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Plus-size influencer Jae’lynn Chaney rips airport worker who allegedly refused to push her in wheelchair up jet bridge: ‘Blatantly ignored’
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Posted on 05/20/2024 9:20:12 AM PDT by aquila48

A “plus-size” travel influencer claimed a Washington airport worker refused to push her in a wheelchair up the jet bridge because of her size, which left her gasping for air when she was forced to walk off the plane.

Jae’lynn Chaney, 27, revealed on TikTok that she requested “wheelchair assistance” during her trip to Sea-Tac International Airport in Washington.

“I’m a plus-size wheelchair user and on a recent flight to the Sea-Tac airport, I requested wheelchair assistance, as I always do,” a narrator said on Chaney’s post. “When it came time for me to deplane, I saw the employee who would be assisting me with my wheelchair waiting for me in the entry of the jet bridge.”

The influencer, who has amassed over 135,500 followers on the platform, claimed the employee started walking away from the plane when she saw the traveler deboard the plane.

“As I approached her and she realized she’d be assisting me and not one of the smaller passengers she started to walk away with the wheelchair while making comments about my size,” Chaney claimed.

Chaney, who can walk, allegedly told the employee she needed the chair but was “blatantly ignored,” forcing her to walk up “one of the longest jet bridges I’ve encountered.”

The long walk took a lot of energy out of the influencer, and she claimed she nearly fainted.

“By the time she let me reach the wheelchair and sit down my lips were white, my oxygen levels had dropped, and I almost fainted,” Chaney recalled.

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To: Yo-Yo

Ha ha.


101 posted on 05/20/2024 11:02:04 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: arthurus

They should’ve used a forklift to take her down the jetway.


102 posted on 05/20/2024 11:04:37 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: aquila48

Unless you are handicapped, a 27 year old does not need a wheelchair. Lose some weight.


103 posted on 05/20/2024 11:07:43 AM PDT by caver ( )
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To: aquila48

“What’s repulsive about her, she flaunts her obesity, takes no responsibility and plays the victim card to the max.”

I had to think and study up on this before I replied.

Seems this woman does a lot of traveling, and by plane.

I hate airplanes even more so after 9-11. If you were honest you would admit that flying is not what it used to be. She is complaining about seat size? Be honest now!! Normal people are! They have made seats smaller to fit more people in like sardines. Even your average Joe is in pain while he flies the hostile skies.

Flying used to be an elite experience now it’s like riding a Greyhound bus. In fact from what I hear it’s better to ride Greyhound. You have more comfy seats and better leg room.

Then comes along this woman. Yea I hear what you are saying but I have to believe the airlines had this coming. If it takes this woman’s fat ass to make seats normal size again then I say to her “have at it toots”.


104 posted on 05/20/2024 11:09:04 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: ronniesgal

Polycystic ovary syndrome and pulmonary hypertension and lots of bad nutritional advice involving low fat/low calorie diets.


105 posted on 05/20/2024 11:13:56 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: aquila48

She needs to watch a couple of episodes of My 600 lb. Life.


106 posted on 05/20/2024 11:14:43 AM PDT by OLDCU
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To: PGR88

She could feed a small Indan village, for 30-40 days.


107 posted on 05/20/2024 11:15:42 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Morgana
Flying used to be an elite experience with an elite price tag that you can't afford.

There's a reason the term "Jet Set" was invented to describe the rich and famous.

108 posted on 05/20/2024 11:16:16 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: PAR35

A Wonder the aircraft left the ground!


109 posted on 05/20/2024 11:33:03 AM PDT by egfowler3 (Kung Flu, today's Hypochondriacal psychosis (aka: Delusional parasitosis))
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To: aquila48

when she inevitably dies from being a fat, bloated pig, there will be enough food left over for 3 people because she won’t be eating it.


110 posted on 05/20/2024 11:34:23 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: alternatives?

Truth right there!


111 posted on 05/20/2024 11:37:33 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: aquila48

If the worker was of small stature she may have risked serious injury trying to push any object let alone a person of such bulk. She also risked injuring the passenger if she was unable to properly steer the chair because of the weight.

Putting the safety of yourself and a passenger is a must. SHe did nothing wrong.


112 posted on 05/20/2024 11:38:38 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Jonty30

Good point. Maybe she should spend less time traveling and more time putting her affairs in order.


113 posted on 05/20/2024 11:39:44 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: aquila48

I didn’t know they made tandem axle wheel chairs. Huh.


114 posted on 05/20/2024 11:42:54 AM PDT by technically right
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To: aquila48

Fluisa from Deuce Bigalow:

You ever parked your bicycle in an airplane hangar?
You ever throw a toothpick into a volcano?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_jH6ZVNSo8


115 posted on 05/20/2024 11:43:11 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Morgana

I had a friend who started gaining weight. She was a very self-disciplined, methodical person, so she started decreasing her caloric intake. Still she gained weight. Reduced her intake to 500 calories per day, but gained anyway. Finally went to the doctor, who ran blood work and was found to have thyroid disease. Was put on thyroid medication, and immediately started losing and lost all the excess weight.


116 posted on 05/20/2024 11:46:45 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: aquila48

“The long walk took a lot of energy out of the influencer,”

She had to stop at the first food court to take on several pounds of food to recover.


117 posted on 05/20/2024 11:47:42 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: uranium penguin

As Bill Burr puts it: “You ate your way in, you can walk your way out.”


118 posted on 05/20/2024 11:48:00 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: exDemMom

I would be leery of a medication developed from Gila Monster venom.

Diet and exercise works pretty well, without nasty side effects.


119 posted on 05/20/2024 11:56:18 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: aquila48; dfwgator; All

Not to relegate this type of physical health problem, made worse by psychological issues and biochemical systems out of whack by the very foods one may decide to eat in excess (sugars,non-complex carbs, zero exercise) compounded by a demonstrated food addiction (hormone influenced. it’s been studied)— not to relegate this to any one area of the country....BUT Southern people have known about this behaviour minus the “influencer” BS on tik-tok, for ages. One wonders if this person has any family to point out reality and a need for multi-level help. At age 27.

From a Southern gator— an Alabama jewel comedian who had radical stomach stapling surgery to rescue him from early heart disease and coronary infarction:

“James Gregory: Everybody has this One Relative” 8 mins,43 secs.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDobTVM4RDY&t=49s


120 posted on 05/20/2024 12:02:57 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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