He’s 290 pounds and suing under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which apparently (he claims) mandates that fast food restaurants build tables jumbo size so as to accommodate obese people. Call me crazy, but I have my doubts that that was the intention of the law.
Apparently Martin Kessman went to a White Castle in 2009, where he ordered his usual — a No 2 combo meal, consisting of two double cheeseburgers, fries, and a drink. But when he tried to sit down he couldn’t fit his overweight body between the chair and the table. He was offended.
As I looked around the restaurant, I saw that there were no tables and chairs that could accommodate a person that merely wanted to sit down and eat his meal.
It turns out restaurants build tables for people of normal size. White Castle apparently denied him his “civil rights” by not providing a table that could accommodate obese people trying to scoff down a greasy combo meal. The horror. Why, this calls for a march on Washington.
By the way, White Castle tried to make it up to him by offering free hamburgers but he was — I’m not kidding — offended because the cheese was extra. And he noted as much in his lawsuit.
“In each letter was a coupon for three free hamburgers — but the cheese was extra!” according to a lawsuit Kessman filed last week in Manhattan federal court.
You know, we may be coming to the root of why this guy can’t wedge himself between a normal-sized table and chair. He was offended that free hamburgers didn’t include cheese, and he felt the need to tell this story to a federal judge.
Which isn’t to say that he denied the hamburgers. He sent his wife to go get them. And the hamburgers after that. And the ones after that. Again, we may be finding the root of the problem here.
“My wife went and picked up the burgers … because I did not want to set foot into the store,” he said. “Any subsequent trips to the store have been made by my wife — I have been like an outcast.”
As for White Castle, a spokesman says the guy could have just asked for a chair. But that’s not good enough for Kessman. He wants White Castle to re-engineer its booths to accommodate obese people trying to shove more food down their gullets.
12. September 2011 at 2:38 pm
What I find astounding is that this man-pig is not even embarrassed about his self-induced piggish weight problem. Hey fat-ass, stop stuffing your pie-hole until you can fit into a seat designed for normal people.