One man on a quiet island set records no one else has come close to.
The heaviest person ever recorded spent years behind the wheel, running the only business of its kind on his Washington island. What did he drive?
A taxi Jon Brower Minnoch and his wife ran the Bainbridge Island Taxi Co. together, and he insisted he was "in no way handicapped."
When he grew too sick to move, rescuers couldn't use the front door. How did firefighters get him out of his house?
Through a window Over a dozen firefighters removed a window, rolled him onto a thick sheet of plywood, and carried him to a Seattle hospital.
His doctor estimated he weighed around 1,400 pounds, yet said that wasn't the strangest part of his case. What was?
That he survived The doctor called him the heaviest person ever reported by a wide margin and said the most unusual thing about him was that he lived.
No single hospital bed could hold him. What did the staff do instead?
Pushed two beds together It took thirteen attendants just to roll him over, and his tiny wife weighed about one twelfth as much as he did, setting a record for married couples.
Even after death, he needed extra room. How many cemetery plots does his grave fill?
Two He had lost more weight in the hospital than anyone on record but regained much of it, and about eleven men carried his plywood casket to a Seattle cemetery.
