I think I'm going to stop eating salads effective immediately.
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A woman fat-shamed other passengers, calling them “two big pigs,” when she demanded to be moved on a United Airlines flight, as seen in a viral video.
Norma Rodgers shared the video on social media of her fellow passenger demanding to be moved from her middle seat on United flight 1583 from Las Vegas to Newark Airport in New Jersey on Jan. 2.
“Oh my goodness, I don’t know how I’m gonna do this the next four hours,” the woman, who was on the phone, can be heard saying aloud. “This is just impossible because they’re squishing me. It’s just unbelievable.”
“I’m stuck, but at least they’ll keep me warm.”
“B---h please, okay,” said Rodgers, who was sitting next to her and evidently the target of the rude flier’s tirade.
The woman hangs up her phone, but her complaining does not end.
“Find me a window. Get me out of here,” the woman demanded to a flight attendant, who said they would try to find her another seat.
“I can’t do this,” said the woman. “I can’t breathe, I’m so squished.”
Other passengers make comments to the woman, seemingly telling her to stop, but the woman becomes defensive.
“I eat salads, okay?” she tells the planeful of incredulous fliers.
Rodgers herself then asked a flight attendant to have the woman moved.
“Excuse me, can you find her another seat? Because I will not be verbally abused by this b---h or anyone else,” said Rodgers to a flight attendant. “I will not be verbally abused by anybody. I’m not tolerating it.”
“I can’t sit here because they’re both so big on left and right. I can’t — I can’t even sit here,” the woman continued.
The flight attendant asks the woman if she would like to stand in the back and try to find a new seat, and the woman can’t get up from her seat fast enough.
“Yes, please, yes, please,” she said.
The woman reaffirmed her eating habits to other passengers as she got up from her seat, boasting, “I eat salad.”
“What you’re doing is so terrible, you should be ashamed of yourself,” someone shouted at the woman as she got up from her seat.
“I’m not politically correct,” the woman said to the other passenger. “Why don’t you sit between those two big pigs?”
“B---h, kiss my fat a--, okay?” yelled Rodgers at the woman as she was moving to the back. Rodgers, who is a United platinum member as she said in the video, asked to speak to a supervisor as she has never had an incident like this occur and she travels frequently for work.
Rodgers said in a separate post that she started taping “because of the language being used,” and does not show “the initial verbal name-calling and abuse.”
In her initial post, Rodgers said another passenger requested to have the woman removed from the flight. Shortly after she stopped filming, Rodgers said the woman was removed.
United responded with a statement to the Daily News:
“United flight attendants care about the safety and well being of all of our customers which is why they acted quickly to find a different seat for the disruptive customer. When it became clear that this passenger’s behavior was likely to be problematic on this flight, she was provided alternate travel arrangements first thing the next morning.”
In another post, Rodgers said the situation was handled “professionally and calmly,” and thanked other passengers who came to her defense.
Rodgers said in a post that she wears her “heart on her sleeve” but “will absolutely not tolerate verbal or physical abuse” from anyone.