727-Pound Victim Stuck in House : Bad Break for Fat Lady

Workmen had to knock a hole in the wall of a house so a 727-pound woman could be taken to a hospital for treatment of a broken leg, police said today.

Police said the woman was found last Thursday on a bed in a house in suburban Inala by one of her children.

Her thigh bone had snapped under her weight and she was unable to get up.

Ambulance men, paramedics and police were unable to get her out of the bedroom, and workmen had to be called to break a hole in the side of the house.

All medical equipment had to be removed from the ambulance before the woman could be put inside for the trip to the hospital, where a spokesman today said the woman is recovering on a mattress on the floor because normal hospital beds would not support her.

Police said the woman was married to a man who weighed 112 pounds and that they were often called to the house. “We often had to visit her and her husband over domestic disputes,” a policeman said.