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		<title>Kevin Smith: Too Fat to Fly?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He's The Guy Who Was Too Fat to Fly. And by too fat to fly, we mean too fat to fly by Southwest Air's standards.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Silent Bob,&#8221; AKA Kevin Smith, is pretty famous for a variety of reasons. He&#8217;s a pretty rich guy. He&#8217;s made several very successful films and is considered to be funny by a lot of people (tasteless by others&#8211;depending on, what else, taste). But after Valentine&#8217;s Day 2010, he&#8217;s got another claim to fame:</p>
<p>He&#8217;s The Guy Who Was Too Fat to Fly. And by too fat to fly, we mean too fat to fly by Southwest Air&#8217;s standards. <span id="more-125"></span></p>
<p>At 330 pounds, Smith felt he would need two seats on the plane. So, he bought himself two seats; his weight wasn&#8217;t even breaking any print regulations from the airline.</p>
<p>He admitted that he liked to have the room; and at 30,000 feet cramped up with a hundred other people like fish in a can, who doesn&#8217;t? But when he decided to board a standby flight, he wasn&#8217;t able to have two seats.</p>
<p>Still, he boarded the flight and sat down without a problem in a single seat between two women, buckled in&#8211;and then was kicked off the flight for being too fat.</p>
<p>Though Southwest has since apologized, given Smith a lousy $100 voucher for his embarrassment, and tried to save face by issuing a statement about how their concern was for the safety and comfort of the other passengers (though none had complained), there&#8217;s little they can do to derail public attention from Kevin Smith&#8217;s new cause&#8211;nor his Twitter feeds regarding his public humiliation.</p>
<p>The actor has since issued dozens of tweets regarding the situation&#8211;most of them facetious, all of them at least tinged with outrage. One notable tweet read, &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry: wall of the plane was opened &amp; I was airlifted out while Richard Simmons supervised.&#8221;</p>
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