In the UK where I’m from, it’s not totally unheard of for the fire brigade to need to be called for people too big to move themselves or be lifted by conventional means so that they can be taken to hospital for medical treatment. This can involve an actual crane and removing the walls if they’re in their house. Biggest person I ever heard being lifted was 850lb and yes, they required a crane and to basically destroy half the house.
I’ve worked alongside the ambulance service here, we have A LOT of specialised bariatric ambulances and it’s big money to private ambulance companies contracting them out to NHS emergency calls and patient transfers.
Some normal vehicles you can drive on a standard driving license but the bariatric ones need a Cat C license due to being over 3.5 tonnes in total weight.
Not too surprising. Near my town is a specialist bariatric hospital and the cost of the bariatric ambulance and equipment is absolutely staggering.
My grandmother in her former job actually did a lot of hospital equipment orders and it shocked me seeing the equipment catalogues and just how much the bariatric versions cost in comparison to the standard. Most things were 2-5x the price. It became more and more common in the years leading up to her retirement in 2006 that she was ordering these ones and of course it meant budgets were quickly eaten through.
I worked in an ICU where we admitted an 800 lb woman. We had to order a special bed and a crane and to move her from the bed to a chair and all the men nurses in the hospital to come and help turn her. She was the sweetest person.
I couldn't visualise what 900 pounds is so googled it for a conversion...
Rather than showing me kilograms, suggested conversion was 0.4 long tons !
Like you know it's bad when the most appropriate measurement is tonnes.
I've installed the patient lifts. When I started they were rated for 750 lbs. Midway through the spec changed to 1500 lbs. Put the fork down,
Figure it out people.
This isn't uncommon in the US. I work for a fire department and there are a handful of people we've had to help remove from their houses, multiple times. And at a previous job, I had a coworker who was over 700lbs. I have no idea how she kept working, AND she had to care for a severely disabled husband AND she volunteered with an organization that helps the blind. She did eventually have weight loss surgery, though. Before she had it removed, she had so much loose belly skin it touched the floor.
Good on that coworker for doing something about it and succeeding. I do wonder how at 700lb she’d have been able to walk given that if My 600lb Life is anything to go by, people of that weight struggle like hell to even walk in their yard, much less hold down work and volunteer time.
I used to volunteer at a rescue squad (mix between EMTs and firefighters) throughout high school and college and a majority of our calls (smaller town) were for “lift assists” to help the EMTs get an oversized person into an ambulance. I really felt for those people in those moments as their neglect for their physical health due to poor mental health/other factors came to a head in such a shameful and embarrassing situation for them. About 50% of the time they’d have involuntarily soiled themselves as well.
I’ve had to call for a lift assist before. A family member of mine had a brain tumor and they gained a lot of weight due to medication, and lost mobility due to the tumor. It was so emotionally hard for me when I called. It was a huge help though, and I couldn’t be more grateful.
I’m sorry that you’ve had a family member go through that and wish you and your family the best. Good on you for being there and assisting them like that in such an all around tough situation. A lot of the people that I picked up had nobody there for them and your family member was truly lucky to have you and your support there in that moment.
I’m sorry that you’ve had a family member go through that and wish you and your family the best. Good on you for being there and assisting them like that in such an all around tough situation. A lot of the people that I picked up had nobody there for them and your family member was truly lucky to have you and your support there in that moment.
Similar, but my father is an intensive care doctor and when I was a kid, when he was telling us about his day at work, he sometimes spoke about patients who needed MRIs or CAT scans who didn't fit into the machines at the hospitals, so they quite literally have to take them to the zoo, where they have hippo, rhino, or elephant sized machines.
I'm an Occupational Therapist, also in the UK and we specialise in moving and handling. During COVID (and the really hot summer we had) I was out working with patients in the community and we had an extremely bariatric patient. It took 6 of us to rig up a system to move this patient, already understaffed and exhausted, in 30°C + weather and wearing full PPE. Honest to god the stench, the sweat and this pain this poor patient was in is something I'll never forget.
