Crazy people these days!
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Desperate Diners Attack Trapped Fat Lady With Plastic Forks
Monday November 17, 2003
A FAT WOMAN who got stuck in a restaurant doorway was prodded with forks wielded by her angry fellow diners.
Cops say the woman "squealed and suffered horribly" as a wild-eyed mob jabbed her and hurled cruel insults, including calling her names like "Miss Piggy" and "tub of lard" and taunting her with the childhood rhyme, "Fatty, fatty, two by four, can't get through the bathroom door . . ."
"This unfortunate woman was poked and stabbed at least 200 times and maybe even more," says a Chicago police spokesman, adding that he is both embarrassed and saddened by the insensitivity of his fellow Chicagoans.
"The forks were plastic," he says, "but they still managed to inflict a lot of damage. Doctors later told me the victim looked like a pincushion."
"Basically these people were upset that they couldn't use the rest rooms. The woman was trapped in a doorway that leads to both the men's and ladies' toilets."
The 647-pound woman -- whose name Weekly World News editors are withholding to spare her any further embarrassment -- "was in great distress before she was freed," notes the cop, who says the ugly incident unfolded in a popular barbecue restaurant known, ironically, for its Southern-style hospitality.
"The victim was squealing and crying in pain, not to mention being humiliated, when police and firefighters arrived to help her. They estimate that as many as 40 men and women had taken turns poking her with their forks."
Firefighters cut and pried the by-then exhausted woman free with saws, crowbars and the Jaws of Life, a special tool usually reserved for ripping open car doors to free passengers trapped in wreckage.
She was taken to a hospital where she was treated for puncture wounds, shock and dehydration. Getting through the restaurant's main door was no problem.
In the words of the police spokesman, "It was a double door."
The restaurant's manager says the doorway leading to the rest rooms was "normal size," but in a nod to political correctness after the fact, commented that the woman "had an alternative body image and unfortunately got wedged as she tried to go through."
Cops say her assailants will almost certainly face assault and battery charges after investigators pore over videotape taken from the restaurant's security cameras to help them identify everyone who participated in the bizarre attack.
"When I realized I was stuck I got scared and starting yelling, 'Help! Help me!' " the woman said in a brief interview attended by her attorney. "A server tried to push me through but she couldn't."
"Everything went downhill from there. A man started yelling at me to get out of the way so he could go to the bathroom. Then I heard a woman cursing at me and calling me names like 'fat a--' and 'Miss Piggy.' It was awful."
"And then I felt the forks. They poked me over and over and over and over again. I remember sobbing and yelling at them, 'Why are you doing this to me? Why? Why?'"
An eyewitness who claims to have tried to calm the angry customers confirms the woman's story.
"Thank goodness I had my cell phone. If I hadn't called for help, the fat lady might have been poked and prodded to death."
The victim, 41, says she's planning to sue the restaurant and its patrons for actual and punitive damages in excess of $20,000.
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I dunno. My ex father in-law weighed 33 stones before I left England, and I hear he is still gaining weight. While he doesn't move around much, he can still drive his van, and still does go places...though with much effort and huffing. (FYI, a stone is 14 pounds, so he weighed around 462 when I left).Sylvos wrote:upon further contemplation, we (the cubicle hive mind) decided that a 647 lb. woman would not be able to walk due to the amount of pressure that her weight would place upon her ankles. Henceforth we decided it was a hoax.
if you weigh over SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY POUNDS, loose some weight, or if you feel bad for her contribute a doller or 2 to some lypo...unless she has some serious metabolism(in which im sorry) disorder it is in fact her fault
fat people i know are at least not offended by there weight and are able to poke fun of the situation...but poking her and calling her "piggy" is quite a bit over the line, you would have to be a serious asshole to pull that (unless you were in my situation and had to take a serious piss after a 4 hour long LOTR movie
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fat people i know are at least not offended by there weight and are able to poke fun of the situation...but poking her and calling her "piggy" is quite a bit over the line, you would have to be a serious asshole to pull that (unless you were in my situation and had to take a serious piss after a 4 hour long LOTR movie
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Oh jesus christ.. if you can't be bothered to read the thread, at least read the article. The "key" words "Weekly World News" are mentioned, you know the home of BAT BOY! The same venerable new source that had a cover photo of Saddam being married to Bin Laden (Saddam was the bitch btw).
This just in, the President has just announced that all Americans over the age of 12 are getting $1000 bonus tax refund cheques! I saw it postared on teh intarweb. Run out and spend money now!!
