Woman refused pedicure because of weight

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/17821686/woman-refused-pedicure-for-being-too-fat/


 


A woman has recorded the moment she was refused a pedicure from a US nail salon after staff told her she was too large to fit in the chair.


Rachel Bascue was denied treatment at Regal Nails Salon in Hot Springs, Arkansas just one day after her mother was also refused a pedicure at the salon for the same reason.


On her second attempt to have a pedicure Ms. Bascue secretly recorded her conversation with salon staff on her mobile phone.


In the footage a male employee can be heard telling Ms Bascue she is too fat and would break the chair.


"You cannot (fit) over 250 lbs (112kg). You don't fit.


"I've tried to tell you too many times. It's not fit for you. It's dangerous. It's for your own benefit," the employee continued.


Ms Bascue said despite the employees claims, she and her mother had both been treated at the salon in the past without any problems.


She conceded the public humiliated she suffered during the altercation with salon staff was the worst abuse she has experience.


"I have been talked about and made fun of, but this is the first time I was made to feel like a freak," Bascue told NBC.


"I shouldn't be discriminated (sic), nobody should be made to feel like that."


 



Umm I have opinions about this, but I won't say what they are yet, want to see what others think.

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Woman refused pedicure because of weight

I saw a pic of the woman in question.....112 kgs?....gimmee a break....she is incredibly huge.


Pedicure aside....how does she even deal with  personal hygiene?  She must get somebody to hose her down in the backyard.


If the salon chair broke and she was injured she would be beating a path to the lawyers.

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Woman refused pedicure because of weight

How about some compassion? People come in all shapes and sizes - it's called being human.

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She is probably much bigger than 112kg.......... unless she is very very short.......

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I agree the business has the right to refuse the woman service.  It doesn't matter if she or mother had been there before, the business has a justifiable and legal reason to refuse service.

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mugssy65
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The owner said the chair is rated to 112kg not that she weighed 112kg she would have weighed much more. 

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no sympathy from me lol. she was too fat- end of story.

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How about some compassion? People come in all shapes and sizes - it's called being human.



 


hey I have compassion, I am obese and I would accept if the proprietor said the chairs can't hold me.  I would be embarassed but I wouldn't start screaming discrimination.  The woman was just asking for trouble going back after her mother was refused.


 


I think the proprietor handled it quite diplomatically

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mugssy65
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My daughter is a hairdresser, she had a chair give way under a very obese woman, highly embarrassing for all concerned! 

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'like' to the last post. this place really needs a like button.

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 hi M! not your post, the one before lol

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