Worlds fattest man to sue

fedor.2. · 11-01-2011 12:49pm #1

http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-120005.html

Former world's fattest man to sue NHS for his weight gain
London, Jan 08 : A man who was once named the world's fattest man is all set to file a lawsuit against National Health Service (NHS), claiming they failed to help him as his size soared.
Former postman Paul Mason, who once weighed nearly 70 stone, received life-saving gastric surgery last year binge-eating his way to gargantuan size.
But the 50-year-old, who now weighs in at a comparatively small 37 stone, said he should have been helped years ago.
Mason, who was eating 20,000 calories a day at his heaviest, claims he sought help from his GP after ballooning to 30 stone.
Instead of receiving a treatment programme to manage his weight, he has complained he was told in 1996: "Ride your bike more.
He also says he was sent to a dietician, rather than the eating disorders specialist he had asked to see, after his weight hit 64 stone.

Is he right or wrong? Or is he just a lazy bastard

Quazzie · 11-01-2011 12:51pm

Bad Request.

I'm going to go for lazy bastard though.

phasers · 11-01-2011 12:51pm

Bad Request

KungPao · 11-01-2011 12:53pm

Sure he'd just spend it all in KFC anyway.

Or is that his plan?

Cunning.

MIRMIR82 · 11-01-2011 12:54pm

link says bad request

cherryghost · 11-01-2011 12:55pm

Fat request

AnonoBoy · 11-01-2011 12:56pm

phasers wrote: »

Bad Request

Anything by Genesis?

chin_grin · 11-01-2011 12:56pm

Domo-kun wrote: »

Bad Request.

I'm going to go for lazy bastard though.

phasers wrote: »

Bad Request

MIRMIR82 wrote: »

link says bad request

Former world's fattest man to sue NHS for his weight gain

London, Jan 08 : A man who was once named the world's fattest man is all set to file a lawsuit against National Health Service (NHS), claiming they failed to help him as his size soared.

Former postman Paul Mason, who once weighed nearly 70 stone, received life-saving gastric surgery last year binge-eating his way to gargantuan size.

But the 50-year-old, who now weighs in at a comparatively small 37 stone, said he should have been helped years ago.

Mason, who was eating 20,000 calories a day at his heaviest, claims he sought help from his GP after ballooning to 30 stone.

Instead of receiving a treatment programme to manage his weight, he has complained he was told in 1996: "Ride your bike more.

He also says he was sent to a dietician, rather than the eating disorders specialist he had asked to see, after his weight hit 64 stone.

"I want to set a precedent so no one else has to get to the same size - and to put something back into society," the Daily Mail quoted Mason as telling the Sun.

He has pledged to put any compensation he receives if successful towards helping other obese people lose weight.

An NHS spokesman said of the purported lawsuit: "As we have not heard from Mr Mason, it would be inappropriate to speculate."

Mason''s care bill costs taxpayers an estimated 100,000 pounds a year and is believed to have topped 1million pounds over the past 15 years.

At the height of his binge eating, he was consuming 20,000 calories every day - ten times the recommended daily intake for a man.

--ANI

FAT chance! Oh harharharhar.

MagicMarker · 11-01-2011 12:56pm

lol at being sent to a dietician at 64 stone. I mean seriously, wtf was the doctor thinking when he/she made that referral?

stephendevlin · 11-01-2011 12:58pm

MagicMarker wrote: »

lol at being sent to a dietician at 64 stone. I mean seriously, wtf was the doctor thinking when he/she made that referral?

He should have been sent to somalia in a container not a dietician

Duggy747 · 11-01-2011 12:59pm

Imagine all the soap they could've produced from him :pac:

alwaysadub · 11-01-2011 1:00pm

Is that the same fella who was on the Channel 4 documentary the other night?

KungPao · 11-01-2011 1:01pm

He cost the British taxpayer a cool million, because he stuffed his face all day, every day.

Now he is suing the British taxpayer?

stephendevlin · 11-01-2011 1:02pm

alwaysadub wrote: »

Is that the same fella who was on the Channel 4 documentary the other night?

