What about my comfort scorpion!?
Posted on 09/27/2017 6:33:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A woman headed to Los Angeles International Airport was dragged off a Southwest plane Tuesday night by two police officers after claiming she was deathly allergic to two dogs on board the flight. ...
The kerfuffle was preceded by the woman telling the flight crew that she had a life-threatening allergy to two dogs on the flight, one of which was a service animal, and her demand that they be removed from the flight.
When she could not provide a medical certificate stating she could travel safely, she was asked to leave.
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As the officers removed the unidentified woman, Dumas said she kept saying she was just trying to get to her father’s surgery.
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The flight went on to LAX and arrived on schedule.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
When I had my knee replacement my surgeon gave me a card to carry in my wallet that has my joint replacement info.
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I didn’t know I needed one. Nobody ever asked me for such a thing.
If you had a ‘deathly’ allergy to something that you might encounter in normal daily living you probably would.
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One would expect to fly with HUMANS, nobody’s flying on the canine skyways.
I too am highly allergic to some animals (certain breeds of dogs more than others, cats), so I’m expected to keep some ‘cert’ handy for any/all flights in CASE someone decides to bring their beloved pet/service animal??
I might NOT die, but there’s no telling the level of reaction. And if a reaction DOES occur or even exacerbated (confined, recirculated allergens...or do they UV light in the system)?
The blatant abuse of so called service dogs is just a way for people to drag their stupid pets everywhere.
I’m very allergic to cats and get pretty upset when some idiot destroys my flight and at least the entire day cause they insist on flying with their stupid cat
I know a guy like you. He has a prosthetic leg since birth. He used to drive a five speed, skis, bikes etc. but he also has a handicap option plate for if he needs it
Sure. You can have one too: https://www.google.com/search?q=service+dog+vest
FWIW...
I had a discussion with a man who trains service dogs for a living. I asked about the increasing popularity of “service dogs” for a variety of things. In a nutshell, it is a psychological thing that has been proven effective. A friend of ours had bone cancer that had taken one of his legs. His service dog didn’t really help him walk, but it was a psychological “crutch” that made him more comfortable in public.
As for the dog allergy...my doctor told me that things that they used to classify as “sensitivities” are now being treated more like “allergies”. Most allergies are a matter of degree. Some peanut allergies trigger when they are eaten, some can be triggered by the smell. For some the reaction is swelled up membranes, for others it is anaphylactic shock. That being said, he claimed that people who used to just cope with their allergies now seem to be demanding that the world accommodate their allergies. Thus, someone that has what used to be called a sensitivity now has an allergy that must be catered to.
They feel they shouldn’t be subjected to the sniffles just because someone else is having trouble coping with flying.
Conversely, the person with the dog doesn’t feel like they should be made to feel uncomfortable just because someone else will get the sniffles.
Who? The lady, or Southwest?
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I was a little too cryptic. The lady. Thought she could get the dogs tossed and instead she took the hike. Karma is a wonderful thing.
My sister had a knee replaced and she too was given a card to carry.
The bad ones ruin it for the good ones. Last year, my daughter lived with an autistic girl. I don’t know if the dog was a certified service dog, but I know both the girl and the dog went through months of training before the dog came on campus. The girl took excellent care of the dog and the dog was great.
Thas just one example of how it’s supposed to work.
good looking pup, check out those paws that need to be grown into.Woahhh
That is to help the ID process to get through the Xray and or metal detector
The dogs are too damn high!"
We should also keep in mind that with proper preparation and within certain limits set by the airline, people can take dogs on a plane without them being service dogs.
If you have a life threatening allergy then you inform the airline WHEN BOOKING A FLIGHT of this so proper arrangements can be made. This woman is full of baloney.
So, the whole tangent on service dogs, while a worthwhile discussion, is really not relevant in this instance.
This MIGHT be her:
Daulatzai, Anila
Grant Type
Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
Insitutional Affiliation
Johns Hopkins U.
Status
Completed Grant
Approve Date
November 3, 2005
Project Title
Daulatzai, Anila, Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD - To aid ‘Ethnography of Widowhood and Care in Kabul,’ supervised by Dr. Jane I. Guyer
ANILA DAULATZAI, then a student at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, received a grant in November 2005 to aid research on ‘Ethnography of Widowhood and Care in Kabul,’ supervised by Dr. Jane I. Guyer. This project takes the category of ‘widow’ as a site from which to address the social realities faced by the many women in Afghanistan whose husbands have disappeared or died as a result of war and prolonged conflict. The care and protection of widows occupies a special concern in Islamic societies; particular notions of care also guide the specific modes of intervention by international aid agencies within Afghan society. With respect to Afghan widows, the concept and practice of ‘care’ thus emerges as particularly salient, and provides a lens that brings into focus otherwise disparate actors and influences such as kinship, community, the legal structures of the state, and the humanitarian efforts of international aid agencies. The project circulates around three major domains of investigation: 1) subjectivities of widows in Kabul, Afghanistan; 2) notions of care as mobilized by various social institutions, and as transformed by widows; and 3) the discursive construction of the category of widowhood. This project explored the social forms and relationships created by and around widows through in-depth ethnographic research conducted over a two-year period among Afghan widows in Kabul, Afghanistan.
http://www.wennergren.org/grantees/daulatzai-anila
Thanks for the link.
Yep! That’s her!
AND as they hop into their full size SUV!!!
What about my comfort scorpion!?
Cats don’t need to be official service pets in order to fly in cabins on planes.
And if you are so allergic that a cat somewhere in a carrier on a plane with you for a couple of hours is problematic, I don’t see how you can function out in public generally. (E.g., someone sitting next to you who just had a cat on their lap presumably would be more problematic than a critter at the other end of a plane from you for a couple of hours.)
You heard correctly. This loser somehow thought that this moniker should afford her some sort of special privilege. IMO, this would be further evidence that she should be thrown off the plane, preferably from 30,000 feet.
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