Director Thrown Off Oakland Flight Over Weight

[Carlos Spicy Wiener]

A cult-favorite movie director has claimed that he was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight out of Oakland due to a dispute over his weight.

Kevin Smith, the creator of movies like Clerks, Dogma, and the upcoming Cop Out, posted a series of angry, sarcastic messages on his Twitter feed (@ThatKevinSmith) blasting Southwest Airlines for allegedly throwing him off a flight after he had already been seated and buckled in.

According to Smith, a flight attendant told him the flight captain had deemed him a safety risk and requested that he leave the flight.

"I broke no regulation, offered no 'safety risk,' (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?)," he wrote. "I'm way fat... But I'm not THERE just yet."

Smith's followers (numbering more than 1.6 million) flooded Twitter with support for the filmmaker and insults for Southwest Airlines' official Twitter page.

The Southwest Airlines' Twitter feed posted several messages saying they were aware of Smith's allegations and promised to investigate.

Smith seemed less than willing to accept an apology and continued posting pointed jabs laced with profanity, even as he sat on another Southwest Airlines flight to Burbank.

"Dear @SouthwestAir, I'm on another one of your planes, safely seated & buckled-in again, waiting to be dragged off in front of the normies," he wrote. Smith soon posted a picture of himself on the flight with the caption, "Look how fat I am on your plane! Quick! Throw me off!"

Kevin Smith agreed with a follower's suggestion to air his grievances on his wildly popular podcasting series, dubbed SModcast.

"Wanna tell me I'm too wide for the sky? Totally cool. But fair warning, folks: IF YOU LOOK LIKE ME, YOU MAY BE EJECTED FROM @SOUTHWESTAIR," Smith wrote.

[gallow737]

Wow. He's right, he's fatr but he's "not there yet". You have to be morebidly obese to get tossed. He's a hefty dude, but that'd ridiculous.

[Stantz]

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when I flew to Singapore from Heathrow the plane was full of Germans (for a 11-hour flight), and most of them were 20-stone plus (280lbs). You'd have to be a royally fat fucker to actually affect the logistics of the flight.

[Predator24]

We all need motivation to exercise sometimes.

[Expletive]

This is really evil, Kevin Smith is the coolest bastard this side of fuck-what, it's a tragedy of momentous proportions, for all big boned people.

[Stantz]

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[Foetus]

Fly, fatass. Fly!!

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big boned people are classically stuck with larger bones a tad bit broader than regular people, so much so it collects fat in all the wrong places.

[Carlos Spicy Wiener]

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Classic........

[TheSNakE]

It doesn't bother anyone unless you are the unfortunate one to have to sit next to the fat fuck. It's miserable having some fat bastards elbow in your ribs for 6 hours. No fun for the flying waitress either every time they have to pass with the gruel cart.

[Carlos Spicy Wiener]

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I've sat next to a fat fuck on a plane and it was very unhappy time in my life.

[TheSNakE]

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The middle of that arm rest is the cutoff. Keep your blubber in your own seat. :eek: :mad:

[cmetz]

i would say he isn't even close to fat enough, been stuck next to much worse...guy smelled like he didn't shower for a month

[Moose_Thompson]

I'm weighing in around 280 (6'3", so mostly I'm bigboned ;) ), probably about Kevin Smith's size. When I fly I'm very aware/courteous of keeping my belly on my side of the arm rest. LOL.

He's really not big enough to cause a problem, and anyone "that fat" should have the common courtesy to fly first class or buy two seats. And shower, fatty. There are a couple of 340+ guys in my extended circle of friends, and while I love not being the fattest dude in the group, these motherfuckers could pretty much always use a shower. If you have something that makes you stick out from the norm it always pays to play it down as much as possible. Don't buy the extra-medium shirt or skinny jeans, and don't flop your arm fat on your neighbor on an airplane.

[brodiemaxx]

Holy shit. Everyone needs to listen to the smodcast he did about it. You will never fly Southwest again.

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Also, check out the other smodcasts if you like him. They are funny as shit and all free.

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[brodiemaxx]

Also, he just updated with a blog. Read it here:
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[MillyMc]

my hate for airlines far outweighs my hate for fatties.

team smith.

[Magnusrex]

He should hit up the guys at Mythbusters to do a "Is Kevin Smith to fat to fly" myth and then have them, seat him on a plane and buckle him in, and then start doing wierd ass experiments to find out how fat you have to be to not fit on a plane. would be the best show ever.
if anyone, knows where or even wants to send this to Kevin Smith or Mythbuster feel free to submit it.

[MrGoutHimself]

I read somewhere that the rule for them is whether you can put both armrests down or some such shit. I don't know about all that, but Kevin Smith makes some awesome movies and is a hilarious sumbitch. Shouldn't he have been flying first class?
-SRD

[Foetus]

fucker probably spent the last 2 weeks eating golden corral 3 times a day, just so he would get thrown off a plane and get his name all over the news, just in time for his new movie to come out this week.

