Posted on 05/29/2019 6:50:51 PM PDT by Kartographer
A man mauled by another passenger’s emotional support dog on a Delta Air Lines flight has sued the airline and the other passenger for negligence.
The lawsuit filed in Fulton County state court alleges Marlin Jackson was in a window seat when a dog sitting in the lap of the passenger next to him suddenly attacked his face and pinned him against the window of the plane.
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I would grab the damn dog by its ears and make a wish.
Good.
This emotional support animal stuff is nonsense.
But could you do it before he ate your face?
I’m too lazy to open the article and though I’m afraid to ask, I gots to know!
WTH is an emotional support animal?
“Emotional support dog,” identify, inclusiveness, diversity,
..sounds familiar.
It’s anything.
It is an animal that makes people feel better.
The emotional support dog situation is getting way out of control. People can fraudulently obtain a prescription from a PA or physicians’ secretary for an emotional support animal and any animal, whether trained or not, can be used. People at check in desks at airlines see this on a daily basis.
Amish Dachshund the dog of peace
WTH is an emotional support animal?
...
It’s a scam that allows people to have heathen animals in places they shouldn’t be.
The kind of people who need an animal with them at all times for emotional support are too dangerously unstable to be allowed on airplanes. Whatever level of crazy you have to be at to need an “emotional support animal”, it’s beyond the level of crazy acceptable for public safety.
A woman tries to board with an emotional support peacock.
A passenger’s support dog allegedly bites a 6-year-old girl.
An airline says passengers have tried to board with “comfort turkeys, gliding possums known as sugar gliders, snakes, spiders and more.”
Horrible.
He certainly has a case.
And the airlines getting sued in cases like this are adding them as third-party defendants even if the injured passenger doesn't name them in the original lawsuit.
WTH is an emotional support animal?
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It’s a scam where douchebags impose their crap on everyone around them because they have to feel special.
My emotional support animal is a honey badger.
ML/NJ
Here’s the ONLY solution that makes sense:
If you travel with an ‘emotional support animal’ either it can go in the cargo bay or you AND it can go in the cargo bay.
There are some old C-47 canvas-bulkhead seats somewhere on Ebay probably that airlines can attach fairly quickly.
This emotional support animal stuff is nonsense.
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