Dead fat chick gets hauled away on a tow truck

[Caliga]

  Indiana

Obese Woman Dragged From Home, Hauled Away After Death
Boyfriend, Son Watched As Woman Was Removed

INDIANAPOLIS -- The Marion County Coroner's Office has come under fire after it was revealed that an obese woman was dragged from her home and hauled away on a trailer in front of family members following her death.

Teresa Smith, 48, who weighed 750 pounds, died Tuesday in her apartment on Indianapolis' northeast side.

Officials at the scene told 6News' Jack Rinehart that the deputy coroner made the decision to call a towing service to remove the body from the home.

"We debated for quite a while about how we were going to get her out of there and so we finally decided, since we didn't have a van that was large enough to carry her, it was decided between (the police) department and the coroner's office to use (the truck)," said Detective Marcus Kennedy.

Smith's boyfriend and the couple's 13-year-old son, along with several neighbors, watched as Smith's body, still on her mattress, was dragged across the courtyard of the apartment complex, strapped down on the wrecker and covered with a piece of carpet.

"I think they should have handled it differently, putting her on a flatbed like they did. That was like putting a cow up there," said Smith's boyfriend, David Johnson.

Neighbors said they were also disturbed by the ordeal.

"What really got me is when they took her off onto the flatbed, they threw this dirty, dirty carpet on top of her, and I just thought that was so disrespectful," said a neighbor, who did not want to be identified. "I would have never let them throw that on my loved one."

Once on the truck, Smith's body was escorted by police downtown to the coroner's office.

Former Chief Deputy Coroner John Linehan said he was shocked and dismayed that appropriate steps weren't taken to remove the woman from her home.

He said that fire and medical personnel have equipment available for handling patients up to 1,000 pounds and that moving obese individuals is not all that rare of an occurrence.

"When they scoop up dead dogs off of the street they don't treat them that way," he said. "It's just not the way to treat a human being."

Chief Deputy Coroner Alfarena Ballew told Rinehart by phone Wednesday that a flatbed truck has been used in other occasions to move obese individuals. She said the office is now looking for a way to transport Smith's body from the morgue to the funeral home.

The Indiana State Coroner's Association said it has no specific recommendations to handle extremely obese people. The decision is left up to each county.

[Neil]

It's not a human being anymore, it's a dead body.  A huge, disgusting one at that.

You know, I've seen plenty of overweight people in my time, but I've never seen one of these 400+-pound  monsters, even at a Wal-Mart.

[Caliga]

Of course you haven't... they can't leave the fucking house.

[Syt]

He said that fire and medical personnel have equipment available for handling patients up to 1,000 pounds and that moving obese individuals is not all that rare of an occurrence.

[Ed Anger]

Cal, your callousness will enrage Tim.

[Malthus]

One cable station had something of a marathon of programs about the severely obese. Didn't watch any of 'em, but I saw the commercial - hard to believe that a human being can get so fat. Dunno how their families can enable them like that - if I lived with someone who was so fat they couldn't get out of bed, I'd leave their meals in the dining room until they were thinned down enough to get them.

[Cecil]

He said that fire and medical personnel have equipment available for handling patients up to 1,000 pounds and that moving obese individuals is not all that rare of an occurrence.

USA! USA! USA!..

[Caliga]

One cable station had something of a marathon of programs about the severely obese. Didn't watch any of 'em, but I saw the commercial - hard to believe that a human being can get so fat. Dunno how their families can enable them like that - if I lived with someone who was so fat they couldn't get out of bed, I'd leave their meals in the dining room until they were thinned down enough to get them.

There is actually a psychological disorder that deals with wanting to make someone in your care as fat as possible.  It's some sort of sick codependency.  Of course you'd do that... because you're not crazy like these enablers.

[DisturbedPervert]

You know, I've seen plenty of overweight people in my time, but I've never seen one of these 400+-pound  monsters, even at a Wal-Mart.

Try an American Wal-Mart.

[Malthus]

One cable station had something of a marathon of programs about the severely obese. Didn't watch any of 'em, but I saw the commercial - hard to believe that a human being can get so fat. Dunno how their families can enable them like that - if I lived with someone who was so fat they couldn't get out of bed, I'd leave their meals in the dining room until they were thinned down enough to get them.

There is actually a psychological disorder that deals with wanting to make someone in your care as fat as possible.  It's some sort of sick codependency.  Of course you'd do that... because you're not crazy like these enablers.

Well, I am, just not in that way. 

[Ed Anger]

One cable station had something of a marathon of programs about the severely obese. Didn't watch any of 'em, but I saw the commercial - hard to believe that a human being can get so fat. Dunno how their families can enable them like that - if I lived with someone who was so fat they couldn't get out of bed, I'd leave their meals in the dining room until they were thinned down enough to get them.

There is actually a psychological disorder that deals with wanting to make someone in your care as fat as possible.  It's some sort of sick codependency.  Of course you'd do that... because you're not crazy like these enablers.

There is a "feedee" thing that some people are into.

[Caliga]

That's what I'm talking about, G.

[Ed Anger]

That's what I'm talking about, G.

[Malthus]

You know, I've seen plenty of overweight people in my time, but I've never seen one of these 400+-pound  monsters, even at a Wal-Mart.

Try an American Wal-Mart.

Or the Wal-Mart outside of Orillia, Ontario. Semi-rural areas grow some truly gigantic fatties - I saw a pair of women going through Wal-Mart on those motorized wheelchair things, one with what looked like an oxygen tube up her nose; between the two of them (both women) they must have topped the scales at over 1,000 pounds.

[garbon]

"When they scoop up dead dogs off of the street they don't treat them that way," he said. "It's just not the way to treat a human being."

Things would never have come to this had she and her loved ones treated her like a human being from the start.