February 7, 2009

I’m sure there’s a half-ass stand-up routine here somewhere

A South Korean grandmother has failed her driving test 771 times.

The 68-year-old, identified only by her last name Cha, has taken the test almost every working day since 2005 in the southwestern city of Jeonju. She failed again Monday for the 771st time.

“It was a record-breaking number here,” Choi Yong-Cheol, a police sergeant supervising the test in the city’s Deokjingu district, told AFP.

Police estimate she has spent almost five million won (3,600 dollars) to take the written test, with each test costing 6,000 won in addition to other expenses.

“I feel sorry every time I see Cha fail. When she passes, I’ll make a commemorative tablet myself and give it to her,” one officer was quoted as saying.

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  1. Rick Neece on February 7th, 2009 at 11:12 am

    “It was a record-breaking number here,” I’d wager that’s a record breaker nearly anywhere. I imagine she’s been breaking the record everyday since she first “took the belt” from whomever held the distinction before.

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