World's Fattest Man Sued Government for Obesity

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-01-08 02:44

  The world's fattest man wants to fight obesity: with a lawsuit.
  
  Paul Mason, who once weighed almost 1,000 pounds, is blaming the NHS (Britain's public health system) for sending him to dietitians who merely told him to lose weight -- but didn't identify his problem as an eating disorder, British newspaper the Sun reported.
  
  The former postal worker told the Sun that when he went to the NHS for help with his eating as early as 1996, he was told to "ride your bike more."
  
  Years later, after tipping the scales at 900 pounds -- while scarfing down 20,000 calories a day -- he was sent to a dietitian before finally getting life-saving gastric surgery.
  
  News of the lawsuit came shortly after the debut of his television show, "Britain's Fattest Man," which chronicled his journey toward gastric bypass surgery to more than 2.49 million viewers.
  
  According to the show, Mason, 50, cost British taxpayers more than $3,000 a week before getting the surgery. That weekly estimate doesn't include the cost of firefighters knocking down the front of his home so they could get a forklift inside to get him out for hernia surgery in 2002 or the gastric surgery that cost around $50,000 in 2009.
  
  Now a mere 518 pounds, Mason said he wants to take his case to court.
  
  "I want to set a precedent so no one else has to get to the same size - and to put something back into society," he told the newspaper.
  
  The NHS refused to comment, saying it had not been officially notified of the suit.
  
  Mason also revealed in the interview that he had tried to kill himself three times due to the awful depression he suffered because of his weight. One attempt, an overdose of painkillers, failed because of his huge weight, the Sun reported.
  
  While his weight may have cost him a lot of opportunities, Mason has certainly parlayed it into fame. In addition to "Britain's Fattest Man," he also appeared on a TLC special in the U.S. last May called "The World's Fattest Man."

  
  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/01/07/2011-01-07_paul_mason_once_the_worlds_fattest_man_suing_nhs_for_not_helping_him_sufficientl.html
  
  [video=youtube;ZkbuDnxhKkQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkbuDnxhKkQ[/video]
  
  so his surgeries costed tax money but he wants to sue
  get out
• Navy wrote on 2011-01-08 02:51
  What an idiot, don't sue other people because your fatass wouldn't get up in exercise..
  he let it get that bad so it's not the governments problem..
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-01-08 02:52
  I feel a lot better about my weight and myself as a person.
• Piero wrote on 2011-01-08 02:54
  He should've atleast tried to be more physically active.
• Intex wrote on 2011-01-08 02:55
  "Hmm I'm now down to a safer weight thanks to government provided healthcare. Time to sue their ass for doing this to me."
  How much money is he going to waste until he's happy with himself?
  

  His care bill costs taxpayers an estimated £100,000 a year and is believed to have topped £1million over the last 15 years.
  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343452/Worlds-heaviest-man-Paul-Mason-lost-20-stone-gastric-bypass-surgery.html#ixzz1APPByT27

• Iyasenu wrote on 2011-01-08 03:03
  Hm...
  Wow...
  A thousand pounds...
  
  Now he's 518?
  I don't get what he's suing over, though.
  What IS he able to sue over?
  
  "Scarfing down over 20,000 calories a day"? You aren't gonna be losing ANY weight at that rate, you DERP!
• Suoh wrote on 2011-01-08 03:04
  :I This is just as bad as obese people being permitted handicap parking passes. I mean really, even if he gets all that money, does anyone even believe he'll change his life around? Even if he got diagnosed and cared for an eating disorder it still requires him to get up and move.
• Lan wrote on 2011-01-08 03:06
  Pretty sure the fattest man in the world was a 1300 pound mexican.
  
  

  Manuel Uribe holds the Guinness World Record for “World’s Fattest Man”. At his heaviest he weighed 1300 pounds! He has since lost a lot of that weight but still officially holds the title. Between winning the award in 2007 and his wedding day in 2008, Uribe lost 570 pounds. He managed to do this despite the fact that he refused to undergo surgery, and he had been confined to his bed (specially reinforced to handle his weight) for the past 4 years.
  
  Uribe was transported to his wedding ceremony in his home town of Monterrey, Mexico with his bed mounted on the back of a truck. Since he couldn’t leave the bed, he spent the entire ceremony in bed, wearing a nice satin shirt but no pants, just a sheet over his legs (presumably because he can’t find pants that fit). Uribe had to pass on eating wedding cake, because he has been strictly following the Zone diet. His goal is to continue losing weight on the diet until he reaches 250 pounds.
  
  Uribe is now happily married with his wife Claudia. He has set up a foundation dedicated to educating people in Mexico about eating healthy and combating obesity. He also hopes to be recognized by Guinness as the “World’s Greatest Slimmer” for setting the weight loss record.

• MiniSoda wrote on 2011-01-08 03:08
  I seriously lol'd when I saw the thread title...
  
  Damm.. how can you even eat 20,000 calories in a day!?
• Username wrote on 2011-01-08 03:08

  Quote from Lan;281175:

  Pretty sure the fattest man in the world was a 1300 pound mexican.

  
  
  Was and Currently is are different meanings
  Aswell as, how the hell do they get a scale that would go that high?
• Skye wrote on 2011-01-08 03:11
  1. He should stay off the computer and exercise.
  2. He shouldn't've made himself bedridden and exercised.
  3. How in the world could you not know that you're fat because you eat too frickin much??????????????
• Adelynn wrote on 2011-01-08 03:17
  How do you not know you're fat if you're approaching 1000 lbs. >_>
• Navy wrote on 2011-01-08 03:19

  Quote from Skye;281181:

  1. He should stay off the computer and exercise.
  2. He shouldn't've made himself bedridden and exercised.
  3. How in the world could you not know that you're fat because you eat too frickin much??????????????

  
  
  once you get to a certain weight you can't move so all you do is lie around and eat.. which you then gain more and more weight
• Skye wrote on 2011-01-08 03:20

  Quote from Humility;281189:

  once you get to a certain weight you can't move so all you do is lie around and eat.. which you then gain more and more weight

  
  
  But if he had been a little more active he would not have reached that weight, therefore would not have become bedridden.
• Navy wrote on 2011-01-08 03:21

  Quote from Skye;281191:

  But if he had been a little more active he would not have reached that weight, therefore would not have become bedridden.

  
  
  mhm
  why he finds that it's the governments fault idk
  500 something lbs now..?
  I've seen people here that weigh more then that, he can lose the ****ing weight he just doesnt want to try and is now playing the blaming game