#1 2008-01-21 20:41:38
Blame Florida! (again)
A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she had remained for about six years.
Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom. Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.
Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed. (source)
You know it wasn't the 'morbid obesity' that did her in so much as the attempt to remove her from the life of living upholstery that she'd become. Still, wasn't this exact situation on Nip/Tuck like, a year or so ago?
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#2 2008-01-21 21:09:58
Pale.... do... do I KNOW you? Because me and some friends of mine joke about fatties trying to become the couch all the fucking time.
...maybe it's just that obvious.
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#3 2008-01-21 21:33:36
Just another human, making up the fabric of society.
Last edited by whosasailorthen (2008-01-21 21:41:04)
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#4 2008-01-22 00:01:09
jesusluvspegging wrote:
Because me and some friends of mine joke about fatties trying to become the couch all the fucking time.
...maybe it's just that obvious.
In one of my former circles, it was "smoking a fattie, then melding with the couch," but your version works.
whosasailorthen wrote:
Just another human, making up the fabric of society.
VeluxeŽ, would be my guess. See, not everyone like that has slipcovers! In this particular case, they might have saved her life. When I first glanced at the article, I thought "480 ain't that bad," but then you read that she was 4'10", and it pretty much gives her the dimensions of that thing Pussyphus is rolling, there on the right. You'd think anyone who ever observed a pumpkin in mid-November would have understood what to expect.
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#5 2008-01-22 12:00:24
All that and no good pics? Come on, it's not like she was hard to spot!
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#6 2008-01-22 12:32:40
Well, as Pale pointed out, she was only 4'10.
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