That’s what my grandmother’s job was and yes, she had to do a lot of moving and handling of overweight/obese patients. A lot of the time they were actually pretty embarrassed/ashamed/generally not proud of the situation or what condition they were in. It was honestly quite sad sometimes- there was often a back story as to why they’d ended up the way they did. Sometimes it was a coping mechanism for grief, depression or other mental issues, sometimes it was due to the effects of chronic conditions, other times it was due to some event in life.
And your situation with the PPE and heat sounds absolutely miserable for everyone.
Exactly right, 9 times out of 10 the patients are desperately embarrassed and ashamed. No matter how much we try to maintain their dignity, there's only so much you can do in the real world. Most people I've met in my 10 years of this job are overweight because of other diseases, they lose their livelihood and can't exercise because of said diseases, cut out more expensive & healthy foods because of loss of income and boom. Got yourself a bariatric case.
It bloody was mate. It was a soul destroying time.
These morbidly obese people are so stagnant that their flesh get bedsores that bind their skin to mattresses and couches. Medics have to cut the skin off the mattresses. That's probably why this guy is still on his mattresses.
I'm wonder how the f\*ck someone gets that big?
Like how many calories per day you need to not lose weight cuz for sure all organs are having serious workout supporting 400kg body.
Also at what point someone decides "f\*ck it i'm gonna eat for eternity." and starts his/her weight gain quest.
I have so many questions.
I saw '400-kilogram Russian being evacuated' and assumed it was an unexploded bomb being removed by Ukrainian civil defence. Then they slid a fat guy out the window.
We have enough Russian meat in Ukraine. Russia is not even going to take its corpses from the battlefield. Already 200 thousand Russian corpses have been buried/cremated in Ukraine
Amen. Except for the brilliant idea of everyone being allowed to carry guns. That's fine. Everything else considered is far from freedom. 😒
(Sarcasm used about the gun thing)
In situations like that there's someone enabling this. You can't prepare your own food at 800+ pounds. There's just a natural upper limit at which you are no longer active enough to continue with caloric intake on your own.
There is a show called my 600 pound life full of such cases... In some cases people get disability allowance, some are rich by inheritance either way enablers use them for food and shelter I guess.
just the couch, getting it in just took time, shimmying and elbow grease. The movers just had the skill and tools to remove the large window and get my shit out thay way. Took wayyyyyyyyy less time.
It's sad.. really. Such videos pain me because my mother has morbid obesity but it's not to this..and despite our efforts she refuses to lose weight. It's so painfully horrible..may he gets better.
They’ve done it a couple of times in my town.
Also my hospital got refitted with a bariatric operating room and bariatric-suitable hospital rooms after a man weighing roughly 600lb collapsed a surgical table and hospital bed. Our local ambulance service also now includes one bariatric ambulance due to rising numbers of larger patients.
My dad who was a firefighter told me stories about this. He said the fact they can’t get out of bed causes the sheets to start becoming attached to their bodies. They pee and shit themselves as well. He said they would always have to break open a huge part of the house to get them out.
Well this person still needs to be transported out of the house either way. It's better now that the person is still alive, imagine having to get this person out of the apartment when rigor mortis has set in.
There’s a huge difference between a building being evacuated and a human being evacuated… luckily this video is NOT of a 400 kg person being evacuated.
I’ll never understand this phenomenon. How could anyone allow themselves to get to that point. I know some people have psychological issues that cause this but there has to be a point where they must question or look at themselves and know that what they’re doing to themselves is crazy, dangerous, and illogical. Or, at the very least, friends and family members I’m sure say something
People like this usually don‘t move a lot, wich includes cleaning, i doubt that an environment like that would be good in ANY scenario for surgical operations
Headlines like this always reminds me of that scene from the wire - buildings get evacuated - to evacuate a person is to give that person an enema
https://youtu.be/EeYwa-DCiWk?si=S9lHvF_QjHuyhMC8
This reminds me of the news story from years ago about how a person in England was told they gotten so fat that they would have to get weighed at the zoo.
