Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him

Hand me another eclair, please! Make it two!

People keep getting bigger; cars keep getting smaller.

He weighs 440 pounds and yet can still ride a pushbike

I find it more amazing that he weighs 440 and one of these was able to run him over.

Someone smaller would probably have avoided the accident altogether.

I wonder if the airbag managed to open?

No kidding.

Poor fat bastard was just out doing his cardio, trying to get down to a slim 410 or so, and he gets run over by a VW. Of course, that VW must have been totalled.

Accidents are not always based upon body size or weight. Recently, I had an ACCIDENT. Why? Because I momentarily became distracted. It had nothing to do with my weight which although at times has been beyond the recommended standards, was not in that range at the time of the accident. Plainly put, it was an accident. It would have happened even if I had been a mere stick figure of a creature who could have slipped through the space between two pieces of wood in a picket fence. I find it absolutely disgraceful that you would attack a person based upon their weight, keep in mind due to various metabolic conditions, and other medical reasons (including prescription medications) a person may not be in as much control of their weight as you would think they should be. Certain persons have difficulty gaining and maintaining weight whereas others have a similar difficulty in shedding pounds.

Sturgis,

Being the husband of a wife who is over-weight (and trying hard to lose), I am fully aware of the nastiness folks can heave in others' direction.

In this case though, I don't believe DD was trying to denigrate heavy people in general. He was reacting in the story to:

"Someone smaller would probably not have been so lucky."

And I feel it could of / would of / should of / possibly be possible for a thinner / lighter / however you want to put it / person to move out of the way. Maybe not.

Most of the stories posted in this forum are subject to heavy punning and making light of in general. It doesn't mean that I (or anyone else) who subsequently make comments are prejudiced in any way to the contents of said stories.

Having said the above, the H.I. forum is not for "the faint of heart" who can't see the humor in a lot things. Do things get out of hand occasionally? Yeah, probably, but no more so than the R & P forums, where things get personal. Stuff said here is not personal, although not "politically correct".

Thanks, Reyn.

No, I'm not attacking fat people. But saying that it's a good thing he was fat is just ridiculous. The way I read it, he fell off his bike.

Good grief.