http://www.click2houston.com/news/20301265/detail.html# HPD: Inmate Hides Gun In Fat Layers By Elizabeth Scarborough POSTED: Thursday, August 6, 2009 UPDATED: 8:06 am CDT August 6, 2009 HOUSTON -- A nearly 600-pound man was able to hide a weapon for more than a day while he was in custody, police told KPRC Local 2 Wednesday. "Obviously the system broke down," former Harris County Detention Major Mark Kellar said. "The procedures didn't work as they were designed to work." Houston police said George Vera, 25, was arrested Aug. 2 and taken to the city jail. He spent a day there before being transferred to the Harris County Jail. After being there for 14 hours, going through intake procedures, he was taken to the showers, the final step before going to his cell. There, Vera told police he had a 9mm handgun on him, along with 2 clips. "If a person has a weapon, narcotics, anything of danger, it should have been found before he winds up in the county jail," said Kellar. Kellar said Vera should have been searched at least three times before getting to the jail. Vera weighs nearly 600 pounds and the gun was allegedly hidden between fat layers. Houston Police Officers Union President Gary Blankinship said cadets are trained how to search morbidly obese people. "We teach officers to lift up and look under," Blankinship said. "The officer may not have arrested anyone this big before." Blankenship said that system clearly does not always work. "They can be so big, basically short of strip searching or searching cavities, they could miss something like this," said Blankinship. The Houston Police Department and Harris County Sheriff's Office are doing internal investigations to figure out how this could have happened. Blankinship said they should also change the way officers are trained to search morbidly obese inmates, maybe adding hand-held metal detectors. Vera has been released from jail on bond. Copyright 2009 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
I think I hear one of these stories every year. I've read stories where they bust huge guys at airports where drug-sniffing dogs go crazy on them. They can't find the drugs until they lift up the flab and the drugs drop.
My uzi weighs a ton! I can see this in a John Woo movie. Slow-mo fatty, (with mandatory sunglasses and toothpick), rips off shirt, crosses arms, and pulls out dual pistols from his fat rolls. awesome!
Well, I have no idea what this means and, judging from the responses, I'm sure I don't want to know either.
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jiQQPiegxZ4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jiQQPiegxZ4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Good thing he wasn't hairy.
Gross. I heard about a woman who lost the TV remote in her fat layers, and didn't notice until the acid from the batteries leaked through and started to poison her. For most of us it's merely somewhere in the couch cushions. Apparently they found other stuff in her folds - rotten food and spare change. My husband is a trained massage therapist and has worked on all sizes of people. Apparently, with one large person, there was obvious dirt down in the folds but they were so packed together that it would have been hard to open them up.
Man, I couldn't stop laughing at this thread. The OP and most of the comments. I wish I could rep everyone that made me laugh, which would be a lot of repping! Pugs
I have to ask. How can a guy that fat even get his finger into the trigger guard? Do they make extra large trigger guards?
