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Southwest Declares Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly
theodp writes "Kevin Smith is not a happy Southwest customer. The director was thrown off a flight from Oakland to Burbank, after being deemed too fat to fly. He later wound up on another Southwest flight, but has declared It's On and taken his rants to Twitter. 'Dear @SouthwestAir — I know I'm fat, but was Captain Leysath really justified in throwing me off a flight for which I was already seated?' he began. He also let the airline know he'd made it to his destination. 'Hey @SouthwestAir! I've landed in Burbank. Don't worry: wall of the plane was opened & I was airlifted out while Richard Simmons supervised.'"
The only question now is "Will you address your weight issues Kevin. or spend all your energies defending your self" I applaud the airline for kicking him off, and if you have ever sit next to a fatty you know how unpleasant it is.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
He's just going to die of a heart attack soon enough, anyway. There's no reason to try to get back the right to bother everyone else if he's going to have a heart attack or just explode within the next fourteen seconds.
I'm occasionally the guy who gives up his seat on an oversold flight in exchange for a free flight, but I'd support reforming the airline standard ticket policy to say :
If a flight is oversold, the airline will first remove any obese people, thus ensuring that remaining passengers are as comfortable as possible. If the flight is still oversold, the airline must offer their usual compensation scheme.
I think the key word here is obese, usually defined as a BMI over 30 kg/m^2, i.e. weight divided by height squared. You might not enjoy sitting next to a person with a BMI around say 28 kg/m^2, but they'll basically remain inside their seat. Anyone whose BMI exceeds 30 will spill over into your seat, so removing them will make the crowded flight much more pleasant.
If he's still his Silent Bob weight, then Kevin Smith's BMI lies between 25 and 30, classifying him as overweight, but not obese. If he's obese now, then he really need to lose weight immediately, or else face serious health problems.
The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. -- Bertrand Russell
What about the people too lazy to rehab? Or chose to ride without a seatbelt, were on the road at 2am, are the result of genetically-inferior parents who chose to have a child or couldn't offer an acceptable prenatal environment, lived too far from the hospital, elected to see a quack doctor who committed malpractice on them, decided to play football, etc?
Oh, please. Choose to overeat, you're guaranteed to gain weight and decrease your life expectancy. Choose to partake in an activity where there is a risk of being crippled, and - well, you haven't chosen to become crippled, you've just chosen to accept the risk. There's no way you should be penalized for life for being unlucky.
Fat people aren't unlucky. They've just made a choice to be fat.
Also, seriously, blaming a child who's born with a genetic illness as a choice of the parents? Really? Yeah, I'm sure the child chose to be born with a genetic illness.
You're a fucking idiot, no wonder you posted AC.
Right back at ya.
Great! The fat community modded my post down to oblivion in a few minutes. I hope you guys die of cardiac arrest for that.
Then don't fly, and don't say "it's their choice" because you could say the same thing about drug addicts, or pedophiles, or murderers.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
for being a fat ugly bastard
There's being fat, and there's being stupid. One of which IS curable, sadly for you it ain't stupidity.
If Kevin Smith was thrown off the plane, then Southwest would have to bar most Americans.
It is difficult to tell for you, because you are the only /.er that doesn't know Kevin Smith.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
"the fault of someone for being larger than average. "
Dear Hambeasts:
Cry me a river. The vast majority of fat fucks got there voluntarily. One reason there are probably so many of them is that it doesn't carry much social stigma, though it should.
If you don't respect yourself enough to manage your weight, I don't respect you or your deliberate infliction of your disgusting bloated carcass on others who use public transportation. May your diet kill you ASAP. If this hurts your feelings, have a consolation donut.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
I'm about 135 pounds.
Did you get a lot of sand kicked in your face at the beach? Is that why you're so angry?
The basic design of the 737 has been static for decades. The latest varients do carry noteably more passengers, but they are also larger than the older planes.
The SWA fleet seems to be inline seating wise with the older variants.
So tell me how are they packing "cramming so many people into their cargo hold it would make a slave trader of old boggle" on these places when the seating arraingements is for all intents ans purposes the same as it was in the 80's and 90's?
No coach seat on any plane has ever been remotely close to the size of a movie theater seat (which in my opinion are not all that big).
Want a big seat? You can get one, but it costs alot more or will cost you about 20000 miles. Or take the train - those coach seats are huge, and a fat ass like Kevin smith should probably stick to the train anyway.
Thank god for SWA for having a reaonsable policy wrt these fat fucks. I had some damn beast in my lap on a United flight once - the round trip voucher was not enough for that damn sweaty thigh in my lap from LAX to Honolulu.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
"What about those of us who are tall simply due to genetics?"
The exact same? Buy a bigger seat if you feel you need it. Sucks to be you. You probably have to spend more on food and are likely cramped by cheap cars. Oh well. You can't expect everyone else to pay for your stature... And I'm not sure that people with disabilities should get a free ride. That is forcing airlines to expend extra money for a very very small group.
Maybe fat people should be channeling their frustration into something useful.....Like losing weight.
Honestly, ranting about it on your blog or to a reporter isn't productive. Getting off your fat ass and walking around the block IS.
Seriously, getting pissed off about your situation isn't going to accomplish anything, except telling people that you would rather bitch, whine, and complain about all the problems that being obese is causing you rather than actually working to better your health by exercising and eating healthy.
YOUR fat is YOUR problem. Why should everybody else have to change to accommodate your obesity instead of YOU doing something to change your obesity?
Exercise and eat healthy. Your heart, and the rest of us, will thank you for it.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
When the plane crahes, Fat Bob will change to Ballistic Bob and take out all the passengers in front of him - when he launches out of his seat., taking the seat and it's mounts with him...
And no transformation from Fat Bob to Ballistic Bob will be complete without becoming BLEVE Bob -
Cause half a ton of hot lard bouncing around inside a plane, will become an explosive fire hazard.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvThP6zdfMw
Face it Lard Arse - your a hazard.
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Voting up, Voting down - If I really gave a fuck about your approval or not, I'd come and ask you.
If you’re too fat, too dumb, too ugly, etc, then making your life easier, is unfair for everybody else.
Fair is, to treat everybody the same. Which means no special seats for fat people.
I’m also quite round. But I don’t expect the government to make up a law to force women to find that attractive.
I just have to either lose weight, or work harder. That’s fair for all those who already worked harder, to not become fat.
Besides: Other than someone who is born with half a brain, looking like Quasimodo (who will really have a hard life), we can always just eat less (and stand the pain of getting used to it). He doesn’t have that choice.
I wonder when “political correct” has become “to discriminate against every healthy successful person”...?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Why the fuck is Kevin Smith flying "coach" on the cheapest airline in the US? Haven't his movies made him enough for his own private jet yet, or at least a lease sharing arrangement on one? Oh, wait, forgot, he's spent all his money on twinkies.