I wholeheartedly agree with the advice not to fly them.

However, it can be done, even with extra weight. There's no restriction on your weight, so you can just wear 10 layers of clothes with laptops and items in your pockets (after security of course) until you're under weight. But it also has to be all in a single bag, no extra camera bag or purse or anything, so whatever you're carrying has to at least physically fit together and in their size check bin.

We did actually manage to "pull one over on them" by playing a bit of musical bags at the gate and shifting items between bags when weighing, even though no single bag would have passed.

But we were also yelling at them that our flight door was closing, and this is after paying massive in-airport fees because it was too late to check bags even though we already prepaid the nonrefundable fee. And something about a ticket print charge or whatever other reason they could muster to charge us.

So in conclusion, no, don't try it. Run away from it fast. But if somehow you get stuck there, dress for winter.