Obese woman grafted to her sofa!?

[CaptainWacky]

TELL ME ABOUT THIS WOMAN.

 

[Black Feathers]

Apparently she hadn't moved from the couch in years. She died when they tried to cut her away from it.

 

[Mentalist]

How did she go to the toilet.

 

[Black Feathers]

480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch

POSTED: 3:48 pm EDT August 11, 2004

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.

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[Eggs Mayonnaise]

I ain't clicking, someone tell me what the pic looks like.

 

[Black Feathers]

It's her on the couch, covered with a sheet.

 

[Black Feathers]

And the rescue workers are wearing hazmat suits.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I was refering to something BDM mentioned in a Nip/Tuck thread...but your story is good too.

 

[Mentalist]

If she was shitting on her couch for six years.. well do the math.

 

[Black Feathers]

PILLHEAD!!!!!!

 

[Gagh]

Did she know Jillian?

 

[CaptainWacky]

BUMP FOR BDMn.

 

[Big Dick McGee]

Yeah, Nip/Tuck bases most of their surgeries on real cases. The 600-pound woman was no exception. It was fucking FOUL!!!

 

[Mandi]

I thought it was a good episode, even though a little gross...

 

[CaptainWacky]

DID THE WOMAN DIE IN THE EPISODE?

 

[Gagh]

I wonder if this will happen to HOSHI, now she's out of work.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I hope so (I might finally have a shot at nailing her!)

 

[Gagh]

Shame the woman was actually KASS.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Shame for her daughter.

Umm, I mean, BIG FAT HO!

 

[Gagh]

Kass ate her daughter when she got too close to the sofa.