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 ...
The only funny segment in the whole movie unfortunately.
60 stone—that’s like 4 of Kirstey Allen.
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