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2014-06-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

440-Pound Body Rejected From Morgue For Being 'Too Fat'

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#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|| 2014-06-21 08:31|| Front Page Top

Just a suggestion.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-21 09:36|| 2014-06-21 09:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-21 12:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-21 13:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Foster's. Australian for "not thinking today."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-06-21 13:12|| 2014-06-21 13:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-21 13:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-21 13:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2014-06-21 13:41|| Front Page Top

Enjoy Fort William AP.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-21 14:55|| 2014-06-21 14:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Could make for a spectacular grease fire.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2014-06-21 17:15|| 2014-06-21 17:15|| Front Page Top

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