480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch

STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after
emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she
had remained for about six years

Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed
six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home.
Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to
get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.

Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear.
The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.

A preliminary autopsy on the the four-foot, ten-inch woman
lists the cause of death as "morbid obesity." But officials
want to know more about the circumstances inside the hoME

Investigators say Grinds lived with a man named Herman Thomas,
who says he tried to take care of her the best he could. He
has told them he tried repeatedly to get her up, but simply
couldn't. No charges have been filed, but officials are
looking into negligence issues.

Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and
lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a
pickup truck. 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.

She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to
the couch.

Neighbors say they had no idea Grinds lived at the duplex,
though they had seen Thomas and some children outside.

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On 12 Aug 2004 04:24:41 -0700, saboteur~hushmail.com
(saboteur) wrote in misc.fitness.weights:

  >480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch
  >
  >
  >STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died
  >after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch
  >where she had remained for about six years
  >
  >Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed
  >six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home.
  >Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to
  >get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.
  >
  >Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear.
  >The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.
  >
  >A preliminary autopsy on the the four-foot, ten-inch woman
  >lists the cause of death as "morbid obesity." But officials
  >want to know more about the circumstances inside the hoME
  >
  >Investigators say Grinds lived with a man named Herman
  >Thomas, who says he tried to take care of her the best he
  >could. He has told them he tried repeatedly to get her up,
  >but simply couldn't. No charges have been filed, but
  >officials are looking into negligence issues.

The fat bitch should have figured out that she was too fat and
needed to do something about it the first couple of times she
had trouble getting off the couch.

  >
  >Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and
  >lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind
  >a pickup truck. 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.
  >
  >She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to
  >the couch.

Will it be the undertakers job to remove the couch from her?
How much extra does that pay?

  >
  >Neighbors say they had no idea Grinds lived at the duplex,
  >though they had seen Thomas and some children outside.
  >
  >Copyright 2004 by WFTV.com. The Associated Press contributed
  >to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be
  >published, broadcast,

Now you went and did it.

  >
  >http://www.wftv.com/news/3643877/detail.html

Florida is a weird place. I was always into "Florida noir" but
not till I moved here did I realized how weird it really is. I
drive from Fort Myers to Tampa for work 3 times a week and
drive through Gibsontown(carny capitol of the world)

Jim

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:55:02 -0400, "Jim"
<jremick~comcast.net> wrote in misc.fitness.weights:

  >Florida is a weird place. I was always into "Florida noir"
  >but not till I moved here did I realized how weird it really
  >is. I drive from Fort Myers to Tampa for work 3 times a week
  >and drive through Gibsontown(carny capitol of the world)
  >
If you ever make it to the Atlantic side, look up PRC-77.
They're the best cover band I've ever witnessed. They do an
excellent Disturbed-Down with the Sickness.
http://www.prc77.com/

"John Hanson" <jhanson~northernlinks.com> wrote in message
news:r46oh050oiu7o4vgho6lhd9h41sp1cgq0m~4ax.com...
  > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:55:02 -0400, "Jim"
  > <jremick~comcast.net> wrote in misc.fitness.weights:
  >
     > >Florida is a weird place. I was always into "Florida noir"
     > >but not till I moved here did I realized how weird it
     > >really is. I drive from Fort Myers to Tampa for work 3
     > >times a week and drive
through
     > >Gibsontown(carny capitol of the world)
     > >
  > If you ever make it to the Atlantic side, look up PRC-77.
  > They're the best cover band I've ever witnessed. They do an
  > excellent Disturbed-Down with the Sickness.
  > http://www.prc77.com/

I'll look into it..1 of my routes is through Tampa...across
the state to Orlando and down to Miami..finally making my way
across alligator alley to Naples and back up to Fort Myers.

Jim

"Jim" <jremick~comcast.net> wrote in message
news:<t_Odndz6_urtjIHcRVn-jg~comcast.com>...
  > Florida is a weird place. I was always into "Florida noir"
  > but not till I moved here did I realized how weird it
  > really is.

Jeepers Creepers was shot in Florida and Identity in Texas -
most spooky states I think. Denis

dns564~cs.com (Denis) wrote in message
news:<388a6819.0408130633.45c2893d~posting.google.com>...
  > "Jim" <jremick~comcast.net> wrote in message
  > news:<t_Odndz6_urtjIHcRVn-jg~comcast.com>...
     > > Florida is a weird place. I was always into "Florida noir"
     > > but not till I moved here did I realized how weird it
     > > really is.
  >
  > Jeepers Creepers was shot in Florida and Identity in Texas -
  > most spooky states I think. Denis

america is like that couch woman, it is a bloated maggot of a
country about to burst.