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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Yep...
How the heck could the roommates stand to be there with the smell?
yes! that is what i find most baffling about this story... gross...
Pigs don’t smell their own filth. Apparently the whole house was pretty disgusting....
Note to self: Never click on threads with “Morbidly Obese” in the title while eating lunch at the computer.....
the man’s skin was stuck to the chair with urine and feces. Maggots were visible,
This guy likely had these Maggots internally as well....would be interesting to see if they do an autopsy and those findings....imagine nobody would want to do that job...
In WA it's apparantly quite easy to do. I've screened many such potential tenents for my apartments.
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