RIP on the couch!
24-Jan-2008, 05:37 PM
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RIP on the couch!
http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html#
hahaha... what the hell man.. this is messed up. negligence or stupidity for eating herself to death?
480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch
STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she had remained for about six years.
Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.
Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.
A preliminary autopsy on the the four-foot, ten-inch woman lists the cause of death as "morbid obesity." But officials want to know more about the circumstances inside the home.
Investigators say Grinds lived with a man named Herman Thomas, who says he tried to take care of her the best he could. He has told them he tried repeatedly to get her up, but simply couldn't. No charges have been filed, but officials are looking into negligence issues.
Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.
She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to the couch.
Neighbors say they had no idea Grinds lived at the duplex, though they had seen Thomas and some children outside.
hahaha... what the hell man.. this is messed up. negligence or stupidity for eating herself to death?
480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch
STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she had remained for about six years.
Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.
Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.
A preliminary autopsy on the the four-foot, ten-inch woman lists the cause of death as "morbid obesity." But officials want to know more about the circumstances inside the home.
Investigators say Grinds lived with a man named Herman Thomas, who says he tried to take care of her the best he could. He has told them he tried repeatedly to get her up, but simply couldn't. No charges have been filed, but officials are looking into negligence issues.
Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.
She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to the couch.
Neighbors say they had no idea Grinds lived at the duplex, though they had seen Thomas and some children outside.
kinda like the magic 100hp per cu inch for a healthy pushrod engine.
25-Jan-2008, 10:10 AM
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http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html#
...Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.
Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.
...Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.
Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.
25-Jan-2008, 10:37 AM
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That caretaker should have use his brain and convert that couch to a port-a-couch. That way, all he has to do is empty the couch-pan for the nice lady. Nobody should have to live like the way she did. I feel sorry for her.
25-Jan-2008, 10:53 AM
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It's obviously not a laughing matter, Salman, it's very sad that someone chooses to live their life like that...there are people with disabilities or ailments, etc., that have no choice in the matter. Who knows what this woman's condition was that made her act as she did. It is pitiful.
25-Jan-2008, 11:36 AM
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We all have our vices. I might have a problem with gambling. You might have a problem touching yourself too often. Its not good to judge. I'm sure no one desires to die obese like that.
25-Jan-2008, 11:53 AM
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^ Hunger and laziness.
Unless she had to take steroids for medical reasons and gained excess weight that way......I don't feel sorry for her.
Anyone can control what they eat, it's a choice. And if the person chooses to eat like a pig and become morbidly obese, why should I feel sorry for them.
Unless she had to take steroids for medical reasons and gained excess weight that way......I don't feel sorry for her.
Anyone can control what they eat, it's a choice. And if the person chooses to eat like a pig and become morbidly obese, why should I feel sorry for them.
25-Jan-2008, 12:05 PM
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^ Hunger and laziness.
Unless she had to take steroids for medical reasons and gained excess weight that way......I don't feel sorry for her.
Anyone can control what they eat, it's a choice. And if the person chooses to eat like a pig and become morbidly obese, why should I feel sorry for them.
Unless she had to take steroids for medical reasons and gained excess weight that way......I don't feel sorry for her.
Anyone can control what they eat, it's a choice. And if the person chooses to eat like a pig and become morbidly obese, why should I feel sorry for them.
But, what isn't known is the emotional or mental problems that were behind the choices this woman made. That's what I feel pity for. Maybe you're right, and maybe there's more to the story than the report about it.
It's gross when you read these kind of things *dry heave*, but what really makes a person willing to die in their own waste, obese and 'attached' to a sofa?
