Only in America: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of orangeness
An Ohio salon bars an overweight customer from using their tanning beds — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation
An Ohio tanning salon has deemed a customer "too fat to tan" and refused to offer her a refund. Upon arriving for her second session, Kelly McGrevey was told that the salon had just implemented a new policy forbidding customers weighing over 230 pounds from using the beds. McGrevey called the humiliating incident "discrimination" and has filed a report against the business.
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