Thursday, January 16, 2014

Iranian man unwashed for 60 years

A homeless man steels himself against single-digit temperatures with blankets and a jet of warm air coming up from the McPhearson Square Metro station beneath the Department of Veterans Affairs January 7, 2014 in Washington, United States.

A homeless man steels himself against single-digit temperatures with blankets and a jet of warm air coming up from the McPhearson Square Metro station beneath the Department of Veterans Affairs January 7, 2014 in Washington, United States. Photo/AFP 
By BANG SHOWBIZ
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An Iranian man hasn't washed for over 60 years, which he has spent living in the desert and eating a diet of raw meat.

Amou Haji hasn't washed for three decades as he believes cleanliness would make him fall ill, but when his hair needs a trim he takes care of it by burning his locks over a fire.

The 80-year-old lives in a small village in Iran and when it comes time to sleep he nests in a hole in the ground or in an open brick shack, which concerned locals constructed for him.

Amou - who dresses in rags, smokes animal faeces and lives on a diet of rotten meat - claims to have beaten the previous record of going the longest time without washing by nearly 25 years.

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