January 17, 2008 -- He weighs more than 500 pounds, but that wasn't enough to tip the scales of justice for ex-cop Paul Soto.

The rotund retiree lost his legal argument that it was a line-of-duty fall outside a doctor's office that cost him his NYPD career. A judge says it was actually his "morbid obesity."

"There's no dispute that [Soto] is physically incapable of performing his duties as a police officer. He is morbidly obese, suffers from narcolepsy and is hypertensive," Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Judith Gische wrote in her decision made public yesterday.

"Mr. Soto was put on desk duty for his own safety," and "was not any less able to perform his duties after the fall than he was before it."

Triple dot...

hahahahaha. He tried to pull a Homer Simpson.