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Fat woman forced to pay for two tickets to get on board

New Orleans, USA - She felt humiliated and sues Southwest Airlines

Kenlie Tiggeman, 31, New Orleans, a woman who made headlines last spring, has launched an online invective against air carrier Southwest Airlines which last November forced her to purchase two tickets to get on board the plane. Tiggeman filed a lawsuit in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Lafourche in Lousiana, alleging that the airline "Ignored her constitutional rights and takes discriminatory...

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Rome, Italy, 05/07/2012 15:11
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