No that was his twin brother

Monty Burnz · 11-01-2011 1:03pm

He wants to give something back to society? LOL

It costs the UK taxpayer 100k per year to look after this muppet, and instead of taking any responsibility, he wants to take MORE tax payers' money!

They should have let him drown in his own flab.

11-01-2011 1:03pm

****. This. World.

We are no longer taking responsibility for our actions.

A child trips running up an escalator, despite there being numerous warnings against this, and the parents take the establishment to court.

Some fat bastard cannot stop himself from eating and takes NHS to court because he is a fat bastard.

Einhard · 11-01-2011 1:03pm

I'm not exactly the skinniest person in the world, and it sometimes seems that fat people are the last group in society about whom it's ok to be openly and aggressively offensive and abusive, but this man really is a fat ****ing ****er. The cheek of him. The NHS saved his life because he couldn't take even the most basic care of himself, and he turns around and sues them. Way to abdicate responsibility for your own actions yougreedy cnut. When the NHS win the case, they should immediately cut all funding towards his healthcare costs, and let him see how long he lasts. Sorry 'bout the rant, but this fucker just makes my blood boil.

alwaysadub · 11-01-2011 1:05pm

stephendevlin wrote: »

No that was his twin brother

I didn't see the programme, only an ad. That's why i was asking.

hal9000 · 11-01-2011 1:05pm

the Daily Mail quoted Mason as telling the Sun.

with this kind of reporting the next article will read "NHS sued by fat purple monkey dishwasher"

FunkZ · 11-01-2011 1:06pm

I Google'd him, he literally looks like several balls of pizza dough, poor fella.

CHOMP.

Duggy747 · 11-01-2011 1:08pm

Doctors saves my life

I sue the health board for not doing a good enough job.

.........

.....makes perfect sense.

11-01-2011 1:09pm

He can f* off and take some responsibility
"I should have been helped sooner"

I realise it's not so easy as "stop eating so much" blah blah and he needed help to work his way down effectively, but come on 20k calories. You don't need a dietician to tell you to stop eating THAT much

KungPao · 11-01-2011 1:09pm

"I've been having 16 bags of chips, 22 sausages, and 24 cans of Carling lager every single day. You know what, this is clearly the fault of the National Health Service".

What a dick.

mikemac · 11-01-2011 1:11pm

alwaysadub wrote: »

I didn't see the programme, only an ad. That's why i was asking.

It was indeed him
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/britains-fattest-man/4od

It's on 4OD for a few more weeks if you want to watch it
It covers his situation before the NHS gave him life saving surgury and he decided to sue them :mad:

Forty-nine-year-old Paul Mason is Britain's Fattest Man. Estimated to be between 60 to 70 stone, Paul's addiction to food has changed his life forever. He's been bed bound for the best part of a decade, disowned by his family, and turned down for the only thing that can save him - an operation to staple his stomach.

But unable to look after himself, and imprisoned in his own home, Paul's care is costing the Department of Social Services a massive £2,000 a week, and the authorities agree to review his case. Doctors have given Paul just a few years to live, so for him surgery is his one and only hope, not just of staying alive, but of fulfilling his ultimate dream - to walk again. Filmed for over a year, this documentary follows Paul's incredible journey.

Paul is referred to Shaw Somers, one of the UK's leading bariatric surgeons, who faces a minefield of complications before he can decide if surgery is even possible. No one knows exactly how much Paul weighs, and this alone poses logistical and technological problems.

As the NHS consider hiring a Chinook helicopter to airlift him, the tabloids get hold of Paul's story, branding him the World's Fattest Man and thrusting him to the forefront of one of most contentious debates facing the health service today - should the morbidly obese be entitled to taxpayer funded treatment on the NHS, and if not what are the alternatives?

According to the Department of Health, obesity is one of the biggest health challenges we face in the UK. Although Paul is an extreme case of the super obese, he situation is likely to become more common. Currently almost one in four adults and one in six children in England are obese, and the UK is already the fattest nation in Europe. If the obesity epidemic continues at this rate, by 2025 nearly half of men and a third of women will be clinically obese.

