Manuel Uribe wanted to surprise his girlfriend by arriving at the party via a flatbed truck. However, his bed atop the vehicle got caught on an overpass, El Universal reported Tuesday.

Uribe said he was motivated to attend the festivities by his nearly 350-pound weight loss in the last year.

The 42-year-old man from Monterrey, Mexico, had reached a peak weight of more than 1,200 pounds, making him what physicians believed to have been the heaviest human in history, El Universal reported.