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Spirit Airlines employee told student to flush emotional support hamster down the toilet
Fox News ^ | 2/7/18 | Kathleen Joyce

Posted on 02/08/2018 5:59:51 PM PST by NohSpinZone

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To: JoSixChip

Or papers under it.


21 posted on 02/08/2018 6:50:41 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: NohSpinZone

My loaded 9mm handgun gives me emotional support. All aboard!


22 posted on 02/08/2018 7:01:10 PM PST by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: vooch

emotional support DWARF hamster

‘Cause you can’t flush an emotional support pachyderm.


23 posted on 02/08/2018 7:02:53 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: NohSpinZone
Hamster probably thought "well this is nuts, I ain't flyin' no more"

As a crew member it wouldn't have bothered me a bit, just put the critter in a little box with air holes, a wet sponge for water and stick it in your carry on. No biggie.

24 posted on 02/08/2018 7:03:50 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: exDemMom

certainly not very good at creative problem solving...go buy one of those carry-on box lunches, eat everything but the lettuce, to toe the ladies and shred half a roll of TP into the box, add lettuce, and punch a could of holes with a pen. Instant carry-on hamster home that no one could give a 2nd glance to.


25 posted on 02/08/2018 7:15:21 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: NohSpinZone

If true, she will sue and make a lot of money in a nice settlenent


26 posted on 02/08/2018 7:20:05 PM PST by Panhandle.deporable (Future these)
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To: NohSpinZone

As has been said on a few other sites: If she was that desperate to get the hamster on the flight, Richard Gere could have given her good advice on how to do it...


27 posted on 02/08/2018 8:32:47 PM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: NohSpinZone

LOL....what?


28 posted on 02/08/2018 8:56:05 PM PST by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: NohSpinZone; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

So, in addition to the plane off the taxiway yesterday at BWI, we had this bizarre sad story of a girl putting her little pet down a toilet on the say-so of an airline worker? Some time after her cancelled ticket?

Wow. This is so odd from so many angles. Sad but stupid.


29 posted on 02/08/2018 9:00:33 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: SkyDancer
As a crew member it wouldn't have bothered me a bit, just put the critter in a little box with air holes, a wet sponge for water and stick it in your carry on. No biggie.

...and if the little rodent somehow gets loose during the flight (because, e.g., this ditz takes it out of the box to stroke), and can't be found / retrieved - why, I'm sure that you wouldn't mind being held personally liable for the cost of evacuating the aircraft and grounding it until the little dickens can be recovered, would you?

Regards,

30 posted on 02/08/2018 9:03:29 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SkyDancer

“stick it in your carry on”

That might work until they close the terminal from what they saw in the x-ray. That would have got their attention.

rwood


31 posted on 02/08/2018 9:04:42 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: exDemMom

No, she was in Baltimore on a visit. Home was FL. And likewise this says she tried to rent a car but could not, so apparently well after being told this stupid advice, decided she had to get a plane so did that after all.

Surely someone, though, might’ve watched it for her. I would. I’d express it to FL another way.

BTW, she also could’ve taken the train. Unless someone would tell her same thing. Amtrak station is a short shuttle ride away, and much easier to sashay into.


32 posted on 02/08/2018 9:04:55 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Snickering Hound

I would imagine this gal has the maturity of a 12-year-old kid.


33 posted on 02/08/2018 9:16:26 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: the OlLine Rebel

The peacock was too big, it wouldn’t have worked


34 posted on 02/08/2018 9:27:19 PM PST by magna carta
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To: Redwood71

From what I understand she was past the TSA checkpoint. But whatever.


35 posted on 02/09/2018 6:31:21 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: alexander_busek

People have brought small pets on planes before, got loose and no biggie. Once a scorpion was found on board but the plane still continued to its destination. The passenger would have been told to do not open the box, period.


36 posted on 02/09/2018 6:33:09 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer
People have brought small pets on planes before, got loose and no biggie. Once a scorpion was found on board but the plane still continued to its destination.

That may be, but...

People have brought small pets onboard before, those small pets have gotten loose, and it entailed many thousands of dollars in damages. (In one case, the airline claimed that it had no choice but to ground the aircraft in question, because it could not be completely ruled out that the rodent might gnaw on some vital electrical cables. Not saying that I agree / disagree - but it happened.)

The passenger would have been told to do not open the box, period.

Yes, and the ditsy passenger would gotten anxious and suffered a panic attack and would have gone and let it out anyway.

Regards,

37 posted on 02/09/2018 9:19:13 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: SkyDancer

She could have gotten past the checkpoint by having the thing in here pocket. The walk through is not an x-ray. It is a metal detector. They can’t use an x-ray on people due to federal restrictions.

An example is when I was working for Uncle Sugar, I had to keep track of my roentgens because I worked in a radiation atmosphere a lot. I had to make sure I didn’t approach 200 rads which would mean death. So x-rays were limited for me and many like me. They use a new detecting system today. We were dinosaurs.

rwood


38 posted on 02/09/2018 10:27:52 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: NohSpinZone

I said this on the other thread, and I’ll say it again. I hope her parents are paying attention and don’t make her their medical power of attorney. She’s an idiot and completely unable to handle stress.


39 posted on 02/09/2018 10:49:00 AM PST by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: NohSpinZone
Last month, United Airlines refused to let me bring my emotional support buzzard on a flight.

I actually didn't mind, though. Whenever we do fly together, he ends up drinking way too much vodka and then he sits on an arm-rest just staring blankly at some old person. I think it's kind of funny, but it inevitably unnerves the old person and then there's an embarrassing "scene" at the arrival gate with shouting, complaints, recriminations and the like. I should probably make him fly by himself from now on...

40 posted on 02/13/2018 9:48:40 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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