| | |  Health & Beauty | August 2008 
Forklift Helps 700-lb Mexican Man Take Rare Outing
 Associated Press
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| | Manuel Uribe, better known as 'Meme' who weights around 310 kilograms (700 pounds), wipes his face inside a trailer holding his specially designed bed on a trip to a lake while children look at him in Monterrey, northern Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. Uribe, 43, who once weighed half a ton, has been largely confined to his home for the last six years. (AP/Monica Rueda) | 
| | Manuel Uribe talks to his doctor after being placed at a trailer outside his home in the suburb of San Nicolas de los Garza, in Monterrey August 10, 2008. Once heaviest man in the world, Uribe, now weighing 52 stone (330 kilos), left his home for the third time in six bedridden years to go to La Boca dam in Santiago, some 36 km (22.3 miles) away from Monterrey as part of a postponed birthday celebration. (Reuters/Tomas Bravo) | | |
Monterrey, Mexico - A 700-pound (310-kilogram) man once considered the world's most obese person left his home for the first time in five months Sunday with the aid of a forklift and a platform truck.
Manuel Uribe traveled to the shore of a lake in northern Mexico without ever leaving his specially designed bed. A forklift hoisted the bed onto the truck, which then hauled him to the lake, where he snacked on fish and vegetables and joked with a local boat operator.
Looking at the boatman's small craft, Uribe joked, "Too bad I can't get on it — it would sink."
Once considered the world's fattest man when his weight hit over half a ton, more than two years of steady dieting had helped Uribe drop to about 700 pounds (310 kilograms) as of June — 550 pounds (250 kilograms) less than his former Guinness record weight of 1,235 pounds (560 kilograms). He did not say what his current weight is.
While somewhat bothered by the summer heat, Uribe appeared to enjoy Sunday's outing. He is still unable to walk, and his last planned outing in March was aborted after the platform carrying his bed got stuck under an overpass.
His last successful trip outside his home was in March 2007, when six people pushed Uribe's wheel-equipped iron bed out to the street as a mariachi band played and a crowd gathered to greet him.
Before that, he hadn't left his home in five years. |
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