On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:03:13 +0900, "cc" <cpasuneadresse@spam.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>
>"Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in message
>
>> I just loved the idea of the "League of Human Dignity" hoisting a
>> human onto a truck and taking him to be weighed on a *livestock*
>> scale.
>
>They are real assholes in that League of Indignity. My grocer attained a
>weight of over 300 kg and he could weight himself, discretly, in his
>warehouse on his merchandise scale. The simpler model of scale can measure
>up to 1 ton, my uncle carries one around in his little truck (to weight
>containers of fruits). There are also companies from where you can rent such
>scales on a weekly basis for seasonal markets, the hospital had to buy or at
>least rent one for the time they had that patient.  I just don't believe
>that they had to carry that guy in a truck, like a circus elephant.

They are real sweethearts, actually. The article indicates that they
were instrumental in the man being able to obtain medical care at all.

And the careless use of the word "truck" in that post was my fault. He
was transported by a special ambulance.





--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College