480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch

**ƒORM** · #1 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

STUART, Fla. -- A 480-pound Martin County woman has died after emergency workers tried to remove her from the couch where she had remained for about six years.

Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.

Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.

A preliminary autopsy on the the four-foot, ten-inch woman lists the cause of death as "morbid obesity." But officials want to know more about the circumstances inside the home.

Investigators say Grinds lived with a man named Herman Thomas, who says he tried to take care of her the best he could. He has told them he tried repeatedly to get her up, but simply couldn't. No charges have been filed, but officials are looking into negligence issues.

Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.

She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to the couch.

Neighbors say they had no idea Grinds lived at the duplex, though they had seen Thomas and some children outside.

Jeezus

mugsy · #2 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

i dont think that this should be in the "crack me up" section. i think its more sad than funny.

ppcock · #3 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

thats fuckin hilarious

She became one with the couch!

junglequeen · #4 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

I dont think thats funny at all
:(

ppcock · #5 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

'member that movie 'what's eating gilbert grape'

they burned the house down and i was laughing.

junglequeen · #6 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

karma is gonna be a bitch

**ƒORM** · #7 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

Hence the expression of my smiley...more shocked than anything

mystique · #8 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

thats awful......

ppcock · #9 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

"you mean eating 3 boxes of double chocolate orero's a day is not healthy for me????"

BongMan · #10 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

Old news but I mean goddamnit that rediculous some people in this world just blow ya mind

mystique · #11 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

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Originally Posted by ppcock

"you mean eating 3 boxes of double chocolate orero's a day is not healthy for me????"

lets test this theory Marty, go lay on the couch

mystique · #12 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

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Originally Posted by mugsy

i dont think that this should be in the "crack me up" section. i think its more sad than funny.

Its in the punching bag section

bungoshlung · #13 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

^obviously moved...

**kiMMie** · #14 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

*throws up

babygirlazn · #15 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

stuff like this is so sad to see people wasting away.... and when it get to this point they don't have any motivation to change.. until IT'S.. too late aww i feel so sorry for this lady!

jomama · #16 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

whoaday

babygirlazn · #17 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

^^ whoday?

Euro Dollar · #18 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

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shit man... seriously, how is that sad? she fucking did it to her self obviously

i also heard some woman lost her remote in one of the folds of fat on her body and it grew into her skin as well.... and they had to surgically remove the remote control... but this one is WAAYYY better hahah

fuck i'm soo ignorant.

ignorance is bliss!

babygirlazn · #19 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

ya she did it to herself.. and ya true it is her fault but.. my god something must of happened to make her let go of herself that way

rawb · #20 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

RIP

she died as she lived.

fused to a couch.

babygirlazn · #21 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

man people are so mean when it comes to overly fat obseise people

jomama · #22 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

well i dont feel sorry for her, because she was a fat slob that wouldnt get off the couch...haha... i mean comeone now, shes in a better place. BUT what if she was in heaven still on the couch?

babygirlazn · #23 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

i know it's her fault.. but like.. some people can't help but be fat they are naturally born with that.. like say her mom and dad and whole family is fat it's genetic thing.. in her dna...

PwInCeSs · #24 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

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Originally Posted by ppcock

thats fuckin hilarious

She became one with the couch!

hahaha
im with him on this one

e_BoY · #25 (**permalink**) Aug 22, 04

Quote:

Originally Posted by ppcock

thats fuckin hilarious

She became one with the couch!

haha its like 1 of those chinese martial arts phrases. u must become 1 with the sword.