Stewart Burton, fattest man in Scotland
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Scotland's Heaviest Man Dies
By Gayle Ritchie, Scottish Press Association
Scotland's heaviest man has died after suffering a series of
weight-related health problems.
Stewart Burton, who weighed 38 stone, died in Dundee's Ninewells
Hospital.
His wife Moira called the emergency services on Thursday after his
health deteriorated rapidly and pneumonia set in.
A crew of nine from Tayside Fire Brigade, using two appliances, helped
lift Mr Burton, 53, from his home in Mid Craigie into an ambulance.
But he died shortly after being admitted to hospital.
A spokesman said: "There was an agreement with social services that
when the man became ill, we would help out.
"Two fire appliances were used to put him into a sling and into the
ambulance.
"Nine crew were on hand to help, as it was thought manual handling
would cause him the least amount of distress.
"He was taken to Ninewells Hospital where he died a short time
later."
After suffering a heart attack, the father of two lost 10 stone so he
could walk his daughter down the aisle at her wedding last July.
He gave up fish suppers, pizzas and fizzy drinks to slim down to 30
stone, appearing on television show Trisha to speak of his
determination to keep the weight off.
But Mr Burton's fear of open spaces - agoraphobia - stopped him
leaving his Dundee home.
This meant he could not exercise enough to help control his weight and
within months, he began piling the pounds back on.
Mr Burton is survived by his wife Moira, daughter Christina and son
Robert.
His funeral will take place on Thursday.
MWB
Mark
Brad Ferguson
<deb...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Stewart Burton, who weighed 38 stone, died in Dundee's Ninewells
> Hospital.
That's 532 pounds. We have people here in the U.S. more than twice
that. (U! S! A! U! S! A!)
BTW, this page about English weights and measures is fun:
Hoodoo
> Stewart Burton, who weighed 38 stone, died in Dundee's Ninewells
> Hospital.
Because I am an ignorant American, I had to access a converter to
learn how many 'pounds' that is:
1 stone = 14 pounds
38 x 14 = 532
After learning that, I have to say that he wasn't hardly fat at
all. He should have flown (via airfreight) to America for some
fattening up. A good start for him would have been the following:
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Pa. Eatery Offers New 15-Pound Burger
The Associated Press
May 2, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
CLEARFIELD, Pa. -- The burger war is growing. Literally. Denny's
Beer Barrel Pub, which lost its crown as the home of the world's
biggest burger earlier this year, is now offering a new burger
that weighs a whopping 15 pounds.
Dubbed the Beer Barrel Belly Buster, the burger comes with 10.5
pounds of ground beef, 25 slices of cheese, a head of lettuce,
three tomatoes, two onions, a cup-and-a-half each of mayonnaise,
relish, ketchup, mustard and banana peppers _ and a bun.
It costs $30.
"It can feed a family of 10," said Denny Liegey Sr., the
restaurant's owner.
Denny's Beer Barrel Pub had offered a 6-pound burger _ with 5
pounds of toppings.
In February, a 100-pound female college student became the first
to eat the burger within the three-hour time limit. Kate
Stelnick, of Princeton, N.J., was awarded a special certificate,
a T-shirt and other prizes and Leigey picked up the $23.95 tab
for the burger.
One month later, the Clinton Station Diner in Clinton, N.J.,
introduced a 12.5-pound burger dubbed Zeus.
So Liegey responded, and the Belly Buster was born.
Over the weekend, four men took the challenge, but couldn't get
through the entire burger. They opted for doggie bags, instead.
"It's a little too much for me to handle," said Steve Hepburn, of
Clearfield. "It's like trying to eat half a cow."
--
It's a big old goofy world. - John Prine
Elaine Parrish
On Tue, 3 May 2005, MWB wrote:
> 38 stones equals 532 pounds.
>
> Mark
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>
>
Thank you!
Elaine
Bob Flaminio
>> 38 stones equals 532 pounds.
>
I'll agree with the others -- in America, that ain't that fat. Go to any
Wal-Mart and in an hours' time you'll see someone around that level of
stonage.
--
Bob
Bob Feigel
>deb...@comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Stewart Burton, who weighed 38 stone, died in Dundee's Ninewells
>> Hospital.
>
>Because I am an ignorant American, I had to access a converter to
>learn how many 'pounds' that is:
>
>1 stone = 14 pounds
>
>38 x 14 = 532
>
>After learning that, I have to say that he wasn't hardly fat at
>all. He should have flown (via airfreight) to America for some
>fattening up. A good start for him would have been the following:
>
>----------
>
>Pa. Eatery Offers New 15-Pound Burger
One winter a few years back my wife and I spent Christmas & New Year
with some of my family in Evansville, Indiana, then drove down to
Lexington, Kentucky to visit my eldest sister and her husband. On the
way we were waylaid by snow and decided to spend the night on the
Indiana side of the river at a place just off the highway. It had one
of those great, reliable American motels (spacious, clean &
comfortable with sized beds - no one does motels like the US of A).
Next to it was one of those all-you-can-eat restaurants. I swear I
have never seen so many seriously obese people in one place at one
time in my life. Talk about surreal. We're talking entire families of
fat people. Dozens of them! Piling up plate after plate with food and
wolfing it all down. No conversation, no laughter, no fun ... just
glazed, bulging eyes & total concentration on shoveling as much food
as possible into mouths - some already full to overflowing. To enable
us to eat our relatively modest dinners (great salad bar & virtually
untouched - one guy told us "Hey folks, the *real* food is over
there.") we had to find a booth in a corner where we could sit with
our backs to the restaurant so we didn't see what was going on in the
sea of fat filled baseball caps around us. The place was packed.
On the way out to pay, I stood behind a guy who was so big, I couldn't
see around him. And he was the runt of the family! The parking lot was
full of pickup trucks and those family transporter things. b
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"Bob Feigel" <b...@surfwriter.net.not> wrote in message
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I work on a church supper once a month, $6.00 all you can eat. There are
professional eating machines that go from one church supper to another.
Mark
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Bill Schenley
> that fat. Go to any Wal-Mart and in an hours' time
> you'll see someone around that level of stonage.
A Wal-Mart store employing 200 people costs taxpayers over $400,000.00
annually in public social services used by Wal-Mart workers whose low
wages and unaffordable health insurance mean most of them are among
the working poor.
Wal-Mart encourages its employees to seek state medical aid, food
stamps and other public assistance benefits.
FROM: The United States House of Representatives Education and
Workforce Committee ~
http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/WALMARTREPORT.pdf
But ... yeah ... They got some hefty people shopping and working there
...
http://www.beafriend.org/pictures/images/bfks2003/Wal-mart.jpg