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reuber1
10-25-2006, 05:50 PM
http://www.abc4.com/local_news/local_headlines/story.aspx?content_id=231A7EEB-BB03-4D79-B967-2EEA839D3D98
A dead man had one final earthly act before moving on.
Fire officials said the six-hundred pound man was in being cremated when his body fluids were too much for the oven.
The body fluids seeped out onto the floor and ignited causing a fire at the Garner Funeral Home in Salt Lake City.
"Those fluids can be very flammable," said Scott Freitag of the Salt Lake City fire department. "Sort of like a grease fire."
An employee used an extinguisher to put out the fire.
The room is self-contained and has its own drainage system.
"There really is no risk or a hazard of it getting into the sewer system, the water system or into the general public," said Freitag.
Firefighters rarely see these kind of fires.
But they say a six-hundred-pound body can create problems during a cremation.
"It really does condense or breaks down that fat into a greasy product, just like a grease fire," said Freitag. "Only a little bit can cause a flame to go up."
The crematorium is back in business and the funeral director said they'll notify the family to assure them their loved one wasn't harmed.
cornfed
10-25-2006, 05:59 PM
That is gross. Just disguisting.
morea
10-25-2006, 05:59 PM
and sad.
Red Kittie Kat
10-25-2006, 06:12 PM
Very sad indeed
LeftBrain Artist
10-25-2006, 06:12 PM
But good news for Arm & Hammer. A new market for their product.
reuber1
10-25-2006, 06:14 PM
The crematorium is back in business and the funeral director said they'll notify the family to assure them their loved one wasn't harmed.Am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong with that statement?
LeftBrain Artist
10-25-2006, 06:33 PM
They can only mean that, um, well
maybe if, . . . no
nope, not that either.
Man, what a stupid thing to say. Obviously its not about harming a loved one, but successfully pulling off the cremation in a professional manner which they obviously botched because they're incompetent. Then to come back and say, "well, he wasn't harmed . . ." Of course he wasn't harmed, he's dead, he can't be harmed, if harming him was a concern you wouldn't be burning him up in the first place, now would you? Its just a feeble attempt to apologize for screwing up without actually admitting you did anything wrong.
Considering how much they're probably charging - unacceptable.
morea
10-25-2006, 06:35 PM
I looked at that as a way of trying to comfort a family who just lost a person they cared about. I mean, obviously, it is unacceptable, but I am sure that the family needs all the comfort they can get. On top of their loss, that can not be a pleasant thing to hear.
frankster
10-25-2006, 06:41 PM
Sorry for lowering the tone further here, but I was just wondering... I'm quite a wee person (120lbs and 5 foot 7) and I had an MRI scan a while back and felt very claustrophobic in that tunnel. How do they get larger folk in there? I mean my nose was only a few inches from the roof. I could barely focus on it, so do they greese them up to get them in there or what!?! Do they have bigger ones somewhere? Seems the world is going to have to adapt fast to a "growing population" or a significant part of society will be unable to make use of many services.
reuber1
10-25-2006, 06:45 PM
They can only mean that, um, well
maybe if, . . . no
nope, not that either.
Man, what a stupid thing to say. Obviously its not about harming a loved one, but successfully pulling off the cremation in a professional manner which they obviously botched because they're incompetent. Then to come back and say, "well, he wasn't harmed . . ." Of course he wasn't harmed, he's dead, he can't be harmed, if harming him was a concern you wouldn't be burning him up in the first place, now would you? Its just a feeble attempt to apologize for screwing up without actually admitting you did anything wrong.
Considering how much they're probably charging - unacceptable.
OK, so I'm not the only one.
morea, I see what you're saying, I just think there could have been a better way to go about consoling them instead of saying 'He wasn't harmed' despite the whole burning-his-remains procedure, and being deceased already. Then again, it could be the news article using improper paraphrasing. I just can't imagine that though if I were the family.
Red Kittie Kat
10-25-2006, 06:53 PM
. How do they get larger folk in there? .
They don't ... large people do not receive the medical care they should unless they travel to specialized medical centers that specialize in dealing with issues that large people have to deal with.
morea
10-25-2006, 06:55 PM
oh sure, I get it. I had not really thought about it from another perspective.
Ack.
mac.FINN
10-25-2006, 07:05 PM
Am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong with that statement?
Atleast they didn't chop him up into smaller pieces so he'd fit better into the pyre. Why does that remind me of a Monty Python skit?
Mo was there a skit where they did something similar?
morea
10-25-2006, 07:07 PM
not one that I am familiar with, although it does sound like something they would do.
I just think there could have been a better way to go about consoling them instead of saying 'He wasn't harmed' despite the whole burning-his-remains procedure, and being deceased already.
like this?
Some of the fat from your obese relative leaked out of the cremation oven and nearly burned my funeral parlor down. Lucky for you I was able to put the fire out and I do not have to sue the estate. Your fat relative is still dead, here are 75 pounds of his ashes.
