KFI: It was supposed to be a pleasant time fishin goff some docks in Michigan for Korisa Miller, but it turned out to be the day she almost died. Miller fell into the icy waters and needed to be saved by the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office.
The police later shared bodycam video of the dramatic rescue on Facebook, but it wound up making a traumatic incident in Miller’s life much worse. That’s because after the clip was posted, she was flooded with comments that shamed her. read more
Humor is funny. Shaming is not humor. That said: being she is okay, the situation does lend itself to humor.
Captain Ahab was unavailable for comment.
Either she takes pride in being a “big boned girl” or she doesn’t…. shame much like offense is self imposed.
You GUYS…so mean.
Sitting on the dock of the bay,
Hoping the timbers don’t give way,
300 pounds I’ve gained,
And I don’t think it can handle the strain…
…I guess you guys missed the part where she said she used to be 400 lbs, from which this is quite an improvement. Girl is working on it, we don’t all get high-metabolism svelte bodies from the factory, and if she’d been a Skinnie Minnie this would have probably been a body recovery because ice doesn’t take shock loads very well even if they’re lighter and a skinny chick would have gone hypothermic MUCH easier, but sure, she’s heavy, so have at her, it’s not like fat people are human or anything…
Those same shamers would probably not say a thing face to face with her. And why did the sheriff post pictures/video when a written post would have sufficed?
She looks like she’d be extremely bouyant. Did they say why she was taking on water?
Could be a thyroid problem. Many areas of southern Calif have water that damages the thyroid. I have half a dozen cousins who were svelte teenage babes who are now rather large. All are taking thyroid medication.
@SNS – thanks for redirecting the focus where it should have been.
Well, I didn’t read the shaming comments, but if it helps shock her into confronting her obesity — as hurtful as the comments are — maybe that’s a good thing in the end. If she has children or plans to, unless she gets her own unhealthy weight under control, she’ll pass her unhealthy eating habits on to her children and their lives will be less than they could be, too.
I Wonder what kept her so well insulated in that icy water until help arrived.
At least she didn’t say she was gonna be President by 2040…..
Listen, if you were fishing and thought you saw stacy adams or michelle obama swimming by under the ice, you’d try and spear them, too.
I only have ice for yuge.
😉
Scumbag leftists!
Now I think the jokes here are sweet. Not vindictive. HONEST. 🥰
Today at lunch, Jeffrey Dahmer said, “Damn, that a whole week’s worth of meals.”
…when I was 10 or so, me and some buddies went down to the flood control reservoir in the winter on our bicycles, without first mentioning this to any adults. They were used to us migrating between houses, so no individual adult had cause to be concerned that we weren’t in the immediate vicinity.
This particular lake was very high because the dam was closed and the snow had melted and then everything refroze, so some very large corrugated sewer pipes that traversed the lake that were normally very high above it, had about half their thickness under water.
There was a short area of water on either side of the pipe, from the heat of the contents, I suppose, but the lake was mostly very frozen a very short distance from the pipe, no more than a foot or two. I was about 70 pounds soaking wet at the time (I’ll come back to that expression shortly),but I was lanky, and my buddies were a bit stockier but were also well able to reach it.
So we walked a fair piece along the pipe to the middle of the lake, and stepped off on the side that had more melt to it because something intrigued us.
There was a very solid shelf of ice everywhere along the lake but this little lagoon of maybe 6 feet around, but this had an ice chunk just floating more or less dead-center of it. This was just too enticing to not try an experiment, so after checking each side of the lagoon for frozen-ness (safety first!), we proceeded to line up and jump across from one side to the other, using the little ice island as a trampoline.
It was pretty fun, and the thrill was that the ice island would sink when you jumped on it, but was more than buoyant enough to hold up a skinny little drink of water long enough to spring back off, but with a pretty good bob into the water.
fun one time is fun another, nicht wahr? Luck is just there to be pushed, right?
We did it a few more times and started making little competitions out of it, and were somewhere around speed challenges when the guy in front of me didn’t stick his landing and blocked the lee shore. This was a problem because I had just leapt to the island and my other buddy was on the windward side, so I hesitated on the little island.
Which responded by sinking into the frozen lake and turning, dumping me under the ice shelf.
I wasn’t planning to go swimming at all, and had NEVER gone swimming in COLD weather, so the very shock of the obviously very near freezing water was nearly enough to kill me itself. It certainly took my breath away, and I was also looking up at a blear through the ice because I was now UNDER the shelf at the feet of my friends in just a heartbeat or two, and didn’t really have a plan for this.
