# Obese Boy Scouts not allowed to attend Jamboree. Fat discrimination or common sense?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 16, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634 "2013-07-16T02:49:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obese-boy-scouts-not-allowed-to-attend-jamboree-fat-discrimination-or-common-sense/663634/84 "2013-07-17T00:40:53Z")

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> [@Troppus](#):
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> If you’ve been rafting or on a zip line you would know that participation is restricted to people in good health, just like roller coasters.

Plenty of morbidly obese people ride roller coasters. What amusement parks do you go to?

> [@Troppus](#):
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> Sure it is. But I’ll ask again, why criticize them for declining to serve kids with a BMI above 40 but you’re not criticizing Disney for excluding pregnant women from rides?

Not all rides. According to one of Disney’s websites, only “thrill” rides are off limits. Everything else is completely acceptable.

[http://disneyworldforum.disney.go.com/questions.aspx?qid=35681&cid=57](http://disneyworldforum.disney.go.com/questions.aspx?qid=35681&cid=57)

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