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2019-01-31 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Video shows woman kicked off plane for fat-shaming passengers

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 democrats

Posted by newc 2019-01-31 02:01|| 2019-01-31 02:01|| Front Page Top

#2 "I don't know how I'm going to do this for the next four hours. This is just impossible, 'cause they're squishing me," the woman said.

Well, she didn't have to sit between them for 4 hours.

It's a matter of traveler safety to be able to evacuate one of those tubes quickly. Sorry people but the FAA is institutionally captured by the industry that it is suppose to watch over. The airlines long ago should have been hammered for cramming as many bodies as it can get away with into those things.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-31 07:39|| 2019-01-31 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Your drivers license gives your weight at 372 lbs. Our coach seats are only rated at a max of 300 pounds. Your options are First Class Fare or purchasing two adjoining seats. Next customer please.

Treat passenger ticketing like cargo and USPS deliveries and the 'problem' will soon be solved.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-31 07:50|| 2019-01-31 07:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah, D.L. weights are not updated, or checked.

Ya gotta get on the baggage scale.

Everybody, so there is no judgement by the clerk as to who is fat. Like carding everyone at the liquor store.

Posted by Bobby 2019-01-31 09:56|| 2019-01-31 09:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Ya gotta get on the baggage scale.

If you do NOT fit the seating parameters, you then become cargo.

I like your thinking Bobby.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-31 09:59|| 2019-01-31 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I kind of like the idea of shoving them through that metal hoop they used to use at the gate to gauge carry on bag size...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-31 10:20|| 2019-01-31 10:20|| Front Page Top

#7 You have the right to a full seat. No more, no less.

Posted by European Conservative 2019-01-31 11:45|| 2019-01-31 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Ya know the Trump economy is good when everybody in economy class is fat.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-01-31 12:32|| 2019-01-31 12:32|| Front Page Top

#9 The San Diego museum Kilo has a "moon gate" dockside with signage warning visitors of what they're in for below. Never got stuck, but I didn't mind having the place to myself first time through, either. In the airport? Fun fun fun! I'd pay admission to watch that.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2019-01-31 14:53|| 2019-01-31 14:53|| Front Page Top

#10 On the bush commuters I often fly on (Cessna 208 Caravans, piston and turbine twins), we also get asked weight or stand on the scales. Flying within the CG envelope is a matter of survival on small planes.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2019-01-31 15:29|| 2019-01-31 15:29|| Front Page Top

#11 gah. ~~Kilo~~ Foxtrot. Kinda like the idea -- since it looks like we're going full totalitarian anyway -- of public weigh stations. Nothing intrusive or mandatory, just sensor in sidewalk and a big readout like the speeding-mindfulness setups.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2019-01-31 15:52|| 2019-01-31 15:52|| Front Page Top

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