[circlecity]

A tough way to learn it’s time to go on a diet.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Eventually the sidewalks will have to be replaced with water canals so people can get around like hippos.

[P.O.E.]

I was always leery of those store sidewalk elevator panels - I’m not fat, but some of them look pretty rickety.

[csvset]

UES? Female sheep?

Oh, Upper East Side....

Yooze, deeze, does..

[midway1]

The need to outlaw fat people has never been greater !

[midway1]

The recent crane collapes, was that being used to extract her ?..Kind of all making alittle more sense now.

[BerryDingle]

Bloomberg will deny her pain meds.

[Kakaze]

Now Bloomberg can claim his ban on fats and sodas is to save the infrastructure.

[Rome2000]

Be great if the same thing happened to Washington DC and every politician in it.

[Cicero]

I always used to walk around those sidewalk grills and elevator lids when I was in NYC. If one of them gave way, your family could sue the owners—like you read about all the time in the papers—but that would be small comfort if you were dead.

[wideminded]

“The woman was enormous. She had to be more than 300 pounds,” said Daniel Crumity, 44, of Queens,

It doesn't matter how heavy she is. People should be able to count on the ground in a public area if there is no posted warning or obvious hazard. She will have an excellent legal case.

[Rusty0604]

Reminds me of the “yo mamas so fat” jokes

[tomkat]

Talk about yer shovel-ready jobs !

[Cowboy Bob]

At what point does “heavyset” become “obese?”

[Boogieman]

“The woman was enormous. She had to be more than 300 pounds,” said Daniel Crumity

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Ok, I can see how this make for an interesting news story, but I doubt a weight of 300 or even 400 pounds had much to do with the sidewalk collapsing. Otherwise, it would have collapsed when any 2 or 3 full grown adults had walked on it at the same time.

She was probably just the straw that broke the camel’s back here.

[Dilbert56]

Might it have anything to do with all that construction going on under 2nd Ave for the new subway line?

[Teacher317]

300 lbs caused it? What happens when a couple is walking together, or a 240 lb man is carrying his 60 lb child?

300 may be big for a woman, but the fat comments here are stupid and misplaced. If a sidewalk can't hold 300 lbs, what happens to hot dog carts, people in electric wheelchairs, Segways, etc?

[exit82]

We have to ban sidewalks.

[Born to Conserve]

Walking past Grand Central in the dark can be scary — I walked across one of the ventilation grates and my focus was drawn to the lighted railroad tracks that must have been a hundred feet down. Almost needed a change. I religiously avoid grates now.

[Slings and Arrows]

I can't believe that no-one has posted this video yet.