:lol: Indiana :thumbsup:
QuoteObese 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.
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.
Of course you haven't... they can't leave the fucking house.
QuoteHe 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.
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Cal, your callousness will enrage Tim.
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.
Quote from: Syt on May 21, 2009, 07:43:30 AM
QuoteHe 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.
:bleeding:
USA! USA! USA!.. :lol:
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 08:03:46 AM
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.
Quote from: Neil on May 21, 2009, 07:42:29 AM
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.
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2009, 08:07:44 AM
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 08:03:46 AM
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. :D
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2009, 08:07:44 AM
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 08:03:46 AM
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.
That's what I'm talking about, G.
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2009, 08:12:23 AM
That's what I'm talking about, G.
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Quote from: DisturbedPervert on May 21, 2009, 08:10:28 AM
Quote from: Neil on May 21, 2009, 07:42:29 AM
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.
Quote"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.
Quote from: garbon on May 21, 2009, 11:05:34 AM
Things would never have come to this had she and her loved ones treated her like a human being from the start.
Yeah, stuffing mountains of tater tots down someone's piehole (or letting them do it themselves) isn't a good start.
Quote from: derspiess on May 21, 2009, 11:15:55 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 21, 2009, 11:05:34 AM
Things would never have come to this had she and her loved ones treated her like a human being from the start.
Yeah, stuffing mountains of tater tots down someone's piehole (or letting them do it themselves) isn't a good start.
I CAN QUIT EATING UNHEALTHY, GREASY FOOD ANY TIME I WANT :mad:
Quote from: derspiess on May 21, 2009, 11:15:55 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 21, 2009, 11:05:34 AM
Things would never have come to this had she and her loved ones treated her like a human being from the start.
Yeah, stuffing mountains of tater tots down someone's piehole (or letting them do it themselves) isn't a good start.
Tater tots are nasty
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 21, 2009, 11:23:07 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 21, 2009, 11:15:55 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 21, 2009, 11:05:34 AM
Things would never have come to this had she and her loved ones treated her like a human being from the start.
Yeah, stuffing mountains of tater tots down someone's piehole (or letting them do it themselves) isn't a good start.
Tater tots are nasty
Fuck you spic, go eat your tamales and menudo
Quote from: Fireblade on May 21, 2009, 01:07:02 PM
Fuck you spic, go eat your tamales and menudo
:huh:
I like tamales and menudo. Am I a: spic :(
Tater tots are quite possibly the ultimate way to prepare the potato.
Quote from: Fireblade on May 21, 2009, 01:07:02 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 21, 2009, 11:23:07 AM
Quote from: derspiess on May 21, 2009, 11:15:55 AM
Quote from: garbon on May 21, 2009, 11:05:34 AM
Things would never have come to this had she and her loved ones treated her like a human being from the start.
Yeah, stuffing mountains of tater tots down someone's piehole (or letting them do it themselves) isn't a good start.
Tater tots are nasty
Fuck you spic, go eat your tamales and menudo
I don't really like Latin American food
Quote from: Berkut on May 21, 2009, 01:10:13 PM
Tater tots are quite possibly the ultimate way to prepare the potato.
The ULTIMATE way to prepare a potato.
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Tater skins :mmm:
Waffle House hash is better tho, tied with boardwalk fries for best ways to prepare taters. :punk:
She clearly didn't care about human dignity when she put on 750+ pounds, so I fail to be that outraged by this.
Quote from: Valmy on May 21, 2009, 01:29:26 PM
She clearly didn't care about human dignity when she put on 750+ pounds, so I fail to be that outraged by this.
:yes: I doubt she cared about much of anything that one can't eat. :)
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2009, 01:35:06 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 21, 2009, 01:29:26 PM
She clearly didn't care about human dignity when she put on 750+ pounds, so I fail to be that outraged by this.
:yes: I doubt she cared about much of anything that one can't eat. :)
But just think of how big her boobs probably were. :P
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2009, 01:35:06 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 21, 2009, 01:29:26 PM
She clearly didn't care about human dignity when she put on 750+ pounds, so I fail to be that outraged by this.
