Posted on 02/08/2018 9:08:57 AM PST by MD Expat in PA
A student who flushed her hamster down the toilet when Spirit told her she couldn't fly home with it, is now attempting to sue the airline for causing emotional distress.
Aldecosea, a Miami Beach High graduate, insists her doctor approved her hamster as a certified emotional support animal, and had the medical certificate to prove it when she went to the airport.
She's bought the adorable rodent after developing a large but benign growth in her neck last year.
'She was so loving. It was like she knew I needed somebody,' said Aldecosea, a six-feet tall volleyball star who helped lead her school, Miami Beach to back-to-back National District Championships and was named Most Valuable Player, before joining Barry University in Florida where she joined the volleyball team.
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Reclining airline seats are the worst invention. Ever.
Send her a bill for the standard Hamster funeral cost of $500
And Spirit Airlines doesn't want me on the jury.
"Therapy" rodents (hamsters, rats, etc.) have been used quite effectively in senior homes, due to their size and relative docility.
Spirit Airlines sues student for being too unstable to even be on their airline with all her potential issues and ‘baggage’. :-)
These self-indulgent scheming jerks are good reason to bring back a very appropriate form of social correction. It should be administered at the very airports they afflict others with their sociopathic (or minimally sociopathetic) stunts - with their "emotional support" animal to be tied or caged along side them.
HEY!!
Our Chihuahua isn't yappy, and he hates airline travel!
...jess sayin'...
But Spirit didn’t flush it down the toilet.
If someone tells me to shoot my dog, and I shoot my dog. It would be unreasonable for me to hold them accountable.
No, you shouldn’t stay home. You should check your self into a mental asylum for treatment.
Someone already suggested an emotional Support python...
The maximum possible award would be the value of her ticket, because she could have simply walked away. Nobody forced her to do anything to the hamster.
And she’s 21, but the article headlines her as a ‘student’.
She’s an adult and whether or not she is a student is irrelevant—just used to make it sound like some child was needlessly traumatized.
If she is an american college student she has obviously been brain washed.
Only if it survived the 30,000 foot drop after the sewage is dumped on some farmer's field...
So what a shame. All the years of training for the hamster literally down the drain.
Wasn’t she in the terminal, being refused boarding???
She’d be emotionally happier with a medium sized gerbil, maybe?
Perhaps Miss Aldecoasea is auditioning for the remake via "living the part"?
I flew Spirit recently, and I thought they were great!
I liked the hard plastic non-reclining seats because they give me extra legroom and I never recline.
I liked the “they don’t pay us to be nice” attitude of the flight attendants, because it was honest. They were perfectly helpful and competent, but not particularly nice. Works for me!
And it was CHEAP!
Did JF’nK (John Kerry) rush in his second wife’s first husband’s trust fund funded private jet to give it mouth-to-mouth like he did his daughters’ hamster?
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