# Another furniture and obese human amalgamation story
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 30, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564 "2011-03-30T21:13:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/1 "2011-03-30T21:13:57Z")
[Story](http://www.wltx.com/news/national/article/130552/142/Obese-Man-Lives-in-His-Chair-for-2-Years-) Doesn’t sound particularly encouraging for the chap, either.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/2 "2011-03-30T21:16:11Z")
Wait, he had a girlfriend?
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### Author:  [@wonder\_lust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonder_lust)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/3 "2011-03-30T21:26:17Z")
Wow. Truly inspiring.
You know what? I’m not getting up either.
Make me a turkey pot pie, bitch!
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/4 "2011-03-30T21:33:21Z")
At what point does your laziness overcome the natural instinct not to shit where you sleep?
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/5 "2011-03-30T21:38:48Z")
Apparently, [he didn’t make it.](http://abcnews.go.com/US/morbidly-obese-ohio-man-skin-welded-chair-left/story?id=13257442)
Good god.
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### Author:  [@Lorski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorski)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/6 "2011-03-30T21:42:53Z")
> [@Skammer](#):
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> At what point does your laziness overcome the natural instinct not to shit where you sleep?
I may be mistaken, but I think I read that he could not walk, had bad knees or something. Think it was in the Daily Mail.
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### Author:  [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/7 "2011-03-30T21:44:55Z")
The popup ad I saw when I clicked on **Jenaroph** ’s link showed a huge photo of glazed donuts…
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/8 "2011-03-30T21:52:56Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> Apparently, [he didn’t make it.](http://abcnews.go.com/US/morbidly-obese-ohio-man-skin-welded-chair-left/story?id=13257442)
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> Good god.
Whoa, hang on. He had two roommates?.. And they intervened when they found him unconscious.
Okay, I’m not going to say they were assholes. I’m going to assume they just couldn’t get help until then. As the article in the OP states, who the hell are you gong to call? Is there no kind of social services that would do some kind of welfare check and say “Yeah, something’s not right in the head with this guy?” and he needs to go to the hospital and be psychologically evaluated. Or are authorities really stuck until someone like that is in medical distress and passes out?
> [@Lorski](#):
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> I may be mistaken, but I think I read that he could not walk, had bad knees or something. Think it was in the Daily Mail.
I can understand if he felt he couldn’t get up and walk around, but there is something more going on when there are adults around you and you can’t say “Hey, can you help me get up and go pee?” or simply “I need help.” Sick and injured, I don’t continue sitting in my own feces for a long period of time unless my cognitive abilities are messed up.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/9 "2011-03-30T22:01:03Z")
I just came in to congratulate the OP on his impressively concise and descriptive thread title.
Well played, sir.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/10 "2011-03-30T22:10:46Z")
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> Some Bellaire police officers said the conditions were so deplorable that one threw away his soiled uniform after freeing the man, WKEF reported.
Gaaaaahhhhhh.
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/11 "2011-03-30T22:25:17Z")
> [@Skammer](#):
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> At what point does your laziness overcome the natural instinct not to shit where you sleep?
You cannot possibly believe that this man’s driving issue was laziness.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/12 "2011-03-30T22:33:03Z")
Oops. Double post.
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### Author:  [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2011, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/13 "2011-03-30T23:55:42Z")
Whenever I hear one of these stories, I wonder “Where does the poo GO?” I mean, really. If you spend two years in your chair, there must be a huge amount of poo. Are these people wearing pants? Do they maybe own a dog who comes and cleans them up? I must know!
Edit: Just read the article. He had a GIRLFRIEND??? :eek:
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### Author:  [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/14 "2011-03-31T01:02:11Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#):
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> Whenever I hear one of these stories, I wonder “Where does the poo GO?” I mean, really. If you spend two years in your chair, there must be a huge amount of poo. Are these people wearing pants? Do they maybe own a dog who comes and cleans them up? I must know!
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> Edit: Just read the article. He had a GIRLFRIEND??? :eek:
So do prisoners serving life sentences… my guess is she doesn’t really want a genuine, complete relationship with anyone, so she gets involved in relationships that present real-world barriers.
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/15 "2011-03-31T02:00:17Z")
These stories always make me so sad and so frustrated. I mean, how sad is it that someone’s. . .life (and I use the term loosely) got to a point where this seemed like a viable situation? And how sad and frustrating is it that there was really no agency that could intervene?
I understand that intervening in these cases would be a very slippery thing. I mean, obviously two years is too long to spend in one chair. But how long is _not_ too long? It’s tough to figure out.
Still, sad and frustrating.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/16 "2011-03-31T03:48:16Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#):
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> Edit: Just read the article. He had a GIRLFRIEND??? :eek:
One has to wonder about the roommates, too. Most of us would not tolerate living with someone who poops in a chair.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/17 "2011-03-31T04:04:50Z")
> [@norinew](#):
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> I understand that intervening in these cases would be a very slippery thing. I mean, obviously two years is too long to spend in one chair. But how long is _not_ too long? It’s tough to figure out.
I’m gonna just make an official pronouncement here, of “two days.” Two days is too long to spend in one chair. At that point it is time to get up, use the bathroom, heat up a Hot Pocket, or even just move to a different chair.
Two days.
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### Author:  [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/18 "2011-03-31T04:40:48Z")
Just a note for future reference.
I like sitting in my chair. I like relaxing.
But if I ever don’t get out of a chair for basic hygiene, then shoot me. Shoot me right then and there.
ETA: A girlfriend? 😕
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### Author:  [@Meyer6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meyer6)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/19 "2011-03-31T07:39:48Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> [Story](http://www.wltx.com/news/national/article/130552/142/Obese-Man-Lives-in-His-Chair-for-2-Years-) Doesn’t sound particularly encouraging for the chap, either.
I like this part:
> [@](#):
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> And finally there’s the landlord. She says she’s been attacked online and on the airwaves, and she’s tired of it.
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> She says, “You rent to adults, and you expect them to know how to live. He was always sitting underneath a blanket. I had no idea the extent of it.”
If the guy was shitting in a chair for two years, I have trouble imagining that a blanket could possibly disguise that kind of problem.
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### Author:  [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2011, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-furniture-and-obese-human-amalgamation-story/576564/20 "2011-03-31T08:24:18Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#):
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> I’m gonna just make an official pronouncement here, of “two days.” Two days is too long to spend in one chair. At that point it is time to get up, use the bathroom, heat up a Hot Pocket, or even just move to a different chair.
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> Two days.
I’m gonna go with half a day. If I’m awake, I usually get up every couple of hours. If I’ve been sedated, I’m usually going to have to get up in half a day to use the bathroom, if nothing else. I’ve had episodes when I was delirious, and I still managed to use the potty several times a day (though occasionally I needed help either navigating or just ambulating). But I’d say that even two days is pushing it.
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