:yes: I doubt she cared about much of anything that one can't eat. :)
Well, once she was dead I don't think she really cared about eating either.
If there is any human dignity involved in dead bodies, it is not the feelings of the dead person we are worried about.
I wonder about the really morbidly obese though - do they really understand all that they are missing?
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 01:40:23 PM
But just think of how big her boobs probably were. :P
When someone's EVERYTHING is huge, it really kinda diminishes the appeal. Her arms were probably MUCH bigger than her boobs. :x
Quote from: Berkut on May 21, 2009, 01:42:24 PM
I wonder about the really morbidly obese though - do they really understand all that they are missing?
I have to assume people like her are all either so mentally ill that they don't or can't think about things like that, or are so obsessed with food that nothing else concerns them, much like a heroin addict.
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2009, 01:45:51 PM
Quote from: Berkut on May 21, 2009, 01:42:24 PM
I wonder about the really morbidly obese though - do they really understand all that they are missing?
I have to assume people like her are all either so mentally ill that they don't or can't think about things like that, or are so obsessed with food that nothing else concerns them, much like a heroin addict.
There's also those that get to be on TV shows, they all fit the same pattern. All realise they are missing something, their sole solution seems to be stomach surgery which they can't afford because all their money is being syphoned to feeding them 4 billions Calories a day.
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2009, 01:44:41 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 01:40:23 PM
But just think of how big her boobs probably were. :P
When someone's EVERYTHING is huge, it really kinda diminishes the appeal. Her arms were probably MUCH bigger than her boobs. :x
Maybe she was a 50 pound chick with 700 pound hooters, though.
Quote from: Grey Fox on May 21, 2009, 01:48:26 PM
Quote from: Caliga on May 21, 2009, 01:45:51 PM
Quote from: Berkut on May 21, 2009, 01:42:24 PM
I wonder about the really morbidly obese though - do they really understand all that they are missing?
I have to assume people like her are all either so mentally ill that they don't or can't think about things like that, or are so obsessed with food that nothing else concerns them, much like a heroin addict.
There's also those that get to be on TV shows, they all fit the same pattern. All realise they are missing something, their sole solution seems to be stomach surgery which they can't afford because all their money is being syphoned to feeding them 4 billions Calories a day.
And what the fuck is up with making TV shows on the topic, anyway? There seems to be a whole trend of shows on the sad lives of the morbidly obese.
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 02:12:31 PM
And what the fuck is up with making TV shows on the topic, anyway? There seems to be a whole trend of shows on the sad lives of the morbidly obese.
The pathetic lives of others are entertaining and make other people feel better about themselves. That is one of the founding principles of American television.
Quote from: Savonarola on May 21, 2009, 02:21:43 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 02:12:31 PM
And what the fuck is up with making TV shows on the topic, anyway? There seems to be a whole trend of shows on the sad lives of the morbidly obese.
The pathetic lives of others are entertaining and make other people feel better about themselves. That is one of the founding principles of American television humanity.
Fixed that for you.
Quote from: Savonarola on May 21, 2009, 02:21:43 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 02:12:31 PM
And what the fuck is up with making TV shows on the topic, anyway? There seems to be a whole trend of shows on the sad lives of the morbidly obese.
The pathetic lives of others are entertaining and make other people feel better about themselves. That is one of the founding principles of American television.
I can't wait for Jon and Kate plus 8 comes on. Maybe Jon will murder his nag of a wife on TV.
Quote from: Savonarola on May 21, 2009, 02:21:43 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 02:12:31 PM
And what the fuck is up with making TV shows on the topic, anyway? There seems to be a whole trend of shows on the sad lives of the morbidly obese.
The pathetic lives of others are entertaining and make other people feel better about themselves. That is one of the founding principles of American television.
I guess even the most pathetic low life slacker can usually take comfort in the fact that he or she isn't a half ton of immobile blubber. :lol:
Quote from: Malthus on May 21, 2009, 02:12:31 PM
And what the fuck is up with making TV shows on the topic, anyway? There seems to be a whole trend of shows on the sad lives of the morbidly obese.
Maury Povich = chubby chaser.