Kevin Smith is too fat to fly. At least, according to Southwest airlines. The actor/director was asked to leave a flight on Saturday that was traveling from Oakland to Burbank, California, according to People.com. Smith, 39, usually purchases two seat tickets when he travels to accommodate his size, but was on standby for this particular flight and there was only one seat left. After he had been seated, airline officials decided he needed to leave for the “safety and comfort of all customers.” Southwest released this statement on the incident, “”If a customer cannot comfortably lower the armrest and infringes on a portion of another seat, a customer seated adjacent would be very uncomfortable and a timely exit from the aircraft in the event of an emergency might be compromised if we allow a cramped, restricted seating arrangement.”
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