Unbelievable facts
1) Too fat to kill
Recently surfaced data reveals a surprising truth about the story of a woman who previously falsely testified in a murder case.
She was found not guilty solely on the grounds that her extreme level of obesity would never allow her to commit a crime.
In March 2008, Mayra Rosales, a 31-year-old Texas resident, told police that she killed her 2-year-old nephew Eliseo Jr., by accidentally pressing him down at the time when I was sitting with the baby.
Due to the woman's weight of almost 500 kg, her story looked true. However, doctors soon found out that the boy could only die from a blow to the head. Back then, her defense attorney's main argument was that she was so big that she couldn't move her arm.
However, after some time, Myra confessed and told the truth. It turns out that she made up this story to protect her sister James, who hit the boy several times with a hairbrush on different parts of his body on the same day.
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2) Too fat to go to jail
The man was considered too fat to be taken into custody for bickering in a pub. Claude Jackson was ordered to do community service for breaking a glass cup against a man's head on January 14, 2007. As a result of the incident, the victim Tim Kirkman received a 4 cm wound to his neck and received the necessary treatment at the hospital.
Jackson pleaded guilty to initiating a fight and causing harm to health by negligence.
A medical report submitted to the court found that Jackson, who weighed 190 kg, had previously suffered three heart attacks, arthritis, sleep apnea and a number of other diseases, associated with being overweight.
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He also stressed that he once weighed 234 kg and that morbid obesity accompanies him throughout his life. The medical report also said that a prison sentence would create big problems for his health.
Very reluctant to talk about the incident, the 21-year-old said he deeply regrets what happened and has been away from this kind of trouble ever since.
The lives of fat people
3) Too fat to work
The family weighs 523 kilograms in total and they are demanding £22,000 in maintenance on the grounds that they are “too fat to work”. Incredibly, a family requires that much money to maintain their calorie-laden lifestyle.
When asked why they don't just go on a diet, the unemployed Chawner family, known as Teletubbies by their neighbors, say they don't have time.
Philip Chawner, 53, and his wife Audrey, 57, weigh 150 kg each. Their youngest daughter Emma is 160 cm tall and weighs 108 kg, and her older sister Samantha weighs 115 kg when she is 175 cm tall. They have not been working for 11 years, claiming that their weight is due to a hereditary disease.
Instead of working, the family spends time watching a TV they borrow from a friend. The family claims to spend £50 a week on groceries, including chocolate, chips and pies. Everyone consumes about 3,000 calories a day.
4) Too fat to enforce a death sentence
An Ohio inmate who weighs at least 218 kilograms asked for a postponement of his death sentence, saying that being overweight would make him a painful and long death.
Ronald Post, who shot and killed a hotel worker in northern Ohio more than 30 years ago, said that because of his weight, his difficulty in reaching his veins, and several other medical conditions problems, the execution of the death sentence will be accompanied by serious problems.
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In addition, Post's lawyers say it is so big that the death sentence may not work. Ronald Post, 53, was sentenced to death for the murder of 53-year-old Helen Wantz ( Helen Vantz), whom he previously robbed and then killed with two shots to the back of the head.
Post tried to lose those extra pounds, but knee and back problems prevented him from exercising properly. The man was pardoned by the state governor but died in July 2013.
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5) Too fat to be a father
The father, who weighs 163 kg, claims he lost custody of his two sons after a doctor told the court that the man was too overweight to be able to take care of them.
A 38-year-old man from Ottawa, Canada, lost a year-long legal battle for custody of sons aged 5 and 6.
The court decided to give the boys up for adoption, and the father must give all his energy to fighting obesity. The judge came to this conclusion after the doctor found that the man would not be able to monitor his energetic children due to an assessment of his health as part of the trial.
The boys were placed in foster care when the man's ex-wife was hospitalized with a mental disorder and suspected overdose. The man, whose name has not been released, has not seen his children in over a year. Since then, he claims to have lost 68 kg.
6) Too fat to fly
Kenlie Tiggeman is an overweight passenger who received US attention in May 2012 after a travel agent allegedly told her she was too fat to be to fly. She decided to sue the airline.
Tiegeman, who lives in New Orleans and blogs about weight loss on her website, filed a lawsuit arguing that the company's employee, instead of following the established policy, chose a way to discriminate and humiliate her in the face of airport onlookers.
SouthWest's policy is that passengers must buy another ticket if they can't fit in one seat that is 43 cm wide.
The girl stressed that she did not ask for monetary compensation from the airline and filed the application on her own, without legal representation. She said she wanted standards to be adjusted and for non-service personnel to decide whether or not to buy a second ticket for a full passenger.
7) Too fat to wear a wedding dress
After deciding on her wedding date, Claire Donnelly was excited to start choosing her wedding dress. Thus, the 31-year-old young woman signed up for the By Design bridal salon in Gloucester.
However, after a salon worker allegedly told her she was too big to fit into any dress, the young woman was devastated. Claire felt humiliated when an employee said that there were no discounted dresses for her.
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The young woman, 157 cm tall, stressed that she could not afford any dress due to a limited budget of 450 to 500 pounds.
Claire then had to call all subsequent bridal salons for her size to avoid a recurrence of the situation.
Fat people's stories
8) Too fat to dance at a bar
A student at the University of Iowa said that she was denied dancing on a special platform because she was “not beautiful enough and very pregnant” despite the fact that she said she wasn't expecting a baby.
Jordan Ramos, 21, describes herself as an overweight girl, but she never imagined her weight would be a problem while dancing at a bar with friends in the center Iowa City.
The local bouncers wouldn't let her dance twice on a raised platform on a small stage. She visited the bar twice a month apart, and both times she was turned down. According to Ramos, many overweight girls suffer from this kind of discrimination.
The girl appealed to the Iowa City Human Rights Commission, but, according to the organization's charter, weight discrimination is not illegal. That didn't stop Jordan. Then she was helped to find the owner of the establishment. The owner of Union Bar 4 noted that he did not know about the incident and did not approve of the employee's behavior.
9) Too fat to be cremated
The corpse of a fat man may have been the cause of the fire that almost destroyed the Austrian crematorium. Investigators believe that the fire that occurred in the Austrian city of Graz in April 2012 was the result of the burning of large amounts of fat from the body of a 200-kilogram woman.
The grease blocked the air filter, which in turn caused the system filter to overheat. Firefighters were able to control the flames through the crematorium's vents, however, the fire had already damaged the building enough to close it for repairs for several days.
The firefighters left the crematorium covered with a thick layer of black oily soot.
Otto Widestchek, the city's former chief firefighter, noted that it is time to start building special crematoria that will be protected from the risks associated with cremation too thick bodies. He stressed that at least one such facility already exists in Switzerland.