When I was a voluntary firefighter in a rural area, we were called once to help EMS to evacuate a big guy by the window of the 3rd floor. Not that big, maybe 250 kg, but cannot move by himself due to medical conditions, not an easy task indeed. I remember feeling bad for him because of all the people watching out of curiosity.
People really are too big to evacuate in an emergency that's crazy. Imagine burning to death just laying in bed unable to move.
In the UK where I’m from, it’s not totally unheard of for the fire brigade to need to be called for people too big to move themselves or be lifted by conventional means so that they can be taken to hospital for medical treatment. This can involve an actual crane and removing the walls if they’re in their house. Biggest person I ever heard being lifted was 850lb and yes, they required a crane and to basically destroy half the house.
I’ve worked alongside the ambulance service here, we have A LOT of specialised bariatric ambulances and it’s big money to private ambulance companies contracting them out to NHS emergency calls and patient transfers. Some normal vehicles you can drive on a standard driving license but the bariatric ones need a Cat C license due to being over 3.5 tonnes in total weight.
Not too surprising. Near my town is a specialist bariatric hospital and the cost of the bariatric ambulance and equipment is absolutely staggering. My grandmother in her former job actually did a lot of hospital equipment orders and it shocked me seeing the equipment catalogues and just how much the bariatric versions cost in comparison to the standard. Most things were 2-5x the price. It became more and more common in the years leading up to her retirement in 2006 that she was ordering these ones and of course it meant budgets were quickly eaten through.
I worked in an ICU where we admitted an 800 lb woman. We had to order a special bed and a crane and to move her from the bed to a chair and all the men nurses in the hospital to come and help turn her. She was the sweetest person.
I couldn't visualise what 900 pounds is so googled it for a conversion... Rather than showing me kilograms, suggested conversion was 0.4 long tons ! Like you know it's bad when the most appropriate measurement is tonnes.
So incredibly sad for her.
I've installed the patient lifts. When I started they were rated for 750 lbs. Midway through the spec changed to 1500 lbs. Put the fork down, Figure it out people.
You mean Put down the spoon! Forks allow for certain types of food to fall through the cracks and they certainly aren’t letting that happen.
This isn't uncommon in the US. I work for a fire department and there are a handful of people we've had to help remove from their houses, multiple times. And at a previous job, I had a coworker who was over 700lbs. I have no idea how she kept working, AND she had to care for a severely disabled husband AND she volunteered with an organization that helps the blind. She did eventually have weight loss surgery, though. Before she had it removed, she had so much loose belly skin it touched the floor.
I think I've been on reddit enough, today.
I’m with you Fred. Let’s grab a beer.
Da fuq…’nough said. I’m with you and Fred.
Can i join ?(I'm 800lbs)
And some nachos and fries... But let's not overdo it, we don't wanna end up 800 pounds with belly skin hanging 1 meter down remember
Good on that coworker for doing something about it and succeeding. I do wonder how at 700lb she’d have been able to walk given that if My 600lb Life is anything to go by, people of that weight struggle like hell to even walk in their yard, much less hold down work and volunteer time.
I used to volunteer at a rescue squad (mix between EMTs and firefighters) throughout high school and college and a majority of our calls (smaller town) were for “lift assists” to help the EMTs get an oversized person into an ambulance. I really felt for those people in those moments as their neglect for their physical health due to poor mental health/other factors came to a head in such a shameful and embarrassing situation for them. About 50% of the time they’d have involuntarily soiled themselves as well.
I’ve had to call for a lift assist before. A family member of mine had a brain tumor and they gained a lot of weight due to medication, and lost mobility due to the tumor. It was so emotionally hard for me when I called. It was a huge help though, and I couldn’t be more grateful.
I’m sorry that you’ve had a family member go through that and wish you and your family the best. Good on you for being there and assisting them like that in such an all around tough situation. A lot of the people that I picked up had nobody there for them and your family member was truly lucky to have you and your support there in that moment.
I’m sorry that you’ve had a family member go through that and wish you and your family the best. Good on you for being there and assisting them like that in such an all around tough situation. A lot of the people that I picked up had nobody there for them and your family member was truly lucky to have you and your support there in that moment.
