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It happened late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning at the home of a 600-pound woman who was having trouble breathing. Rescuers went in not knowing how difficult it would be to get her out. 40-year-old Gail Grinds was literally stuck to her couch and had to be removed surgically at the hospital.
Authorities estimate she had been on the couch anywhere from two to five years.
Martin County Fire amd Rescue crews faced what seemed to be an impossible mission. Everyone going inside had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.
They tried to cut out the front door, but at four-and-a-half feet wide, it wouldn't work. They had to cut plywood since a normal stretcher wouldn't do.
An ambulance was too small, so they brought in a trailer to get her out. While rescue crews came up with a back-door rescue plan, detectives secured what had become a crime scene, questioning family members about how it got so bad.
Using planks, they loaded the woman on to the trailer, still attached to the couch. [b]Removing her would be too painful, since her body is grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin has literally become one with the sofa and it must be surgically removed.[/b]
Detectives are investigating whether they have a case of neglect, or if it is simply a very sad story.
Grinds was taken to the Martin Memorial hospital where doctors removed her from the couch, but she died in spite of all the attempts to save her life.
[url]http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html[/url]
How the fuck can someone's skin become "one with the couch?" And why would said person not become immediately alarmed upon discovering this?
Wrong Forum?
either way, yeah, you're right, gross.
This qualifies as a current event, I think. She was drawing welfare undoubtedly so that makes this a state issue! 
oh shit, i thought this was in the general discussion forum. i was gonna suggest moving it here. my bad.
[QUOTE=alex cassun]oh shit, i thought this was in the general discussion forum. i was gonna suggest moving it here. my bad.[/QUOTE]
So thats how you get over 8,000 posts in under a year. 
actually, yeah.
The firefighters were later quoted as saying, "PWN3D!!1".
It's not easy having a good time.
Even smiling makes my face ache.
and i thought when my mom used to say id take up roots in the couch if i didnt go out side, i thought she was full of shit
www.triplebeard.com
http://darkroomreview.blogspot.com
“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
[QUOTE=Ozymandias]The firefighters were later quoted as saying, "PWN3D!!1".[/QUOTE]
Nice.
That'd be funny if that were true.
:eek: Shit like this makes me want to go to the gym and stop eating so much damn fast food.
[URL=http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/tragicfolly/Picture1039.jpg]There is still love in the MidWest.[/URL]
[B]You God damn better believe.[/B]
dont do it, the gym will give you the clap.
[QUOTE=alex cassun]dont do it, the gym will give you the clap.[/QUOTE]
*wonders how cassun knows this*
btw that picture of me isnt doctored. it came from swimming laps in the willamette
www.triplebeard.com
http://darkroomreview.blogspot.com
“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
cant the clap be cured?
[URL=http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/tragicfolly/Picture1039.jpg]There is still love in the MidWest.[/URL]
[B]You God damn better believe.[/B]
pretty sure
www.triplebeard.com
http://darkroomreview.blogspot.com
“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
then i'm going to the gym.
[URL=http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/tragicfolly/Picture1039.jpg]There is still love in the MidWest.[/URL]
[B]You God damn better believe.[/B]
[QUOTE=sixteentimes]cant the clap be cured?[/QUOTE]
i think you can treat it, but i dont think it goes away. its like mono and herpes, or something. i wouldn't know. swear to christ...
I read about it in [I]The World According to Garp[/I] once. I think he got it cured. Its like GONE-OH-RHIA, (which i don't know how to spell) which I think I had once, and it can be cured.
[URL=http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/tragicfolly/Picture1039.jpg]There is still love in the MidWest.[/URL]
[B]You God damn better believe.[/B]
Thanks for the info!
[url]http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html[/url]
Heres a story about 500lb chick who haden't moved off the couch in six years, after her body started to give out they called the paramedics. They found she had been laying on couch so long her skin had fused with the fabric, they couldn't get her off it and she died still grafted to the couch.
The paramedics said the stench was terrible when they went in the house.
We already had a thread about this! Pay attention!
[url]http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=15051[/url]
America is a beautiful place.
BEAUTIFUL!
I was here. Then I wasn't. Then I was again.
damn this is getting to be a epidemic of repeating threads round these parts
I just recently read an article about a man who weighed over 1,000 lbs and how he just lost 321lbs and is now hospitalized and on track to lose more. Reports said that if he wasn't flown to the hospital he probably would be dead by now.
and apparently the fattest person in the world at some point wieghed 1,327lbs, give or take a couple pounds.
2 threads for the linkage of one!
Whoa...nuts...now my post looks st00pid.
Shit like that really creeps me out. How the hell can someone let themselves get so fat that they literally cannot or will not move?
Fuck. Thank god there weren't pictures here.