Xiao Huang Case

A crowd of over 20 people spent more than two hours trying but failing to lift an obese man after he slipped and fell over in the street.

The 27-year-old man who was identified by the nickname "Xiao Huang" weighs a staggering 220 kilogrammes (485 lbs) and has been overweight since youth.

In recent years, however, his weight has increased dramatically, leading him to finally try a diet which started last month during the Chinese New Year holidays.

Xiao Huang’s troublesome slip came just as he had been discharged from a hospital in Wuhan, capital of Central China’s Hubei Province, where he had been treated for a recent bout of acute gastritis.

Having stepped out of the facility’s entrance, Xiao Huang, who was accompanied by his mum, was attempting to enter a taxi when he lost his balance and fell onto his backside.
The crowd, which included a number of policemen, eventually gave up and called firefighters, who compared the thickness of his arms to the size of winter melons.

In the end, Xiao Huang was rolled onto a stretcher and lifted into an ambulance which took him and his mum