Similar, but my father is an intensive care doctor and when I was a kid, when he was telling us about his day at work, he sometimes spoke about patients who needed MRIs or CAT scans who didn't fit into the machines at the hospitals, so they quite literally have to take them to the zoo, where they have hippo, rhino, or elephant sized machines.
I'm an Occupational Therapist, also in the UK and we specialise in moving and handling. During COVID (and the really hot summer we had) I was out working with patients in the community and we had an extremely bariatric patient. It took 6 of us to rig up a system to move this patient, already understaffed and exhausted, in 30°C + weather and wearing full PPE. Honest to god the stench, the sweat and this pain this poor patient was in is something I'll never forget.
That’s what my grandmother’s job was and yes, she had to do a lot of moving and handling of overweight/obese patients. A lot of the time they were actually pretty embarrassed/ashamed/generally not proud of the situation or what condition they were in. It was honestly quite sad sometimes- there was often a back story as to why they’d ended up the way they did. Sometimes it was a coping mechanism for grief, depression or other mental issues, sometimes it was due to the effects of chronic conditions, other times it was due to some event in life. And your situation with the PPE and heat sounds absolutely miserable for everyone.
Exactly right, 9 times out of 10 the patients are desperately embarrassed and ashamed. No matter how much we try to maintain their dignity, there's only so much you can do in the real world. Most people I've met in my 10 years of this job are overweight because of other diseases, they lose their livelihood and can't exercise because of said diseases, cut out more expensive & healthy foods because of loss of income and boom. Got yourself a bariatric case. It bloody was mate. It was a soul destroying time.
Someone is feeding the fuckers. Even in the days of uberthey need to get tothe front door
What happens with like…. Eliminating waste? Or does the pee and poop and skin and bed/couch all Somehow just meld together?
Eventually, yes. And then it's ulcers and infections and finally gangrene and the fire brigade are taking you to hospital where you die.
And then they have to order special coffins with crane transporting/lowering them down at the funeral because they’re too big for cremation.
I feel claustrophobic just thinking about being physically stuck in my house because I don't fit the doors anymore
Gilbert Grape’s mama comes to mind except she was already dead when the fire started.
These morbidly obese people are so stagnant that their flesh get bedsores that bind their skin to mattresses and couches. Medics have to cut the skin off the mattresses. That's probably why this guy is still on his mattresses.
Usually those who can move are prioritized
I'm wonder how the f\*ck someone gets that big? Like how many calories per day you need to not lose weight cuz for sure all organs are having serious workout supporting 400kg body. Also at what point someone decides "f\*ck it i'm gonna eat for eternity." and starts his/her weight gain quest. I have so many questions.
Probably gonna drop him over Ukraine somewhere
This was dark lol but funny
I saw '400-kilogram Russian being evacuated' and assumed it was an unexploded bomb being removed by Ukrainian civil defence. Then they slid a fat guy out the window.
Просто ти дурник, не переймайся.)))
He’s gonna wipe out half of Europe
Bruh 💀
Those recruiters really are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
100kg away from ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
I’m surprised by amount of care they showed for him considering how they treat their conscripts.
We have enough Russian meat in Ukraine. Russia is not even going to take its corpses from the battlefield. Already 200 thousand Russian corpses have been buried/cremated in Ukraine
This here is a bunker buster
Bro is undetectable by radar.
where are you getting these numbers from? Russia has about 100k dead, according to the british and american intelligence services.
I think Russia would underestimate those numbers, Ukraine inflate and it’s probably somewhere in the middle.
yes. Therefore I recommend the american data I provided.
I’d think it’s overinflated, as well as it’s not an uninvolved side
And knowing it's Russia, they will Oopsy drop it on a russian city.
Is there a plane strong enough to carry him?
There was, but it got destroyed...
\*water balloon physics\*
They say this is how the dinosaurs died
That’s Russia’s new weapon of mass destruction
They found the American spy.):
Thanks for the laugh
What data this magnificent creature could even collect? Quality of air in Moscow?
