Obese Ohio Man Dies After Being Fused to Chair for 2 Years

aretardedorange · 03-31-2011, 03:51 PM

WTF.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/0...chair-2-years/

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A morbidly obese Ohio man has died after police found him fused to a chair he had not moved from in two years and were forced to cut a hole in the wall of his house just to get him out, WTOV-TV reported Wednesday.

The unnamed 43-year-old man's roommates called police who found him unconscious.

He was taken to Wheeling Hospital in nearby West Virginia, where he later died.

A hospital spokesman would not comment on the man's death.

The man lived with two able-bodied roommates -- including his girlfriend, who officials said fed him since he never got up -- in a home in Bellaire, Ohio.

The roommates called police upon finding the man unresponsive on Sunday.

Officers who responded to the scene said that the man's skin was fused to the fabric of chair and that he was sitting in his own feces and urine with maggots visible, WTRF-TV reported earlier.

One officer said it was the worst thing he had ever responded to. Another told the local TV station he had to throw away his uniform after helping remove the man from the chair.

"The living room where the man lived in his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It's unbelievable that somebody lives in conditions like that," Jim Chase, a local city code enforcer, told WTRF.

"I instructed the landlord this [Monday] morning and the two people, the tenants at the house, they had to get it cleaned, there's no way they can live in something like that, and so they are working on it," he added. "I'll be going back daily, checking on it, making sure that they get it cleaned it and serviceable. If not, they must get out."

The landlord said the man used to be an active person and said she had no idea how bad his condition was since he covered himself with a blanket every time she came to visit.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/0...#ixzz1ID1lB4uD

Nasty

CollinsE90 · 03-31-2011, 03:53 PM

I had to sit down to read this

aretardedorange · 03-31-2011, 03:55 PM

^

ragingclue · 03-31-2011, 03:56 PM

I really think those able-bodied fucktards should be charged. You sit there and feed the guy until he's fused to a goddamn chair? I'm not talking about blaming them for his death, but they should definitely pay (in one way or another) for the fact that someone had to go through all that to clean up that mess.

MadDog · 03-31-2011, 03:57 PM

WTF ?? I got out of my chair after reading that.

len56 · 03-31-2011, 03:57 PM

*barf*

i wonder what the science behind him fusing to the chair is... how does that even happen??

and he had a girlfriend???

Tondtar · 03-31-2011, 04:01 PM

He had a girlfriend?

cmark8 · 03-31-2011, 04:04 PM

How can someone get that big? No self-respect. Gross^3

persian54 · 03-31-2011, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Tondtar

He had a girlfriend?

seriously.... wtf?

Verbiage · 03-31-2011, 04:05 PM

This made me laugh until I cried. At work.

aretardedorange · 03-31-2011, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Bavarian III

This made me laugh until I cried. At work.

You sick person.

MediaArtist · 03-31-2011, 04:12 PM

I remember reading a similar story about a woman who was fused to a toilet for a few years. She didn't die, but they had to remove the toilet seat (fused to her butt), to take her to the hospital.

coh4777 · 03-31-2011, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by len56

i wonder what the science behind him fusing to the chair is... how does that even happen??

Basically your skin cells grow through the fibers of the chair. I remember reading somewhere how cival war soldiers returning home sometimes had parts of their clothes fused to their skin because they basically had not showered or changed for such a long time.

Verbiage · 03-31-2011, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by MediaArtist

I remember reading a similar story about a woman who was fused to a toilet for a few years. She didn't die, but they had to remove the toilet seat (fused to her butt), to take her to the hospital.

lmasodsjdjiasdpjaspdoajpdasd.

Kroy · 03-31-2011, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by len56

*barf*

i wonder what the science behind him fusing to the chair is... how does that even happen??

and he had a girlfriend???

and why didn't he get himself un-fused after 2 years? how did he shit and piss for 2 years? why didn't roomates call for help? why did the roomates LIVE with him? And with him in the freaking living room??? how did he support himself financially? girlfriend STAYED WITH HIM AND FED HIM????? too many questions... wtf is there to live for when stuck in a chair for 2 years. i would imagine every new day to be the worst day of my life.

i woulda chose the old shotgun to the mouth strategy to get out of that chair. or starvation... is it that hard to starve yourself for a couple days? he probably could have lost more than 5 pounds a day.

coh4777 · 03-31-2011, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by cmark8

How can someone get that big? No self-respect. Gross^3

Agreed. I'm not a religious person, but it's a sin to abuse your body in this way. At least he's dead and not alive to suck up expensive medical care and resources.

solefald · 03-31-2011, 04:18 PM

what a way to die...

newdadkel · 03-31-2011, 04:24 PM

as the skin breaks down fom compression, it gets very raw, which is the same process for bed sores. The body's natural response is to heal the wounds by growing in fibrous tissue. So these cells naturally could grow through the fibers of the chair, almost like incorporating it as new skin. But the compression/breakdown process would continue since he is not moving, and become more completely intertwined with each other.

I see a new House episode coming up

len56 · 03-31-2011, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by coh4777

Basically your skin cells grow through the fibers of the chair. I remember reading somewhere how cival war soldiers returning home sometimes had parts of their clothes fused to their skin because they basically had not showered or changed for such a long time.

ohhhhhhh goddddddd

MediaArtist · 03-31-2011, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Bavarian III

lmasodsjdjiasdpjaspdoajpdasd.

Found the link to the story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23595533...h-health_care/

Feyd · 03-31-2011, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by MediaArtist

Found the link to the story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23595533...h-health_care/

Thanks... I think?

Feyd · 03-31-2011, 04:55 PM

Ya know I just glanced over this and I thought to myself... what possess you to give up like that?

Seriously... how do you contemplate something like: "Well, should I get up or not"? And at what point, do you decide to try and get up then can't.. and the accept the fact and just deal with it for two fucking years?

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