Lazy Boy Spends 8 Months in Recliner; Dies.

[Mrs. Danger]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/6729971.html

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When an ambulance brought Daniel Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned the then 550-pound man he probably wouldn't be able to get up from his recliner if they put him there, his wife said.

Webb told them to leave him there anyway. He would sit in that recliner, slowly dying, for the next eight months. Finally, paramedics were called back to his Greenwood home on Wednesday because he was in a lot of pain.

Webb's body was physically stuck to the power recliner and firefighters had to cut him from the chair to take him to the hospital. He died a few hours later, his body covered with sores and a "very bad odor," according to a police report.

Webb, 33, didn't ask for help for all those months, because he was ashamed and didn't have health insurance, said his wife, Ada. He slept and used the bathroom in his chair and she cleaned it every day. The former preacher would post sermons online from the chair, and it wasn't long before he decided he was ready to go home to the Lord, she said.

"After he sat there in that one spot for a week, he was embarrassed. It was like he already knew what was going to happen," Ada Webb said.

Webb's mother was the one who placed the final call to paramedics. Not only did crews have to cut apart the chair, but they had to cut a hole in the wall of the couple's mobile home about 70 miles west of Columbia to get him out. A police report said he weighed about 800 pounds, but his wife said he was closer to 500 pounds.

The hospital told Daniel Webb's wife he died from a heart attack, she said. The coroner's office isn't investigating the death and referred all questions to Greenwood County deputies, who sent their report, but didn't respond to a phone message.

Webb died on the couple's second anniversary. They met four years ago on MySpace, and Ada Webb said she didn't see a man who weighed more than 500 pounds, but instead saw a guy who loved the Lord and had a big heart.

I guess his wife kept feeding him...

[spainlinx0]

Just like Nip/Tuck.

[Dean Kousoulas]

I can only imagine how bad that smell was.

[OscarBluth]

He used the bathroom in his chair? Since when do recliners have bathrooms in them? Sounds like a big ass chair.

[cardsfan111]

A few random observations which cause me to

He's literally stuck in the chair, yet the wife claims she was able to clean it every day.

The wife somehow thinks he lost 50 pounds during this process.

It was the guy's mom that had to call paramedics, not his wife.

[Dragon Fly]

disgusting and unfortunate, but that's true love if i ever saw it. Don't know that I would do all that cleaning and feeding in this situation.

[jfoobar]

[PrincessT]

I wonder if the wife will be charged like the boyfriend of the woman who was stuck to a toilet seat.

[GizmoDVD]

Idiots.

[KillerCannibal]

Did she really need to keep feeding him if he wasn't leaving that chair?

Better question: how fucked do you have to be to marry a walrus that shits himself in a La-z-boy and preaches online? I need pics.

[Sonny Corinthos]

Local tv news channel report on the story.

GREENWOOD, S.C. -- A 700-to 800-pound man died in the hospital on Wednesday after spending more than seven months confined to a chair in his home, according to documents from the Greenwood Sheriff’s Office.

Emergency workers were called on Wednesday morning to the home of Tillmon Claude Daniel Webb, 33, on County Farm Road between Greenwood and the town of Ninety Six.'

The call reported that Webb had been in a chair since March, according to an incident report.

Deputies found Webb inside the mobile home covered in sores, with a “very bad odor ,“ and stuck to a chair. The report said EMS workers had to dismantle the chair in order to free Webb. It also said EMS workers and fire crews had to cut out a wall to remove Webb from the home due to his size.

Webb was taken to Self Regional Hospital in Greenwood where he was immediately taken into protective custody by the South Carolina Department of Social Services. Assistant Coroner Marcia Kelly-Clark contacted the sheriff's office at about 1 p.m with word that Webb had died, the report stated. The cause of death has not been released.

Webb’s mother told deputies that her son called her Tuesday night saying he was in pain and needed help.

She also said her son was hospitalized with a knee injury in March. He came home from the hospital, sat in the chair and “had not moved since,” the report stated. She said he had been urinating and defecating on himself since then. She also said she had no idea her son was in such bad condition.

The man's wife, who also lived in the home, told investigators that her husband did not have insurance, so the hospital transported him back home in March via ambulance. She said that she was unable to move him due to is weight, but she would regularly clean him as best she could.

Webb's wife said he was mentally competent and able to call for help at any time, which, she said, he refused to do. His wife told deputies that he was embarrassed and ashamed of his weight and had no desire to leave his home because when he did, people would point, look, laugh and make fun of him. She said a local church had offered to help the couple in the past, but Webb refused the offer.

Greenwood County Coroner Jim Coursey said Webb's death was due to natural causes brought about by obesity.

The sheriff's office said Thursday that no charges will be filed in the case.

[Deep_lurk]

Local news for me. It is too bad that the video from this channel (giving the URL in case they post it later) http://www.foxcarolina.com/index.html isn't available. It has video of his (sizable) wife talking about him. She mentions how everyone who came into the house had to wear a mask because of the smell, but "that smell was her husband" (or something similar) and she would still have climbed up on top of him and hugged him, even at the end.

