02-16-2010
03:56 PM
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I think you were right in booting his fat butt off the plane.
I would not say this if I didn't think he was trying to get publicity for himself and his new sellout "cop buddy" movie, but the facts are as written in numerous articles: Smith has been very aware of the policy up until this incident. Your company and numerous sources have written that Smith did INDEED purchase two tickets (and has in the past when flying with you) for himself but decided to risk it with an earlier flight that only had limited seating available--and if this is wrong, please correct me! That said, he took a chance, got caught, got booted, and is now whining the mother of all whines.
The photo that he posted of himself with his cheeks puffed out? MISLEADING, because if you go and look at photos of himself from Macworld 2010, the convention he was attending/coming back from, you can clearly see that his body size is *at least* twice that of what he was when he first appeared as "Silent Bob" in the first Clerks (heck, even the LAST time he appeared as Silent Bob, in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, he was MUCH thinner). He is fat, he KNOWS he is fat, he paid for two tickets but got caught in a risk that violated a policy that he has complied with before.
Your company really needn't to suck up to this guy. He's nothing but a child who got caught doing something he knew he shouldn't be doing. And yes, it IS a safety hazard *for the passengers* (I think this is something many are forgetting). Body fat is heavy, and if you've never sat next to a morbidly obese person (and sorry Kev, but that's what you are now--when you're so fat that you broke a toilet [which he admitted in 2008, and he's the same size he was then], you're morbidly obese) then you don't know the pain of having the circulation cut off on your side/side limbs. And it doesn't matter if you can lower the armrests on your seat--fat spills over and around those armrests into the next seat, creating discomfort and pain for the person beside you.
I applaud Southwest for their actions up until the apologies to this jerk. Please, stop kissing his fat butt. He's not worth it.
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