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| Michael Moore, Filmmaker, Dies on Southwest Airlines Flight |
| Real Estate : Agents |
| 03/15/06 |
| Michael Moore, the outspoken critic of the Bush Administration and filmmaker, has died. Mr. Moore, best known for his social documentary films, Roger And Me, Bowling For Columbine, and Farenheit 911, died as he was trying to board a Southwest Airlines flight. Witnesses at the scene said Mr. Moore became angry when Southwest Airlines employees demanded that he purchase two seats because of his large size. Upon boarding the Boeing 737, Mr. Moore became wedged between two armrests as he attempted to beat the herd of passengers onboard the aircraft. Southwest is known for its policy of not pre-assigning seats as well as requiring larger-sized passengers to buy two coach seats. Realizing that only center seats were available, Mr. Moore, clutching his super-sized Diet Coke and McDonald's fries, was reportedly attempting to seat himself in seat 17B. Passengers in row 18 described what they saw as a very large man attempting to settle into a coach seat that appeared too small for the filmmaker's large body cavity. As Mr. Moore's weight hit the seat cushion, his love handles became wedged between the two armrests that separate seat 17B from 17A and 17C. Passengers described Mr. Moore panting for air as he began to turn blue. Flight attendants were unable to get Mr. Moore's love handles unwedged from the seat's armrest and Mr. Moore reportedly went into cardiac arrest, dropping his super-sized french fries and spilling his Diet Coke. Paramedics pronounced the Academy Award winning filmmaker dead at the scene after attempts to revive him, failed. Passengers were re-accommodated on later Southwest Airlines flights, but Southwest Airlines ticket agents were instructed to enforce the airline's two-seat rule for the other fat passengers needing re-accommodation. Mr. Moore was going to Las Vegas to produce his latest documentary accusing the Las Vegas-area hotels of price-fixing and collusion in their restaurant buffets. Funeral arrangements for Mr. Moore are pending, said a statement issued by the filmmaker's publicist. The Whitehouse issued a brief statement from President Bush saying that the ficticious filmmaker should've never messed with an airline from Texas. Upon hearing of Mr. Moore's untimely death, the ACLU said that an investigation would be launched into whether Southwest Airlines violated the terms of the Americans With Disabilities Act...
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