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Heard this one last night on the BBC:

Granny, 68, fails 771 times of driving test
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhuanet) --A South Korean grandma who had failed her driving test 771 times was reportedly to try again next time.
The 68-year-old, identified only as 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.
A police sergeant supervising the test in the city's Deokjingu district called it a record-breaking number there.
Local media said that Cha carried a handcart to sell food and household items door to door at apartment complexes, but she wants to get a car for her business.
Police estimated the old lady has spent almost five million won (about 3,600 U.S. dollars) to take the written test, with each test costing 6,000 won.
"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.

Res ipsa loquitur...

Most places the driving exam is actually hard to pass.

Ours should be too.

That story says "Police estimated the old lady has spent almost five million won (about 3,600 U.S. dollars) to take the written test". Written test? She has failed the written test that many times? Very strange. I'm guessing she can't read and is answering randomly.

andrewjackson wrote:Most places the driving exam is actually hard to pass.

Ours should be too.

Sure, but 771-consecutive-failures hard? If we had that many chances, we'd ALL get on the MILLanair (Indo-Anglo variant) show in our lifetime!

o-man wrote:Heard this one last night on the BBC:

Granny, 68, fails 771 times of driving test
BEIJING, Feb. 5 (Xinhuanet) --A South Korean grandma who had failed her driving test 771 times was reportedly to try again next time.
The 68-year-old, identified only as 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.
A police sergeant supervising the test in the city's Deokjingu district called it a record-breaking number there.
Local media said that Cha carried a handcart to sell food and household items door to door at apartment complexes, but she wants to get a car for her business.
Police estimated the old lady has spent almost five million won (about 3,600 U.S. dollars) to take the written test, with each test costing 6,000 won.
"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.

Res ipsa loquitur...

Based on the driving that I saw in Seoul, I thought that they would give a license to anyone.

I don't get the res ipsa part.

Appa23 wrote:I don't get the res ipsa part.

Ack. That's just the Hunter Thompson in me. A throwaway tagline, "it speaks for itself".

o-man wrote:

andrewjackson wrote:Most places the driving exam is actually hard to pass.

Ours should be too.

Sure, but 771-consecutive-failures hard? If we had that many chances, we'd ALL get on the MILLanair (Indo-Anglo variant) show in our lifetime!

Yes, I think it should be hard enough that some people never pass.

Or don't have it at all. I'm OK with that, too. It's this in between stuff that I think is dangerous. In most states we have a simple written exam and a driving test that virtually everyone can pass in a couple of tries. Somehow that gives us the feeling that a driver's license means something. It does not. I'd prefer that we fully recognize that there are a lot of people out there driving around that don't know what they are doing.

andrewjackson wrote:Most places the driving exam is actually hard to pass.

Ours should be too.

That story says "Police estimated the old lady has spent almost five million won (about 3,600 U.S. dollars) to take the written test". Written test? She has failed the written test that many times? Very strange. I'm guessing she can't read and is answering randomly.

I think AJ's right. I think she should have invested some of her money on learning to read first.