MEXICO CITY - When Manuel Uribe went out on a date, he made all the necessary arrangements: a forklift to carry him out of the house and a flatbed tow truck big enough to haul the formerly half-ton man and his bed to a party.
But even the open road wasn't big enough to handle Uribe's dream of celebrating a budding romance and his success in losing about 440 pounds.
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©(AP Photo/Monica Rueda)
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Manuel Uribe, center, is moved on his bed onto a flatbed truck in Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, March 10, 2008. Formerly known as the 'Half Ton Man', Uribe left his house to go on a date with his girlfriend, and to celebrate his diet, having lost about 440 pounds. Uribe's blood pressure dropped so much his doctors advised him not to go on and the celebration, being documented by about two dozen photographers and reporters from around the world, was canceled.
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