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Woman "Sling-Shot" from Machine at Gym

2008_07_adductor.jpgYesterday around noon, an alert came through the newswire mentioning an "unusual rescue" at 145th Street involving a woman "pinned between two exercise machines at the gym."

The NY Post sheds some light on the embarrassing incident today, reporting that "a very large lady at the New York Sports Club was sling-shot off equipment known as the abductor" (pictured). Gym members who looked on had this to say:

"She didn't close [the machine] properly. She was supposed to exit it from the side but tried to go over the leg bar . . and her loose pants got caught in the handle."

"If you are on a machine, it's you versus the machine. She put too much weight on the machine. She was, like, sling-shot from it."

To add insult to injury, the Post mentions several times the 38-year-old woman's "portly" stature, and adds that she had to be taken from the gym in a rescue basket, as a standard stretcher wouldn't do. There is currently no word on the woman's condition, who was taken to the New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center...but hopefully she's not reading the papers today.

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  • robingee

    I'm not a n00b, because I know you're a jerk.

  • cucarachita

    I can tell you this about NYSC: the dudes in the "personal trainer" t-shirts who work there who are supposed to be watching everyone only watch the cute girls. If you're a middle-aged housewife, or overweight, they have no "can I help you with anything?" for you.

    Not unless you're paying extra for their attention.

    So it's no wonder the poor girl didn't even know how to exit her machine properly. Nobody was there to help.



  • #31 must be hiding behind another user name. or you're n00b.

  • Kojak

    The NYSC has a unwritten rule that all fatties should slather their workout equipment with butter in case they become stuck. Perhaps if she followed proper protocol this wouldn't have happened.

  • Tails

    I don't know about you, but most of the fat people that I see in the summer are sweaty butterball with rings of sweat pooling around their cankles.

    But seriously though, I give props to her for working out, but I'm glad she's way up on 145th and not down at my gym.

  • robingee

    Why does fat equal bad hygiene? That's ridiculous. Oh right, it's edEx talking. That equals jerk.

    And why is that machine called The Abductor? Just wondering.

  • At least she was trying to lose weight, which will now turn into a multi million dollar law suit—she'll be back on the couch in no time with her Chips-n-cheese Passport.

    ignorance and hatred is just disgusting

    and ignorance of personal health and hygiene is worse.

  • NannyState

    At my gym, I'm seeing way more older people, some of them so frail-looking that I wonder how they survive even one rep on some of those machines. And the larger people there are doing cardio mostly and not using the machines. The Post is just scraping bottom as usual.

  • Snakefist Von Thunderplug

    @ #27, alternate names = Ahab, or The Rhino Slayer.

  • aveB4life

    Can we rename that thigh machine 'The Hancock' for slinging that fat whale across the gym?

  • Kojak

    Oh leave her alone. Yes shes festively plump but at least shes making the effort to loose weight. If more people were like her the world would be a better (And lighter) place.

  • aveB4life

    i think we can all agree, even if you're a hater, that comment #24 is hilarious.

  • SP

    recumbent bikes are easier on your lower back, which is already under a lot of duress when you're a fat fuck.

  • whitecastlerock

    ignorance and hatred is just disgusting

  • Art Stewel

    Fat is not funny.

    Farts are funny.

    Fat is gross.

  • Spirit of 76

    I wish they would get their fat asses on a goddam treadmill or recumbent bike and start eating veggie

    And how do you know she isn't already doing that? Maybe more overweight people don't go to the gym because people like you keep snickering about "fatties."

  • whitecastlerock

    So if your fat friends and or family members fell off of the aforementioned recumbent bike, would you laugh at them? Would you like others to shame them for being fat? Would you like the local newspapers to publicize the incident?

  • robingee

    Why a recumbent bike?

  • SP

    @ moron #15: Actually, I myself am a Jew. I practice martial arts and respect my masters. Some of my best friends and family members are fat. I don't hate them, I wish they would get their fat asses on a goddam treadmill or recumbent bike and start eating veggies. They would be happier and live longer. So keep your self righteous horse shit to yourself.

  • MFer

    Well, you can't deny it. Fatso falling down is funny. That's just the way it is.

    And on the 8th day God said, "Fat is funny." Ergo, Ralph Kramden.

    Skinny can be funny too. But it has to be the Ed Norton kind of lank.

    Too skinny isn't funny at all ... think belly swelly Ethiopian babies. I take that back. It is funny in a sad way.



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