Southwest to Kevin Smith: “You Are too Fat to Fly on Our Planes. Feel Free to Mock Us in Your Next Unfunny Swearfest.”
(photo via Kevin Smith’s Twitter)
Kevin Smith is known for a lot of things. One: He is a writer/director who used to make funny movies like Dogma but now just rehashes the same weak material over-and-over like Will Ferrell. Two: He is from New Jersey, the state that also brought us Snooki. Three: He likes to tweet a lot. Four: He is massively fat.
One of these four things was a factor in Smith getting kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank last evening. Read the following Twitter rant (via @ThatKevinSmith) and guess which it was:
I flew out in one seat, but right after issuing me a standby ticket, Oakland Southwest attendant Suzanne (wouldn’t give last name) told me Captain Leysath deemed me a “safety risk.” Again: I’m way fat… But I’m not THERE just yet. But if I am, why wait til my bag is up, and I’m seated WITH ARM RESTS DOWN. In front of a packed plane with a bunch of folks who’d already I.d.ed me as “Silent Bob.”
Southwest further angered the portly director by offering him a $100 voucher in exchange for his silence. Smith is now promising daily “fuck you” tweets aimed at Southwest. This will keep up until Southwest apologizes or Smith keels over from an anger-and-sausage-induced coronary.
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