Obese man dies after refusing zoo X-ray

[Guchi_Jnr]

Obese man dies after refusing zoo X-ray

A German man weighing 230 kilograms has died after refusing to go to the zoo for an X-ray because he was too heavy for machines designed for humans, The Daily Bild has reported.

"It sounded like they were trying to wind us up," Thomas Lessmann's widow Petra told the paper.

Complaining he was feeling ill and frequently losing consciousness, the 51-year-old went to a clinic in Eppendorf, near Hamburg in northern Germany, which referred him to the nearby Hagenbeck Zoo.

His pride wounded, he refused to go and died 13 days afterwards, the paper said.

The cause of death was unclear.

A spokeswoman for the clinic said that Mr Lessmann was entitled to the same treatment as anyone else but added, "The upper weight limit for machines in human medicine is around 200 kilograms."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/04/2732408.htm

Not sure which is funnier..
That the fat fuck was too proud to go and get check at the zoo..
Dude was 230 fuckin' kilo, he had NOTHING to be proud of!!

Or that his name was "Lessmann"
 

[shirenuファクトリー]

lol o-o;;;

This doesn't surprise me too much though; it's hard enough to get some men to get to go to the doctor unless their arm's been cut off.. If they then got told to go to a zoo, they'd just be like "fuck it"

But yeah that was stupid

[arun.yothin]

Sure it would have been embarrassing, but at least you would have gotten a trip to the zoo out of it.

[J-Triumf]

Not sure which is funnier..
That the fat fuck was too proud to go and get check at the zoo..
Dude was 230 fuckin' kilo, he had NOTHING to be proud of!!

Or that his name was "Lessmann"
 

I just had to whip this one up right now:

[kuro808]

well too much pride in the gut, causes a giant sized hole in the ground 

[JFC]

well too much pride in the gut, causes a giant sized hole in the ground 

Sounds like something Confucius should have said.

[kuno_thunder]

This is gonna sound really REALLY mean, but it serves him right.  He was offered help by doctors and they had a plan to do if as easily as possible.  So long pal, looks like Germany's got one less man to feed.

[THUNDERDUCK]

Damn, 500 lbs.  He needed to be the Biggest Loser.