United airlines "fat passenger" policy prompts plenty of backlash

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5-24-2009 @ 6:10PM

Dan said...

I just suffered through flights to and from London on Northwest sitting next to extremely fat people. I'm disabled myself, by the way, so I'm not just complaining about anyone with "issues" related to mobility because I share some of those issues, although I can use a regular plane seat without any problem. But I've had it.

I paid for one entire seat and fully expect the use of that entire seat for the duration of the flight. What I don't expect is to share my seat with a person who's sweating, smells like a high school gym locker room and is literally hanging all over me. Try that for eight hours and then tell me the poor fat people have rights, too. They've screwed smokers for 20 years now (and the air quality on planes has gotten worse, not better); now it's time to make things "fair" for people who aren't grotesquely overweight.

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