Mother Of 500-Pound Truck Driver

Cybergal · Jul 18, 2007

Mother Of 500-Pound Truck Driver Believes Her Son Is 'Really Pretty Healthy'
7/18/07
The Common Voice, SC

This Washington Post column was difficult for me to read because it involves a 39-year old Minnesota man who weighs 500 pounds and the great lengths it took for medical personnel to help him when he thought he was having a heart attack earlier this week while tubing on the river.

In case you missed this story, here's what happened:

Martin Rike, a 500-pound truck driver, was inner tubing for the first time ever on the St. Croix River with some friends on Monday when he started having chest pains. His buddies called for paramedics who were dispatched to the scene and stabilized him around 8pm.

The problem was the medical crew couldn't hoist this morbidly obese man into the helicopter to get him to the nearest hospital. In other words, he was too fat for the equipment and much too heavy.

Upwards of 50 rescue team members assisted the medical crew with "creative" means for getting Rike to a place where he could be transported for medical attention. They used boats and canoes to float him down the river, but the water was too shallow and they couldn't move him.

They then put Rike inside of an aluminum boat to try to carry him to safety. But, again, his body weight was too much for the desperate rescuers to handle. Someone came up with the idea to tie three canoe together and place boards on top of them to use as a raft. Even this got stuck often, but worked well enough to reach an ambulance that was waiting for them downstream.
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TopShelf · Jul 18, 2007

500 pounds? How many colossal burgers is that?

cutloose · Jul 18, 2007

That poor tow truck

Pur48Ted · Jul 22, 2007

Cybergal said: ↑

Mother Of 500-Pound Truck Driver Believes Her Son Is 'Really Pretty Healthy'
7/18/07
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As someone who has gained 30 lbs in the past 6 years (I now weigh a sveldt 195lbs at 6ft tall) all I can say is ####!

Really, truckstops should add parking spaces labeled "Keep This Guy Away From The Buffet".
I wonder how some of these guys can walk 30 feet with-out having a massive stroke.
Don't these companies realize their massive liability if one of "these" drivers dies while behind the wheel?

Peeping_Tom · Jul 22, 2007

wow that's like 2 1/2 of me. i'm only 189

WiseOne · Jul 22, 2007

WOW, I am 6' 2", 290 pounds...I thought I was bad! ####, he needs Jenny Craig BAD.

Peeping_Tom · Jul 22, 2007

WiseOne said: ↑

WOW, I am 6' 2", 290 pounds...I thought I was bad! ####, he needs Jenny Craig BAD.
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and his mom needs a shrink.

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