400-pound woman who plunged through UES sidewalk says size saved her life (NYC)

NY Post ^ | 1/13/13 | ERIN CALABRESE, REBECCA HARSHBARGER and FRANK ROSARIO

[jimbo123]

Size does matter!

The 400-pound Queens pedestrian who crashed through an Upper East Side sidewalk said yesterday that a thinner woman might have died from that fall.

“Thank God, they said that my size was the only thing that saved me,” Ulanda Williams, 32, told The Post as she was discharged from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.

Williams, of Springfield Gardens, was waiting for a bus at about 9:10 p.m. Friday when she tried to hide from the rain under an awning.

The ground suddenly disappeared beneath her — and she was swallowed whole by the cavernous space adjacent to the cellar of The Blue Room on Second Avenue.

“It was horrible, absolutely horrible,” said Williams, who broke her arm in two places in the 6-foot fall.

[jimbo123]

Photo at the link.

[Vendome]

Hope she was wearing her Levi’s 1002 Blues. Probably protected her skin from abrasions.

[Berlin_Freeper]

People who take the subway have something new to worry about.

[tomkat]

I'd sure like to have that click back  :-\

[Conserev1]

So! Bigger is better.

[45semi]

Bounced?
Yeah, I know, pot ~vs~ kettle...Maybe my extra 20+ lbs might save my life someday...

[KevinB]

I guess she hasn’t considered that perhaps the sidewalk wouldn’t have collapsed at all if she had been a woman of a svelte 250 lbs?

[Revolting cat!]

Wow, she was 300lb yesterday and grew 100 pounds in a day!

[Blood of Tyrants]

A thinner woman wouldn’t have gone through the sidwalk in the first place.

[Liberty Valance]

Bertha?

[Cowboy Bob]

I thought the same thing...

[Jack Hydrazine]

Happened in China, too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lFXN3Lkq7Y

[Berlin_Freeper]

Maybe she blames “the cheap sidewalk.”

[SWAMPSNIPER]

A thinner woman might not have busted the sidewalk!

[Sherman Logan]

A couple who are good friends of mine stopped and prayed before driving across an area on a CO mountain pass that was prone to avalanches. They were swept off the mountain, but survived with only minor injuries, the first people to ever survive being swept into the canyon at that point. They attributed their survival to God’s intervention because they had prayed for his protection.

I pointed out that if they hadn’t stopped to pray, they would have been past the danger section before the avalanche hit.

My analysis was not particularly appreciated.

[bunkerhill7]

Step on a crack, break your mother`s back

[Slings and Arrows]

Photo at the link.

The Macy's Parade is early this year.

[Thanks for Gefn for the ping!]

[Slings and Arrows]

Photo at the link.

The Macy's Parade is early this year.

[Thanks for Gefn for the ping!]

[wildehunt]

I dunno... I think I saw a demo of what happens when you drop a mouse 6 feet and what happens when you drop a cow. Something about impact force and the mass of a falling object??

I could be wrong, but as I recall, it didn't go so well for the cow...

[Mr. Silverback]

Take that, Bloomberg! If your soda law had been in place two or three years ago, this woman would be dead now!

Yeah, not really.