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When Couch Potatoes Take Root.

2008 Reader Submission
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Now I would never normally nominate the morbidly obese for a DA, simply for being morbidly obese…but when coupled with six years of stupidity it is hard to believe she hadn’t died sooner.

Gayle Grinds, age 40, and weighing 480 lbs died, still attached to the couch she hadn’t moved from for over 6 years!

SIX YEARS on the couch! And it wasn’t that the rescue workers hadn’t tried, they tried for six hours. But when I say she was “attached” to the couch, I don’t mean she was fond of it, and I don’t mean it was the place she rested on most of the time better restroom visits and so on. I mean she was literally, ATTACHED to the couch.

I quote from the article: “Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.”

That’s right... her skin had GRAFTED, grown into, the couch. She and the couch had become, as one, with each other.

This dilemma had other consequences as well. The rescue workers had to where hazmat suits because of the stench, and fresh air had to be pumped into the residence for them to work. In the end they had to remove the sliding glass doors of the home and carry her, couch and all to a trailer behind a pick up truck, where she died on the way to the hospital.

What is astoundingly stupid about all of this was that she didn’t live alone. She had a friend who “tried” to take care of her, and that it took over SIX YEARS before either of them decided that the “grafted to the couch”, not being able to get up to use the toilet, incredible stench issue had become a problem big enough to call for help on.

For prolonged stupidity, ending in a gruesome death, I nominate Gayle Grinds, the Couch Potato that Stayed Rooted.

Submitted on 01/21/2008

Submitted by: Jeanine G
Reference: http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html

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Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
While this story is more sad than humorous I must agree with you, Jeanine. I do like your title for this. I wonder if her favorite TV show was The Biggest Loser?


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I agree that this is more sad than humorous, but it certainly does exhibit the stupidity necessary for a DA. Thanks, Jeanine.


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