Forklift Removes 900-Pound Man From Home
By Associated Press
10:12 AM CDT, September 19, 2007
LANSING, Mich. - Firefighters cut a hole in the side of a house and used a forklift to extricate a 900-pound man from his second-floor bedroom after a visiting nurse became worried about his health (is it just me or should they have become worried about 600 pounds ago?). Rescue workers were called in Tuesday by the nurse, who determined the 33-year-old man needed medical help, Fire Chief Tom Cochran said. Cochran said the man had not left his home since 2003.
The man's brother, who lives with him, said he suffers from Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that creates a chronic hunger feeling that can lead to overeating and life-threatening obesity. Rescue workers brought in a forklift, high enough to raise a platform to a hole cut into the wall of the house. They covered the man with a blue tarp to shield him from onlookers and slid the platform onto a flatbed truck for a trip to Sparrow Hospital.
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He probably ways more than any 4 of us combined. It's sad though when a person has to be hauled around on a flat bed truck covered in tarp.
Hmmm, Michigan - well, it borders Ohio.
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