A morbidly obese Ohio man was in the
hospital Tuesday after police found him fused to a chair he had not
moved from in two years and were forced to cut a hole in the wall
of his house just to get him out, WTRF-TV reported.
The unnamed man lived with two
able-bodied roommates -- including his girlfriend, who officials
said fed him since he never got up -- in a home in Bellaire, Ohio.
The roommates called police upon finding the man unresponsive on
Sunday.
Officers who responded to the scene
said that the man's skin was fused to the fabric of chair and that
he was sitting in his own feces and urine with maggots visible.
One officer said it was the worst thing
he had ever responded to. Another told the local TV station he had
to throw away his uniform after helping remove the man from the
chair.
"The living room where the man lived in
his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It's unbelievable that
somebody lives in conditions like that," Jim Chase, a local city
code enforcer, told WTRF.
"I instructed the landlord this
[Monday] morning and the two people, the tenants at the house, they
had to get it cleaned, there's no way they can live in something
like that, and so they are working on it," he added.
The landlord told WTRF that the man
used to be an active person and said she had no idea how bad his
condition was since he covered himself with a blanket every time
she came to visit.