Yes, she seemed to be as bag-of-hammers dumb as she sounds.

Video of his mother:

http://www2.wspa.com/spa/news/local/..._county/29927/

[jeffbase34]

Originally Posted by Sonny Corinthos

Local tv news channel report on the story.

GREENWOOD, S.C. -- A 700-to 800-pound man died in the hospital on Wednesday after spending more than seven months confined to a chair in his home, according to documents from the Greenwood Sheriff’s Office.

Emergency workers were called on Wednesday morning to the home of Tillmon Claude Daniel Webb, 33, on County Farm Road between Greenwood and the town of Ninety Six.'

The call reported that Webb had been in a chair since March, according to an incident report.

Deputies found Webb inside the mobile home covered in sores, with a “very bad odor ,“ and stuck to a chair. The report said EMS workers had to dismantle the chair in order to free Webb. It also said EMS workers and fire crews had to cut out a wall to remove Webb from the home due to his size.

Webb was taken to Self Regional Hospital in Greenwood where he was immediately taken into protective custody by the South Carolina Department of Social Services. Assistant Coroner Marcia Kelly-Clark contacted the sheriff's office at about 1 p.m with word that Webb had died, the report stated. The cause of death has not been released.

Webb’s mother told deputies that her son called her Tuesday night saying he was in pain and needed help.

She also said her son was hospitalized with a knee injury in March. He came home from the hospital, sat in the chair and “had not moved since,” the report stated. She said he had been urinating and defecating on himself since then. She also said she had no idea her son was in such bad condition.

The man's wife, who also lived in the home, told investigators that her husband did not have insurance, so the hospital transported him back home in March via ambulance. She said that she was unable to move him due to is weight, but she would regularly clean him as best she could.

Webb's wife said he was mentally competent and able to call for help at any time, which, she said, he refused to do. His wife told deputies that he was embarrassed and ashamed of his weight and had no desire to leave his home because when he did, people would point, look, laugh and make fun of him. She said a local church had offered to help the couple in the past, but Webb refused the offer.

Greenwood County Coroner Jim Coursey said Webb's death was due to natural causes brought about by obesity.

The sheriff's office said Thursday that no charges will be filed in the case.

Yet, he thought it was less embarasssing to lay there and stink up the place? 8 months with no bath, telling how bad it smelled.

[cungar]

Originally Posted by KillerCannibal

I need pics.

[Mrs. Danger]

They had a kid? *shudder*

[clckworang]

This story is just all kinds of wrong. Just the thought of sitting in your own waste for that long is mind boggling. If you are that embarrassed about your weight, try to do something about it. Don't just sit in your own shit for months.

[kgrogers1979]

...it wasn't long before he decided he was ready to go home to the Lord, she said.

No, he wasn't. A 33 year old man is not ready to just die. He simply just gave up and took the easy road instead of actually doing something to lose the weight. Personally, I see it as being no better than a suicide.

And he had a baby? WTF kind of asshole is going to do this to himself and leave behind a baby to grow up without a father? If he didn't care enough for himself to do something about his weight, he should have at least loved his baby enough to do something.

Sorry, lady, but your husband was a suicidal, gluttonous, no-good asshole of a father and he is burning in hell. And you will join him because you were an accomplice.

(Even if this asshole somehow did make it to heaven, he wouldn't fit through "the pearly gates" and I don't think the angels would want to cut a bigger hole for him to fit through.)

[Ky-Fi]

Originally Posted by kgrogers1979

(Even if this asshole somehow did make it to heaven, he wouldn't fit through "the pearly gates" and I don't think the angels would want to cut a bigger hole for him to fit through.)

[Deep_lurk]

Okay, the video I was talking about is up now, and it must be seen to be believed.

http://www.foxcarolina.com/video/21675699/index.html

[Mrs. Danger]

Of course he's in Heaven. They have a recliner there ready for him. After all, he liked sitting in one so much while he was on Earth...


"sudden" death... Ha!

[Sonic]

She said in the video the doctors killed her husband.

[Mrs. Danger]

Well, any murderer knows to blame someone else.

[kgrogers1979]

Originally Posted by Sonic

She said in the video the doctors killed her husband.

I wouldn't be surprised if she tries to file a lawsuit. She's the one who killed him by feeding him so much that he gained 200 pounds in 8 months and not getting him the proper help he needed. Heck, just reaching 500 pounds alone should have been a huge wakeup call that he needed help.

I also loved the part where says she the EMTs called the shit-covered recliner and smell a contamination and she tries to explain it is not a contamination, that it is her husband. I bet she would like to keep that shit-covered recliner as a memorial.

[Ky-Fi]

[Nausicaa]

What happens to a person's muscles in these situations? Do they literally just atrophy away, leaving nothing but a blob of fat and skin?