Posted on 01/16/2015 3:09:32 PM PST by george76
Janice and Amber Manzur both live off handouts and are so obese they have to use mobility scooters, but they say: 'We'd rather be fat on benefits than thin and working'.
A mother and daughter who get £34,000 a year in handouts because they are too fat to work say they'd rather be happy and on benefits than depressed and thin Janice and Amber Manzur weigh a total of 43 stone and are so overweight they have to use mobility scooters to get around.
But both women refuse to diet and mother-of-two Ms Manzur, 44, insists: "I'd rather my daughter live life on benefits being fat and happy than depressed and thin." Ms Manzur lives in a three-bedroom house that has been customised by the council to accommodate her disability and drives a Fiat Quibo disability car worth around £15,000.
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Miss Manzur's council-paid flat has been modified to cater for her disability. It has no stairs, a low front door so she can drive her disability scooter inside and a bath with a seat for easy access.
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Ms Manzur said her and her daughter have been the victims of cruel comments from strangers. She said: "We attract quite a bit of attention when we pop to the shops on our matching scooters. "A man once compared us to a herd of elephants. Another rolled down his car window, called us "fatsos" and said, 'Get off and walk'.
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TOO. MUCH. INFO.
I should be miserable but I'm happy...
Yeah, right. I can tell from your pic:
She just bought a Kindle.
How nice.
I guess public libraries aren’t good enough for people on the dole.
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Soap.You can never have too much soap.
Dear Lord! I made the mistake of clicking the link to read the rest of the article and it just keeps getting worse and worse!
Everyone calmly proceed to the lifeboats and... ABANDON THREAD!!
I love paying taxes. Don’t you?
Go look at the Miss Universe thread. You’ll feel better.
WHOLE LOTTA ROSIE! (Best Bon Scott-era AC/DC song after Let There Be Rock, IMHO.......)
Post of the week, LOL.
The Dad? He got swallowed up.
Perhaps a turkey baster.
Mum doesn't even have a regular scooter.
She hauls her fat butt around on a ginormous 4 wheeler.
I've never seen one before, but I bet it cost taxpayers a LOT.
And the article says she's "too fat" to work at a CALL CENTER.
Geez, all you do is sit.
No actual physical labor needed.
My Late Mother always said, “You help People who CAN’T help themselves, not People who WON’T help themselves”.
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