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I'll post the photo shortly I hope. It's a doozy. I feel really bad for the guy next to the man in question. What would you do if you were seated next to him on a full flight?
1 posted on 12/03/2009 1:46:30 PM PST by thefactor
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2 posted on 12/03/2009 1:47:24 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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The poor armrest!


3 posted on 12/03/2009 1:48:31 PM PST by frithguild (Can I drill your head now?)
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This was up earlier too. It went too quickly for me to get in that I checked the actual blog in question. At the time the pic was taken, the flight was still boarding. The man was eventually seated across two seats in the row right behind where he is in the pic.


4 posted on 12/03/2009 1:49:30 PM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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"I'll post the photo shortly I hope. It's a doozy."

"I'll post the photo shortly I hope. It's a doozyPhotoshop fake."

5 posted on 12/03/2009 1:50:19 PM PST by jessduntno (Make the Democrats STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation...dump them out in 2010.)
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I see a capitalist opportunity. Airlines for fat people.. Someone out there has the capital....


6 posted on 12/03/2009 1:51:51 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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I RARELY complain about duplicate posts but this same thing has been posted every day this week. Perhaps its just the different titles so it doesn’t show up on searches.


7 posted on 12/03/2009 1:51:58 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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If you think flight attendants have it bad, think about the paramedics who have to get these people to the hospital. And the facilities at the hospital are often not up to the challenge of dealing with the arrival of the patient.


11 posted on 12/03/2009 1:54:45 PM PST by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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Shouldn’t the airline have the right to take the large customer’s money as well as yours? If you don’t like it shouldn’t *you* be the one to take your money elsewhere?

If the airline does not provide a seat which can accommodate the paid passenger’s size is that the fault of the large person or the airline?


12 posted on 12/03/2009 1:56:09 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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Airlines should charge by total weight, passenger and lugagge. There would be no more dithering and figuring on charges for infants, fat people, extra bags etc. Just you and your bags -302.5 pounds at $x per 100 miles per pound =$xxx.xx. Airlines would then compete on the per pound rate. Total weight and distance are the variables that determine an airlines’ operating costs. The fixed costs would, of course, be figured into that per pound.


16 posted on 12/03/2009 1:57:06 PM PST by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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How are you supposed to get by him to go to the can?


21 posted on 12/03/2009 2:03:54 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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The bigger question — pardon the pun — is that the aisle is blocked. That’s a major safety concern.

That guy should have been forced to buy two seats, one window and one middle, so others can move about the plane safely. Can you imagine an evacuation with him taking up half the aisle?

Of course the flight attendant was concerned enough to take the photo.


41 posted on 12/03/2009 2:38:52 PM PST by Jedidah
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Okay, so he is fat. All this is freakin’ crap to get you all ramped up against fat folks.

We are so done. Just like a overcooked steak.

Tough, dry and unedible.

I didn’t pay for this guys ticket, so I do not care.


42 posted on 12/03/2009 2:42:59 PM PST by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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Something else I thought of:

Anyone that large needs to be seated in the back of the plane as he would be impossible for other passengers to get by in an emergency.


67 posted on 12/04/2009 8:13:01 AM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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