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Tubby Wave-Fat Lady Explodes in Belly-Flop Contest!
One person was killed and 22 others were injured when a 492-pound woman exploded after she jumped off a diving board and hit the water at a belly-flop contest.
Maria Ramirez, 28, "went off like a bomb", eyewitnesses told the police who investigated the incident at a popular recreational lake in Mexico City.
The shock and confusion that followed touched off a stampede that left 22 spectators nursing injuries ranging from cuts, scrapes, bruises and black eyes to broken legs and at least two back injuries, cops say.
"Ramirez never knew what hit her," says Police Det. Raul Gonzalez. "The force of the impact blew off the top of her head and the soles of her feet -- and her abdomen split open like a dropped watermelon.
"Doctors tell us she didn't stand a chance. This woman weighed 492 pounds, and she jumped off a high dive belly first.
"Something had to give. And that something was her."
Ironically, Ramirez decided to enter the belly-flop contest "as her last hurrah as a fat woman", say friends.
"She was going on a diet as soon as the contest was over", explains a pal. "But I guess God had other plans for her."
---Weekly World News---
Oh dear.
[Edited on 9/3/2004 2:45:51 AM]