This further goes to show that Southwest's new plan is a sound business decision. Interestingly enough, on the poll on CNN, it asked who should bear the cost of an obese passenger taking up 2 seats on a plane -- an overwhelming majority are in favor of the obese passenger bearing this cost. Ahh, the power of anonymous polling -- UNLEASHING the silent majority! http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/22/virgin.payout/index.html LONDON, England -- A woman injured while squeezed next to an obese passenger on a trans-Atlantic flight has been given £13,000 ($20,000) by the airline. Barbara Hewson, 63, was offered damages by Virgin Atlantic after suffering a blood clot, torn leg muscles and sciatica following a flight to Los Angeles in January 2001, the UK's Press Association reported. She said the woman passenger was so large she had to sit with the arm rests up, but when she complained, the crew said there was nothing they could do as the plane was full. Hewson, of Swansea, Wales, who still has medical treatment, was quoted by PA on Monday as saying: "It was never about the money. No money would pay for you having sleepless nights with the pain." The freelance writer, who travelled with her husband Roy, 67, said she spent most of her holiday in bed. "It ruined the holiday. We went out very little." Hewson added that half-way through the flight the woman asked if she was okay, saying to her: "I'm sitting on your lap." "I had three sessions of sitting in the hostess seat and I stood for a little while," added Hewson. Virgin Atlantic said in a statement: "This was an unprecedented set of extremely unfortunate circumstances. "We have apologised to Mrs Hewson and offered her compensation, which she has accepted, and we are pleased that this has now reached a conclusion."
I heard this on the radio this morning. I dont see why the lady didnt get up and move. How could you even sit through that. It's uncomfortable as is.
Your posts have repeatedly stumped me. I cannot determine whether you really have a dry but odd sense of humor, or if you are just an ass.
It has been worth reading all of the other all caps quotes just to set this up. Beautiful. Since mass x force actually isn't (yet) recognized in physics as anything, we can give the new quantity the unit of "nomars," unless anyone other than Nomar has a complaint. So, a force of 45 Newtons from a person of mass 200 kilograms would yield a big poop of 9000 nomars, or 9 kilo-nomars.
If this "silent majority" was really existent, I'd have no sympathy for them for not being able to stand up for their beliefs. Good for the woman who got hurt.
She only got 20K, and now she has sciatica. I'd at least get the ****ing balloon the guy flew around the planet in. btw, rm95, what do you feel about pushes to charge big boned people 2x the fee?
Oh come on. You post in this thread and you won't even stick up for me in the face of R0ckets03's (sic) ridicule?
BAD GRAMMAR. You should have used the word "were" instead of "was." This is the subjunctive tense because you are speaking in the hypothetical. I will not tolerate this. Do you have no sympathy for others? I am a caring individual who truly feels sorry for innocent passengers who are forced to sit next to the obese.
