[mansion]

22 firefighters and emergency medical technicians worked for 2½ hours to move Bowen from her apartment so she could have dental work.

Once you get to be that weight, do you really need teeth anymore? Haven't you eat enough to last a lifetime?

Those firemen and EMTs worked for almost 3 hours to get her lard ass out of that house and she still files a complaint against them - talk about feeling entitled!

[Bikers4Bush]

Jabba the Hut lives!!!

[never4get]

I can only imagine the replies this post is going to generate. Here come.....the fat jokes!!!!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

How many hundred thousand dollars is this "person" (and I use that term loosely) going to end up costing the taxpayers in her selfish self-centered ME ME ME ME demands?

Will she cost more than a million in wasted time, money, and effort?

Outside her inate value as a human, is she worth more than two cents?

[StolarStorm]

This woman needs to be forcibly put in a hospital and her weight reduced.

[Servant of the 9]

Housing officials responded that the agency went well beyond what federal disability law requires at a cost of about $15,000.

How much could Flensing Knives cost?

So9

[End Times Sentinel]

Once you get to be that weight, do you really need teeth anymore? Haven't you eat enough to last a lifetime?

 

And you know most of that food was purchased via food stamps/welfare.  Just more of John Q. Taxpayer's largess...

 

 

Owl_Eagle

”Unleash the Hogs of Peace.”
P.J. O'Rourke Parliament of Whores

[ClearCase_guy]

Long ago, the very rich would be carried about in sedan chairs. Four strong men at each corner, and they would lift it up and carry the gentleman about on their shoulders. Important people, you see, shouldn't have to walk anywhere.

We haven't come very far, if we still have servants do this work. Of course, if you are very large, you need more than 4 people to carry you to your appointments. Perhaps 22 firefighters and EMTs would do.

What puzzles me, is that in the old days, it was the Emperor of Rome who was accorded this sort of treatment. Now, we do it for poor people in public housing. It's a funny sort of progress.

When is it my turn to use public servants as personal servants? I do get a turn, don't I?

[anobjectivist]

Cut her off, make her earn a living, this just makes me sick.

By the time she's able to work she'll be 500 pounds lighter, problems solved.

Whatever happened to responsibility and people being responsible for themselves?

[MEGoody]

"Those firemen and EMTs worked for almost 3 hours to get her lard ass out of that house and she still files a complaint against them - talk about feeling entitled!"

She's wrong to file the complaint. But at person doesn't get to 772 pounds by 'overeating'. This lady has some serious problems. Changing her apartment around isn't going to solve them.

The money would have been better spent on medical and/or psychiatric help so she could move toward some sort of normalcy.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Un-friggin-believable.

We paid for it!

[wizardoz]

Geez, Americans who are too fat to move, yet there are North Koreans and Africans starving to death. Hey! I have a modest proposal....

[Blood of Tyrants]

Next she will sue for extra food stamps because she "needs" more caloric intake than most people.

[RightField]

Bowen lives with her 19-year-old son and a caregiver.

Adopted son? Or ... how much did she weigh when she conceived? Or ....

points to ponder ...

[Blood of Tyrants]

P.S. I am not cold hearted. When she makes the effort to help herself, THEN I will show sympathy.

[ikka]

Is there some special law of physics at work here?

I mean, 500 extra pounds (which would still put her at 244) at 3500 calories per pound = 1.75 MILLION extra calories. That is a huge number of Doritos!

[sirshackleton]

The agency is about to provide her with a handicapped-accessible apartment with extra space to allow an oversized wheelchair to turn.

[Scarpetta]

She obviously found a lawyer who makes housecalls.

[SamAdams76]

It would have been easier to just bring the dentist and his equipment into the apartment. I wonder how the dentist was able to accomodate her at his office in the first place.

That is no way to live.

[11th Earl of Mar]

She kind of gives the expression 'sitting around the house' new meaning.

[mansion]

Updates on this earth-shattering story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer: (excerpts)

The housing authority is about to meet some of those needs as it accedes to demands from Bowen and her nurse, Virginia Turner, to provide Bowen with an accessible, one-story apartment that will accommodate an oversized electric wheelchair.

"They have violated her civil rights" by taking so long to address her needs, Turner said.

For years, Bowen has not been able to move from her bed and do what people consider normal daily functions. Her caregiver must prepare and give her food and even help her sit on a bedpan. She plays video games, listens to music and watches television. She writes poetry to boost her self-esteem.

"Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity," Turner said.