Some years ago, a picture made the rounds depicting what was claimed to be an obese person who had fallen to their death, essentially transforming them into a bag of fat-filled skin. I recently remembered this and went to search for it; I found it, but the picture has been completely subsumed into the meme “why fat people shouldn’t bungee jump” (which I’m sure wasn’t the original reference). In fact I’m fairly certain we discussed it here but I couldn’t think of the right search parameters to find the thread.
So my questions are:
Do we in fact have a previous thread about this; and
what’s the original source of the photo?
In either case, the photo’s almost certainly fake. Suicide jumpers tend to burst open & splatter their intestines everywhere when they hit concrete, regardless of how fat they are.
Well, in the real world, someone can fall a massive distance and look intact, though when the fire department tries to pick them up… they won’t be. Evelyn McHale is the classic example.
This piqued my ghoulish curiosity, and so I googled but could find nothing specific about the intactness of her body. Some sites referred to the appearance of her body as “apparently intact” but have no details otherwise. Do you have a cite of gruesome awesomeness or awesome gruesomeness?
That’s the first thing that came to my mind when I read the OP. I’ve tried to find this image for years. My when I was around 12, my father made this the desktop background on the family computer.