Manuel "Meme" Uribe Garza is still described by some fellow Mexicans as the "Combination Lock" man. By one measure he was actually as many as seven men in one; a person so desperately obese he didn't fit clothes.
At his wedding in 2008, Garza arrived on a flower-festooned forklift and at his heaviest weighed a staggering 559kg, or 1234lbs.
The figure 1234, to explain the abstract analogy, is the default code for a new combination padlock.
Garza died last week of predictable obesity complications; a man whose personal struggle bluntly illustrated the obesity epidemic in the country the United Nations considers the world's fattest nation.
Seven in 10 Mexican adults are overweight and a third are obese.