Overweight Passenger Kicked off Flight

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  1. DoctorWho

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    Giggle, Messco is not as fun as Switzerland ! when you are 13, and you meet someone nice.....
     
  2. Polydectes

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    I bet. Mexico was cool though back then anyway.
     
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    I lived in Italy for five years since we're talking about Europe.
     
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    How was it, i have to see the coliseum but what are the "must sees?"
     
  5. DoctorWho

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    You should see Rome, Venice, Milan, the Italian Swiss border is interesting, really,
    driving around as much as you can in Italy is great !

    Cortina !

    All of the Bond locations, I saw the location of the Swiss school, a rotating restaurant on mount Schilthorn.


    https://www.google.com/search?q=mou...=jHDGV7inCMXdjAOphJ7QCQ#imgrc=pCggtNfVBq1U5M:

    http://www.holidaysbyrail.com/europe/switzerland/jungfrau-express
     
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    Hmmm, could two anorexic people buy just 1 ticket if they both fit in one seat? :smile:
     
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    You know what I don't understand?

    That one has to pay a penalty for having 1 or 2 kgs extra in ones luggage, but one doesn't take into account the weight of the passengers themselves.

    Kind of crazy that my 50 kgs wife has to pay for 1 kgs extra luggage, while the next guy in line eating from a bag of crisps is a 300-pounder.
     
  8. DoctorWho

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    You can't do it anymore, but in My younger days, I carried a large bag of snacks, mixed nuts, juice, raisins, chocolates etc...... now, you can't carry hardly anything.
     
  9. Right is the way

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    Accommodate? Being a lard a$$ is a life style not a handicap. You want to fit into a single seat eat less, not that hard. And do not start with that medical condition bull, calorie in calorie out pretty simple. If you eat more than you burn you get fat, all on you. I mean the mount of people that roll around on scothers because they can not walk any more because they are to fat is amazing to me. The fact that you can not walk anymore should be a sign that your 5000k+ diet is not working for you. How much space do you have to take up befor that light bulb goes off and you say to your self maybe I should do something about this. The people I feel sorry for on plains are tall people, they did not bring their condition on themselves.
     
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    Well I was born there and moved when I was five so I don't remember much. The people were nice. We lived in the northern part near Aviano (if I spelled that right). I spoke Italian as good as any native five year old there. I loved the Italian crust on there pizzas. I've only ran into the same taste here in America a few times. Forgot to add that the northern part is more crime free than the southern part and according to my parents (who missionaries and my dad was in the Air Force reserve) they loved the Americans.
     
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    This fat man should have purchased a second seat to sit normally, which is the airline policy, if you cannot fit into a single economy-class seat. Sitting comfortably in an economy-class seat is almost impossible unless you're a child or short woman. It's designed to torture a white man with normal height.
     
  12. Aleksander Ulyanov

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    My problem is they let the guy sit normally on the flight there and then pulled this (*)(*)(*)(*) on the flight back. If he'd been denied the ticket on the flight out he might have been able to drive, train or bus. Are the airlines that desperate for business that they're tricking us into flying now?

    And I notice this is not a problem on buses or trains. Is there that much more space on these conveyances for each passenger? (If it's about lifting the weight I am DEFINITELY never flying again, there is supposedly a safety factor of at least 2 on these things, if not more)
     
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    I work with a dude that would need 2 seats. He is 6'8" tall, 350lbs, can barely get a 5XL shirt over his shoulders, wears an 18EEEE boot, has about a 58" chest, 23" neck, and 36" waist. He was 6' tall as a HS freshman and wearing men's sizes from age 11. Some people are just BIG.
     
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    Just ticket folks by the pound.
     
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    Interesting enough, the grave yard charged an extra fee at a funeral of a relative because the ashes of another relative was being buried in the coffin with them. The funeral home told the cemetery and it was an extra $400.00, so apparently you can't get a two for one on a grave when it is just one hole, one vault and one coffin.

    As for this fat person, the airlines try to pack so many people in that they just don't care how miserable people are.
     
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    Most are they are fat. And yes I have seen big men to. This is not about big people, this is about fat people.
     
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    Maybe airlines should start charging by the pound.
     
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    First of all, the airline changes his seat from an aisle to the middle of a row. There is no explanation for this in the link. The fat guy even asked if he could get his aisle seat back but was told the flight was 'completely booked.' HUH?

    Some other passenger, seated next to the fat guy, complained to the flight attendant and said he did not want to be 'uncomfortable.'

    Sorry but this is an airline fiasco. Idiot flight attendants and mercurial seating assignments. United Airlines really needs to take the fall for this one IMO.
     

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