This weekend, it hit the wires that Kevin Smith, the director of “Clerks,” “Chasing Amy,” “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” and the upcoming “Cop Out,” was asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight from Oakland to Burbank when the flight crew determined he was too heavy to fit in one of their seats.

In the hours following the flight, Smith sent out a flurry of Tweets from his popular Twitter account, @ThatKevinSmith, castigating the airline for ejecting him from the flight when he claimed he could easily pass the “arm rest test,” meaning he could fit between armrests in the seat.

According to Smith, he is not to the point where he cannot pass that test.

“I’m way fat, but I’m not there just yet,” Smith Tweeted.

More about the situation at  Staticblog.

- George Lang

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