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a benefit of obesity discovered
Topic Started: Jun 12 2006, 08:52 AM (136 Views)
musicasacra
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HOLY CARP!!!
Bulky man barely injured as car rolls over him

Jun 12, 12:23 PM (ET)

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.
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FrankM
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All well and good ... except for one tiny detail

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kenny
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Don't they bounce better when their parachutes fail?

Wouldn't they be harder to kill with a knife?
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sue
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I'm just trying to picture a 440 lb. man on a bicycle. :ph43r:
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M&M's
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sue
Jun 12 2006, 09:13 AM
I'm just trying to picture a 440 lb. man on a bicycle. :ph43r:

EWWW! Yuck!
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Mikhailoh
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I suppose anything might have benefit in some limited application. You hear of people who would have been killed if they had been wearing a seatbelt (a good reason for a trip to Snopes...).
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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