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Director Kevin Smith Thrown Off Oakland Flight Over Weight

Posted by ralph on February 15, 2010

Kevin SmithReports CBS13:

OAKLAND, Calif. ― A cult-favorite movie director has claimed that he was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight out of Oakland due to a dispute over his weight.

Kevin Smith, the creator of movies like Clerks, Dogma, and the upcoming Cop Out, posted a series of angry, sarcastic messages on his Twitter feed (@ThatKevinSmith) blasting Southwest Airlines for allegedly throwing him off a flight at Oakland International Airport after he had already been seated and buckled in.

According to Smith, a flight attendant told him the flight captain had deemed him a safety risk and requested that he leave the flight.

“I broke no regulation, offered no ’safety risk,’ (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?),” he wrote. “I’m way fat … But I’m not THERE just yet.”

Smith’s followers (numbering more than 1.6 million) flooded Twitter with support for the filmmaker and insults for Southwest Airlines’ official Twitter page.

Read More: CBS13

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  • dumbsaint

    Poor Kev

  • 5by5

    The morons at Southwest are still giving their non-apology apology too. Lame.

    The seats are too small for THIN people. Compared to how planes were built even 30 years ago, they are cramming people in like sardines. And if you look at what airline flight was during the 1950's? It's even more depressing, because back then it was downright luxurious even in coach.

  • tonyviner

    Snooch to the nooch.

  • justagirl

    woah! did they at least give him a parachute?? harsh.

  • justagirl

    woah! did they at least give him a parachute?? harsh.