
Just why anyone gives a fuck about Silent Bob is beyond me, but it seems Kevin Smith’s being booted from a Southwest flight for being such a lumbering fatass and his subsequent twittering about it has everybody up in arms. Southwest posted their side of the story on their official blog today, saying
“Mr. Smith originally purchased two Southwest seats on a flight from Oakland to Burbank. Smith changed his plan and wanted to board an earlier flight to Burbank, [but] when the time came to board, we had only a single seat available for him to occupy.
The pilots then decided that Smith needed more than one seat to complete his flight.
Our Employees explained why the decision was made, accommodated Mr. Smith on a later flight, and issued him a $100 Southwest travel voucher for his inconvenience.
Southwest’s Customer of Size policy requires passengers that can not fit safely and comfortably in one seat to purchase an additional seat while traveling. If a Customer cannot comfortably lower the armrest and infringes on a portion of another seat, a timely exit from the aircraft in the event of an emergency might be compromised.
Most, if not all, carriers have similar policies.
But Kevin Smith denied he violated Southwest’s Customer of Size policy on his official blog, writing
“I fit in the seat on an Oakland to Burbank Southwest Airlines flight. I could buckle the belt. I complied with the Southwest Airlines standards… and yet they bounced me regardless.
[Their statement] was more insult than apology.”
And the NY Daily News adds:
In the wake of this, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is urging for a boycott of Southwest Airlines, telling “people of size to seek out and travel airlines that do not have such discriminatory policies.”
Yeah, you do that, fat people. That’d be fucking great. It’s not like watching the arm rest being swallowed by the doughy forearm of some sweaty mouth-breathing lardass whose flesh is spilling into your seat like overturned tub of ricotta cheese is something any of us are going to miss. I’d rather sit next to a hornets’ nest covered in cobras, anyway.
Hey, here’s someone with a BMI under 35 — Katy Perry (and her panties):






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