Posted on 03/24/2010 12:11:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An obese man, who became ill after trying to lose weight, had to be left in his bed overnight after firemen found it 'impossible' to lift him into an ambulance.
The rescuers - who estimated the patient weighed up to 60 stone - had to return the next day with specialist lifting gear to haul the him out of his bed and into an ambulance for hospital treatment.
Firemen were called to an address in Croydon after the man called for help, saying he 'couldn't move'.
They spent more than three hours trying to transfer the patient onto a stretcher, but couldn't budge him from his bed due to his bulk.
The fire crew left him with paramedics overnight and returned with state-of-the-art equipment the next day. This time they managed to lift the him into a super-strong nylon stretcher before carrying him into a specialist ambulance designed to carry severely obese patients.
Fireman Dave Field said: "We did everything we could, but we didnt really have the necessary equipment to lift him because he was so massive - we just could not get a purchase on him.
"He must have weighed at least 60 stone and we just had to leave him there with the ambulance crew." He said that the man had gone on 'crash diet' for two weeks in a desperate bid to lose weight, but had made himself ill in the process.
He added: "We went to the same address a few weeks ago when he had fallen on the floor, and that time they managed to get him on to a strong nylon salvage stretcher and manhandle him back on to the bed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Did they give him a ....mint?
60 stone is like 17,000 pounds.
;)
Bring a tow truck next time.
A stone=14 pounds
60 stone=840 pounds
Oh, well — that English translation stuff... ;)
Only if you are the one trying to lift him...otherwise it’s 840 #.
We need to develop the Beer-power Scale (which is, of course and inverse Richter Scale). The more, yet drunker people that help, the less that gets done. The upper limit is that everyone is totally blotto and no work gets done at all (my target state).
How do people allow themselves to get so fat? I can understand if some of this is water weight, but usually it is all fat. They can say all they want about thyroid, hormones etc, but if energy in < enery out, you will lose weight, and with their obesity just sitting up has to burn 100 calories.
This is no hormonal, metabolism issue with these folks. This is gluttony, pure and simple.
Some medicines will cause one to put on weight (for instance, steroids) but none will make someone weigh this much.
20,000-30,000 calories of food every day?
That’s a heck of a lot of food - even if it was buttered iced funnelcake topped with ice cream!
Nie, 60 stone = 60*14 = 840 lbs = 378 kilogrammes. Man, that IS heavy...
We need to develop the Beer-power Scale
—————————————————————————————— As long as it is beer and not tequila(2 bottles of tequila=paddle canoe up a waterfall) I am on board.
Is it the picture or is that bread moldy?
I’m guessing she doesn’t care either way...
I thought we got our system of lbs, oz’s ext. from The English system, so where did “stone” come from. Do they have a big rock encased in glass somewhere in England that weighs exactly 14 lbs? Not all stones weigh the same, some are bigger than others.
the link goes to a story about implants?
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