Rather than being tolerant you go for the usual bash. Shame on you. What if this had been a star athlete, say NFL? The kid might have a medical condition rather than just liking to eat. Funny, how people don’t consider that. If the poor guy has kidney problems he might have been light a year or two ago, but gained since. I feel bad for the lady, but she was flying “standby”. She did not have a seat on that flight. People are treating the kid as if his seat wasn’t paid for. Part of the problem with airlines is that the designed the cabins to carry more people with less comfort (seat size, let room, head room). Where’s the outrage over that?
Tolerance is libspeak. If you too fat, buy two seats.....and show up on time before they seat the standbys
Yes, actually, she did. She had a seat as soon as they gave her one on standby, presumably because the girl was late. SWA fooked up by taking the woman's seat and giving it to the girl.
You make a good point. Upon reading the article I just assumed overweight=overeating, a medical problem didn't even occur to me. Anyway you look at it being fourteen and obese must be pretty hard, whatever the reason.
AH, the old “medical condition” BS. We have epidemic obesity because an entire generation has been born with its posterior attached to a LazyBoy and an a forkattached to one hand and a spoon to the other.
Nobody gets to the garganuan proportions seen these days (300 lbs +) because of a “medical condition”, eating like a pig and not exercising is a “medical condition”.
BTW, I have been on the plane with people from the NFL and NBA. They take up one seat because they fly first AND because they are HWP. In other words, the 290lbs lineman is usually about 6’6”.
Then he would have been flying first class on an airline that offers that rather than flying Southwest.