More news from Ohio...

Ick.

 

Shouldn't the people who fed him be charged with neglect or something? If he didn't eat so much who would eventually have had to get out of his seat in search of food - at least to the fridge.

 

Not to mention living with feces, urine, and maggots sitting in your living room. I mean seriously...

 

I suppose it could be true, but really how reliable is the Fox News Network? I perceive the network as one step lower than the National Enquirer.

I don't suppose anyone could live 2 months (let alone 2 years) sitting in a chair in his own feces with maggots/flies crawling about him.

 

You would think that the stink would get to all in the house pretty soon, and what kind of girlfriend could that be even, although I could see one or all of them sitting around for 2 years, never getting out of the chair watching Fox News indoctrination, but I'm guessing one at least had to get up to get food.

 

Did I mention............Ick.

 

I guess they never had sex?

 

He was only 348 pounds. That is not that big. I wonder how this happened. You would think someone would intervene.

 

Suddenly, this isn't quite so funny.

And 350 "is not that big"?! Compared to what? Unless the guy was about 8 feet tall, I'd say he was too short for his weight.

 

I think bretaz meant that he wasn't so morbidly obese as to not be able to stand and walk under his own weight. I'm not surprised that he died if he hadn't gotten up from his chair in 2 years

His whole backside was probably necrotic (going right into all the muscles of the back..and sepsis certainly set in). The skin is the largest organ of the body...it's not designed to be in contact with something indefinitely:thumb:

 

yeah, 350 pound people who sit in a chair for two years do it out of choice. they're not like the 900 pound piles of flesh you see on tv that are physically unable to move.

 

I once dated a man that weighed, at the time, almost 500 lbs. He was very self-mobile, however. Last I heard, he was down to about 300 lbs.

I'm thinking that the idea that 350 is "not that big" means that someone of that weight should still be ambulatory, anyway. Generally, when you see a news story about someone who has to be rescued from their own home due to size, they are over 1,000 lbs.