Happily, the Core of Engineers had apparently left a little water running through the dam, because for whatever reason, there was enough of a current to push me towards the pipe and out from under the shelf, where my understandably concerned friends grabbed my flailing hands. I actually pushed them off at first in a panic and tried to climb on the ice, but even for 70 pound me, with my winter clothes soaked I wan’t getting anywhere, and RAPIDLY losing my strength.
By the grace of God, one friend was able to yank my coat off from behind while I was still in the water, and the other got ahold of my slowing hand enough so they could pull me onto the ice shelf, so – spoiler – I didn’t die.
You would not BELIEVE how stiff with ice my corduroy pants were by the time we made it the short distance to one of our houses. Remember that guy outside the merchant’s house in “Frozen”? That was me.
…I was an interesting shade of blue and couldn’t hold anything, but my buddies and I were all worried about what Moms would say, so they just did things that really are NOT good ideas with someone who could have frostbite, like space heaters and hot water soaking and such, but again by the grace of God, I didn’t have any frostbite and didn’t develop any issues with acidosis, so I was spared to regale you lucky folks with this tale today.
…because of this, I can tell you from first hand experience…
This is TERRIFYING.
…there’s nothing for you to hold, no way to save yourself, you’re IMMEDIATELY in shock, you can’t breathe, and you can feel your strength leaving you as quickly as urine can leave your bladder when you take a piss.
Your blood pulls back instantly from your limbs to your core in the now well-known mammalian diving reflex, which just makes your limbs heavier. At this point, you are going to live or die based on what other people do or do not do, it is COMPLETELY out of your hands.
And that may be the most terrifying thing of ALL.
I can promise you that this gal was fully as scared as I was. I left 10 in the rear view mirror a LONG time ago, but this is STILL a very clear memory to me as it is probably the FIRST time (but not the last) I was SURE I was gonna DIE.
It ain’t funny.
Thank God she was saved, and she may joke about it later herself, but right now?
It ain’t funny.
(BTW, we NEVER told ANY Moms about it. I just said I left my coat at school, and we dried my duds out on the space heater, one of the old totally-metal ones with the BIG angry looking red resistors behind a very minimal grating, probably ALSO a safety hazard, and never let on. My mother, thank God, is still alive, so PLEASE don’t tell her…;)
God Bless,
SNS
PS – It didn’t keep me off ice, though. I walked across the Ohio River in the really nasty winter of ’77, and had to do ice rescues as an infrequent part of my duties as a FF/EMT. What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger, and it didn’t kill me, but it DID give me an eye for caution and an empathy for victims. Maybe I’m being a jerk about this, but between the ice thing and a niece of mine that suffers from a variant of Prader-Willi syndrome where she has a literal, ACTUAL, physical challenge just to control her weight because that’s how her GENES make her; so, while you may think I’m off-base here when folks are just trying to have a little fun, sorry, but I’ve got my reasons…
If she had a hot body, she’d now be a star. Would she be complaining?
Go around fat in life, you’ll be called in it. Fat = lazy, sloppy, undisiplined and obama-like.
Solution: lose some weight.
Anonymous
FEBRUARY 2, 2020 AT 3:33 PM
” Fat = lazy, sloppy, undisiplined and obama-like.
Solution: lose some weight.”
…glad it’s so simple in your world, here, try the REAL one for a minute, tho…
“Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is the most common known genetic cause of life-threatening obesity in children. Although the cause is complex, it results from an abnormality on the 15th chromosome. It occurrs in males and females equally and in all races. ”
Third Phase
“(Median age of onset is 8.0 years and lasts into adulthood) is the development of an insatiable appetite/drive to eat, accompanied by intense or relentless food-seeking. This is the classic phase most people typically associate with PWS, but its onset is actually quite variable in PWS. It may appear as early as 3 years of age or as late as 15 years of age. This phase can be managed by the presence of appropriate environmental interventions (usually including locked food access) and psychological food security.”
https://www.pwsausa.org/about-pws/#1443576754481-86156423-bded
…I don’t know if this gal has anything like this.
But neither do you.
…she didn’t ASK to be on CopCam.
She may not have asked to be fat.
She says she’s worked on it and has lost a LOT of weight, if you bothered to read the article.
Maybe you should work on not attacking people you know nothing about for their looks, or assuming you know how they GOT there.
Yea, she’s fat. Would these people say this to her face? No? Then don’t be chicken shit and type it behind a vale of anonymity. Cowardly shit in my book.
