'Overly obese' body starts funeral home fire

WCPO ^ | 04/27/2017 | WCPO Staff

[DFG]

CINCINNATI -- A "freak accident" started an unscheduled fire Wednesday night at the Hillside Chapel Crematory in Cincinnati, owner Don Catchen said.

"My operator was in the process of cremating remains and (the body) was overly obese and apparently it got a little hotter than the unit is supposed to get," Catchen said. "One of the cremation containers that we had close got caught on fire and that's what burnt."

[Ciaphas Cain]

When Auschwitz was running "full speed", the killings had to routinely be halted for "maintenance". Namely, scraping away the human fat which had collected on the sides of the crematory chimney.

It had to be done every week or two.

[Army Air Corps]

As I read this, I could not help but have several songs play in my head.

The Ring of Fire, Burning Love, Great Balls of Fire...

[HiTech RedNeck]

After a few years, however, nobody was fat.

[CincyRichieRich]

Swell...2 miles from my house; glad the fire wasn’t too big and I wasn’t down wind.

[Ciaphas Cain]

There was some fat, however much a fraction of body ratio it had become. But there were so many being killed and so rapidly that... well, a little adds up to a lot over time :-/

[LeonardFMason]

Did ROSIE die?

Is Michael Moore dead?

[tet68]

When the Nazis were burning mass bodies in pits they
found that a ratio of one fat person to two skinny ones
worked well.

At first they just buried them in mass pits but that
didn’t work very well as they swelled up and broke the
surface so later in the war they had to dig them up
and burn the remains on “roasts” or iron racks, trying
to cover up the evidence of their crime.

[PROCON]

I’ve heard of fat shaming, but fat flaming?

[SaveFerris]

IIRC, the Nazis put in one obese person for every 8 they cremated in concentration camps, to fuel the fire. This minimized the amount of coal they used.

Of course, they were leftist national socialists just like....

[KarlInOhio]

So a little spray bottle of water like I have for when my bratwursts flare up won’t do it?

[dp0622]

ROFL!!

[Farmer Dean]

Imagine the inferno if they had decided to cremate Ted Kennedy.Lard and alcohol,burns like napalm.

[Albion Wilde]

If that had happened with my body half of Ohio would be burned to the ground.

Ziti and manicotti are flammable?

[dp0622]

You will burn in heck for that :)

Funny thing is I know mid westerners and Southerners joke because they we are solidly in their corner.

We REMIND our youth WHY we left.

It wasn’t because thing were so great.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Note to wife: Bury me, don’t cremate.

[Albion Wilde]

LOL!