Oh dear God.
I'd suggest you post this as a thread. But we all know it would not last.
But at least I'll give a courtesy ping to the Laz.
Posted on 05/12/2011 11:55:20 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
After losing 120lbs flying has become less of a big issue for one woman.
But Kenlie Tiggeman, from Galliano, Louisiana, was cruelly reminded of her battle to lose weight this Easter when Southwest airlines said she and her mother were 'too fat to fly.'
Miss Tiggeman, a political strategist, and her mother Joan Charpentier, were on a stop-over in Dallas when they were singled out by an official in front of some 100 other passengers because of their size.
Another larger lady due on the same flight had also been targeted
'I asked him what the weight restrictions were and he said that he didn't know, just that we were too heavy to fly. Too fat to fly,' Miss Tiggeman told WDSU News.
The airline's 'customers of size' policy states passengers have to purchase a second seat if they cannot fit between the armrests, which are 17-inches across. However customers may be able to claim the money back if the flight isn't sold out.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I agree on both points. Sitting next to an obese person is not good. However, at 5’ 8”, 170# and a 32” waist, the seats are damned uncomfortable on flights over two hours. International flights of ten hours plus are agony.
“Do they get “special consideration” license plates too?”
ever notice how many handicapped licenses are given to obese people?
We don’t know that this was handled so publically. It could have been handled at the ticket counter but unless people were shouting no one cold hear much. OR would they rather have been told to stand aside and wait for someone to be freed to deal with them?
SWA keeps its operation lean( snort) so there aren’t layers of people standing around.
These women were wrong. BTW this is at least the 3rd time I can remember that fatties from Lousiana tried this with SWA
I was stuck between a couple 350+ lb unbathed German men on a flight from Covington (Cincinnati) to Frankfurt (am Main) Germany. Gross.
Smelly. Uncomfortable. Nine stinking hours. It was my first flight on a
747. Not a good memory.
Not only a very good idea but hilarious! Can you picture this??? The thwarted terrorists.. LOL
And the arm should be integrated (as appears to be the case above) with a solid wall between seats, not just a armrest floating in space, causing pain & not preventing 'spillover'.
That....and a 397 pound lady sitting on some diaper-head's lap...!
Personally, I hope she had two large chili dogs with extra beans and three bottles of beer about an hour before boarding!
Have a nice day there, diaper-head!!
The solution there is staring me right in the face. Give her two seats and I’ll sit on her lap. Even steven.
Maaam, can you please check your baggage?
Oh.......sorry.
Excuse me stewardess, I won’t be needing that pillow after all.
One must wonder what the ratio is between profiled and potential islamic/muslim terrorists who fly on US aircarft and morbidly obese folk who do the same.
I figure one fatty can handle at least two diaper-heads. Now....do we have enough fattys???? Yikes! Suppose we run short??!!
...and a half-dozen pickled eggs. Don’t forget the half-dozen pickled eggs.
Don’t you mean post ‘them’ twice?
I don't think you have anything to worry about in that department. Have you been in a WalMart recently?
It was his “Responsibility” to post it a 2nd time. ;)
I like those seats.
Whoever thought of that configuration deserves many riches.
At 6'4" 230lbs and a 34" waist, I am not in the least bit overweight. My last flight was a cross country flight in 2005 and after circling the airport for two hours, it turned into a six hour nightmare. Between the tweerp in the reclined seat in front of me with his seat jammed into my knees and the little kid behind me kicking the back of my seat for the final two hours, I was in agony and could hardly walk after getting off the plane. I decided to never fly again.
Holy crap! In another year or so the increased shade she cases will be affecting crop production... and possibly world-wide weather patterns.
Holy crap! In another year or so the increased shade she causes will be affecting crop production... and possibly world-wide weather patterns.
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