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Meet the 90-Year-Old Saudi Who Lives in a 'Stone Age' Home Dream Is to Have Fridge and Heater
Emirates 24/7 ^ | Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Posted on 07/15/2015 11:10:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Mohammed Abdullah Ahmed of Saudi Arabia is more than 90-years old. He lives in a shabby randomly-built little house on the edge of a small remote village.

“Ahmed’s home indicates as if we are still in the Stone Age,” the Arabic language daily 'Sabq' said, adding that its reporter visited the man at his primitive home on the fringes of the village near the Western Red Sea port of Al Qunfudah.

“His home has no electricity. He suffers from cold in winter and from the scorching heat in summer. He lives in the dark away from people as he has no relatives. He uses wood light fire to cook.”

Although Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil exporter and one of the most developed countries in the Middle East, Ahmed still dreams of having electricity.

“He said he cannot go to the electricity company because he can hardly walk. His dream is to have a fridge in summer and a heater in winter.

He is poor and lives on alms and food given by the residents of his village.”


TOPICS: Local News; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: contractors; saudi; stoneage

1 posted on 07/15/2015 11:10:14 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows

Fred Al-Flintsone


2 posted on 07/15/2015 11:10:35 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Yabba dabba do. (h/t Mark Levin)


3 posted on 07/15/2015 11:12:52 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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Yeah ... so ?

ONE guy wasn't told he could live royally off of Saudi money ...

4 posted on 07/15/2015 11:13:54 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: nickcarraway

sounds like obama’s Kenyan family and half siblings


5 posted on 07/15/2015 11:15:54 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: nickcarraway

His home is in sync with his ideology.


6 posted on 07/15/2015 11:16:12 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civIns law enables him to do so.)
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Must be tough as nails if he lived to age 90 in those conditions.


7 posted on 07/15/2015 11:20:56 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: nickcarraway

You would think that in 90 years he could do better.


8 posted on 07/15/2015 11:21:07 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

or, having made it to 90 this way that he’d be happy to leave well enough alone!


9 posted on 07/15/2015 11:23:18 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: nickcarraway

He’s made it to 90 years as is

why change now?


10 posted on 07/15/2015 11:23:34 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: nickcarraway

Having modern appliances doesn’t bring the mind into the modern age, if it still follows a pre-cambrian reptile-brain ideology.


11 posted on 07/15/2015 11:23:58 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: bigbob

Yeah I guess so as he might electrocute himself.


12 posted on 07/15/2015 11:26:27 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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He suffers from cold in winter and from the scorching heat in summer

Ha....what doesn't kill you...makes you stronger...

13 posted on 07/15/2015 11:27:36 AM PDT by spokeshave
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To: nickcarraway

Cozy...

14 posted on 07/15/2015 11:37:40 AM PDT by null and void (We've always been at war with Iceageia!)
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Not Israel’s fault = No-one cares


15 posted on 07/15/2015 11:50:15 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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The wood could be turned to cinders and the rock would melt.


16 posted on 07/15/2015 12:05:36 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: null and void

No mortgage.


17 posted on 07/15/2015 1:14:50 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: nickcarraway

Baraca Flacka Flames will divert a few “bili” to help the old boy out. World Wide Welfare, courtesy of the USA.


18 posted on 07/15/2015 4:37:27 PM PDT by Cap'n Crunch
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