[Mr Handlebars]

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I'm one of those big boned people. I'm not talking about my fat side, I'm talking about big bones. My wrist is 21 cm. People in my family rarely if ever break bones, that's how big our bones are. Our bones are designed to carry heavy weights. Our shoulders are so broad that growing up, my father and his brothers had to have custom made suits. I tried flying once. Those seats aren't made for anyone over 250. Next time I have to travel anywhere, I'm taking the train. Seats are roomier and you can actually stand up and move around. Trains have gotten cheap. Fla to NY goes for as little as $117 round trip, not including my discounts.

On a side note, I finally got my endoscopy done and the prognosis isn't good. It looks like gastric surgery won't help with my weight, but we did find another clue as to why I don't lose weight. They verified Gastroparesis and possible intestinal paresis.

Bottom line, I'm fucked and damned to be morbid obese for the rest of my life. If my diabetes doesn't kill me, the stress on my body will put me in an early grave.

[brodiemaxx]

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He was able to put both armrests down. That podcast I linked he talks about the events at length. As far as first class, sw doesn't have one.

[satan666]

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Ohhhhhh.... i was wondering why he wasnt flying 1st class when he could obviously afford it. Didn't know SW doesnt have 1st class. I would have flown a diff airline then.

[TheSNakE]

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Long story. SW flys out of Burbank which he says is the best airport in the country and only a few minutes from his house. He usually buys 2 seats but was trying to get home early on a standby.

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Fuck, that's fucking evil, fucking shit, i'm reading some shit about viagra. About how it's a treatment but: Would that help, you think? because i'm thinking the side effects is high blood and bad heart, so why the fuck they'd call that a solution is bullshit to me.

I hear you, i'm on bahamas air, or american eagle and i'm sitting in their seats, and i'm not actually fat on the sides, my fucking pelvis is shoving against the sides, my arms are almost in other people's chest, it's fucking ridiculous.

my mom's fat, not obese fat, but kevin smith fat, if they'd thrown her off, i'd have cluster fuck them for sure. but kev is the man because he's big belly man, like me,and that's awesome, we big belly fuckers gotta stick together.

[MEGADOUCHE]

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Dude, I've seen your pics. If you ever went Muslim, and changed your name to Khalid Shankapotamus or whatever, you'd shut down every airport on the eastern seaboard.

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i would, i would:D, but to think if i was on that plane with my shoulders in other peoples bodies, they'd kick me the fuck off, i could barely afford one plane ticket, but two, thank God i can't afford to go to japan yet, imagine twenty plus hours sitting next to a guy like me, that would fuck up some one's trip.

[MEGADOUCHE]

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I'd gladly get fucked up w/you, Ex. We could tear Tokyo up. Well, you could after i pass out.

[MillyMc]

im glad im not the only dork to listen to the whole podcast.

and he was also lied to but knuckleheads that dont usually have to be held accountable for their actions.

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japan likes fat people, most of their deities are fat, and supposedly they consider fat to be prosperous and good luck:D And from what i've heard sake is to die for. Warm sake is undoubtedly the best drunk one can endure, and not only that, i'm sure Japanese folks wouldn't bump of one of their distinguished sumo wrestlers, those fuckers are considered icons. Mutha fuckas would give up their plane seats for the sumo over there.

So love of all things fat, lots of fucking food and nice warm sake, pots and pots of it, equals nirvana, i'm turning japanese for once and it doesn't involve jacking off.

i think the snow is better for fat people too, since, the donner camp lost tons of weight in the cold due to their bodies burning more fuel to sustain them during activities. so yeah, i wish i was some where cold so i could do regular shit and lose weight

[TheSNakE]

I fly China Air once in a while. The seats are really tiny I barely fit. It's like Japan in China. They always call me fat to my face with a big smile. Pat my belly. They think you are rich if you have a belly.

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Japan adopted the practice from China, interestingly the buddha is a fat dude, even the fucking buddha is a fat dude, so china and japan are almost pro fat, though not always, just seemingly, because they're pretty pissed off about paying more green for employees who are fat. Though the insurance companies in Japan charges more for fat employees, more skinny over worked employees die who are known chain smokers but, they don't have to pay more in insurance fees. It's funny the odd shit you learn from CNN.

[brodiemaxx]

http://smodcast.com/finalwords/

Video responses that hit on some of his points. Its easier to listen to than the smodcast if you're just sitting at your computer. Check it out, and fuck Southwest.

[MrGoutHimself]

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It's so funny that the Buddha is depicted as fat and bald when he had been through years of self-torture and self-deprivation before reaching "enlightenment" under that tree. He tried living on a grain of rice a day. He plucked each of the hairs on his head one at a time. If he had a belly, it was from starvation or worms or some shit.
-SRD

[Expletive]

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so he didn't have the eating well belly, he had the malnourished african belly, now that's fucking sick:D That's as bad as self mummifying. Fuck that, enlightenment for me is food and sex, beyond that, they could go fuck themselves and all their weird deprivation shit.

[brodiemaxx]

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