Fly-killing pensioner, 80, hailed a beacon of hope for swatting insects seven days a week

Ruan Tang, 80, swats flies all day (Picture: CEN)

This 80-year-old woman has been held up as a beacon of hope for society after it emerged she swats flies all day.
Ruan Tang has been killing the insects in the Changmingsixiang Community in Eastern China’s Hangzhou City for 14 years.
Despite her age, she reportedly works eight hours a day, seven days a week.
‘I had retired and was looking around for something to do to help the community and prove useful, and I noticed how much flies were troubling people in the summer,’ she said.
‘I decided that killing flies was the best way for me to be useful – and I’ve been doing it now every day since.’
Ruan is a fly killing machine and says she can swat around 1,000 of them each day.
The pensioner has been praised by the Chinese media, which describe the insects as an ‘enemy of the people, noisy, disease spreading and revolting