Comments on: World’s Tallest Man Gets A ZAZ

By: NN

NN — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:43:46 +0000

A Russian car? Look again. That’s a Chevrolet Tacuma, the rebadged Daewoo assembled in the Ukraine. Not that it’s any better than you standard Lada. But hey…it’s American!

By: Jeff Puthuff

Jeff Puthuff — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:24:04 +0000

@Brat: I can read and I can use Google:

“Doctors had found the tumor causing Stadnik’s gigantism, and speculated he would continue growing for as long as it was active. The resulting health complications could kill him….It was several weeks after his visit to Ukraine, and he had just received Stadnik’s blood test results in the mail.

Stadnik’s growth hormone levels were normal – meaning the tumor sitting in his skull was dead. Most likely, Sperber said, it simply outgrew its blood supply.

“This is extremely rare,” Sperber said. “It was likely that it was inoperable if it was large enough to cause hydrocephalus when he was 12. That’s why this was an even bigger miracle.”

http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/local/article_1758836.php

By: BlueBrat

BlueBrat — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:11:04 +0000

Factotum:

In that case you’re eight feet five inches tall, still growing…

He is!

By: Jeff Puthuff

Jeff Puthuff — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:17:29 +0000

Luckily he is no longer growing. The growth on his pituitary gland that caused his gigantism has died.

By: lprocter1982

lprocter1982 — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:12:45 +0000

He needs a Homer Simpson-mobile.

By: yankinwaoz

yankinwaoz — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:16:49 +0000

Funny…. just today I read an article in the paper how this guy was given a custom built bicycle.

Now after this, I get the feeling his village wants him to leave :-)

By: dean

dean — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:45:28 +0000

That is one seriously tall dude. He needs a bubble-top car like the pope-mobile.

By: Samir Syed

Samir Syed — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:37:41 +0000

He’s already suffered enough. Why give him a Russian car to add insult to injury?

By: RayH

RayH — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:19:53 +0000

Now THAT is a reality show I’d watch maybe. I think a niche car company that catered to taller folks might be a neat, profitable idea. I think people are getting taller and taller… residual growth hormones in the vitamin D milk!