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| 440-Pound Body Rejected From Morgue For Being 'Too Fat' |
| 2014-06-21 |
| [BREITBART] The 440-pound body of a man was rejected from a morgue at an Australian hospital for being "too fat" after a funeral director had driven more than two hours with the dear departed in her hearse. Joanne Cummings drove the body to the Hedland Health Campus in Port Hedland while blasting her air conditioning to keep the corpse cool and then had to go right back. "I actually had to turn around and drive two hours home to Roebourne and keep him in my car overnight," Cummings told Australia's ABC. According to Cummings, Hedland Health Campus rejected a 550-pound body last year. HHC staff apparently don't mince their words. "(A member of staff) walked out and looked at this gentleman in the back of the car and said: 'He's too fat, he can't go in the fridge'," Cummings told the North West Telegraph. "I could probably put a baby elephant in one of those fridges and it'd fit through the door, and they're refusing entry for a human being. My issue is if that was your father, mother, partner... you wouldn't want them refused entry into the mortuary." WA Country Health Service regional director Ron Wynn said the hospital may look into installing equipment that can store larger bodies. "It is imperative that at all times a deceased person is treated with the utmost care and respect and viewings are arranged so as not to cause distress and inconvenience to grieving families," Wynn said in a statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Could make for a spectacular grease fire. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2014-06-21 17:15 |
| #9 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-21 14:55 |
| #8 Srsly? A large animal facility? I am not kidding. This is what the kid's hospital ER doc told me over the phone. Of course, that was over 20 years ago. Since then they have devised CT scanners that don't need trolleys and are only limited by what will fit within their circular Xray emitter rings (and how intense the Xrays are). |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-21 13:41 |
| #7 I sense Anguper has a grip on my foot and applying downward pressure. Srsly? A large animal facility? If true this is going to give Deacon the big head. I want to believe, |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-21 13:20 |
| #6 Back in pre-modern days, hospital scales couldn't weigh patients over 350 lb. I sent those patients to our hospital loading dock, where they had a freight scale that would measure 1000 lb - we never had a patient we couldn't at least weigh. I did once have a teenager weighing 350 lb come into the ER, who needed a brain CT scan - the trolley part of our scanner couldn't tolerate anyone over 300. "Child" was transferred to a children's hospital downstate. They couldn't do a CT on anyone over 300 either, but they had an arrangement with a nearby veterinary hospital to use their animal scanner for people between 300-500 lb. Now & then I guess EMS still has to cut through the walls of some dwellings when it is impossible to remove a patient through existing doorways. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-21 13:13 |
| #5 Foster's. Australian for "not thinking today." |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-06-21 13:12 |
| #4 The A/C part of this story is utterly ridiculous. Apparently Oz doesn't know about the existence of this exotic material called ICE - pack enough of that around a dead body & it will be preserved. Maybe there was no room left in the hearse for ICE. In that case, they could have rented a flat bed truck. Can't anyone THINK there? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-21 13:07 |
| #3 So what happens if you have a 550 lb murder victim? How would you handle that one? Enquiring minds in Fort William, Scotland want to know. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul in bonnie Scotland 2014-06-21 12:20 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-21 09:36 |
| #1 I kinda dig this Joanne Cummings babe, takes her job seriously. Hope the wagon had good GM AC. There's a song, somewhere out there in the US Midwest, in Oklahoma! maybe? That describes this situation in a similar climate. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-21 08:31 |