Human tissue for cars, or the perils of taking off too much fat

This story about an American doctor using patients' fat to create car fuel has been making the rounds.  The concept alone merits Gothic attention, the idea of using human flesh to power machines, a metaphor rendered concrete.

Alan Bittner, who founded a high-profile clinic on Rodeo Drive, the Bond Street of Los Angeles, claims to be able to power both his Ford Explorer and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator on biofuel converted from excess flesh from human tums, bums and thighs.

One might imagine what those vehicles' exhaust smells like.

But there's a darker level hinted at in The Independent's story:

Lawyers representing several former patients are currently attempting to track him down. One of them, Andrew Besser, claims Dr Bittner's unlicensed girlfriend removed too much fat from his three clients, leaving them horribly disfigured. Dozens of other patients have complained to the State Medical Board, he added.

Comments

[Greg Scranton]

What would happen if somehow the car itself became fat!? Reminds me of the work of Erwin Wurm, more specifically his sculpture fat car. Some weird stuff as usual, thanks Bryan.

[Bryan Alexander]

It's a market opportunity, Greg - thin cars. Cars designed to *burn off* fat, and *look svelte*. Then the plugin appears: suction off your own fat to feed your car. Ideal. A dream, plus a business model.

Then crime appears - sneaking next door to steal someone else's carfat.

[Ed Webb]

And of course, the aliens made of human fat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MTFcfGTGyc&NR=1

[Greg Scranton]

Ed that was disturbing/hilarious!

[Bryan Alexander]

But that was so sweet - the pudgy widdle babies waving happily, the victims surviving, and the villain punished. See, that's the romance of fat horror.

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