Severly obese man asked to leave casino because his body odor was offensive...
Hummm,,,,
Local news;
Man sitting at poker table after gambling for over 17 hours was confronted by management and told they were getting reports of an emanating odor from the man. He was not allowed to go back to the poker table and felt insulted that they were picking on him because he was overweight.
Where do we stand on this story? ;?
Oh and they offered him a comp buffet for some reason and he thought that was another bust on his weight. He told them to give him a room instead and he will go take a shower. The casino said they can't do that.
ADDED AFTER READING REPLIES; I would like to know why this is news in the first place. Everyone here agrees BO is not acceptable in our society, (heck I would like some people to be ticketed for there cologne usage, which i suspect is applied so heavily to hide there BO in the first place!) how can this be what is on my local news? Should I be glad that the events around my area are so uneventful that they make news out of silly things? IDK. It would be news IF there was some type of discrimination. Maybe the news was trying to remind us to wash? IDK
Last time I checked, obese people aren't inherently smelly.
You would think if he could fit through the casino doors, he could fit in a shower.
Nooo.. they were "picking on him" because he probably soiled himself trying to hold it in so that he wouldn't lose his spot.
I think he would have been asked to leave whether he was overweight or not. Body odor is not a pleasant thing. Many overweight people do tend to sweat more, and he should have went and gotten himself cleaned up. I'm been overweight my whole life and I don't blame everyone else for it.
Management: Sir we are going to have to ask you to leave and clean up your crap.
Senario: Obese man craps his pants at the craps table.
Management: Sir we are going to have to ask you to leave and clean up your crap.
PS, you both owe the house $50bucks for the cleaning of this chair you were sitting in.
body odor is horibble whether it's coming from an overweight person or a skinny person. Ever been around a serious hippie? boy can they smell! i don't care who you are, don't stink!
I don't think it was anything to do with his weight that they said this, bad odour is offensive regardless of the persons weight.
I used to work for a casino in the dining room, and it was amazing how much some of the people that came in would smell large or small, We had a buffet so we did not allow doggie bags and I watched a man take two pieces of prime rib - wrap them into a cloth napkin and stuff it in his pocket. Large or small you do something like that and stay to play poker - 17 hours later you are going to SMELL
Ever been around a serious hippie? boy can they smell!
You haven't smelled anything until you've worked retail somewhere that has a large amish population! They work hard and only bathe once a week.
I'm not kidding! The jokes are true.
Original Post by absterry:
Senario: Skinny man craps his pants at the craps table.
Management: Sir we are going to have to ask you to leave and clean up your crap.
Senario: Obese man craps his pants at the craps table.
Management: Sir we are going to have to ask you to leave and clean up your crap.
PS, you both owe the house $50bucks for the cleaning of this chair you were sitting in.
This is so true. When I read this article yesterday this is exactly what I thought to myself. Casinos have rules and regulations regarding the cleanliness of its patrons in situations like this one. There are several casinos in the KC area and last year a man soiled himself several times before anyone noticed the smell and he was eventually asked to either go home and take a shower, or leave. And as far as this man saying he was embarrased because mgmnt confronted him in front of other patrons, that's crap. They have cameras everywhere and in a loud place like a casino, I doubt anyone could even hear there conversation. It's just another free-loader trying to get something for nothing. Just like with the McDonalds coffee fiasco years ago. "Oh, nobody told me the coffee was hot and it could burn me". Because, you know....it's not common sense that coffee is hot people!!!
Sorry, didn't mean/want to hijack - back to your regularly scheduled discussion. :-)
I'm glad he got kicked out. He didnt deserve to be comped anything, why would they want him back? Oh well, that was their decision. I'd have thrown him out with no hopes of him returning ever again. Sick.
Original Post by yachtracer1977:
Not to take this off topic, but ... in that McDonald's coffee case, it actually turned out that the coffee was WAY hotter than it should have been, and an old lady got THIRD DEGREE burns from it. Not like a little red mark you get when you bump a hot pot handle or something. THIRD DEGREE burns. I expect to have to let coffee cool before drinking it, but I don't expect close to 200 degrees of lava in a cup.
Sorry, didn't mean/want to hijack - back to your regularly scheduled discussion. :-)
Agreed. The first time I heard the story I was pretty skeptical, but in reality it was serious!
OK now back to your regularly scheduled discussion.
if you smell...you smell...big or small...BO is horrible!
Methinks the casino did the right thing. They'd likely lose money if they had let him continue disruptins others' experience! And as far as him asking for a room... ridiculous! It's not their responsibility to give him one of their rooms just because he couldn't clean himself properly before he left home (or take proper precautions if he's prone to B.O.). Why should they have to lose money by giving this guy a room? The buffet thing was a gesture of good will, but the guy was asking for a handout.
Let's see...
...an over weight man, 17 hours in a smoke-filled, smelly casino that's probably boiling anyway.
17 hours of perspiration...
Hell, anyone of ANY weight would be pretty damned rank if they where doing nothing but gambling for 17 hours straight in a casino. I don't see how that has to do with his weight at all, really.
Humans are, by nature, stinky. Probably moreso now than ever with typically poor diets and being encased in synthetic fibres a majority of the time in a polluted environment. Americans (and increasingly those of other cultures) have been conditioned to believe that it is appealing to reek of noxious chemicals rather than to smell natural.
I bathe daily (well, usually) and most days use some hippie-dippie "liquid crystal" deodorant, so my consistent hygiene means that I don't give myself the opportunity to let my body odor get too offensive to the thin skinned.
Admittedly, it can be unbearable when people smell extremely foul due to habitual disregard of good hygiene practices (or infections or what have you). Otherwise, and I know I am in the minority when I say this, I would much rather be subjected to the natural odor of others than to be assaulted by, for example, the pungent stench of AXE aggressively emanating a few yards away from the person doused in it.
If you can't handle the "natural essence" (hehee) of another human, then maybe you're the one with a problem.
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