Posted on 10/08/2008 6:11:41 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- A 990-pound (450-kilogram), bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said.
Jose Luis Garza, 47, tipped the scales at almost 1,000 pounds before his death.
Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and load him onto the back of a friend's pickup as he fought for his life. The 47-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in northern Mexico.
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Somebody shoulda warned this guy.
Owl_Eagle
When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didnt just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
Look, heres what happened."
-Slow Joe Biden
someone should have warned him that eating in bed is unhealthy.
His Fiance brought him the food.
What gets me is his family blaming the state for not getting him to a hospital. The guy was bed-ridden. Someone was bringing him food for years and years to enable him to get that huge. I suspect it was the same people blaming others now.
The narrator on the show and the doctors basically said that his mother needed to care for someone and he was it. Without him to take care of every day, she'd be lost.
I wonder if the mother has some sort of Munchausen (sp?) by proxy syndrome, or a cousin of it.
It has to be a mental condition in the enabler. No other way around it.
Lazy.
There is NO excuse for ANYBODY being that lazy.
No, the other Mexican’s (The one who lost weight) Fiance brought him the food.
Owl_Eagle
When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didnt just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
Look, heres what happened."
-Slow Joe Biden
Fought for his life? Sounds like the only thing he fought for over the years was more food!
Mmmmm, Chimmi Changa’s, Ho-ho’s, Crispy Creams, and a diet coke.
Micheal Moore, this is your future. (Except the having a friend part)
He should have run for the border................
What I never get about these stories is that, once the person can no longer move, it is clear that someone else is feeding him/her. So isn’t the first thing to deal with that person?
Actually, while America has the highest rate of obesity in the world Mexico is number 2.
Yankee bigots seem to gather on FR.
More likely in Nuevo York!!!
If he had done that, it would have measured 6.2 on the Richter Scale.
The people bringing him the food killed him so they are trying to move the fault to someone else. It’s like alcoholics whose families enable them to keep drinking. I’m close to one of those situations. The family can’t be bothered to provide shelter away from the guy’s drinking buddies but they were sure ready to sue when he wound up in ICU...again.
LOL!!!....At least he would have set off the vibration sensors!................
Woman didn't know she was pregnant, gives birth -- now hospital is sued
Money quote at end of story:
""Chutzpah," Obolsky said. "This is America. You've got to love this country. This woman doesn't know she is pregnant, but somebody else should."
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