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Morbidly Obese Man Dies After Two Years in the Same Chair
abcnews ^ | 3-2011

Posted on 03/30/2011 8:18:52 PM PDT by doug from upland

Morbidly Obese Man Dies After Two Years in the Same Chair

Ohio Man Reported Stuck to Chair With His Own Waste; Later Died at Hospital

A morbidly obese man has died after being stuck in a chair at home that he had been unable to leave for two years, ABC affiliate WRTF reported and ABC News has confirmed.

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The Bellaire, Ohio man, who has not been publicly identified, was a patient at Wheeling Hospital in West Virginia, ABC Affiliate WTRF reported.

On Sunday, the 43-year-old man's two roommates discovered him unconscious. They called authorities.

When firefighters arrived, they discovered that the man's skin was stuck to the chair with urine and feces. Maggots were visible, according to local reports.

"The chair was very filthy, a lot of odor to it. Going in the house, the house was not clean. The living room where the man lived in his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It's unbelievable that somebody lives in conditions like that" Jim Chase, a code enforcer for the city, told ABC affiliate WKEF said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: feces; gross; napl; obese; unbelievable
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1 posted on 03/30/2011 8:18:55 PM PDT by doug from upland
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Ohio Man Reported Stuck to Chair With His Own Waste

I think I speak for most people when i say:

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

2 posted on 03/30/2011 8:21:06 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: doug from upland

That’s cute how they slipped a video about Tilly the Orca right in the middle of the story about a morbidly obese man. Were they eluding to something there?


3 posted on 03/30/2011 8:21:22 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby ("To understan' the livin', you gotta commune wit' da dead." Minerva)
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To: doug from upland
Ohio Man Reported Stuck to Chair With His Own Waste

(SIDENET stops eating, slowly puts down fork...)

4 posted on 03/30/2011 8:22:23 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: abigailsmybaby

Tilly killed three Humans and this Man was the size of three Humans.


5 posted on 03/30/2011 8:22:32 PM PDT by omega4179 (Did Obama promise to cut the availability of energy by 30% Coal Nuclear and Oil are just 30%?)
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To: doug from upland

Doug, What no song to fit this?
(They’ll never get thru the Cajon to ya!)


6 posted on 03/30/2011 8:23:02 PM PDT by TaMoDee (GO PACK GO to Super Bowl XLVI)
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To: doug from upland

I’ll say it ... somebody was bringing him food.


7 posted on 03/30/2011 8:23:07 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: doug from upland; GOPsterinMA; GSP.FAN; fieldmarshaldj; SunkenCiv; Impy

What a waste.


8 posted on 03/30/2011 8:24:30 PM PDT by Perdogg (What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
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To: doug from upland
When firefighters arrived, they discovered that the man's skin was stuck to the chair with urine and feces. Maggots were visible, according to local reports.

This is one of the reasons I would NOT want to be a firefighter.

9 posted on 03/30/2011 8:24:57 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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He had two roommates, someone must have been feeding him and nobody notices his condition?

10 posted on 03/30/2011 8:25:18 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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two roommates?
no phone?
no relatives visiting?
no roommate friends visiting?

something is wrong with this story


11 posted on 03/30/2011 8:26:22 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: doug from upland
On Sunday, the 43-year-old man's two roommates discovered him unconscious. They called authorities.

Yeah, that's the best time to call the authorities - after your roommate who has been glued to his chair by his own waste for two years finally passes out. Calling before then might be premature.
12 posted on 03/30/2011 8:26:36 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: BunnySlippers
I’ll say it ... somebody was bringing him food

Most likely a liberal

13 posted on 03/30/2011 8:27:02 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: doug from upland
"The living room where the man lived in his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It's unbelievable that somebody lives in conditions like that" Jim Chase, a code enforcer for the city, told ABC affiliate WKEF said.

Thank goodness we have a code enforcer to protect to public. /s

14 posted on 03/30/2011 8:27:08 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: doug from upland

A good rule of thumb is that if you get up from the chair and the chair goes up with you, its time for a diet.


15 posted on 03/30/2011 8:27:15 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
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To: abigailsmybaby
That’s cute how they slipped a video about Tilly the Orca right in the middle of the story about a morbidly obese man.

And an article about a 700 pound woman physically trapped in her bed ... and an article about about a "woman found being eaten alive". I did not check on the circumstances of the second.

And ABC News calls Fox a tabloid.

16 posted on 03/30/2011 8:27:30 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I can’t imagine not do I want to


17 posted on 03/30/2011 8:28:03 PM PDT by tsowellfan (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
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Chat.


18 posted on 03/30/2011 8:28:09 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Sharia? No, thanks.)
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To: doug from upland

OMG.........as an EMT I am just grateful it wasn’t my call.


19 posted on 03/30/2011 8:29:32 PM PDT by tioga
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To: Perdogg; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

They spelled my name wrong. [thud]


20 posted on 03/30/2011 8:29:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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