LeftBrain Artist
10-25-2006, 07:14 PM
Sorry for lowering the tone further here, but I was just wondering... I'm quite a wee person (120lbs and 5 foot 7) and I had an MRI scan a while back and felt very claustrophobic in that tunnel. How do they get larger folk in there? I mean my nose was only a few inches from the roof. I could barely focus on it, so do they greese them up to get them in there or what!?! Do they have bigger ones somewhere? Seems the world is going to have to adapt fast to a "growing population" or a significant part of society will be unable to make use of many services.
You ever see those long poles with a padded bag at the end of them that were used to pack cannonballs in the cannons back in the day?
mac.FINN
10-25-2006, 07:23 PM
Could have been worse (http://www.serve.com/bonzai/monty/classics/TheUndertakerSketch).
Jackimalyn
10-25-2006, 07:27 PM
lol Mac... ridiculous
reuber1
10-25-2006, 07:30 PM
like this?
Some of the fat from your obese relative leaked out of the cremation oven and nearly burned my funeral parlor down. Lucky for you I was able to put the fire out and I do not have to sue the estate. Your fat relative is still dead, here are 75 pounds of his ashes.
More or less (75 pounds is a lot of ash, but I'd think you'd get more). The whole "he wasn't harmed" is what drives me nuts about their comment.
LeftBrain Artist
10-25-2006, 07:31 PM
like this?
Some of the fat from your obese relative leaked out of the cremation oven and nearly burned my funeral parlor down. Lucky for you I was able to put the fire out and I do not have to sue the estate. Your fat relative is still dead, here are 75 pounds of his ashes.
Dang.
Speaking of uber fat people.
I just got back from lunch at the KFC - sat in the same booth I sat in when I was there like a month ago. I ain't never sitting in that booth again. Last time, I thought it might have been my imagination, but I kept smelling, just faintly every once in a while, the fat person stink. Know what I'm talkin' about? When one gets too large to reach all the places on their body without an instrument of some sort, there's spots and crevasses that just dont never git cleaned - its like a feces and sweaty sock smell that makes you gag. Anyways I smelled it again this time, sitting in the same booth. There must be a regular that sits there all the time, and their stink has bonded with the seat on a molecular level - or at least that's my hypothesis. Gross.
frankster
10-25-2006, 07:58 PM
Anyways I smelled it again...
Do you smell this aroma often? Does it seem to follow you from place to place? Are you confident that it isn't a crevis somewhere about your own person that you have neglected? Bleugh!
My littlest baby who is now 7 months got to be quite a chubba around 5 months before she started crawling and got more trim. She used to collect all sort of grime and food and milk and barf in her neck fat. It mung!
LeftBrain Artist
10-25-2006, 08:39 PM
Do you smell this aroma often? Does it seem to follow you from place to place? Are you confident that it isn't a crevis somewhere about your own person that you have neglected? Bleugh!
LOL! Thats why I kept my mouth shut the first time! Nope, its a phenomenon unique to the KFC dining booth. I think. Ahhhh. Now ya got me thinkin again. Keep it up and you're going to drive me to start wearing one of those pine tree fresheners as a necklace.
cornfed
10-25-2006, 09:28 PM
When I worked with schizophrenics we had one who was huge and reeked so bad. We invented a tool made out of a toilet scrubber so that she could reach her butt to scrub it. It was so gross. We just had to come out and tell her that she smelled awful.
Red Kittie Kat
10-25-2006, 10:27 PM
Please tell me this isn't going to turn into a bash fat people thread with every stereotype out there?
Because a mortuary wasn't prepared to handle this situation in a professional manner this is the dead guys fault?
This is a means to laugh and poke fun at him......... oh and any other fat person out there?
Gimme a break :rolleyes:
frankster
10-25-2006, 10:40 PM
Please tell me this isn't going to turn into a bash fat people thread with every stereotype out there?
No Kitty, I'm not out to put down overweight people. I was just amazed that an opportunity presented itself to talk about my baby and her amazing collection of neck fat gunge. She gets bathed every day and still I find stuff in there! mmmm she's cute though, neck fat gunge or not.
cornfed
10-25-2006, 10:50 PM
Sorry, if I came off that way Kittie. I don't have a problem with overweight people, just with body odor. I have a lot of overweight friends. Most of the people in Louisiana are overweight due to our diets!
I do however think that 600 lbs is an excessive weight and wish that people that heavy would rectify their situations to the best of their abilities.
Because a mortuary wasn't prepared to handle this situation in a professional manner this is the dead guys fault?
pfffftttt. There is a diference between being fat and so morbidly obese that you almost burn down a crematorium.
Neballer
10-25-2006, 10:59 PM
It's your sig's fault MD.
caseClosed.
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Neballer
10-25-2006, 11:52 PM
beetles
beeeeetles, under my cawpit - beeeeetles, under my cawpit
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Fat guy in a little coat ... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8x9A0pU5zA)
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