By Jerry PDX
wednesday, october 19, 2022 at 9:43:00 a.m. edt
Talk about the airline flight from hell...a woman named Sidney Watson gets wedged between two obese shaniquas on an american airlines flight, then goes public with her ordeal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7CfsL_118
There's no actual mention of the race of her tormenters but she supplies a video of their arms, so we know.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=watson+airplane+obese
This story has gone viral, which predictably has ignited a firestorm over "fat shaming" yada yada.... But Ms. Watson is absolutely correct, normal-sized people shouldn't be subjected to having close physical contact with morbidly obese people on airplanes. These airlines contract the size of the seating area every year, and it's gotten to the point where we are crammed together like sardines. Overly large people simply don't fit. It has nothing to do with being insensitive to fat people, it has to do with people's right to their personal physical space.
The only thing worse for this woman would have been if it were two fat alberts. hippo-sized shaniquas are bad enough. I think I would have done what one man did, which was simply stand in the aisle in order to not have to feel their disgusting body fat rubbing against me.
Airlines continue to contract the size of our carry-on bags, and some will actually measure your bags to make sure they comply, so why can't they do that with people? And if someone is too big, then they must book two seats instead of one. Either that, or require airlines to segregate oversized people from normal-sized ones, and then they can experience what they inflict on other people.
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Steve Martin--stuck between John Candy and Chris Farley--would be funny(back in 1987).
This isn't.
--GRA
I flew from Vegas to Chicago earlier this year with about a dozen or so morbidly obese Shaniqua. The had to have special boarding and seating, sitting as a group in the first five rows of seats. They barely could fit down the aisles. Probably an extended famblee of them.
Each had to be at a minimum three-hundred pounds. I was not sitting next to one but I thought this possibly could be a safety hazard. If we had to evacuate the plane fast they would block the aisles so no one could get out safely. Loading the plane with so much weight forward too might create an instability. The plane when loaded has to be carefully balanced for weight.
I did keep my mouth shut and did express my concerns to the flight crew. I'm glad I stayed silent.
"I did keep my mouth shut and did express my concerns to the flight crew. I'm glad I stayed silent."
I did keep my mouth shut and did NOT express my concerns to the flight crew. I'm glad I stayed silent.
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