This just in, the President has just announced that all Americans over the age of 12 are getting $1000 bonus tax refund cheques! I saw it postared on teh intarweb. Run out and spend money now!!
The funniest thing is how they've adopted the Saddam/Osama marriage as a recurring theme.
A few weeks after they had the marriage, they had "SADDAM AND OSAMA ADOPT SHAVED APE BABY." They even had pictures. It ruled.
Recently, I saw something like "THE HOLIDAYS WITH SADDAM, OSAMA, AND SHAVED APE BABY."
Weekly World News is by far the best of them.
A few weeks after they had the marriage, they had "SADDAM AND OSAMA ADOPT SHAVED APE BABY." They even had pictures. It ruled.
Recently, I saw something like "THE HOLIDAYS WITH SADDAM, OSAMA, AND SHAVED APE BABY."
Weekly World News is by far the best of them.
Well in fairness, if you weight over 670 lbs, you have a serious clinical obesity problem. It's not just a matter of not eating, it's a matter of there is something seriously screwed up in your body. She should definitely seek medical attention for her size...But I thought the guiness book of world records had the heaviest person ever at like 570 or so?Xzion wrote:if you weigh over SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY POUNDS, loose some weight...
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from the same source... LMAO, funny shite
Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was an avid chess player and relished nothing more than an invigorating game with fellow tyrants, including Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi -- using live soldiers as pieces!
That shocking revelation comes from former aides to the Butcher of Baghdad, who say the games were played on a basketball court-size board. Captured human "pieces" were shot in the head and dragged off, according to the disturbing report, which aired on Al Jazeera TV.
"Soldiers who were forced to 'volunteer' for the matches lived in terror because Saddam was a notoriously poor player and lost virtually every game to Qaddafi, who is surprisingly crafty," recalled an eyewitness who appeared in the televised report.
At least 16 games between the two rulers were played between May 2000 and January 2003, the report claims.
Saddam and members of his inner circle often wagered on the sickening life-or-death matches, although when one general chose to bet against the Iraqi strongman, "Hussein became enraged and had him executed," the satellite TV network reports.
Though known principally to Americans as a bloodthirsty warmonger, experts say, Saddam views himself as a cultured intellectual. It's believed he taught himself chess from books in the late 1970s and got the idea of using humans as pieces after learning of similar matches played in the court of King Louis XVI before the French Revolution.
One of his first matches was with the notorious Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran in 1984. Graphic footage aired in the report shows POWs from the Iran-Iraq war being used as pawns and gunned down when either made a goof.
Among the many others with whom Saddam matched his wits were Fidel Castro, Chinese President Hu Jintao and the late Joseph Mobutu of Zaire.
But not every opponent was a ruthless dictator -- wealthy Arab sheiks eager to show off their chess prowess also competed, using haremguard eunuchs as pieces.
"President Hussein hated to lose and frequently threw a tantrum when he was checkmated," former army Col. Manzoor Nasrat, one of the handful of Iraqi soldiers to survive the games, says in the report.
"He often cheated by ordering us to advance on the board between turns while he distracted his opponent with a joke. Once, a Kuwaiti prince spotted this and accused the president of cheating. Saddam had him arrested for espionage and executed."
The players generally sat in the grandstands and directed the matches through a master of ceremonies, who ordered pieces where to move through a bullhorn.
While Saddam sometimes used captured Kurdish rebels and Iraqi dissidents as pawns, he preferred to field Iraqi soldiers to demonstrate the courage of his men. Members of the elite Republican Guard, like Col. Nasrat, were "honored" with the role of knight.
"While other pieces were killed by snipers, we were equipped with side arms and given orders to shoot any piece we captured," recalls the veteran of six games. "The victim's bloody body would then be hauled off while all Iraqis in attendance applauded President Hussein."
But when Saddam made an error, his men suffered the consequences.
"If you were captured, that was it -- if you tried to run, you'd be shot," says the onetime chessman. "We would pray before each match that the president would be checkmated quickly and not lose slowly by attrition."
Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was an avid chess player and relished nothing more than an invigorating game with fellow tyrants, including Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi -- using live soldiers as pieces!
That shocking revelation comes from former aides to the Butcher of Baghdad, who say the games were played on a basketball court-size board. Captured human "pieces" were shot in the head and dragged off, according to the disturbing report, which aired on Al Jazeera TV.
"Soldiers who were forced to 'volunteer' for the matches lived in terror because Saddam was a notoriously poor player and lost virtually every game to Qaddafi, who is surprisingly crafty," recalled an eyewitness who appeared in the televised report.
