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Forklift helps 700-pound Mexican man take rare outing
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-12 09:41


Manuel Uribe, better known as 'Meme', left, who weights around 310 kilograms (700 pounds), smiles while his girlfriend Claudia Solis, 38 looks on inside a trailer holding his specially designed bed on a trip to a lake in Monterrey, northern Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008. Uribe, 43, who once weighed half a ton, has been largely confined to his home for the last six years. [Agencies]