Man sues airline for sitting him next to obese passenger

[ShinkanPo]

That seems like the easiest way to solve the problem. Don't like it then don't be fucking enormous.

Let me bloat bro!!!

 

[mixcontactsport]

I'm sorry I couldn't help myself
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[theocean]

sitting them all next to eachother would be awesome.

 

[Doughbelly]

If SevenSamurai were still here, he'd be all over this. That guy was flying all the time and was always getting apoplectic about being seating next to a fat guy. As a really tall guy, he needed all the space he could get.

 

[SammyPops]

would love to be on that jury. the airline would pay .... oh baby pay big.

 

[SammyPops]

sitting them all next to eachother would be awesome.

!!!!!!

makes me think of the shield episode where vic locks the 2 thugs in the boxcar over night

 

[Henry Swanson]

Article here (link).

This pic is not a picture of the incident. It's just a random pic of some super fat guy on plane.

Every time I see that picture I still can't fathom how that plane was actually allowed to take off and fly with that guy obstructing the centre aisle to that extent.

 

[CubicleGangster]

there should be a weight limit to fly. too fat for your seat? too fucking bad go run some laps till you look human again.

 

[The_Renaissance]

Stories like this remind me of a Ricky Gervais rant from one of his standup shows, about obese flight passengers. Paraphrasing, but something about how everyone is entitled to 20kg of free checked baggage for the hold:

"He's used up the 20kg already, on his tits"

 

[Cygnus A]

I was sitting next to someone who asked for an "extender". I had never heard of this so was intrigued. The flight stewardess brought an extra length of seat belt to snap in so it would fit around the girl.

 

[Zer]

If SevenSamurai were still here, he'd be all over this. That guy was flying all the time and was always getting apoplectic about being seating next to a fat guy. As a really tall guy, he needed all the space he could get.

I miss that dude, he was a boss

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

I thought extremely obese people had to buy 2 seats?

 

[theocean]

!!!!!!

makes me think of the shield episode where vic locks the 2 thugs in the boxcar over night

He was a gangstar

 

[xbone19]

them people should all be put together in the back of the plane!

 

[brownfeet]

if this guy wins, i'm assuming we will see even more of these lawsuits. I may have to sue next time i have to sit next to a crying child.

 

[Zer]

them people should all be put together in the back of the plane!

Yeah if you want your plane flying straight up into space bro

 

[Iroh]

Yeah you gotta weigh them and distribute them to account for front, back and each side.


Plus, it'll probably pose a less danger if you put them in the cargo hold with the luggage

Would also be easier if it turned out the plane needed to lose the "excessive weight". Losing weight was never that easy for those fat fucks.

 

[drstrangelov]

Airline seats aren't exactly comfortable, but you'd need to be pretty damned fat to really hang into the next guy's seat. I can recall flying into rochester mn, and a few people on the little plane were using belt extenders to span their Midwestern guts, yet they weren't really creating space issues for the people seated next to them.

On a similar note, during my commute home yesterday I was on a packed subway train in Boston. For anyone not familiar with the Red Line in Boston, there are long banks of seats with priority seating at the ends for the old, disabled, pregnant, whatever. When I got on there was a very old woman in one of the seats, and a very obese man across from her in the other, along with the seat next to it. The train was packed, so I generally appreciate the obese guy being seated where he's less of an obstruction to the flow of people on and off the train. I think that's completely in keeping with the concept of priority seating fwiw.

Anyway, we go two stops to a connecting station (south station) and a very obese woman pushes through everybody at the entrance going on about "excuse me! I need to get to my seat!" Only to encounter the two priority seats taken, and no real room to squeeze in amidst the other seats even if one person got up. And one lady did get up and offer her a seat, but she decided to go on with some minute long excoriation of the rest of the commuters instead of attempting to fit in one seat with no end wall to pack into. I get she's not in good health, but there wasn't much anybody could do to make her comfortable. Nobody had much sympathy when we're already packed in and it's mid heat wave.

Now, she could have attempted to get to the other priority seats, but that would have required maneuvering through a crowd on a train in motion. And nobody seemed all that interested in playing human Tetris for her given how rude she was to the crowd. She got off at the next stop, so this all went down in about 5 minutes.

I guess the point being, when the system's already set up to pack as many people in as possible, some folks are always gonna be uncomfortable, and that should, naturally, include the obese as well. The person on the airlines should have compacted his/her giant ass into one seat, you bought that limited space, it sucks, but you gotta respect the shared discomfort.

Even the giant fat guy in the picture seemed willing to compromise for his neighbor's sake.

 

[SowingSeason]

He deserves something. That sounds effin awful.

 

[scrubido]

Isn't that what the cargo hold is for?