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2023-05-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-
'That is NOT OK': Social media is left in uproar over image of plus-size plane passenger being WEIGHED on a baggage scale in front of 'the whole airport' after staff accused her of lying when she 'claimed she was 130lbs'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Based on that photo, if she is taller than 5’4” she weighs over 200 lb. May I suggest reading Tom Godwin’s classic “The Cold Equations“.
  • The woman, named Lillian, said everyone had to share their weight with crew

  • When they suspected one person was lying, they made her stand on a scale

  • Lillian said it was 'safety reasons' since weight balance is vital on smaller planes
Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-20 00:15|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 I can’t fit in the plane aisle — it feels like discrimination
Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-20 00:21||   2023-05-20 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Did the airline charge her for the extra baggage?
Posted by Enver Slager8035 2023-05-20 00:25||   2023-05-20 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 I once took my mother on a trip to Friday Harbor in Puget Sound. We landed at Sea Tac, then transferred from a large airliner to a very small plane. The pilot weighed both of us and all our baggage. He then spent a fair amount of time distributing the baggage inside the plane to ensure a proper center of gravity.
Posted by Gromble Dribble4342 2023-05-20 00:53||   2023-05-20 00:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Her cud alone weighed that!
Posted by badanov 2023-05-20 01:10||   2023-05-20 01:10|| Front Page Top

#5 "Same difference, eh? Kilogram, pound?
[a crack and profound rumbling sound]
Do these jeans make my ass
Look an earth-shaking mass?"
"Bae, I'd say it's the other way round."
Posted by Grainter Omaigum2594 2023-05-20 01:31||   2023-05-20 01:31|| Front Page Top

#6 The bigger picture, given it was a small Puddle Jumper and having rode them into some small remote sites for assignments.

There is a strict MAX vs. Normal Safe takeoff weight. So every pound must be accounted for, and no vanity applied .

Now look at the size of that Butt.
It likely weights in at 130 by itself.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-05-20 06:22||   2023-05-20 06:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Non-airtransportable except by pallet drop.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-05-20 08:28||   2023-05-20 08:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Welcome to real world consequences of your actions, fat ass.
Posted by DarthVader 2023-05-20 08:44||   2023-05-20 08:44|| Front Page Top

#9 one of her fellow plane passengers was forced to weigh themselves

You so fat, people talk about you in singular plural.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-20 10:04||   2023-05-20 10:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Someone, anyone...please explain what is so difficult about air travel for these people ?
Posted by Besoeker 2023-05-20 10:05||   2023-05-20 10:05|| Front Page Top

#11 "I weigh hundred thirty."

"That's your shadow; you need to step on the scale, Ma'ams."
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-20 10:07||   2023-05-20 10:07|| Front Page Top

#12 She identifies as "svelte."

Snark O'The Day
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-05-20 10:08||   2023-05-20 10:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Did the airline charge her for the extra baggage?

Gonna guess there is enough of that for two seasons of Dr. Katz.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-20 10:12||   2023-05-20 10:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah, fireman's carry THAT Kansas.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-20 14:24||   2023-05-20 14:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Hurt my back just reading that, Skid.

That's two dudes and a bench carry.

This is what happens when we took out the applied physics toys from the playground, such as the teeter-totter; lessons learned by courtesy of pain. Correlation between the Not OK comments and people who haven't been on a row boat is 100%.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-05-20 17:54||   2023-05-20 17:54|| Front Page Top

#16 130 my ass. Or, rather her ass. She'll about 190.
Posted by EMS Artifact 2023-05-20 19:40||   2023-05-20 19:40|| Front Page Top

#17 She’s 120 but she ate a really big breakfast.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-20 21:15||   2023-05-20 21:15|| Front Page Top

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