Yep .. he's in the news again ...  I wondered how his weight loss was going (he opted for The Zone Diet instead of free WLS at the last second, if you may recall):  * * * * * *  Manuel Uribe has a lot to celebrate. Having once weighed 1,235 pounds, he's lost 440 pounds over the past two years thanks to a high-protein diet. At a svelte 800 pounds, his confidence was high and he was up for a little romance on the party circuit with his lady. So, he arranged to have a forklift come to carry him out of his house, and he hired a flat-bed truck to haul him to the festivities. The Mexican man was en route to the party, and everything seemed to be going well, when one of the poles holding up his sun-shielding tarp hit a highway overpass. Uribe's blood pressure subsequently took a quick dive, and his doctors advised him to bag the party and return home. "We were going to celebrate that I've been losing weight for two years and that it was my girlfriend's birthday," Uribe is quoted as saying. "The saddest part was that I couldn't fulfill my dream of taking my girlfriend out to eat."

Who wrote this article? Whoever did is a real piece of work or should I say, a piece of crap.  Boner

  I admit I didn't like the note on which it finished ...  the thing about him not taking his g/f out to eat, as though they're trying to make it look like food is still the most important thing in his life or something ..   grrrr!   &8-(

The entire write-up smacked of "ha-ha" he's still a fat bastage so let's all laugh at him. Pretty cruel if you ask me. I bet the author is a skinny little turd who's never had to deal with weight issues. I'll have to check it out.  Boner

k Boner ..  a gal on the Main Forum also thought the reporter was being a jerk ....   That must be one interesting magazine ..  !

He's not a reporter, he's (Tom Radler) a frickin' cyberspace hack. Couldn't find any pictures of him though. What a turd.  Boner 

Here's AP's write up on the story (a little bit less "fat-hostile"!):   * * * * * *  

Accident Ruins 800-Lb. Man's Date By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer Monday, March 10, 2008 Ads by Yahoo!

This dickwad just excerpted the "fat-hostile" stuff as you said......let alone plaguerized the frickin' writeup.

Mar 12th 2008 By Tom Radler

Manuel Uribe has a lot to celebrate. Having once weighed 1,235 pounds, he's lost 440 pounds over the past two years thanks to a high-protein diet. At a svelte 800 pounds, his confidence was high and he was up for a little romance on the party circuit with his lady. So, he arranged to have a forklift come to carry him out of his house, and he hired a flat-bed truck to haul him to the festivities. The Mexican man was en route to the party, and everything seemed to be going well, when one of the poles holding up his sun-shielding tarp hit a highway overpass. Uribe's blood pressure subsequently took a quick dive, and his doctors advised him to bag the party and return home. "We were going to celebrate that I've been losing weight for two years and that it was my girlfriend's birthday," Uribe is quoted as saying. "The saddest part was that I couldn't fulfill my dream of taking my girlfriend out to eat."