Floor collapses at Swedish Weight Watchers clinic

[Vizth Hal]

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http://www.thelocal.se/24374/

The floor of a Weight Watchers clinic in Växjö in south central Sweden collapsed on Wednesday night beneath a group of about 20 participants in the weight-loss programme.

The Weight Watchers participants had gathered in the group’s facilities to see how much weight they had lost.

As it turned out, however, people’s weight was not the only thing to fall.

“We suddenly heard a huge thud; we almost thought it was an earthquake and everything flew up in the air. The floor collapsed in one corner of the room and along the walls,” one of the participants told the Smålandsposten newspaper.

Then floor then started to give way in other parts of the room. Shortly thereafter, the smell of sewage began to waft up into the room.

"We're going to have to find a replacement premises," Weight Watchers consultant Therese Levin told the newspaper.

But the Weight Watchers didn’t let the damaged floor stop the evening's weigh-in.

When everything had calmed down, the participants instead moved the scales to a nearby corridor and set about seeing how many kilos they had shed. And this time the floor held.

No one was injured in the incident, the cause of which is still under investigation.

[LKTraz]

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I heard this news blurb on the radio today. I must say, although most may think it's because of all those overweight folks overloading the floor, I would think that this wasn't the first time they've been gathered there.

Now since they've LOST weight, if it was due to overloading then it should have occurred before this.

Ok...so it's a chuckle. Don't get me wrong, I have many acquaintances and friends with weight problems and I'm sympathetic.

But you have to admit.......you couldn't write a comedy routine this good.