Kevin Smith booted from plane for being "too fat to fly"
 

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,5181078.story

Filmmaker Kevin Smith, fresh from delivering a speech at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, unleashed his fury on Southwest Airlines after the pilot on Smith's flight from Oakland to Burbank ejected him for being "too fat to fly" Saturday evening.

Ahaha. Silent Bob.

Time for a movie about airlines.

Happens all the time.

Did he gain a lot of weight or something? I mean, he's always been overweight but "too fat to fly" makes me think something along the lines of morbidly obese.

Should the captain really get rid of an extra, potentially vital, flotation device for his plane?

what a fat fucking loser

Now just kick off all the other ugly motherfuckers who stink with bad breath and I'm flying again. LOL!

I still wish they'd implement a "Too Fucking Annoying To Fly" policy and start kicking off all the screaming, seat-kicking, snot-nosed, whining goddamned brat children.

First airline to do that will be a massive success.

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Seems like they keep making the seats smaller and smaller.

the last pics I saw of him he was very obese, and in fact, it was an article about him wanting to diet because he would not see his child grow up or something man. He's done a bunch of interviews about his weight.

Talking about being "too fat"--this is very scary: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-meh..._b_447838.html

http://poponthepop.com/wp-content/up...in-smith-b.jpg

:Oh crap

ADG

Uh oh.. I'm flying Southwest later in the week

I'm hungry:food-smil02

Time for a half hour monologue about how fat fucking rich directors should be entitled to fly economy...

Good question? I thought the same.

that is the thing, I read his twitter where he said the flight was only half full so space is not the issue. Maybe they knew who he was and first class was empty so they were trying to get him to upgrade and it turned nasty.. I've seen far bigger people than that in one seat on full flights.

How do you think the airlines make the decision?

By eye?

By overall weight, after the passenger steps on a scale?

Based upon passenger complaints?

Do they decide AFTER the person is in their seat?

Anyone know?

gotta be something more than just him being fat. I've seen some fat bastards in planes before and after a certain girth they just make you pay for a 2nd seat

Every one of his movies kick ass. I love him.

He's a great director but I'm tired of sitting next to fat fucks whose belly hangs over the armrest into my seat. Those people need to buy a 2nd seat. Case closed. Southwest was right.

Kevin should get in touch with this guy to get some tips:

http://media.crikey.com.au/wp-conten...atbelt-xtn.jpg

thats bullshit!

Plain and simple...

I did not see where it said he was sitting in coach?

I guess I had ASSumed that a fancy celebrity would be sitting in first class. If someone is having fatso issues in a wider, more comfortable, first class seat, I think SW has a valid point.

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the bottom line is this....he's a fat fuck slob, have another twinkie, fat fuck

On second thought, maybe he got booted from the plane for wearing a skirt.

For those with no clue about aviation, Southwest is all economy.

They do not have Southwest flights in the greater part of the midwest (except Mid Way outside of Chicago). Some handy reading for you.

So I recommend you take your own advice, and go buy yourself a clue. Especially the ASSuming part that people would have this knowledge about a low cost, or economy carrier and their seating, in a market they do not fly to.

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southwest is facing some dangerous PR on this. ouch

"Sugar in your blood is like shards of glass scraping the inner lining of your arteries." Damn.

Bummer, now he can't eat the airline snack box.

I saw him in a tv interview not long ago, and he would not quit sweating. he was constantly wiping his face, and going on about how he always sweats profusely. :1orglaugh

Nobody feels sorry for this guy except his fellow tub of lards. Everyone else is just laughing.

Exactly. :thumbsup

They fucked with the wrong that guy has more media advertising pull that all of SWA, Im sure they wish they get sued for millions rather than loos a million flights at $200 bucks a piece.

Whats this Twitter bullshit anyway, Don't people know how to apologize in person.

Firstly, let me start this by saying Clerks is my favourite film of all time and I have been a fan of Kevin since it first came out.

Now, that said, Southwest has for a very long time had the rule that if you are over a certain weight you need to buy two seats. I know this because when I was at my highest weight I had to do so with them several times. Well, I didn't *have* to but I did because they made it clear in their company policy that if they thought you were too big and you hadn't already booked two seats and the flight was full you would be bounced. So, I always did just to save the chance of embarrassment and missing a flight.

Each and every time Southwest were very nice about it and highly professional. In exchange, you got priority boarding which meant you get to pick your seat rather than do the rush for a seat that happens for everybody else. It is almost worth paying that extra anyway to not have anybody sitting next to you and not having to be waiting in line to board for ages.

So, my guess is he didn't read the materials and could have just bought a second seat. Which, surely he can afford. Instead he kicked up a fuss.

Also, the last time I saw him in London (like six months ago) smoking weed had become pretty much the focus of his life. So, there is also the possibility that he stunk of that and it added to them wanting to bump him.

good, no place for fat slobs in tiny airplane seats

whatever the cause, they're getting a lot of bad publicy from this and I don't think it will do them any good.

They keep running a teaser for the story on the morning news but they haven't shown it yet, curious to see what his weight is at currently.

http://www.jfxonline.com/wp-content/.../08/jokev3.jpg

He was on a talk show about a year ago, I want to say Conan but I'm not sure, but I was pretty shocked at how big he had gotten. He said that he was starting a diet though because he sat on a toilet and actually broke it. God, that's gotta suck.

Southwest is a shit airline anyway, but they are cheap. I wonder if they gave him the option to buy two seats and he declined. Seems like someone like him would want to spend the extra $$ just to not have to deal with the situation.