Kevin Smith is Too Fat!

It's official, Kevin Smith is too fat. This is evident because of the fact that Southwest Airlines decided that he was a safety risk and removed him from a flight. Now this happened a few days ago, so Southwest has had time to post the following response to the situation:

Mr. Smith originally purchased two Southwest seats on a flight from Oakland to Burbank - as he’s been known to do when traveling on Southwest. He decided to change his plans and board an earlier flight to Burbank, which technically means flying standby. As you may know, airlines are not able to clear standby passengers until all Customers are boarded. When the time came to board Mr. Smith, we had only a single seat available for him to occupy. Our pilots are responsible for the Safety and comfort of all Customers on the aircraft and therefore, made the determination that Mr. Smith needed more than one seat to complete his flight. Our Employees explained why the decision was made, accommodated Mr. Smith on a later flight, and issued him a $100 Southwest travel voucher for his inconvenience.

A whole $100.00, well gosh, that's enough to cover any insult! Now personal feelings about Smith aside, He handled this like only Kevin Smith could. He hopped on Twitter and became a not so Silent Bob:

Fuck making it right for me just 'cause I have a platform. I sat next to a big girl who was chastised for not buying an extra ticket because "all passengers deserve their space." Fucking flight wasn't even full! Fuck your size-ist policy. Rude...

Smith's point that he has a platform is not only valid, but it makes such good sense it's sad. The fact of the matter that the same airline has a policy of going back to already boarded passengers and suddenly deciding that they're too fat to fly unless they fork out more cash. The difference between those passengers and Smith is his 1,668,861 (yes, that's the REAL number) Twitter followers. The truth is, that SW couldn't care less about the rest of the people out there that don't have a soap box to jump up on. What are you going to do? Write a letter you say? O.K., we'll be contacting you with an automated response and an empty gesture within the next 9 months!

On a personal note, I'm going to go do some sit-up's so I can fly out and visit the family back in California, just in case.

Thanks to:

The Consumerist.com for the info, and Kevin Smith for starting a Twitter. If you want to read his official statements and full thoughts on the matter, check it out here.