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TimRuns
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 Posted: 06/14/06 - 01:50 Post subject: Being Obese can save your life....
especially if you get involved in a motor vehicle accident:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/12062006/6/n-odds-bulky-man-barely-injured-car-rolls.htm
Excerpt:
Mon Jun 12, 11:23 AM EST
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 440 pound German man discovered that being overweight can be good for your health -- if you get run over by a car.
German police said the extra body mass prevented the 30-year-old man from suffering potentially fatal injuries when a Volkswagen Polo drove over him after he braked suddenly on his bicycle at a crossroads and fell off in front of the car.
"It certainly helped him in this case," said Sven-Marco Claus, a spokesman for police in the western town of Gifhorn on Monday. "Someone smaller would probably not have been so lucky."
The man dislocated his hip, which local doctors put back in place, but otherwise suffered only scratches and a bloody nose from the underside of the vehicle, police said.
Those rolls of fat can be put to good use after all...
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Kimba90
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Posted: 06/14/06 - 06:08 Post subject:
Wow, I'm surprised a bike would support 440 lbs.
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JACKED UP
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Posted: 06/14/06 - 07:39 Post subject:
Oh my. I hope DH don't see this. 
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gretriever
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Posted: 06/14/06 - 07:43 Post subject:
| Kimba90 wrote: | | Wow, I'm surprised a bike would support 440 lbs. |
I'm surprised the VW didn't get the worst of it. 
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purple hayes
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Posted: 06/14/06 - 07:44 Post subject:
| Kimba90 wrote: | | Wow, I'm surprised a bike would support 440 lbs. |
Super high spoke count.
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Ms. Jenn
Fresh, Hot & Wild
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Posted: 06/14/06 - 08:06 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Kimba90 wrote: | | Wow, I'm surprised a bike would support 440 lbs. |
I'm surprised the VW didn't get the worst of it. |
 to all of it.
WOW.
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jrjo
Gone Fishin
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Posted: 06/14/06 - 09:44 Post subject:
MB did get back on the bike.
Good goin' man! 
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TimRuns
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Posted: 06/14/06 - 11:44 Post subject:
| Kimba90 wrote: | | Wow, I'm surprised a bike would support 440 lbs. |
maybe it's custom-built...
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purple hayes
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Posted: 06/14/06 - 11:51 Post subject:
Being obese has saved my life more than once.
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