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Obese Man 'Too Heavy to Lift Into Ambulance'
The Telegraph ^ | 23 Mar 2010

Posted on 03/24/2010 12:11:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 03/24/2010 12:11:23 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Did they give him a ....mint?


2 posted on 03/24/2010 12:14:05 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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60 stone is like 17,000 pounds.

;)


3 posted on 03/24/2010 12:19:52 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ( Tagline lost -- anyone seen it?)
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Bring a tow truck next time.


4 posted on 03/24/2010 12:21:40 AM PDT by StormEye
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1 stone = 14 pounds.
60 stone = gawd 'elp us, we gotta lifts diz bloody buggar?
5 posted on 03/24/2010 12:24:43 AM PDT by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: freedumb2003
60 stone is like 17,000 pounds.

A stone=14 pounds
60 stone=840 pounds

6 posted on 03/24/2010 12:25:49 AM PDT by Jay Howard Smith (Retired(25yrNCO)Military)
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Oh, well — that English translation stuff... ;)


7 posted on 03/24/2010 12:27:34 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ( Tagline lost -- anyone seen it?)
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Only if you are the one trying to lift him...otherwise it’s 840 #.


8 posted on 03/24/2010 12:30:49 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
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9 posted on 03/24/2010 12:30:58 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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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).


10 posted on 03/24/2010 12:33:42 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ( Tagline lost -- anyone seen it?)
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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.


11 posted on 03/24/2010 12:42:14 AM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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Here you are Mr. Creosote...Its only a wafer thin mint...
12 posted on 03/24/2010 1:25:03 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: LukeL
I heard a doctor on one of those obesity shows on Discovery Health state that these people eat around 20,000-30,000 calories of food every day - what normal people consume in a 2 week span.

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.

13 posted on 03/24/2010 3:01:55 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
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14 posted on 03/24/2010 3:33:16 AM PDT by raybbr
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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!


15 posted on 03/24/2010 3:33:17 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: freedumb2003

Nie, 60 stone = 60*14 = 840 lbs = 378 kilogrammes. Man, that IS heavy...


16 posted on 03/24/2010 3:51:41 AM PDT by Cronos (Origen(200AD)"The Church received from theApostles the tradition of giving Baptism even to infants")
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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.


17 posted on 03/24/2010 4:07:56 AM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
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To: JoeProBono

Is it the picture or is that bread moldy?
I’m guessing she doesn’t care either way...


18 posted on 03/24/2010 4:14:33 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: Jay Howard Smith

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.


19 posted on 03/24/2010 4:27:22 AM PDT by Husker24
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To: nickcarraway

the link goes to a story about implants?


20 posted on 03/24/2010 4:51:21 AM PDT by isom35
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