Bariatric surgery is on the rapid increase with a 40% rise in operations between 2007 and 2008 alone. As one of the UK's top bariatric surgeons Shaw is well placed to comment on the obesity epidemic sweeping the nation. He believes it could break the NHS.

With the paparazzi camped outside and the debate raging around him, Paul's future hangs in the balance. An attempt to reach out to his family is rebuffed, and even if he gets the surgery he needs he only stands a 50/50 chance of survival. Suddenly, Paul's dream of walking again looks a mile off.

11-01-2011 1:12pm

holy cow where did he get the money for all that!!
When he couldnt get up out of bed to get food who brought it to him??

KungPao · 11-01-2011 1:17pm

Deleted User wrote: »

holy cow where did he get the money for all that!!
When he couldnt get up out of bed to get food who brought it to him??

It's all the NHS's fault. They bought the food, they fed him 20,000 calories per day.

This poor soul must be financially compensated and all Britons must hang their heads in shame.

Paul Mason, you're my hero.

Sanjuro · 11-01-2011 1:19pm

What an absolute prick. You don't suddenly get fat. It takes a hell of a lot of work to get that fat. It's his own fucking fault. I hope the judge throws the case out of court. And also, without the NHS, he probably couldn't have gotten the gastric band. Twat.

FreudianSlippers · 11-01-2011 1:19pm

alwaysadub wrote: »

Is that the same fella who was on the Channel 4 documentary the other night?

Yeah, I actually felt sorry for him watching that... now I just think he's a total wanker and a chancer.

Penn · 11-01-2011 1:27pm

1. Use local anaesthetic to numb one part of a fat persons body
2. Cut out a huge chunk
3. Feed it to them
4. Some of what they ate comes out as poo
5. Repeat. Fatty can then eat as much as they want and lose weight.

Yakult · 11-01-2011 1:29pm

I wonder when was the last time he saw he's pen0rz?

maglite · 11-01-2011 1:34pm

There has to be something wrong with you to get to that size... IMO the Doctors shoudl bear some responsibility.

Also if is is not looking to make a profit out of this and goes about setting up some sort of beneficial program that has got to be worth something

FreudianSlippers · 11-01-2011 1:36pm

R_H_C_P wrote: »

I wonder when was the last time he saw he's pen0rz?

IIRC from the show it was 7 years.

Stompbox · 11-01-2011 1:36pm

Einhard wrote: »

it sometimes seems that fat people are the last group in society about whom it's ok to be openly and aggressively offensive and abusive

I'm sorry, what? Is it 'ok' to abuse any social group?

Lurching · 11-01-2011 1:37pm

The NHS would have been more economical with their funds if they had opted to amputate his arms. See the ****er eat then.

I love how he can make logic out of sueing a government body over the fact he ruined his own life.

The fat must be taking over from the common sense side of his brain. (or by the sounds of it, that happened a long time ago).

STForSale · 11-01-2011 1:37pm

Fat people go to doctors now?

STForSale · 11-01-2011 1:40pm

maglite wrote: »

There has to be something wrong with you to get to that size... IMO the Doctors shoudl bear some responsibility.

Also if is is not looking to make a profit out of this and goes about setting up some sort of beneficial program that has got to be worth something

Maybe he could spend some of it on an awareness campaign, telling people that eating like a pig and not exercising makes you fat.....

jackiebaron · 11-01-2011 1:42pm

Can you imagine this stupid bastard trying to ****.
Would he use his hand or just wrap flab around his cock and rattle away?

Anyway did you see the crap he's been eating? 2 full fryups in the morning. 4 fish n chips and 2 kebabs for lunch, etc.

Who brings him this dung. If he can't stop stuffing his stupid face then at least east a box of muesli for breakfast and 6 large salads for lunch. This clown is just addicted to sugar and grease.

Penn · 11-01-2011 1:44pm

maglite wrote: »

There has to be something wrong with you to get to that size... IMO the Doctors shoudl bear some responsibility.

