600 pound woman surgically removed from sofa

[Tom]

http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html

Not something to be read while eating your dinner....

check out the photos page...

 

[Frizz]

An ambulance was too small, so they brought in a trailer to get her out.

 

[FuzzyLogic]

What's Eating Gilbert Grape springs to mind Oo Blimey

 

[Louster]

Er, weird. They've actually updated the story since you posted the link. It's been partially rewritten and is now claiming she was 480 pounds. Hmmm.

 

[TdC]

good god. to lie there so long that the cushions grew into your skin? ffs

 

[GekuL]

Getting so obese is rather disgusting, but even more worrying is she would have needed help to get so big.

 

[mank!]

Kool

 

[Yoni]

I find it incredibly sad tbh

 

[Munkey]

my ISP doesnt seem to want to load the page

 

[Trebz]

pictures are probably too heavy, *baboom tish*

 

[Tom]

Here Ya Go Then

pfft 3 char limit my arse

my ISP doesnt seem to want to load the page

480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch

POSTED: 3:48 pm EDT August 11, 2004
UPDATED: 10:33 am EDT August 12, 2004

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STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she had remained for about six years.


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Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.

Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.



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A preliminary autopsy on the the four-foot, ten-inch woman lists the cause of death as "morbid obesity." But officials want to know more about the circumstances inside the home.


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Investigators say Grinds lived with a man named Herman Thomas, who says he tried to take care of her the best he could. He has told them he tried repeatedly to get her up, but simply couldn't. No charges have been filed, but officials are looking into negligence issues.

Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.

She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to the couch.

Neighbors say they had no idea Grinds lived at the duplex, though they had seen Thomas and some children outside.

 

[rynnor]

What's Eating Gilbert Grape springs to mind Oo Blimey

Leonardo di'caprio's best role IMO

 

[Utini]

Er, weird. They've actually updated the story since you posted the link. It's been partially rewritten and is now claiming she was 480 pounds. Hmmm.

Theyve prolly worked out which bit was woman and which was sofa!

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Leonardo di'caprio's best role IMO

Twas grand, but i think I preferred him in Basketball Diaries

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Ps, LIES, EVERYONE KNOWS TITANIC IS THE DADDY!!1!11ONEETC.


(He dies )