Video of the Day: Letterman's Top Ten Signs a Cop is Too Fat

This week's story about a 500-pound retired NYPD cop trying to get more dough (the green money kind) inspired The Late Show with David Letterman's Thursday night top ten list.

Retired cop Paul Soto, who wears a 6-foot-long belt, has been receiving disability payments (equal to half his pay) as his narcolepsy, hypertension and morbid obesity prevented him from working his job. He boldly tried to prove that his disability was due to an "in the line of duty" incident, but a judge decided that Soto's fall from outside his doctor's office wasn't really an "in the line of duty" issue, as he was assigned to desk duty.

According to today's Post, Soto hasn't left his Lower East Side home since the story broke.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on January 19, 2008 4:00 PM

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MarygraceNYC

All these city workers with their 3/4's scams. It makes me sick!! Why work and retire honestly when you can rip the city off for 3/4's of your pay tax free for the rest of your life?? Screw the honest people in the world, gimme me mine!! Bastards!

Bouncing Soul

Don't feel bad for him, he lives down the block from me and he walks to Key Food with his shopping cart just fine. He probably injured his knee when he fell outside the grocery store on the broken up sidewalk.

tnturner

he's a fat pig who's trying to leech off of the system. Screw 'em.

hanuman

I feel bad for this guy. Obesity is a problem that many Americans are facing, and this guys getting publicly humiliated for it. Way to so compassion and sympathy for your fellow man.