Should obese people be entitled to an extra free seat when flying?
 

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/20...tra-free-seat/


Canada Supreme Court says YES

no, they should not.
people travelling with a child over a year old must pay for an extra seat, regardless of where junior sits for the duration. airlines could potentially miss out on a paying customer because someone wants a second seat at no charge. and why limit only obese people? i'd be more comfortable with room to stretch, i demand a free seat as well!

Agree with Court's decision!

damn liberals.....

This is bound to endear large folks to fellow passengers.
Between this, and the Mastadons that visit all you can eat trough restaurants, Canada could become a great place for fat suit wrestling.

In the long run, because of the conflict created, one can envision a fat person's bulk taking up part of a 2nd seat; This half seat of blubber is then offered as a peace sign to other passengers so as to not create a spectacle.

The ramifications of this quandry will up gastric bypass surgery
and health care in Canada will suffer.

They can afford to pay for an extra seat...just use part of the 10 million that they won suing McDonald's for making them fat.

call me a racist but...result will be non-obese people will end up paying more... the airline is going to make their money one way or another...

There's a lot of reasons to dislike this ruling, IMO.

Sure, I'll go along with this idea that there are morbidly obese people that are disabled and need extra room. No need to give them free seats, though, the Airlines should just install some Handicapped accessible X-tra large seats

Of course, how will one prove that they are disabled and can access the new, bigger, plusher comfy chairs( or simply the plain old extra seat)?

Will a Doctor's note suffice?

Will the standards for handicapped here be as lax as they must be for all those out there who have a handicapped sign hanging from there rear view mirror?

Where you going to draw the line?

I might have Restless Leg Syndrome(yeah, that'll be my disability) and need to have my legs up and stretched out


Morbidly obese?:confused:
I think the spirit of this law, which pertains to a few, has been corrupted by the many fat people who have earned their way to their present status

I'm 200 pounds and should be 160 pounds, do I qualify?

I'm thinking we can expand this ruling to restaurants also... those that are twice as hungry as normal should get another meal at no extra charge....
while we are at it, let's extend it to the bar business....those that are three times as thirsty as normal get three drinks for the price of one...
...I get awful damn thirsty at times...

I gotta be pretty close to obese. Where do i sign up?

Should obese people be entitled to an extra free seat when flying?


no.... room should be found for them in the baggage compartment

I would settle for free drinks

easy! i weigh as much as you.:o

I laughed





very hard at that one

btw your Race 3 pick at the Mountain sucked :D

I'm glad it was my only pick on the card. I'm too tired right now to try to 'cap a race

I want extra free meals so I can become obese and get an extra seat in the future. What a retarded ruling. Oops, now I'm insensitive to both mentally handicapped and morbidly obese people.

yeah man stop hatin

stop being so gay. Ah crap!

It's Canada for petes sake...you really think they would have ruled differently?

I hope they are not lumping overeaters/"food addicts" into this ruling, I feel it should be reserved for a very few severely obese people who suffer verifiable physical disorders. If the disease concept of food addiction is honored here in this ruling, then I feel they need to provide smokers with a place on airplanes (and every other public place), and us drug addicts should have an area on the flight to get a little higher if need be

Cant the beasts just get sent as big brown packages... UPS.
I envision an excessively neat squeeky white board drawing.
The word lumping works well here as well.

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I apologize for any hurt feelings
and the bizarre nature of my post.

you hater!!

Oh sure...forget about the dyslexics.



Now..we have to buy BOTH seats 23 and 32.

I laughed... 4 thebbys


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Ya gotta love those.

Here's a novel approach. Lose some ****ing weight you ****ing fat ass. According to all the BMI figures I could stand to lose 20-25 pounds, but to be 200 + pounds overweight? Lose weight fat ass. It's rulings like this and many others like it which has helped the pussification of the Americas movement. Why are they flying anyway? To see relatives? Or...to eat all of the relatives food? Oh...here comes uncle ernie. Hide the Doritos and ice cream.

And what if you suffer from Paranoid Schizophrenia??


Should you still be forced to buy up a whole block of seats just for yourself?

really... its a Canadian ruling... what do you expect from the Canadians? They are as PC & as liberal as it gets.

Also Canadians need to be fat so they can stay warm in their nasty winters!

maybe they could seat anorexics next to the obese-you could potentially get three people into three seats that way-

do skinny people only have to pay for half of a seat?

But how do you really feel?

so how much was it?

;) So much for beating around the bush. As you can see, stuff like this drives me nut. :eek:

Do I get a rebate for the people that hang over their seat into mine? I hate when that happens. Sometimes they TRY to stay on their side but others just hang out, spread their legs and enjoy 30% of my side. That pisses me off. They should make all obese people sit together.

:mad: a$$ hole!!

I wonder if people on planes get mad at me because I always seem to have to cross my legs to sit.. and not cross em like a lady but like a guy with my foot and knee sticking out. Im a pretty big chick to begin with 5'9" with some added weight too (I'm not fat enough to get overflow a seat thats for sure but I have real broad shoulders so I gauruntee my shoulders and elbows go into others space).

I cant sit in a plane with out crossing my legs. I dont get it.. if you have long legs where the heck are you supposed to put them!?!? I think airplane seats just need to be more comforatble.

you can always sit on my lap...