him 104

There are plenty of people who lied about their age to join the army in WWI. Marrying at age 14 wouldn't be impossible either. The Age of Marriage Act (1929) required that both people be over the age of 16. Before that it was 14 (for men) and 12 (for women).

Well, let's hear from his "kids" then, although since they would be in their 80's and 90's by now, they may be conveniently (for Buster) dead already. Yep, I need more proof he's 101 and he is who he says he is. The guy looks a whole lot younger than Ed Whitlock, by the way.

prefan, you need more proof? Well you can either hire a private investigator to go through his last 101 years of documentations or stick to your own assumptions that I'm sure are far superior to anything anyone else could possibly provide.

Let's talk to his 17th child.

If he had 17 in 35 years of marriage that means his last child was born sometime in the 1940's.

Can you pop out 17 kids in 17 years or would it be more like a 20 to 25 year span?

How young was his youngest when he bailed on his wife in 1955?

I would guess that his nickname is recent (from early 80s) and based on Buster Merryfield who starred in the popular British sitcom Only Fools and Horses.

http://uktv.co.uk/images/standarditem/EX1/3305.jpg

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00448/buster_280_448015a.jpg

I predict Buster Martin will drop dead on....

April 13th 2008.

Based on his previous race results...

Great Capital Run (10km) July 2007

2 hours 22 minutes. (averaging a 22 minute mile)

Roding Valley half marathon in Essex on 2 March 2008

5 hours 13 minutes. (averaging a 23 minute mile)

Ten hours plus through the streets of London should just about do it.

48 with a fake beard.

Yeah, I need more proof, Yep, and you're not providing it, you're just providing your own opinion, which differs from mine. And that's fine, go ahead and offer your opinion, you're entitled to it, but you're not gonna shut me up with just your opinion. Find some proof, otherwise your position is no better than mine. This guy is a miracle if he's really 101 and miracles don't happen very often. There seem to be more than a few others on this thread who are skeptical as well. Especially with profit motive (Buster's beer and the car place both cashing in on this guy), skepticism becomes even more warranted.