The Fire, the Fatass and the Fall For years I used to work as a video editor for a couple local news stations - this sub jogged my memory about something really fucked up. This might be a generalization but most news videographers (we call them photogs) are pretty fucked up people. Partly because they end up seeing so much fucked up stuff - car accidents, house fires, disturbing trials, etc. I was editing one morning and in rushes this photog. "You wanna see something really fucked up?" "Um, yeah - you know I do." He was just at a house fire in an old historic home. He shows me some footage he got of firefighters maneuvering a dead, naked woman body, probably about 300 pounds, out of the second story window and on to the extending ladder part of a fire truck. The only problem was...they dropped the body and it fell all the way to the ground. It was being escorted by three fit and brave firefighters and they couldn't hold the damn thing up. HAES right! My weight doesn't affect anybody else, right! Oh wait, except the damn firefighters who have to go into a burning building and try to retrieve your sorry ass. Now at the time I was not as shitlordy as I am today so I was pretty mortified. The photog on the other hand - laughing his ass off. Of course, now I find this hilarious. Obviously this footage was not shown on TV but I should of secretly saved it to preserve a little piece of poetic justice against fat activism.