Southwest Deems Kevin Smith Too Fat To Fly

Kevin Smith has taken to Twitter to rip Southwest Airlines apart after he was booted from a flight. (Twitter Image)"]

With the 2010 Olympics in full-force, writer/director Kevin Smith is battling his own sport - trying to fit himself into one of those tiny airplane seats. Southwest Airlines is now on damage control after  Smith was kicked off a flight Saturday night after a flight attendant deemed him too fat to fly.

The airline's policy does not allow passengers on who can't put both armrests down and apparently, Smith was an armrest offender. However, Southwest allowed Kevin to catch another flight, basically  going back  on their claim that  he's too fat.    Since the incident, Smith has been on  the warpath, tweeting that the airline treated him worse than a terrorist.

Smith, 39, immediately took to his Twitter.

"I know I'm fat, but was (the pilot) really justified in throwing me off a flight for which I was already seated?" he tweeted. "I broke no regulation, offered no 'safety risk' (what, was I gonna roll on a fellow passenger?). I saw someone bigger than me on THAT flight! But I wasn't about to throw a fellow Fatty under the plane as I'm being profiled. But he & I made eye contact, & he was like 'Please don't tell...'"

Southwest officials said they called Smith to offer their "heartfelt apologies," however they stand by their claim that his removal was for the "safety and comfort of all customers." They didn't address the fact that they put him on a later flight.

"If a customer cannot comfortably lower the armrest and infringes on a portion of another seat, a customer seated adjacent would be very uncomfortable and a timely exit from the aircraft in the event of an emergency might be compromised if we allow a cramped, restricted seating arrangement," Southwest said.