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

[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.

[tumblindice]

`Ulanda' huh?

[Hoodat]

Please tell me this woman is not getting food stamps.

[Revolting cat!]

Please tell me this woman is not getting food stamps.

This woman is not getting food stamps. Happy?

[Hoodat]

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

[Revolting cat!]

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

[jimbo123]

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

[TangoLimaSierra]

The 400 pounds is even more believable when you realize she’s 6’5” tall according to the story.

Just look at those feet.

[SolidRedState]

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. :)

[EinNYC]

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?

[Revolting cat!]

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

[Sherman Logan]

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.

[patriotsblood]

Photo at the link.

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

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

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

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She specializes in the bending of gravitational fields.

[varyouga]

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.

[Cronos]

svelte 250 pounds :-P