Kevin Smith, Too Fat to Fly Southwest?
After delivering a potty-mouthed tirade/iPad speech to geeks at the Macworld Expo today, filmmaker Kevin Smith (Cop Out, Clerks, Chasing Amy) sent out these delightfully irate Twitter messages regarding his getting thrown off a Southwest Air flight. It seems, while he was returning home on this evening, Smith was tossed off the plane for being fat; a flight attendant told him he was a "safety risk."
Smith even took the following picture of himself to ask if, indeed, he was too large.
He looks just fine to us. But, clinically obese or not, he didn't deserve to get tossed off the plane, right?
Anyway, in return for humiliating the writer/director, Southwest handed him a $100 voucher. Which, if you're aware of Southwest's casual attention to detail, is adding insult to injury. Smith even manages to crack wise at some of his lesser work, saying, "embarrass easily (bless you, JERSEY GIRL training). But I don't sulk off either: so everyday, some new fuck-you Tweets for @SouthwestAir."
Update 11:05 pm: The drama is still going on, as Smith slams Southwest as "size-ist" (which: true), claiming that the flight wasn't even full, and informs us that he landed in Burbank.