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October 21, 2002
Obesity & Airlines, again
Crushed passenger wins obesity payout
Virgin Atlantic has paid a woman passenger £13,000 (US$20,289) compensation, after she was squashed by an obese person sat next to her on a transatlantic flight.Turns out that the obese passenger in question booked two seats on the flight out, but not on the way back, and there were no other seats available. The woman had a blood clot in her chest, torn leg muscles, and acute sciatica.
Courtesy of the BBC and NetNewsWire Lite, the coolest thing for RSS feeds since sliced web images! (sorry, OSX only.)
Posted by Julia at October 21, 2002 09:48 AM