Posted on 02/15/2010 11:32:50 AM PST by Perdogg
The Twitter frenzy that erupted on Sunday between Silent Bob and Southwest has now become a blog bout.
Southwest posted its side of the story on its official blog on Monday, while Kevin Smith delivered his own missive on the incident that had the portly writer/director booted from a flight for being overweight.
"Mr. Smith originally purchased two Southwest seats on a flight from Oakland to Burbank – as he's been known to do when traveling on Southwest," said the airline's statement.
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Hunger strike!!!
Correct, he did pay for two but was on standby and only one seat was available. If SW had moved him ahread of someone else on standby they probably would have never heard from the guy ahead who got bumped for two seat Bob, but would that be fair? Dang seats are just too narrow to begin with these days, trying to pack as many cows in the pen as possible.
Good question!
Apparently it’s considered discrimination when you personally change your travel plans, thereby voluntarily placing yourself on the standby list, and then when the gate personnel get to your name on the standby list, the airline doesn’t have two seats together.
OR, I guess if the airline doesn’t put the overweight hollywood directors at the top of the standby list, it’s discrimination.
OR, I guess if the airline doesn’t screw one or two people out of their seats so you can have your two seats on a flight on which you weren’t originally booked, that’s discrimination.
This definitely places the NAAFA in the annuls of notable civil rights struggles.
Right up there with the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, and modern day abolitionist Zach Hunter, it will go down in history as the Great Southwest Seat Discrimination Movement of 2010.
Give me a break! I’m a large person and I say stick to your guns Southwest!
He’s overweight but he’s not Rosie fat.
I guess we could say Kevin Smith issued a FatWa-d against Southwest airlines?
He is a flaming liberal who loves government to tell everyone what to do in their lives. But once he is told to do something all h*ll breaks loose.
No, I was wondering...are they trying to apply pressure to SW? This would seem to have the opposite effect.
I have never flown southwest, but if these people do boycott them I can assure they will have a greater chance of getting my business.
I am not unsympathetic to folks of larger stature, but when you can't fit into the seat, you can't fit into the seat, and the person who bought that seat next to you should not wind up smashed for the length of the flight.
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