CirrusMonkey
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That's retarded......
That's retarded......
I think people are just slapping service dog jackets on their pets anymore. Was in a restaurant the other day with my wife and a woman was holding a dog the size of a chihuahua with a service dog jacket on. What service does he perform - cleaning gutters?
I can say as a passenger who has paid for first class, the reason I paid for first class was peace and quiet or perhaps a little business chat. On one airline who will remain nameless, they allowed rambunctious kids who were with their parents onboard in first class with me. The kids proceeded to kick my seat and jump over it grabbing my hair from SFO->MSP. I stayed calm because I felt the parents were the issue(they were hammered drunk) and as a result weren't in a position to correct their kids. It did give me a negative opinion of the airline(the kids were acting out before they boarded in the boarding area) and mostly I was angry at the parents.
My mother-in-law is a special ed teacher/manager/director of education. She has introduced me to a a new level of sensitivity when it comes to disabilities. That said, I do believe that a disability that results in the legitimate discomfort of the nearby passengers, should be able to reasonably be denied boarding. In saying that, "discomfort" is not legitimate when the only limitation is that the person couldn't walk onto the plane themselves or maybe they couldn't stop talking about how excited they were. If they can't prevent themselves from encroaching on your space and the parents can't manage it, I believe you are encroaching on the territory where maybe that person should be denied boarding.
In the case that was in the news recently, I think the family was accommodated on the next flight. So why were the the passengers better enabled to handle the down-syndrome passenger? I do question this.
In this case, with the facts at hand, I have to side with the airline. The airline shouldn't have to educate themselves with the intricacies of every disability. Some things make a flight unsafe and uncomfortable for the 100+ passengers who are onboard the flight.
You never know when a 300 lb mentally ill passenger is going to start screaming and hitting you on the head with a wooden spoon as you are on final. Ahh, Alaska memories.
Any media story about people being treated unfairly on an airline is immediately suspect. If the kid was well-behaved and didn't seem like he's be a problem, of course they should have let him on. If he wasn't, they shouldn't. Curious how fact-free these stories always seem to be. Almost like the media are trying to SELL things based on our natural OUTRAGE about just about everything.
That's retarded......
Given the nature of this article, it is insensitive and NOT appropriate.
Well, see. Blue's dead. Frank's divorced. I lost my house. Nicole thinks I'm a total jackass. And now we got nine kids who are gonna get expelled from school, and you're not even gonna help them.
Given the nature of this article, it is insensitive and NOT appropriate.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. None of us were there and as always there are two sides to the story where the truth is somewhere between the two.