At least 16 games between the two rulers were played between May 2000 and January 2003, the report claims.
Saddam and members of his inner circle often wagered on the sickening life-or-death matches, although when one general chose to bet against the Iraqi strongman, "Hussein became enraged and had him executed," the satellite TV network reports.
Though known principally to Americans as a bloodthirsty warmonger, experts say, Saddam views himself as a cultured intellectual. It's believed he taught himself chess from books in the late 1970s and got the idea of using humans as pieces after learning of similar matches played in the court of King Louis XVI before the French Revolution.
One of his first matches was with the notorious Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran in 1984. Graphic footage aired in the report shows POWs from the Iran-Iraq war being used as pawns and gunned down when either made a goof.
Among the many others with whom Saddam matched his wits were Fidel Castro, Chinese President Hu Jintao and the late Joseph Mobutu of Zaire.
But not every opponent was a ruthless dictator -- wealthy Arab sheiks eager to show off their chess prowess also competed, using haremguard eunuchs as pieces.
"President Hussein hated to lose and frequently threw a tantrum when he was checkmated," former army Col. Manzoor Nasrat, one of the handful of Iraqi soldiers to survive the games, says in the report.
"He often cheated by ordering us to advance on the board between turns while he distracted his opponent with a joke. Once, a Kuwaiti prince spotted this and accused the president of cheating. Saddam had him arrested for espionage and executed."
The players generally sat in the grandstands and directed the matches through a master of ceremonies, who ordered pieces where to move through a bullhorn.
While Saddam sometimes used captured Kurdish rebels and Iraqi dissidents as pawns, he preferred to field Iraqi soldiers to demonstrate the courage of his men. Members of the elite Republican Guard, like Col. Nasrat, were "honored" with the role of knight.
"While other pieces were killed by snipers, we were equipped with side arms and given orders to shoot any piece we captured," recalls the veteran of six games. "The victim's bloody body would then be hauled off while all Iraqis in attendance applauded President Hussein."
But when Saddam made an error, his men suffered the consequences.
"If you were captured, that was it -- if you tried to run, you'd be shot," says the onetime chessman. "We would pray before each match that the president would be checkmated quickly and not lose slowly by attrition."
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no -- there are people who have been heavier than that - you do become bedridden at some point
at 600 you could still get around it would depend on the person
While this story may well be a hoax - the general attitude toward fat people is pretty dismal
yes a person weighing 600 pounds has a medical problem and needs help - but the attitude of distain and contempt they are often met with doesn't help
my 2 cents !
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at 600 you could still get around it would depend on the person
While this story may well be a hoax - the general attitude toward fat people is pretty dismal
yes a person weighing 600 pounds has a medical problem and needs help - but the attitude of distain and contempt they are often met with doesn't help
my 2 cents !
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Neither does sitting on your ass all day stuffing your face with Twinkies... ;DCalandraWindrose wrote: yes a person weighing 600 pounds has a medical problem and needs help - but the attitude of distain and contempt they are often met with doesn't help
Morbidly obese people have nobody to blame but themselves. I give them no sympathy for letting themselves become so disgusting...though I wouldn't have been stabbing her with a platic fork. Not sure she deserved that. She definitely deserves ridicule though.
War pickles men in a brine of disgust and dread.
Well, sure the ones that DO in fact sit on their ass all day and eat twinkies do. But, that's not all of them. A lot of people have hormonal problems, genetic defects, etc. I for instance am not 'morbidly' obese. I do weigh like 220 lbs or so. I was 250 before, but since I've been going for 90 minutes on the treadmill every day(for about a year now) I've lost 30 lbs. It doesn't seem I can lose much more though. I'm 5"11, and should be 180 or so. So you see I'm not sitting on my ass all day eating twinkies, but I am still overweight. Most likely with me, it's a metabolism issue.Karae wrote:
Neither does sitting on your ass all day stuffing your face with Twinkies... ;D
Morbidly obese people have nobody to blame but themselves. I give them no sympathy for letting themselves become so disgusting...though I wouldn't have been stabbing her with a platic fork. Not sure she deserved that. She definitely deserves ridicule though.
There is also the issue of growth hormones. Growth hormones are being put into the beef and chicken we eat to make them fatter/more productive cows. As a result, we are eating them as well. I'd wager that this is part of the reason Americans are fatter and fatter these days.
So there are a lot of factors that contribute to tubby people, it's not necessarily that they're all lazy SOBs...
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