Health experts continue to bang on about obesity being bad for you, but clearly they haven't spoken to the German man who survived falling from a balcony by landing on his belly.

Gerhard Steiner, 27, was heartily munching on a sausage on his hotel balcolmny in Bayreuth when he lost his balance and toppled over the edge.

Mr Steiner fell more than twenty feet before crashing on to the ground, his fall broken by his ample girth.

Rather than dying like an ordinary mortal, Mr Steiner emerged with just a bruised rib and doctors said his fat has saved him.

Source: Metro
Tags: Fat | Gerhard Steiner

Posted by Spluch on 15 October, 2007 at 21:23 | Permalink |