The Dhaka Times Desk People generally live by eating rice and bread. But this time something different happened. A young man has been alive for fifteen years by eating mobil and ash!
A young man named Kumar from Bangalore, India. The young man is making this strange claim that he has been alive for fifteen years by eating mobil and ash. For fifteen years, he says, he has survived only on burnt engine oil and paper ash.
However, the young man is known as Oil Kumar to the locals. Home in Shimoga, Karnataka, India.
The young man said that when he was very young, his parents left him at Bangalore station and ran away. Currently he lives near Shanishwar temple in Kolar area.
Kumar said, 'Once I used to work as a coolie in Bangalore. Under whom I worked, he did not give me money for a long time. One time I was forced to eat burnt engine oil due to hunger. Starting from that. Later I started eating the ashes of paper burning. At first I used to have a strange pain in my body, but now it has subsided.' Now Kumar can consume at least 5 liters of burnt engine oil in a whole day.
Experts say that a person can survive for up to three weeks without food. Then he is not supposed to live. But Kumar said, everything is God's blessing.
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