Knee Defender
The fact of the matter is that if airlines would simply configure their airplanes to offer reasonable accommodations to people, devices like this wouldn't be necessary.
The guy who created the Knee Defender is 6'4", but he's hardly unique. I'm three inches shorter than him, and I suffer the same problem when I fly -- the guy in front of me drops his seat, and goes right into my knees. Most of the time, other passengers aren't even aware that they're causing a problem for those behind them -- they're just desperately trying to find some modicum of comfort when they travel.
American's better about it than most airlines -- they offer six inches of extra legroom throughout coach (I've written about this before) -- but flying in the ass-end of coach on other airlines can be murder.
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Im like an inch taller than him, planes are a fucking nightmare for me because of crap like this. And I always get some assclown in front of me that tries to relcine their seat, but it won't go back because its crushing me knees, so instead of not reclining because there is a 6'5" ape behind them, they try again, pushing back harder and harder.
Next Southwest is going to start forcing tall people to buy the seat in front of them!
Someone needs to fucking start a class action suit against the airline scumbags.
Posted by: James | October 29, 2003 07:55 AM