I have now read the Sacramento Bee story. It had far more information than the Fox stories. (That’s unfortunate) Anyway, my apologies for basing my opinions on what was in the news article, but that’s all I saw.
That being said, I don’t think there’s any reason to humiliate anyone like that. Particularly a teenager who is struggling with his/her weight. And I’m mostly angry at the haters on this thread who seem so insensitive to the feelings of others. I can’t assume that those who have ridiculed the teen in this thread have not ever been overweight teenagers themselves, but I have a pretty strong feeling they have not.
My guess is that you all support Obamacare’s ideology that fat people should all just die. Fat people aren’t entitled to liberty or life or the pursuit of happiness. Fat people should all just be dead.
I’m sorry, but liberty and freedom are gifts granted to all citizens, not just skinny people.
The point is that fat people are developing a sense of entitlement now that their ranks are expanding rapidly. The seat was stolen from that woman, and a lot of fat people think that they are entitled to two seats for the price of one. Many of us have had to “share” our seats with the morbidly obese.
I don’t give a flying @#!$ about the “feelings” of our increasingly militant obese Americans. In this case, however, the fault was with SWA. They should have simply told the fat teen that she missed boarding and that in any event she would need two seats.
Finally, lots of us lead sedentary lives and tend to gain weight. All of us need to do something about or quit making excuses (myself included).