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His "tube" was probably a raft.
Im seriously wondering what kind of tube this guy must have had that made him feel like he could go tubing. I eat whatever i feel like usually, and am lazy as lately which has put me overweight, but im not even remotely close to being 500 lbs...i dont think i could ever EVER reach that, i wonder how its even possible.
500-Pound Man Rescued After River Ordeal
By DINESH RAMDE
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 18, 2007; 12:08 AM
MILWAUKEE -- A 500-pound man injured while tubing down a shallow stretch of the St. Croix River was pulled to safety Tuesday by dozens of rescue workers who spent hours carrying him to a navigable part of the waterway.
Martin Rike, 39, of Pine City, Minn., was treated for chest pain at the Burnett Medical Center in Grantsburg on Tuesday morning and discharged that afternoon, his mother said.
Rike and three friends were floating down the river on the Minnesota border in inner tubes Monday afternoon when Rike's hit a rock and deflated, said Chief Deputy Steve Ovick of the Pine County Sheriff's Office in Minnesota.
Rike told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that he went on his first tubing trip because of his doctor's suggestion to take up a fun but safe activity. But "the farther we went on the St. Croix River, the worse the conditions got."
He said he appreciated everything done to rescue him.
"Without those people, I would still be out there," he told the newspaper.
Ovick had said Tuesday morning that Rike was rafting alone, but after speaking with more rescuers, he gave the following account:
Rike's group called 911 shortly after 8 p.m. to report that he was having chest pains. A paramedic who arrived by helicopter stabilized Rike, but the pilot couldn't take him to a hospital, saying he was too heavy.
As many as 50 rescuers on the ground responded, with the first reaching Rike about 9 p.m. Crews tried to get to Rike with boats and canoes, but the watercraft ran aground in shallow water.
Rescuers tried loading him into an aluminum boat, hoping to carry him over the rocky ground. But he was so heavy that they could move the makeshift stretcher only several feet downstream per hoist.
Finally, rescuers created a floating platform by lashing three canoes together and placing four boards across them.
"That remedy worked much better, but it was still a lot of work," Ovick said. "They still had to drag those canoes all that way."
Rescuers finally got Rike to the ambulance about 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, more than 12 hours after the 911 call.
Rike wasn't in pain during the ordeal, said his mother, Sharon Rike.
"He got really cold because he was in wet clothes all night from being in the river," she said. "(Tuesday) morning, he was tired and hungry, but he was joking and trying to get warm."
Rike bruised at least one leg but was able to walk from the shore where he was stranded to the canoes, Sharon Rike said. Rescuers had limited his movement because he had symptoms of a heart attack, she said.
Even though Rike weighs 500 pounds, the truck driver is "really pretty healthy," his mother said. This was the first time he had tried tubing.
His "tube" was probably a raft.
Tell us something we didnt know....
I could not excersize for a 3 months and eat fast food for three meals a day for the entire time, drinking 10 gallons of soda every meal, and not break 250 (im 6'2")....that is fat as for me, but ive been there...how on earth do you reach 500?
is it a metabolism thing?
I would've been pissed if I were in the rescue unit.
How the do you handle trying to save a 500 lb. man from the water??
That's a !!
Especially when he can't even be air lifted because of the weight.
People that are that overweight have a eating disorder. Its a disease.
How much more bad could you eat than mccy d's three times a day with 0 excersize.
by that assumption i should have been 500lbs last summer, unless they are eating mccy d's 6 times a day with a glass of lard for dessert.
hahah well i have never been around them when they eat, however I hear they can tear up a buffett. i think their stomachs are so expanded, what we would eat wouldnt satisfy them.
Well you know...i have been known to knock down some food. My family is big, not fat, but just big. Dad is 6'4" and big framed, along with all my uncles, etc...none of us are skinny, but not necissarily fat either.
I have a friend i worked with at my last job who was about 250 and 5'5"...if we went to lunch, i felt like a fat ass ordering a Large #1 at wendy's or whatever....well this guy could order a large #1 with an extra burger and cup of chili, and a frosty before we left.
then sit and complain taht he was fat...
i would think damn man....thats a lot of in food...I down a #1 and im stuffed, and feel like ...
HE always talks about trying to pick a place for lunch where you can get the most for your money. if i mention chinese food or something, he says its no good because it isnt enough, or it doesnt fill you up...etc...haha..
So i guess it is possible to over do it...good point.
what the was T Park doing in Milwaukee?
That's like saying that people who over do it with sex have some kind of disease.
I'm not diseased.
not a disease
it is stupidy
they have self control just like everyone else but refuse to use it
it is not a disease
HAHAH are you sure about that? Yeah some people that have sex too much can have some type of mental disorder that is linked.
I applaud the 500 pound man for getting out & trying something new! I hope he keeps trying to change his lifestyle! The TLC...Big Medicine is an interesting show...
No mental disorder.
I'm just a horny mother er.
Stop pretending that you touch women you .
Nino, te va reganar tu mama!!!
damn where is all this peewee / Alvarez aggression coming from?
I always thought Mr. Herman was popular in south america.
From a purely physical point of view, metabolism and genetics have a lot to do with it.
Biggest factors are mental/emotional, however.
Damn peewee would hit anything?
You guys who can eat all that stuff and not be obese probably have a more active lifestyle. Exercise (i.e. movement) works off the fat and calories. I bet that guy as a truckdriver, does alot of eating and sitting; it's a vicious cycle: they gain enough weight that then they can't move.
rofl @ that pic....
hahah I second that
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