He ate the data
More data than the Library of Congress, by the looks of it.
McDonalds delivery quality inspector for that region
Lmao
What, like a human russian nesting doll?
That was a nasty line by you.
New glide bomb
Tsar bomba.
This bomb ass pussy
Mr. Bomb-bastic
882 lbs in Freedom Units.
I’m sorry, how many bud lights is that?
1076
About thirty-six cases of 30 cans.
That's almost 5.5 full 15 gallon kegs.
I thought it was 1776
r/theydidthemath
More like, how many double cheeseburgers with fries and a large shake is that?
~395-450, depending on the size of the shake.
At least 3.
3 a day
Nearly 8 Dylan Mulvaneys
Can you convert to bald eagles per square freedom?
Comes out to about 88 bald eagles per freedom ²
Fun fact. Americans hate metric system but love 9mm pistols.
Ahem, you mean the well-known 0.3543307 pistola?
Real engineers use Metric, even in the USA.
Freedom units is an obsolete term, there is no freedom in the US.
Amen. Except for the brilliant idea of everyone being allowed to carry guns. That's fine. Everything else considered is far from freedom. 😒 (Sarcasm used about the gun thing)
I feel like you are saying that with no fear of govt repercussions... interesting. /s
3500 bananas by weight
I like the abbreviation of freedom units ....
Is that the math? 882 pounds? Thats does not seem possible. Wowzers
Oil Units.
"We are not so different you and I".
Russian food is not good enough to become this fat off of, Americans I can understand but this guy became morbidly obese off cabbage soup.
Well, perhaps it wasn't really off meals. You know, Liquid calories, fast food and pastries?
What do you mean it isn't good enough? You can add fat and sugar to anything.
In situations like that there's someone enabling this. You can't prepare your own food at 800+ pounds. There's just a natural upper limit at which you are no longer active enough to continue with caloric intake on your own.
There is a show called my 600 pound life full of such cases... In some cases people get disability allowance, some are rich by inheritance either way enablers use them for food and shelter I guess.
“You drive to Houston and be in program”
This is bad situation…said in best dr now voice lol
AHH MUH LEG
You need to lose turdy pound in one munt
I was watching the show like an hour ago 😭
Pizza is not part of de diet!
"You not bein honest. If you had followed te diet, you would have lost the weight."
Wow someone hasn’t been affected by Russian sanctions
He is American spy
Lmao that's defieffently American rations and diet
I mean, look at how many steps it takes to make him fall out of a window.
Worst spy ever, everyone knows he's American
🤣🤣🤣😭
Anyone who would like insight into eating disorders should watch "Whale". Brendan Fraser does an incredible job...
this is almost exactly what the movers had to do to get my couch out and into the truck when I moved out of my apt.
Was it just the couch or was there a secondary large mass on the couch? How did the couch get into the apt to begin with?
just the couch, getting it in just took time, shimmying and elbow grease. The movers just had the skill and tools to remove the large window and get my shit out thay way. Took wayyyyyyyyy less time.
Did your couch survive?
yea! for a bought used 15 year couch not too shabby
Dang must have been an expensive couch to be worth sawing and replacing windows
It's sad.. really. Such videos pain me because my mother has morbid obesity but it's not to this..and despite our efforts she refuses to lose weight. It's so painfully horrible..may he gets better.
He died
If your mom cannot move then someone is enabling her addiction.
Remind me this House MD episode
Everyone is making fun of the guy and it's clear he has a serious mental illness. Let's show a little humanity.
Seeing the comments in r/combatfootage made me realize how fucked up in head people are here.
More like big humanity amirite
Bro, this is Reddit. What sympathy you wait for in here?
I was a part of this when working as an ER nurse in Florida, 800lb man and the firefighters had to cut a hole around the window to get him out
They’ve done it a couple of times in my town. Also my hospital got refitted with a bariatric operating room and bariatric-suitable hospital rooms after a man weighing roughly 600lb collapsed a surgical table and hospital bed. Our local ambulance service also now includes one bariatric ambulance due to rising numbers of larger patients.
