Around 20 participants in a Swedish Weight Watchers clinic in the south central town of Vaxjo were given an unwanted demonstration of how poorly the building was made when the floor of the weighing room gave way beneath them.
The diet programme participants had gathered together inside the clinic to measure their progress; but waistlines were not the only thing deteriorating.
“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,” said one of the group members in a report by The Local. The rest of the room soon began to come apart at the seams as the remaining floored area buckled and gave way. A strong sewage smell then began to permeate the air, believed to be from broken pipes in the floor.
“We’re going to have to find a replacement premises,” said erudite Weight Watchers consultant Therese Levin.
However, the broken floor was no barrier to the evening’s weigh-in which saw the Weight Watchers compare weight-loss achievements in a nearby corridor.
The incident is still being investigated and no injuries, other than mild embarrassment, were reported.