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I don't follow Twitter and pray that I never will, but this caught my eye when Peter King posted it in today's MMQB at SI.com

Tweet of the Week II

"Plane is delayed because they ran out of seat belt extensions. People we need to get healthy.''

--@TonyGonzalez88, the Atlanta tight end, trying to travel somewhere Saturday morning.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/05/08/mmqb/index.html#ixzz1LtTrqLIF

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"Plane is delayed because they ran out of seat belt extensions. People we need to get healthy.''

--@TonyGonzalez88, the Atlanta tight end, trying to travel somewhere Saturday morning.

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^quite a few sugar packets in the tank

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I don't follow Twitter and pray that I never will, but this caught my eye when Peter King posted it in today's MMQB at SI.com

Tweet of the Week II

"Plane is delayed because they ran out of seat belt extensions. People we need to get healthy.''

--@TonyGonzalez88, the Atlanta tight end, trying to travel somewhere Saturday morning.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/peter_king/05/08/mmqb/index.html#ixzz1LtTrqLIF

+1 for you and + 1000 TG... Too fat to fly then drive,to fat to drive then walk. I hate nothing more than sitting on a six hour flight and some "large person" is taking up half of your seat as well.

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Personally, I would like to see airline "flag" oversize passengers and require them to make appropriate arrangements. Nothing is worse than being stuck on a coast to coast flight with half of a sweaty mass of human flesh oozing into your already cramped seat.

If the flight has a "wide" seat to accommodate you, fine. Otherwise, buy two and sit in between them.

I am not a stick figure but, even at 6'4" and 240, I take care of my needs without making other passengers miserable.

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Personally, I would like to see airline "flag" oversize passengers and require them to make appropriate arrangements. Nothing is worse than being stuck on a coast to coast flight with half of a sweaty mass of human flesh oozing into your already cramped seat.

If the flight has a "wide" seat to accommodate you, fine. Otherwise, buy two and sit in between them.

I am not a stick figure but, even at 6'4" and 240, I take care of my needs without making other passengers miserable.

Some airlines actually do that two seat thing, which I as a fatty, understand. I've never flown but I'd imagine it would be annoying to be cramped in next to some big dude.

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This is truly sad. Truth be told, its a lot of the lifestyles that is contributing to this. People work long hours, travel all over the place, don't have a set schedule and just eat what they can, whenever they can. However, its still not an excuse, you need to watch what your putting in your body and at least attempt to exercise (using stairs instead of elevator), and the airlines should really flag people and charge them twice if they can comfortably fit in one seat. That will at least open some eyes up.

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It's disgraceful.

Here in England we're starting to have the same problem. People are getting bigger and can't control themselves. I don't personally always eat the healthiest option, but I know to excercise, otherwise if I eat something with a lot of calories and fat, it's going to stick around. It isn't like it hits you as a surprise.

One day you don't just wake up being 400lbs, it takes time to gain that much weight.

What sickens me is, we are limited to how much luggage we can carry on, and have to pay extra $$ / ££ if we want extra luggage.

Why should people pay more for luggage as 'the plane can only carry so much weight', and then people this big get on without extra charge. What happened to that weight limit all of a sudden?

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