The Fat of the Land

I drove in to work today, so I got a chance to listen to the radio news. And I was so glad I did - there was a report on KFM about emergency workers who had to demolish the wall of a house in Kraaifontein yesterday in order to get to the woman trapped inside.

The reason she was stuck?

At 350kgs, she was completely unable to use the door. According to neighbours, she hadn't left the house in about 11 years.

As if that wasn't alarming enough, I heard a similar story at work today, about a case last year in which a man had to have his custom-made coffin mounted in a steel frame and lowered into the grave with a crane, as he was also about 350kgs. You can check out that story here.

It's like Galveston all over again...