Posted on 07/27/2013 8:33:14 PM PDT by Lmo56
Albert Buitenhuis was told he was too heavy to stay in New Zealand.
Weighs 20 stone six pounds, five stone less than when he moved there.
He and wife Marthie are facing deportation from their Christ Church home.
Albert is five feet ten inches tall and has a Body Mass Index of 40.
An obese chef has been told he is too fat to live in New Zealand, even though he has lost 66lb since moving there six years ago.
Albert Buitenhuis, who weighs 20 stone six pounds, was told that it may place demands on the New Zealand health services.
He and his wife Marthie are now facing deportation from their Christchurch home and are living with his sister in Auckland as they fight the decision.
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There went any hope I might have had of emigrating.
Dang. The Obama’s have taken over New Zealand too.
Stone = 14 pounds
Therefore 20 stone 6 = 286 pounds
Hooray for intrusive government! /s
They’ll replace him with a nice muslim breeding pair.
Therefore 20 stone 6 = 286 pounds
Michael Moore as Gallstones that weigh more than that
Expect things like this anywhere you have socialist medical systems. Bloomberg was only jumping the gun a little with his ban on large soft-drinks.
Also, from New Zealand, rather than Australia, it would be more like, ‘Sorry, Bro’.
I guess NZ won’t be recruiting immigrants at Walmart.
And being upside down down under there, his heavy weight increases his chances of just falling off! Dangerous situation, and who’s gonna be responsible should that happen?
6’0” 196lbs. I’m over weight... right.
Do you think they might be worried about New Zealand tipping over from too much weight? /s
NO!
Yes could be, but he will have to start with the Wookie.
lol, apparently my BMI is 39. I’m 6’-7” and 346 lbs. :-(
Not a bad idea.
Obese illegals (who are mostly the wimmin) will bankrupt us when they join Obama-care,
Oddly most people on this thread are bemoaning this.
Here it would a “civil rights violation” to kick out an immigrant because they were a lardass.
The only thing we need to import less than more queers is more steers. Mexico, almost as obese as us. Don’t you just love the idea of having to pay for a bunch of hefers who mange to waddle across the Rio Grande?
I’d pretty much let in hot chicks and geniuses, that’s it. ;d
he moved there 6 years ago and was heavier... and NOW they’re kicking him out?
oh yea... that’s because in order to live there, he had to bring money with him... which they more then happily accepted. now, 6 years later, they’ve received the benefit from the money and its ok to kick him
btw, 20 stone 6 pounds is 286 pounds. definitely fat on a 5’10” guy.. but enough to get you ejected from the country??
They aren’t telling the whole story. I lived in NZ just shy of 7 years. The requirements to get residency status are fairly strict. After being in the country 7 years a person either has to be granted residency or leave. That’s when the ability to renew one’s visa ends. If you don’t meet the residency requirements, it doesn’t matter if one has a job or owns a house. They should have researched and known long before now whether they’d be able to get residency and stay in the country. Their’s isn’t the first sob story of living and working in the country to find out after 6 year’s they’d have to be leaving.
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