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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Nails on November 27, 2012, 09:57:22 AM
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Eat In Peace you One Legged Lard Ass
The grieving husband of the Bronx woman who died after being told she was too fat to fly home from Eastern Europe is planning to sue three airlines for a total of $6 million.
“He wants to know why his wife had to die because the airlines simply didn’t want to be inconvenienced,” Holly Ronai, the lawyer representing Janos Soltesz. said yesterday.
His wife of 33 years, 425-pound Vilma Soltesz, died Oct. 24 in Hungary :o :o :o, after being booted from flights on Delta, KLM and Lufthansa.
The couple had flown to Budapest without incident on Sept. 17 via Delta and KLM. Vilma, 56, purchased two seats for herself. Read more at NY Post
HOTN: Husband Of 'too Fat To Fly' Woman Seeks $6 Million
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Did they eject her because two seats were not enough, did she need like, 5?
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Someone in that shape!? Maybe flying isn't the wisest thing to do.
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she died 6 weeks after being rejected for the flight? I don't see how it is related.
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she died 6 weeks after being rejected for the flight? I don't see how it is related.
"Heartbreak"
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Someone in that shape!? Maybe flying isn't the wisest thing to do.
Someone in her shape , why would she even attempt to leave Hungry
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she died 6 weeks after being rejected for the flight? I don't see how it is related.
Maybe there was only 6 weeks worth of food in Hungary and neighbouring countries?
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I always wonder with cases such as these why doesn't the airline just put these people in the freight/baggage compartment?
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Too FAT to fly: Sick American woman dies in Hungary after 'airline kicks her off three New York flights because she was too obese'
Vilma Soltesz, 56, weighed over 30 stone, put on weight during holiday, had only one leg and used a wheelchair
She died from health complications in Hungary nine days after she was kicked off the first of three jets
By Jill Reilly
PUBLISHED: 12:34, 26 November 2012 | UPDATED: 18:27, 26 November 2012
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A U.S woman died on holiday in Hungary after being refused a seat on three flights back to New York because she was too heavy to fly, according to her husband.
Vilma Soltesz, 56, from New York, had weighed about 425lbs (30 stone 5llbs), had only one leg and used a wheelchair
She died from health complications in Hungary nine days after she was kicked off the first of three flights and now her death could now be the cause of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the airlines.
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Stranded: Vilma Soltesz, 56, from New York, had weighed about 425 pounds, although she put on weight during holiday, had only one leg and used a wheelchair
On September 17, she had travelled with her husband Janos to Hungary to stay in their holiday home, a trip they made every year, reported the New York Post.
Before the journey, their travel agent informed Delta of Mrs Soltesz's condition and they planned to return on October 15 so Mrs Soltesz could continue her medical treatment for her illness - a combination of kidney disease and diabetes.
Mr Soltesz said his wife was already seated on the plane when they were asked to leave by KLM.
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Struggle: In Prague although a local fire department were brought into to help move Mr Soltesz into three seats assigned to her, they could not lift her out of the wheelchair
'They tried to fit her into the back of the plane, but they didn’t have an extension to secure her,' he said.
She had gained weight due to her illness and the airline said it did not have a seat-belt extender for her, Mr Soltesz said.
He was also told the seat back could not take his wife’s weight.
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Predicament: Mrs Soltesz had gained weight due to her illness and the airline said it did not have a seat-belt extender for her according to her husband
After leaving the airplane, the couple waited in the airport for several hours and then were told to drive five hours to Prague for a Delta plane that could accommodate her as a disabled person.
But in Prague, Delta staff told the couple the airline’s plastic wheelchair could not hold her weight and
the staff also couldn’t put her on the sky-lift elevator.
The couple, who were born in Hungary, were forced to return to their holiday home until their New York travel agent managed to get them on an October 22 Lufthansa flight to New York via Frankfurt, which would be able to accommodate her size.
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Sue: Mrs Soltesz died from health complications in Hungary nine days after she was kicked off the first of three flights and now her death could now be the cause of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the airlines
Although a local fire department were brought in to help move Mrs Soltesz into three seats assigned to her, they could not lift her out of the wheelchair.
After half an hour of trying to move her, the captain asked them to leave the plane.
'We had 140 passengers on board, and they had connections and needed to travel,' said Lufthansa spokesman Nils Haupt.
'The question was never the seat belt. The question was the mobility of the passenger.'
But when they returned to their holiday home again to make alternative arrangement Mrs Soltesz became more poorly.
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Difficulty: Mrs Soltesz struggling to get in the car
The couple did not opt to see a doctor in Hungary as they felt the staff would not be familiar with her medical needs, and two days later Mrs Soltesz died and she was buried in Hungary.
Now attorney Holly Ostrov Ronai, who is considering a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the airlines accusing them of violating laws protecting the disabled.
'KLM is deeply saddened by the death of Mrs. Vilma Soltesz and would like to offer its heartfelt condolences to her family. We have outlined the facts below: it appeared on the passenger’s return that it was not physically possible for her to board the aircraft, despite every effort made by KLM to this end. A seat or belt extender did not offer a solution either,' said a KLM spokesperson.
