Pleas for help come too late as half-ton man dies in Mexico

CNN ^ | October 7, 2008 | CNN Story Monkey

[End Times Sentinel]

Did you know that the Taco Bell Nachos Bellgrande is nearly 800 calories? And that's really just a side dish/appetizer. Throw in a couple Beef Chalupa Santa Fes and your looking at about 1600 calories.

Somebody shoulda warned this guy.

Owl_Eagle

“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden

[pennboricua]

someone should have warned him that eating in bed is unhealthy.

[Dan(9698)]

His Fiance brought him the food.

[A_perfect_lady]

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.

[IYAS9YAS]

Been watching a show called "Big Medicine" on, I think, Discovery Health. There is one person on there who has always been big. He was almost half a ton. He's down in the 600s now. His momma had everything to do with it. She fed him and fed him and he learned the behavior as a child. His father tried to get him and her to stop. His mom, even when the guy was bedridden continued to feed him everything she could.

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.

[rewrite]

Lazy.
There is NO excuse for ANYBODY being that lazy.

[PeteB570]

No, the other Mexican’s (The one who lost weight) Fiance brought him the food.

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The really shocking thing, is that this occurred in Mexico. I was sure the dateline would be from Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, etc.

Owl_Eagle

“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden

[Rummyfan]

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.

Fought for his life? Sounds like the only thing he fought for over the years was more food!

[Nathan Zachary]

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)

[Gay State Conservative]

Sorry....no sympathy.I've gained (and lost) substantial numbers of pounds in recent years and will blame nobody but myself for the gains and will credit nobody but myself (and two cardiologists who,let's say,”motivated” me to lose) for the losses.

[Red Badger]

He should have run for the border................

[ikka]

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?

[jalisco555]

The really shocking thing, is that this occurred in Mexico. I was sure the dateline would be from Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, etc.

Actually, while America has the highest rate of obesity in the world Mexico is number 2.

[WVKayaker]

Yankee bigots seem to gather on FR.
More likely in Nuevo York!!!

[dfwgator]

He should have run for the border................

If he had done that, it would have measured 6.2 on the Richter Scale.

[cripplecreek]

A 990-pound (450-kilogram), bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem

Help?

[Varda]

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.

[Red Badger]

LOL!!!....At least he would have set off the vibration sensors!................

[synbad600]

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