@Anonymous
FEBRUARY 2, 2020 AT 3:33 PM
Too often the bravest people sit behind a computer keyboard. So you’re qualified to throw the first stone, huh? BTW do you live in a glass house? Another question: Do you see the glass half full or half empty.
I have a pretty good idea that I know the answer to all of these questions.
Strange how folk can pile on someone they view as ‘lesser beings’
She’s working on it. That is a whole lot more than some people can say.
So STFU
Same folks who bad mouth this lady are in love with Rosie O’Donnell and that pig often seen with Obama.
SNS
Awesome rants. Thank you for serving/saving God’s people. I’m guessing you probably had a hand in doing same for some animals.
I try to remember to ask God to help super size people when anyone crosses my path. Everyone has a cross to bear, and that cross just could be their weight. Not everyone asks for it. So glad for your rant.
p.s. A supersized person could some day be normal size. But an a$$#ole commentor will generally stay an a$$#ole forever.
How did such a simple issue get so blown-up, and turn into such a heavy conversation? Ok, so it’s a meaty topic, but it ain’t that gargantuan. Many of the commenters thing the other commenters are full of lard, but the truth is, opinions are often heavy-set in people’s minds.
We could be having a whale of a time with this topic, but some peoples’ sensitivities are a bit distended.
Anyway, next thanksgiving, as your and yours are sitting around the butterball waiting to eat, be thankful if you are not fat, and if you were fat, be thankful you were able to lose weight. And if you are fat and unable to lose weight, the best advice would be to stay away from frozen lakes, because you might fall through the ice and become an Internet sensation, whereby millions of people would then debate your corpulence.
…not sure why there’s so much hate for this gal. She wasn’t taking selfies and saying “look at hottie ME!”, she was a person who had an accident that was saved by a cop whose department overshared.
No more, no less.
Those of you who mock, including Mr. Sarcasm there, I only hope for your sake that YOU are camera-ready for when the Fickle Finger of Fate flips YOU off life’s dock.
…don’t answer ME, just look in the mirror…ACTION!
…are you ready for your close-up?
…perhaps, one day, we’ll be the judges of that…
When my Bro in law wanted me to go ice fishing with him back in Michigan, I told him that just because the ice is thick enough to support the weight of a loaded semi, doesn’t mean it will support MY FAT ASS!
So when we did go ice fishing it was in a local bar!
ok, jumping in (like the asshole I am) …
back in the day there was probably, maybe one fat kid in the class & he/she, being the anomaly, usually got picked on because of their weight. I always figured it was something they just couldn’t help. after all, they would go out, play outdoor games, ride their bikes … just like the rest of us. go to baseball practice, football practice, basketball practice by riding our bikes or walking.
nowdays, kids don’t go out & play & rarely get daily exercise (unless the kid is lucky enough to have ‘helicopter’ parents constantly driving them to soccer practice, ballet practice, gym camp, orchestra, band practice, transgender majorette practice, computer camp, drag-queen day at the library, etc.). no one walks anywhere anymore, unless it’s to lap around the mall. kids stay home & sit around playing video games & chomping down plenty of high-fructose soy (gotta load them boys up w/ estrogen!; keeps the teen-boy hormone problem down, doncha know)
the result of all this is that many, many more kids are now obese & the parents don’t care because they’re obese too. how many times do you go to a fast food joint or chain restaurant & see the Widebutt family come in (remember them, Saturday Night Live from the ’70’s?) from dad, in his overstuffed t-shirt & mom crammed in her about-to-burst leggings, to big sister w/ the green hair & multiple face-piercings stuffed into her spandex marvateen outfit (hot pink, so everyone will notice), towing along unaccompanied daddy-baby, w/ several other porcine minors, looking like a smaller version of mom & dad? I’m not saying it’s not their right to go to these places … many can only afford this type of dining-out experience … but much of this is lifestyle choices
… what I am saying is that this type of lifestyle & diet are what’s driving the obesity epidemic in the US … & if you don’t recognize that it is at epidemic proportions then you are either in denial or ain’t paying attention
& until people demand better (which they won’t because it’s human nature to pick the easiest pathway) we will continue to slide down the chute
“If you’d told us the truth, we would’ve told you to shove that red pill right up your ass.”
(no hate; just thoughts)
The look on her face is heartrending. There’s no way I could make fun of her.
G-d Bless her, the Police, and the EMTs.
bad brad and supernightshade keeping it in perspective and keeping it real. 👌
I myself right now am a little over 50 pounds overweight due to health and emotional issues- so this lady has my sympathy.
The story tugs on my harpoon strings.