Post by brassmonkey on May 20, 2009 22:14:21 GMT -5
I, being the brutally honest person that I am and not generally allowing emotions to cloud my judgment, disagree with the family members on this one.. This fat cow allowed herself to balloon to 750lbs.. She died, and it was up to the medical examiner, along with the fire dept. and police dept. to get her fat, bloated, Doritos eating corpse out of her house..
Now, I wouldn't want my men risking their backs trying to lift this sow, so I wholeheartedly agree with dragging her mattress out of her pen with her on it.. I don't see any other way it could have been done safely.. What, crane? I think it's a form a torture to subject these emergency personnel to a fat corpse exceeding 700lbs.. That the stuff nightmares are made of..
Some people need to get rid of the mafia mentality where family can do no wrong.. If the family was so much on this sow's side and against her mattress being dragged out of her pen, I would have told them-here's the truck-you get her on it. We'll stand by.
Also, at 750 lbs., she obviously couldn't walk, so family was likely the enablers that continued to allow her to eat and get to or remain at that gargantuan weight.
Dignity? What dignity does a person who eats their way up to 750 lbs have?
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Marion County Coroner's Office has come under fire after it was revealed that an obese woman was dragged from her home and hauled away on a trailer in front of family members following her death.
Teresa Smith, 48, who weighed 750 pounds, died Tuesday in her apartment on Indianapolis' northeast side.
Officials at the scene told 6News' Jack Rinehart that the deputy coroner made the decision to call a towing service to remove the body from the home.
"We debated for quite a while about how we were going to get her out of there and so we finally decided, since we didn't have a van that was large enough to carry her, it was decided between (the police) department and the coroner's office to use (the truck)," said Detective Marcus Kennedy.
Smith's boyfriend and the couple's 13-year-old son, along with several neighbors, watched as Smith's body, still on her mattress, was dragged across the courtyard of the apartment complex, strapped down on the wrecker and covered with a piece of carpet.
"I think they should have handled it differently, putting her on a flatbed like they did. That was like putting a cow up there," said Smith's boyfriend, David Johnson.
Neighbors said they were also disturbed by the ordeal.
"What really got me is when they took her off onto the flatbed, they threw this dirty, dirty carpet on top of her, and I just thought that was so disrespectful," said a neighbor, who did not want to be identified. "I would have never let them throw that on my loved one."
Once on the truck, Smith's body was escorted by police downtown to the coroner's office.
Former Chief Deputy Coroner John Linehan said he was shocked and dismayed that appropriate steps weren't taken to remove the woman from her home.
He said that fire and medical personnel have equipment available for handling patients up to 1,000 pounds and that moving obese individuals is not all that rare of an occurrence.
"When they scoop up dead dogs off of the street they don't treat them that way," he said. "It's just not the way to treat a human being."
Chief Deputy Coroner Alfarena Ballew told Rinehart by phone Wednesday that a flatbed truck has been used in other occasions to move obese individuals. She said the office is now looking for a way to transport Smith's body from the morgue to the funeral home.
www.theindychannel.com/news/19517549/detail.html
Now, I wouldn't want my men risking their backs trying to lift this sow, so I wholeheartedly agree with dragging her mattress out of her pen with her on it.. I don't see any other way it could have been done safely.. What, crane? I think it's a form a torture to subject these emergency personnel to a fat corpse exceeding 700lbs.. That the stuff nightmares are made of..
Some people need to get rid of the mafia mentality where family can do no wrong.. If the family was so much on this sow's side and against her mattress being dragged out of her pen, I would have told them-here's the truck-you get her on it. We'll stand by.
Also, at 750 lbs., she obviously couldn't walk, so family was likely the enablers that continued to allow her to eat and get to or remain at that gargantuan weight.
Dignity? What dignity does a person who eats their way up to 750 lbs have?
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Marion County Coroner's Office has come under fire after it was revealed that an obese woman was dragged from her home and hauled away on a trailer in front of family members following her death.
Teresa Smith, 48, who weighed 750 pounds, died Tuesday in her apartment on Indianapolis' northeast side.
Officials at the scene told 6News' Jack Rinehart that the deputy coroner made the decision to call a towing service to remove the body from the home.
"We debated for quite a while about how we were going to get her out of there and so we finally decided, since we didn't have a van that was large enough to carry her, it was decided between (the police) department and the coroner's office to use (the truck)," said Detective Marcus Kennedy.
Smith's boyfriend and the couple's 13-year-old son, along with several neighbors, watched as Smith's body, still on her mattress, was dragged across the courtyard of the apartment complex, strapped down on the wrecker and covered with a piece of carpet.
"I think they should have handled it differently, putting her on a flatbed like they did. That was like putting a cow up there," said Smith's boyfriend, David Johnson.
Neighbors said they were also disturbed by the ordeal.
"What really got me is when they took her off onto the flatbed, they threw this dirty, dirty carpet on top of her, and I just thought that was so disrespectful," said a neighbor, who did not want to be identified. "I would have never let them throw that on my loved one."
Once on the truck, Smith's body was escorted by police downtown to the coroner's office.
Former Chief Deputy Coroner John Linehan said he was shocked and dismayed that appropriate steps weren't taken to remove the woman from her home.
He said that fire and medical personnel have equipment available for handling patients up to 1,000 pounds and that moving obese individuals is not all that rare of an occurrence.
"When they scoop up dead dogs off of the street they don't treat them that way," he said. "It's just not the way to treat a human being."
Chief Deputy Coroner Alfarena Ballew told Rinehart by phone Wednesday that a flatbed truck has been used in other occasions to move obese individuals. She said the office is now looking for a way to transport Smith's body from the morgue to the funeral home.
www.theindychannel.com/news/19517549/detail.html
