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Dace · 23 Feb 2005, 01:25

Dace · 23 Feb 2005, 01:26

SOBBING 31-stone Chris Leppard was dragged off to a mental hospital against his will by meddling social workers, a team of horses, an amateur football team, several passers-by and police.

Chris, 23, has been forcibly detained for a month because he cannot stop eating.

The authorities used powers normally used to detain mentally ill people who might harm themselves or others. The threat of a crush-type homicide was "just too great" they said.

They locked him up despite the fact neither he, his family or the local shops wanted him to go. Last night Chris’s furious mother Anne said he has no mental problems that a sound beating with broom handles on a regular basis couldn't solve and was winning his fight against the rare illness that compels him to gorge as fast as his little piggy hands allow him too.

Chris’s case was condemned by opponents of a nanny state. They asked whether others with life-threatening addictions could be next to be cured of their life-threatening addictions.

Mum Anne, 49, told of the agonising moment the ambulance came to take Chris — without warning.

She said: “The ambulance came to take Chris without warning. Chris was really upset, crying, like a little baby boo-hoo saying he didn’t want to go and that he wasn’t mental."

“We didn’t know they were coming to take him. He is being punished for being fat and ill but mostly fat. He has a physical problem. He was working well towards losing weight. We'd even thought of putting him on the Subway diet."

“He asked social services to give him six months to prove he could lose weight. They didn't give him six days. I had stopped giving him money for food. For the first time in years we were getting somewhere. We had locked food cupboards, that was a big step.”

Chris, of Hastings, East Sussex, suffers from an incurable condition called Fat-Bastarditis. It means he can’t tell when his stomach is full so instead of just taking a rough guestimate at when he thinks he's hit 2000 calories he just eats everything in sight like the fat ****ing waste of ****ing space that he is and could eat so much that it will kill him.

East Sussex social services intervened after Chris appeared in a BBC1 documentary last month.

Anne said she asked for the six months grace to prove he could lose weight. He was already on a diet and exercising.

But the authorities shipped him off to a specialist eating disorder unit at the Eastbourne Clinic where he will be assessed for up to 28 days.

Shadow Health Minister Tim Loughton was outraged. He said: “I'm outraged. It’s a taste of things to come if the Government’s draft Mental Health Act becomes law. It will subject people who are not strictly suffering from mental illness, to sectioning.”

He later added that saying "taste" was not a deliberate pun.

Angry Libertarian Alliance spokesman Dr Sean Gabb said: “What on earth justifies the intervention of the police and compels him to have medical treatment?”

When it was explained that Chris weighed 31 stone Dr Sean Gabb became molified.

East Sussex County Council said “all proper procedures have been followed” — and such orders were “in the interests of that person’s health or safety or to protect other people”.

Madina · 23 Feb 2005, 01:26

I will tell you his first name - its Russel

Madina · 23 Feb 2005, 01:27

Also Hastings is the worst place in the world. I can see why he wanted to not do anything except eat and sit at home watching tv

Tomkat · 23 Feb 2005, 08:43

"A crush type genocide".

Heh.

roadrunner_0 · 23 Feb 2005, 11:01

i like the subtle editing in your re'telling of the story there dace

ceres · 23 Feb 2005, 11:13

They try to help the porker and the state is "taking over".
They let him die and the state has "failed him".
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VOLCANO VAPORIZER

skiddy · 23 Feb 2005, 11:29

He is unreasonably fat though.

Surrey Police have done good here.

One less fat person means less air pressure for the rest of us.

onetwothree · 23 Feb 2005, 12:25

Idi, you haven't been to the gym for months.

Marilyn Manson · 23 Feb 2005, 14:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dace

Angry Libertarian Alliance

Who?

Personally, I would have had him shipped off to the East, rather than a medical centre, but there you go.

vampire_lestat · 23 Feb 2005, 21:17

For his self-esteem i would ship him to America. For curing (or death) i would ship him off to Africa.

ben · 25 Feb 2005, 12:05

I know all his names \o/

ben · 25 Feb 2005, 12:09

He just phoned me

roadrunner_0 · 25 Feb 2005, 12:28

i have been saying that something like this should be trialled for a long time however, possibly a bit better planned though

The General8 · 26 Feb 2005, 10:54

big brother goverment strikes again, i mean cmon he has an ilness that is physical and was carted off to mental hospital!

come the revolution.......