Kevin Smith Wages War Against "Fattist" Airline

[Guest]

[citation][nom]bennyt[/nom]Leave Kevin Alone. LEAVE HIM ALONE!!!!![/citation]
Hahaha. I assume this was taken from Brittney Spear's imitator.

 

[welshmousepk]

i came into this expecting to rant about how he's a fat guy, and deserves to be singled out by an airline. but in this case, the airline was absolutely wrong. he purchased two tickets, and was seated on the plane.
to then ask him to leave is absolutely outrageous.
if you are overweight, you should have to pay extra in my opinion. but what happened here wasn't fair at all.

 

[wxj]

On a serious note, I saw a fat guy in the exit row that needed a seatbelt extension. It was an older aircraft with small emergency exit doors over the wing. There was no way he could ever fit through the exit door due to his size.

 

[BluntObjection]

You see, the real reason large people need to buy two seats, is because the airlines know that if the plane goes down in water the larger people will need two floating seat cushions, instead of one...They are trying to save lives here!
Seriously though, I have nothing against the large. But the rule makes sense, and if you choose to forfeit your two seats for an earlier flight, thats YOUR call. Not the airlines.

 

[notsleep]

fat people make me sick. stop eating and exercise more! you are unhealthy and a bad role model for obese kids! 😀

 

[kingnoobe]

Maybe you people missed the part were he was in the seat, seatbelted, and armrest down. And notsleep people like you make me sick. Thinking everybody needs to be a model. You're pathetic. This guy isn't just fat to collect money. He actually does stuff so how is he a bad role model he's fat? Get a freaking life.

To the guy who said he hasn't made a good movie. Opinions different and you're probably some religious nut job that still hates him over his movies.

 

[amarok]

I guess SWA didn't had a cargo plane they could roll this human blob om board in..?

Huge obese fat-body's should be confined to the cargo space in planes thus not make the flight a nightmare for the rest of us..

 

[flaminggerbil]

[citation][nom]Arglebargle[/nom]Wow, all the fatty-haters just appear on the discussion boards like disgusting little maggots coming out of a carcass. Nice to know that in this age of supposed tolerance, there is still so much small-minded pettiness. References to fat people such as "blob" and "cow" really make me glad I don't know any of you imbeciles in read life.[/citation]
Seems we have a fatty in here.

 

[vanchinaman]

[citation][nom]wxj[/nom]On a serious note, I saw a fat guy in the exit row that needed a seatbelt extension. It was an older aircraft with small emergency exit doors over the wing. There was no way he could ever fit through the exit door due to his size.[/citation]
No, you missed the part where he CHOSE to fly standby on an earlier flight, and the airline clearly explained that for standby (which again, is his choice) everyone gets seated first, and standbys get what's left over. There was only one seat left over. He got it, but was deemed too big for just one seat. Had they told him he's too big beforehand, we would have gotten the same bs about the airline being 'fattist.' So it is CLEARLY on KEVIN, not SW. Get a clue! He chose to fly standby, and they explained to him that he'd most likely lose his second seat unless two seats next to eachother 'happened' to be open for standby when everyone was done boarding.

READ THE ARTICLE PEOPLE. It's Kevin's tubby fault. He needs to get over himself and grow up.

 

[amarok]

[citation][nom]Arglebargle[/nom]Wow, all the fatty-haters just appear on the discussion boards like disgusting little maggots coming out of a carcass. Nice to know that in this age of supposed tolerance, there is still so much small-minded pettiness. References to fat people such as "blob" and "cow" really make me glad I don't know any of you imbeciles in read life.[/citation]

For a man complaining about lack of tolerance, your words like: disgusting little maggots coming out of a carcass.
mall-minded pettiness
you imbeciles...

really show what a complete intolerant hypocritical moron you are.

I guess your are extremely fat, never leave your parents basement and the closest you ever been to a woman, was when your mother gave birth to you, right ? ;-)

 

[hillarymakesmecry]

This makes me want to fly southwest!

 

[jsc]

No sympathy.

I do a fair amount of flying, mostly international. One of my fears(and it has happened)is to be assigned a middle seat with a large - oh, hell, I'll be honest - with a porker on each side.

 

[Guest]

I don't want to come across as a Kevin Smith Fan boy but this story is not only OLD but wrong. If your going to sort through his old Tweets why are you repeating bad info? He posted his conversation with SWA on his blog which explains what happened.

 

[kiniku]

Ever since the airlines shifted their business models to the cheap tickets, no frills, sardine can, "anyone can afford to fly now" approach to airline travel the stature of airline passengers are about the same as on a Greyhound bus. If it's not fatties it's smellies, screaming babies, snories and the wonderful (usually older) noobies that slow down every line through security and also at the gates. I fly a lot due to business. I never fly Southwest ever. Their advertising is deceitful, in particular their so called "open seating" tripe. Which is more like "race to the airport three hours early and then race to the gate" pandemonium. But I'm thankful that Southwest exists to poach many of these grandma visit travelers.

 

[fooldog01]

I think they should have kicked him off for making crappy movies and not being funny. Has someone said that already? If so, it needed saying again.

 

[Guest]

Screw Smith and whiners like him!

Southwest did the right thing. You pay for the space and the customer that would have to sit next to him would be cheated of their space.

 

[djcoolmasterx]

[citation][nom]Photobug67[/nom]
With all of the problems in the world, you ignorant, pious, self-righteous, mal-adjusted pieces of shit can't find anything better to do than bitch about someone's weight?
[/citation]

Like famine?

Compare and contrast:
http://nursewriter.com/uploaded_images/sudan_famine-741848.jpg
http://foodcourtlunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/fat-man.jpg

 

[eccentric909]

I never thought Kevin Smith was all that huge really. I've seen much more giant people on airplanes before (even Southwest flights), who didn't have problems getting kicked off for being too big.

If they're really going to enforce this rule, they should have either a means to weigh someone or as someone else mentioned, a stand-alone seat to sit in before getting on the plane to see if you'll fit into one seat or not. In my opinion, they shouldn't seat someone, who ends up actually fitting into the seat with the arms down and seatbelt latched, then proceed to kick them off. I'd be pretty upset too.

My problem is that no plane is comfortable for me, because I'm tall. My legs are usually cramped the whole time flying, and during the flight I'm trying to find an out of the way place to stick my feet and try to stretch my legs, since they fall asleep constantly from being cramped up. Unfortunately, even buying two seats won't help that problem.

 

[rajangel]

I cannot understand damn near half of these posts. At least use google translator or something of that sort.

You could take airplane half on the seat like drive without any security bell

lol

 

[warezme]

OK, you people are HARSH! I am not fat, 5'10", 180lb, not thin, mostly average but I can see the guys point of view. He was already seated? That is just rude and belittleing on the part of the Airlines. Let him fly and take him aside after the flight and let him know. Beside, it sounds like understands by the fact that he usually buys two seats and in this case he just changed his flight. He has the right to do that just like everyone else. Dang!