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400-pound woman who plunged through UES sidewalk says size saved her life (NYC)
NY Post ^ | 1/13/13 | ERIN CALABRESE, REBECCA HARSHBARGER and FRANK ROSARIO

Posted on 01/13/2013 12:34:35 PM PST by jimbo123

Size does matter!

The 400-pound Queens pedestrian who crashed through an Upper East Side sidewalk said yesterday that a thinner woman might have died from that fall.

“Thank God, they said that my size was the only thing that saved me,” Ulanda Williams, 32, told The Post as she was discharged from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Williams, of Springfield Gardens, was waiting for a bus at about 9:10 p.m. Friday when she tried to hide from the rain under an awning.

The ground suddenly disappeared beneath her — and she was swallowed whole by the cavernous space adjacent to the cellar of The Blue Room on Second Avenue.

“It was horrible, absolutely horrible,” said Williams, who broke her arm in two places in the 6-foot fall.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: Daffynition
`Ulanda' huh? silence of the lambs Pictures, Images and Photos
61 posted on 01/13/2013 3:38:19 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: jimbo123

Please tell me this woman is not getting food stamps.


62 posted on 01/13/2013 3:41:19 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Hoodat
Please tell me this woman is not getting food stamps.

This woman is not getting food stamps. Happy?

63 posted on 01/13/2013 3:42:25 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Tzar

Yo’ momma so fat that when she fall out the bed, she fall out on BOTH sides.


64 posted on 01/13/2013 3:42:34 PM PST by Hoodat ("As for God, His way is perfect" - Psalm 18:30)
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To: Hoodat

She be gettin foostams, she be gettin diss-ability, she be gettin sekshon 8 housin!


65 posted on 01/13/2013 3:51:37 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Hoodat

Yo mama so fat, when she sit around the house, she sit AROUND the house!


66 posted on 01/13/2013 4:08:39 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: Scoutmaster
The 400 pounds is even more believable when you realize she’s 6’5” tall according to the story.

Just look at those feet.

67 posted on 01/13/2013 4:10:20 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Sherman Logan
A couple who are good friends of mine stopped and prayed before driving across an area on a CO mountain pass that was prone to avalanches. They were swept off the mountain, but survived with only minor injuries, the first people to ever survive being swept into the canyon at that point. They attributed their survival to God’s intervention because they had prayed for his protection.
I pointed out that if they hadn’t stopped to pray, they would have been past the danger section before the avalanche hit.
My analysis was not particularly appreciated.


Perhaps, had they prayed a bit longer, the avalanch would have preceded their passing by. :)
68 posted on 01/13/2013 4:14:34 PM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: jimbo123

Where on earth does she find clothes? A tent rental company? I’ll bet she feels the earth move a lot-—with every step she manages to take. How the heck does she even walk on her own? How does she manage to get in and out of her home?


69 posted on 01/13/2013 4:26:41 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: jimbo123; a fool in paradise

Evidently, I’ve just read a minute or so ago, the woman is a nuclear engineer by profession.


70 posted on 01/13/2013 4:29:21 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: SolidRedState

Quite true.

The problem, of course, with believing God steps in to personally rescue you, is that you must also believe that when you aren’t rescued it’s because God threw you under the bus.


71 posted on 01/13/2013 4:54:43 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: jimbo123
Photo at the link.

I guess I really wasn't that hungry after all.

72 posted on 01/13/2013 5:10:24 PM PST by patriotsblood
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To: Revolting cat!

Evidently, I’ve just read a minute or so ago, the woman is a nuclear engineer by profession.


She specializes in the bending of gravitational fields.


73 posted on 01/13/2013 5:36:13 PM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Fair is a place you go to eat cotton candy and step in monkey poop)
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To: yldstrk
NYC is jam packed with tunnels and vaults. Vaults are portions of a building's basement that extent beneath the sidewalk and sometimes even the street with cars driving over. Some of the structures below your feet might be 200+ years old.

I'm an engineer in NYC and know for a fact certain blocks have completely hallow sidewalks. I've even seen private tunnels constructed across streets. Most likely used to transfer materials between stores or factories to avoid all the traffic above.

The building owner is technically responsible for maintaining or filling in these spaces but it is typically not enforced unless someone gets injured.

74 posted on 01/13/2013 5:49:59 PM PST by varyouga
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To: KevinB

svelte 250 pounds :-P


75 posted on 01/14/2013 12:26:40 AM PST by Cronos (Middle English prest, priest, Old English pruost, Late Latin presbyter, Latin presbuteros)
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