Too Fat for an Ambulance

She was a big girl. A very, very big girl. After deeming an ailing woman too obese for ambulances or even light planes, paramedics responsible for transporting her to the hospital fell upon a last resort: heavy-duty military airlift. Only a C-130 Hercules cargo plane could transport the 528-pound Australian woman from her northwest mining town to Townsville, a city in the Queensland province. FULL BIG STORY...