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Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him (440 lb man run over by car just has scratches)
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| June 12 2006
| Reuters
Posted on 06/12/2006 8:44:18 PM PDT by Republican Party Reptile
Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:13 PM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 440 pound German man discovered that being overweight can be good for your health -- if you get run over by a car.
German police said the extra body mass prevented the 30-year-old man from suffering potentially fatal injuries when a Volkswagen Polo drove over him after he braked suddenly on his bicycle at a crossroads and fell off in front of the car.
"It certainly helped him in this case," said Sven-Marco Claus, a spokesman for police in the western town of Gifhorn on Monday. "Someone smaller would probably not have been so lucky."
The man dislocated his hip, which local doctors put back in place, but otherwise suffered only scratches and a bloody nose from the underside of the vehicle, police said.
TOPICS: Germany; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bigboned
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Dang .... , wonder how much damage was suffered by the car? :)
To: Republican Party Reptile
That must be a heavy duty bike.
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:46:00 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - "The Road to Peace in the Middle East runs thru Damascus.")
To: Republican Party Reptile
I demand pictures.
Gratuitous, semi-nude pictures.
To: Republican Party Reptile
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:46:20 PM PDT
by
umgud
(FR, NASCAR & 24, way too much butt time)
To: Republican Party Reptile
Note to nanny staters: FAT SAVES LIVES!!!
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:46:44 PM PDT
by
Just A Nobody
(NEVER AGAIN..Support our Troops! www.irey.com and www.vets4Irey.com - Now more than Ever!)
To: Republican Party Reptile
Does this demonstrate that it's better to be bulky when being run over by a car, or that it's better to be run over by a really tiny car?
To: Republican Party Reptile; Charles Henrickson; mikrofon
the extra body mass prevented the 30-year-old man from suffering potentially fatal injuries Ich bin ein thinkskinner.
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:49:26 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Ich bin ein ka-boinger.)
To: Republican Party Reptile
Is this some kind of 4-wheel drive VW? It must have had to do some serious climbing to get over that guy.
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:49:55 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: martin_fierro
thinkskinner = THICKSKINNER
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:50:05 PM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Ich bin ein badspeller.)
To: Republican Party Reptile
To: Republican Party Reptile
The German was on the Ted Kennedy diet.
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:53:32 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: martin_fierro; mikrofon
Bulky man barely injured Ich bin ein Barelyinjured.
To: ElkGroveDan
I don't know if they come in 4WD.
GT and 4 door.
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:54:42 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - "The Road to Peace in the Middle East runs thru Damascus.")
To: Republican Party Reptile
German police said the extra body mass prevented the 30-year-old man from suffering potentially fatal injuries when a Volkswagen Polo drove over him after he braked suddenly on his bicycle at a crossroads and fell off in front of the car. p=m*v
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:54:43 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: Republican Party Reptile
Some slight apologies to Ian Anderson...
Don't want to be a fat man,
People would think that I was
Just good fun.
Would rather be a thin man,
I am so glad to go on being one.
Too much to carry around with you,
No chance of finding a woman who
Will love you in the morning and all the night time too.
Don't want to be a fat man,
Have not the patience to ignore all that.
Hate to admit to myself half of my problems
Came from being fat.
Won't waste my time feeling sorry for him,
I seen the other side to being thin.
Roll both of us over with a VW
And I'm sure the fat man would win.
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:55:37 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others)
To: martin_fierro
the extra body mass prevented the 30-year-old man from suffering potentially fatal injuries. . . . Ich bin ein Burly-liner.
To: martin_fierro; mikrofon
Ich bin ein badspeller. Don't worry, martin, we'll stay with you through thick and think.
To: NormsRevenge
That must be a heavy duty bike.Indeed.
The first thought that went through my head was "440lb man on a bike????"
To those of you who are asking for pictures, I'm not even going to look further down this thread. :-)
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posted on
06/12/2006 8:58:31 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place.)
To: All
The funny thing is - if this guy exercised, ate right and was at a healthy weight, he'd be dead right now.
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posted on
06/12/2006 9:00:12 PM PDT
by
ClarenceThomasfan
(It's like a plantation - and you know what I mean!)
To: NormsRevenge
That car is just too small to run over a 400 pound guy.
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posted on
06/12/2006 9:05:06 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
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