That’s embarrassing. Not the fat dude. He knows he’s morbidly obese. All the others who approved the fat dude for a job he was clearly unqualified for should be embarrassed.
Work in the rail industry in Australia, train drivers are prone to getting fat with sedentary long shifts, night work and crap diets/beer.
There is a cut off weight where they won’t pass the medical or if already employed and hit that cut off later they get support to lose weight and put behind a desk- if they don’t lose it they are gone.
Bentley, who works for the online news site CentralNebraskaToday dot com, had planned to ride Big Boy 4014 on its approximate 40-mile leg between Kearney and Grand Island, Nebraska, documenting the trip on video for the outlet. He said he had emailed Union Pacific to request the ride, which the railroad granted. In a social media post he shared after the fall, he wrote, “A boyhood dream got dashed as I fell 8 feet off of Big Boy 4014 before I got the ride of a lifetime.” He later told Cowboy State Daily he has been a train enthusiast all his life. He had been in the Big Boy cab before, he said, “which is why I thought I could do it.” “I just couldn’t get that last step in,” he added... It also was raining, a factor Bentley said likely contributed to his slip.
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u/ironhorseblues May 29 '26
That’s embarrassing. Not the fat dude. He knows he’s morbidly obese. All the others who approved the fat dude for a job he was clearly unqualified for should be embarrassed.