Wednesday 20 November 2013

"Eurostar bars obese Frenchman"

From the BBC:

A clinically obese Frenchman, prevented from flying home from the US by British Airways, has been refused travel on a Eurostar train from London to Paris.

Kevin Chenais, 22, who weighs 230kg (36 stone), was flown back to London this week by Virgin Atlantic after 18 months of treatment in Minnesota. But Eurostar said it could not take him back to France because of safety rules.

Ferry company P&O has now stepped in, offering to tow him across the English Channel.

2 comments:

Antisthenes said...

"Ferry company P&O has now stepped in, offering to tow him across the English Channel."

That is better than your bear and rabbit joke which by the way I was telling probably before you were born.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Anti, thanks, but the rabbit and bear joke was posted by TS.