I’m actually sickened by freepers mocking this woman (and obese people in general) because of her size. Mock her because she’s being a snowflake or because she wants to sue or seeks publicity, but have a little empathy for people with weight problems. Many people can’t just bang out some situps or walk for miles and lose weight, no matter how easy you think that might be.
And this ride is essentially a bus full of 10-foot long bench seats that drives through a dark tunnel at 1 mile per hour. It would have cost nothing to give her some extra room.
That said, it would also have cost her nothing to just get on the stupid bench with her kids and let the last person in the row choose if they want to squeeze in or take another seat. According to the article one man voluntarily gave up his seat so they wouldn’t be squished. On another visit the woman asked the attendant if she could get on with one fewer person in the row and she was refused. She was absolutely able to safely ride the ride if she chose to do so.
In my view this isn’t about this ride but the Harry Potter ones she can’t board. This ride is used as her example because it was a case where the park actively refused her when they could have accepted her request. The other rides were probably such that she couldn’t even fit, so she had no case there, unless they built new rides with larger cars or whatever.
“And this ride is essentially a bus full of 10-foot long bench seats that drives through a dark tunnel at 1 mile per hour. It would have cost nothing to give her some extra room.”
How long would the line have been if everyone got their own seat? Why should I have to share if she doesn’t? Did she buy tickets for that whole bench to herself?
She’s not asking for ‘equal treatment’, she wants obesity to be a special class like handicapped or blind or otherwise physically disabled. She wants the airline first class seat for the same price as cattle car. Just because she can’t control her eating.
“Many people can’t just bang out some situps or walk for miles and lose weight, no matter how easy you think that might be.”
Nonsense. Try not eating so damned much! You can’t get fat if you don’t stuff too much food into your face.
Gluttony is preventable, just don’t be a pig.