Also if is is not looking to make a profit out of this and goes about setting up some sort of beneficial program that has got to be worth something

Even if he doesn't keep the money, he's trying to shift the blame. It's their fault I'm fat. It's society's fault. It's... BOO FRIGGEDY HOO FATSO! You're fat because you ate more than 2 families do each day. At 37 stone or whatever, when he first went for help and they didn't give him the help he wanted, he probably started crying into his bucket of KFC and waddled all the way home, stopping by every take-away because walking from one to the other make him a little bit peckish.

He doesn't care about the money. But now that his fat face has been on telly, he's probably getting loads of abuse for letting himself get in that condition, so he's passing the blame. He deserves to get nothing from them, and should be given a slap for trying to sue the NHS because he kept eating. And whoever was helping him by feeding him or whatever should be given a bigger slap.

jackiebaron · 11-01-2011 1:46pm

Guy must expel a serious amount of sh!t as well several times a day if he eats that much. Maybe he could sell his crap as fertiliser. How does he clean his flabby arse if he's bedbound?

Penn · 11-01-2011 1:47pm

jackiebaron wrote: »

Guy must expel a serious amount of sh!t as well several times a day if he eats that much. Maybe he could sell his crap as fertiliser. How does he clean his flabby arse if he's bedbound?

Rag on a stick

Bottle_of_Smoke · 11-01-2011 1:47pm

bluewolf wrote: »

He can f* off and take some responsibility
"I should have been helped sooner"

I realise it's not so easy as "stop eating so much" blah blah and he needed help to work his way down effectively, but come on 20k calories. You don't need a dietician to tell you to stop eating THAT much

Eating disorders are a lot more complicated than that.

He says he'll put any money he wins toward helping other obese people.
It seems he got terrible treatment from his GP and dietician.

I don't think medical professionals approach overweight/obesity properly so considering the above I say fair play to this guy

maglite · 11-01-2011 1:50pm

Barrington wrote: »

At 37 stone or whatever, when he first went for help and they didn't give him the help he wanted, he probably started crying into his bucket of KFC and waddled all the way home, stopping by every take-away because walking from one to the other make him a little bit peckish......................................................And whoever was helping him by feeding him or whatever should be given a bigger slap.

As not not so fit and slim person, I'll accept its my fault i'm over weight, at treble my size when he went for medical help any Doctor should have refered him to someone who will do something for him, not just say he needs a diet.

There was something wrong with him, if an anorexic came in they would have helped them, not just said go to KFC and stuff your face.

But ya, whoever the frigg fed him shout be beaten stupid(er)

blaze1 · 11-01-2011 1:51pm

ride your bike more....
he tried but the flaps of his ares caused too much drag...

stop eatin ya fat feck

dagdha · 11-01-2011 1:54pm

I watched the documentary about him on Channel 4 last night and to be honest he came across as a fu*cking prick. Everybody elses fault bar him that he's that fat. He got so angry and started crying and smashed his phone off the wall when after his surgery he got news that the NHS were cutting his caring assistants hours, he would of actually had to do something for himself then.

Penn · 11-01-2011 1:57pm

maglite wrote: »

As not not so fit and slim person, I'll accept its my fault i'm over weight, at treble my size when he went for medical help any Doctor should have refered him to someone who will do something for him, not just say he needs a diet.

There was something wrong with him, if an anorexic came in they would have helped them, not just said go to KFC and stuff your face.

But ya, whoever the frigg fed him shout be beaten stupid(er)

They sent him to a dietician. If he can't show that he can lose some weight by himself and control his eating habits, stomach stapling or whatever would be too risky. And I really doubt he was told to 'ride his bike more'.

A dietician could have helped revise his diet, work out how many calories he needs and work out a plan for him. It may not have been the option he wanted, but it was a valid course of action on behalf of the NHS.

mikemac · 11-01-2011 1:58pm

He's been shamed in newspapers, Channel 4 and now international forums if you want to say Boards.

If that were me, I'd be thanking the NHS for saving my life and then stay out of the headlines. Instead he's right back in them with this "crusade" against the NHS.