I mentioned briefly during an article about Air France’s extra ticket policy that Southwest Airlines also has a policy concerning two tickets for heavier customers.  Little did filmmaker Kevin Smith know that he’d find out the hard way how militant Southwest was about this.  Smith, the mind behind Clerks, Dogma, and all the other Jay and Silent Bob movies, was thrown off a recent Southwest flight for being too fat to fly.

According to Smith, he was thrown off the airplane by its captain, a man named Captain Leysath, for being too big to fit in the seat he’d paid for.  Despite the fact Smith was already seated in his seat, with both arm rests down and his belt fastened around his waist with no extender.  Smith’s vicious anti-Southwest Twitter updates has the airline scrambling to get in touch with him to make things right, but the damage has seemingly already been done in Smith’s eyes, and no amount of travel vouchers is worth his pride.

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