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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Manuel Uribe

Manuel Uribe stories: 3 news summaries

 World's Heaviest Groom Weds 

Half-ton man goes to wedding on flatbed

Oct 27, 08 2:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world's heaviest man was married yesterday in a bizarre wedding ceremony in Mexico that required a crane to transport him to him to the nuptials. Manuel Uribe, 47, was driven to the ceremony on the back of a flatbed truck, decorated in white, still resting in the bed he... More »

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wedding • Discovery Channel • Manuel Uribe • Claudia Solis • Guinness World Record

Half-Ton Mexican Man Dies
After Pleading For Help

Man had gone on TV to ask nation for assistance in solving his weight problem

Oct 8, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(AP) - A bedridden 990-pound man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem has died of heart failure, AP reports. Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and hoist him onto the back of a friend's pickup truck to take him to the... More »

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obesity • Mexico • weight loss • heart failure • obese • Manuel Uribe

 World's Most Obese Man to Wed 

Fianceé helped Uribe trim 550 lbs. off record weight of 1,230

Oct 2, 08 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Manuel Uribe, once the world's heaviest man, is being swept away to the chapel—quite literally. The 43-year-old will be towed through the streets to his Oct. 26 wedding in Monterrey, Mexico, on a customized bed, reports the AP. More »

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obesity • Mexico • world record • wedding • obese • Manuel Uribe

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