Double-sized seats installed for obese rail passengers

Special chairs have been installed on Brazil's trains to cope with the country's soaring obesity race.

The blue-coloured seats are nearly twice as wide as normal chairs and can support even the bulkiest passenger up to 550lbs without breaking.



But baffled Metro bosses in Sao Paulo say they're being ignored by obese passengers, who they think are too ashamed to use them.



A sign above each seat shows a cartoon of an roly-poly passenger saying "Priority chair for obese people."

"It may be that they don't want to think of themselves as fat or they resent being put in with pensioners and the disabled," said one manager.