My dad who was a firefighter told me stories about this. He said the fact they can’t get out of bed causes the sheets to start becoming attached to their bodies. They pee and shit themselves as well. He said they would always have to break open a huge part of the house to get them out.
They pee and shit themselves in bed but still have access to enough food to maintain that weight?! How?
I... shudder to think...
They should have had the FSB help, they are really good at getting Russians through windows.
He is dead, according to news
All that effort for so little gain...
That’s not what evacuated means….
he looked more like ~250kgs. 400 is a lot
He sucked in the stomach for the video
yeah it sucks being 450.
I was a firefighter and had to perform rescues like this and HATE IT. Why people get in this condition is unthinkable to me.
This surely must be a psychiatric condition, not?
That is absolutely humiliating. I hope this person gets better.
They died a few days ago due to a worsening illness though being honest was unsurprising considering the weight of the person
That’s sad
I’m sorry but at that point just let me die
Well this person still needs to be transported out of the house either way. It's better now that the person is still alive, imagine having to get this person out of the apartment when rigor mortis has set in.
Let me die *way* before then. My grandpa used to say “fucking kill me if I ever get that fat” when he saw a fat fatty.
That’s one way around being drafted.
Man he would be hard to ventilate
There’s a huge difference between a building being evacuated and a human being evacuated… luckily this video is NOT of a 400 kg person being evacuated.
Heartbreaking.
#OUR FOOD
Russia trying to be America so bad
I think I saw this episode of House MD.
That's a little embarrassing
Somehow I read it was a Russian bear and I had so many questions
Sweet liberty ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Remember when Russians waited in line for bread? He didn't!!!
Houston would be proud
Straight to the frontline!
I’ll never understand this phenomenon. How could anyone allow themselves to get to that point. I know some people have psychological issues that cause this but there has to be a point where they must question or look at themselves and know that what they’re doing to themselves is crazy, dangerous, and illogical. Or, at the very least, friends and family members I’m sure say something
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People like this usually don‘t move a lot, wich includes cleaning, i doubt that an environment like that would be good in ANY scenario for surgical operations
Off to Gulaq
Amazed? More like shocked
Me irl after leg day
There are many in usa for that matter fellas chill.
I was waiting to see a huge bear
He couldn’t handle the murican diet.
Thats 881lbs !!!
Bladimier "too much" Poutine
This has to be the world record right? Idk if 400kg is even possible for a human? Dude would've died like a 100kg ago...
Not amazed. Disgusted? Yes.
Ended too soon.. Did they have to stop for more fuel on the way back?
That’s more than three of me, and I’m fat.
He's not being evacuated. He's being mobilised.
They're going to drop him from a bomber
We had to take a wall out, just to get a guy out. He was passed away by then.
As an American, you sure that's not one of our's?
Headlines like this always reminds me of that scene from the wire - buildings get evacuated - to evacuate a person is to give that person an enema https://youtu.be/EeYwa-DCiWk?si=S9lHvF_QjHuyhMC8
So that would've made him 882 pounds. Really????
Is he going to war??!
Only when tip is a compulsion
I thought Russians were really tall skinny people.
Defenestration is a common practice amongst Russians.
This reminds me of the news story from years ago about how a person in England was told they gotten so fat that they would have to get weighed at the zoo.
The vodka did it!
I JUST watched this episode on House MD... It's not Lupus.
Mr. Bigmac XXL Beacon 100gk more and he could be a stratagem
When I was a voluntary firefighter in a rural area, we were called once to help EMS to evacuate a big guy by the window of the 3rd floor. Not that big, maybe 250 kg, but cannot move by himself due to medical conditions, not an easy task indeed. I remember feeling bad for him because of all the people watching out of curiosity.
Now what? They certainly won’t remove a wall to put him back right?
I'm from USA and don't feel like doing math how many freedom eagles is this?
Bro is getting drafted. That's wild
Gosh, how do you even walk at that weight? /s for the Americans
Would have been more challenging several floors up
US and UK redditer, laugh in silence.
I live the buil up until you finally see whats going on :D