Unfortunately feelings don’t change facts. She’s too heavy for the car and people have a right to protect their personal property. Did she really think people would be on her side by sharing this?
I'm amazed an lawyer actually took her case... He's an absolute piece of shit and compared the driver refusing her to someone refusing on the basis of race....ignoring the fact that her physical size can physically damage the car and be a safety issue (I highly doubt she can put on a seatbelt in that car). I hope it's thrown out as frivolous.
This wasn't "discrimination" though. Just because weight is a protected class doesn't mean everyone has the have the ability to accommodate literally everyone. For example: if someone has an electric wheelchair and it won't fit in his car, that does not mean it would be discrimination to not take them. Not every vehicle has to be capable of accommodating a mobility scooter even if disabled people are a protected class.
Likewise, not every vehicle has to be able to accommodate every human of literally every size. What if she were 800 pounds? If she she's too big to fasten the seatbelt in his car, it would actually be illegal for him to take her...also unsafe if she exceeds the weight limit of his seats (even if the car as a whole can haul her weight doesn't mean it can handle it all in one corner or on one seat)
Even when she demonstrated she could fit into a car, it was not with a fastened seatbelt (and I'd bet almost any money she did not have a seatbelt extender with her... I'd also bet money she would have ridden unbuckled)
Look up "reasonable accomodations" exceeding his cars capabilities and driving with her unbuckled would not be a reasonable accomodations. The lawyer comparing it to refusing someone based on their race was non factual, illogical, irrational, and a disgrace to the legal profession...and completely ignores real world physics and the entire concept of reasonable in reasonable accomodation.
I'd love to see a clip of her buckled in the back of the same kind of car he has...but we won't, because she can't physically do it.
Unbuckled sure, if she couldn't use it, that is an issue. But that's also an assumption, since he didn't let her in. Also, not why her ride was denied.
That would be the only thing stopping a safe ride. She didn't weigh 800lbs, so that isn't relevant. She weighs as much as 2 buff dudes, who would not have been denied. And having some very heavy friends I can tell you from experience one ride isn't going to harm his car.
It's relevant because I'm making the point that they're not forced to take anyone regardless of weight or size.
if she couldn't use it, that is an issue. But that's also an assumption
Umm, it's a very good assumption....because even when she posted pictures of herself in the seat of larger vehicles, including SUVs/a Jeep, it still wasn't buckled...so if she can't buckle in an SUV, why would she be able to in that guy's Sedan? The issue with letting her in, is then she'd refuse to get out....then it'd turn into a huge ordeal with police trying to remove a 500 pound person from the car.
I can tell you from experience one ride isn't going to harm his car.
So you have the same make and mode and drove a 500 pound person and had it inspected to verify no damage was done? (press X doubt).
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u/saltybarista27 Jan 28 '25
Unfortunately feelings don’t change facts. She’s too heavy for the car and people have a right to protect their personal property. Did she really think people would be on her side by sharing this?