'Subsequently, KLM and it’s partners Delta and Air France did it utmost to find an alternative in the two days that followed. The passenger also took the initiative herself to approach her ticket agent to look for alternatives with other airlines, but we cannot of course comment on the content and/or period in question.'
'After the operating carrier in Budapest was physically unable to board Mrs. Soltesz on its flight, and despite a determined good-faith effort by Delta in Prague, we were also physically unable to board her on our aircraft,' said Delta spokesman Russel Cason to the New York Post.
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Seems she mistimed her carbload at the Hungarian Grand Prix and paid the ultimate price for that pro show death tour. Momo will have words for her in heaven when they meet.
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One Legged Meat ball of peace ::)
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kind of mean they could at least put her in the cargo area.
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Like her health issues were caused by missing a flight to the U.S. from her vacation home in Hungary.
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FFS people - a calorie is not a calorie! ;D
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The couple had flown to Budapest without incident on Sept. 17 via Delta and KLM. Vilma, 56, purchased two seats for herself. Read more at NY Post
Did she put on all that weight after she flew to Budapest?
If not what danger would she pose on the return journey that has not existed on the outward journey?
was it believed she might leg it without paying for the ticket
should have booked on line with Ryanair
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are we going to invade hungary for some democracy?
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Are we going to invade Hungary for some democracy?
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She looks a little heme-iron deficient.
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She should have been sent to Afghanistan and stoned to death there. For the lulz.
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anyone think she might have been a nice person?
probably one of those entitled creatures who didn't give a shit that her urge to stuff her face is inconveniencing hundreds of people.
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edit* breathe and relax swede.
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Big fat woman died from being a big fat woman and refused to go to a hospital.
Yeah... That's definitely someone else's fault.
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This is very very sad, can't believe you losers are saying what you're saying.
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This is very very sad, can't believe you losers are saying what you're saying.
What are you talking about?
Did some getbigger shove food in her throat?
Maybe her husband shouldn't be talking about suing a fucking airline because he's got a morbidly obese wife.
THAT is what's sad.
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One Legged Meat ball of peace ::)
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Lack of willpower is sickening
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I guess obesity and diabetes just snuck up on her when she wasn't looking.... ::)
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Legs not symmetrical.
Would not hit.
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Bigger Left calve on her then Dennis Wolf
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unlike their much bigger, stronger, better trained & experienced american counterparts , those puny hungarian firefighters won't be used to lifting such monstrously weighted people.
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unlike their much bigger, stronger, better trained & experienced american counterparts , those puny hungarian firefighters won't be used to lifting such monstrously weighted people.
In America we hire long-armed paramedics to give the Heimlich maneuver to fat people.
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Bigger Left calve on her then Dennis Wolf
hahahahah ;D
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425 lbs and expecting a long life? Idiot.
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if that 747 was able to fly the space shuttle, why couldn't it fly her ???
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Stay Hungary.
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She must of starved to death in hungry
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That's a huge bitch.
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Holy cow she looks ready to pop!
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epic john hanson rib cage
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epic john hanson rib cage
Falcon you are honing in on 20k posts "bro".
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RIP
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"The couple drove back to their home in Hungary and made another effort, this time through Lufthansa, to get back to the United States. When they boarded, they were forced to disembark by the captain, Ostrov-Ronai said, because Vilma was unable to fasten her seatbelt properly.
The airline said it worked with local partners, the fire brigade and technical experts to accommodate Soltesz, and lift her onboard and into a seat but to no avail. "
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Either way the Airline was fucked. Even if they got her on board and after realizing she wasn't able to secure herself with a seatbelt said " F THAT" and let her stay.
Imagine all the lawsuits the company would face after the plane was going in for a landing and this happened.
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death by eating
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death by eating
She died because they wouldn't let her on the plane back to America. Didn't you read the thread?
Craphound.
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6 weeks? Couldn't she have taken a boat home?
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6 weeks? Couldn't she have taken a boat home?
The boat would have sunk.
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Too FAT to fly: Sick American woman dies in Hungary
The irony is strong in this one.
Poor woman, though. Seemed to have lost both lower limbs from the knee and confined to a wheelchair. Sure, she has probably accepted what her life has become but it's a blessing that most of us aren't in that situation.
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Fuck these people. HOW can she be so fat?
They would sue anyway,
couldn't fasten their seatbelt, sue
seat couldn't handle the weight, sue
not enough food in the meal, sue
FU!
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Hoodie doesn't properly cover gut...would not hit.
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Imagine having to sit next to her for a 12 hour flight from Europe. Fuck. I would go ape shit.
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Justice and the law will protect her from the scandalously greedy, discriminating practices of this heinous airline. For shame...
They are to be blamed for her death with 100% accountability. It wasn't the years of grossly negligent treatment of her body with the mountains of food she overate to become so ill that she couldn't move. It wasn't the enabling husband who encouraged her slow spiral towards an obese death.
Nope, it was the airline.
If only there were enough liberals in the world to take up her cause and champion it!
Quick...someone call the fat reporter from that video where she fires back at bullies. She can be like the Andrea Dworkin of fat people everywhere!
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I'm willing to bet, if gets any money, any payout, the woman he will be with will look nothing remotely like his deceased wife.