A 43-year-old American man had become so obese that he got stuck in a chair for two years and had to be cut free by rescuers after he became unconscious.
The unnamed man from Bellaire, Ohio, was found sitting in his own faeces and urine and covered in maggots by health officials at his house.
Paramedics were called to the house by his girlfriend after she found him unconscious. She later admitted to the medics she fed him by hand as he had become too big to get up, The Sun reported.
Rescuers had to cut a hole in a wall to lift the massive man through it.
One officer said it was the "worst thing" he had ever responded to, while another said the house and the man were so filthy he had to throw his uniform away.
The house landlady said the man used to be active. She said the man used to hide himself under a blanket whenever she stopped by.
An obese Ohio man had to be cut from a chair he had been sitting in for two years after his body became fused to it.
Police told WTRF news that the man's skin had become fused to the seat of the chair, which was covered in urine, feces and maggots.
The man's girlfriend brought him food for two years as he sat in his own waste in the filthy apartment they shared with another man, police said.
They called for help on Sunday morning when he was unresponsive and had to cut a hole in the house to get him out of the building so they could get him to the hospital.
The smell was unbearable and one officer told the station that he threw away his uniform after it was sullied while cutting the man out of the chair. The man was taken to the hospital for treatment.
"The living room where the man lived in his chair was very filthy, very deplorable. It's unbelievable that somebody lives in conditions like that," said Jim Chase, a city code enforcer in Bellaire, Ohio.
"I instructed the landlord this morning and the two people, the tenants at the house, they had to get it cleaned, there's no way they can live in something like that, and so they are working on it," he told WTRF on Monday.