Posted on 06/06/2022 9:13:00 AM PDT by dennisw
EXCLUSIVE: Girl, 14, with severe nut allergy nearly died aboard BA flight after passenger 'refused to stop eating peanuts despite TWICE being told by cabin crew he was putting the teenager's life at risk'
A mother has told how of her horror experience at 30,000ft after her daughter suffered from a nut allergy Poppy Jones, 14, flew from Antigua when a passenger opened a pack of peanuts
Cabin crew had twice warned the man it was unsafe due to Poppy's allergies Poppy blacked out and needed oxygen as well as two shots of an EpiPen
Poppy's mother Joanna Jones, 39, said: 'It was a nightmare for all of us and I thought she might die' Do you know the inconsiderate passenger? Email: tips@dailymail.com By
PUBLISHED: 07:32 EDT, | UPDATED: 10:29 EDT, 6 June 2022
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View comments A mother has told of her mid-air terror after her teenage daughter blacked out and suffered an allergic reaction at 30,000 feet on a British Airways when a passenger opened a packet of peanuts on board.
Joanna Jones, 39, was flying to London from Antigua when her 14-year-old daughter Poppy needed oxygen and two EpiPen shots during the nightmare eight-hour flight after suffering a severe reaction to the nuts.
As Poppy's condition worsened, a quick-thinking nurse on board dashed to help - while the captain considered making an emergency landing.
Eventually the pilot landed the plane safely at Gatwick and Poppy was rushed to hospital.
Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, Joanna said: ’It was a nightmare for all of us and I really thought she might die.
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So why is it OK for the peanut eating guy to do the same?
You’re condemning the girl for doing the same thing you are lauding the peanut eating guy for.
Why should everyone bend for him and not her?
Freepers with ignorant and terrible medical advice are quite common. My fear is that people actually value their opinions.
Nothing to do with rights. Just common sense.
The parents have absolute control over what environments they bring their kid into.
I know people who have seizure disorders and never knew anyone who “pretended” to have them. They are real and extremely serious as are allergies. I’m mot going to be as nice as some others here. I’m going to call it like I see it: ignorance and arrogance and just being a horrible human.
Why yes I have, but I will wager you that Carter is responsible for more death and destruction world wide than was LBJ.
And if you are referring to LBJ's "Great Society" programs, the blame for those lies squarely on the Liberal Republicans who promoted the 24th amendment.
LBJ was no man's fool when it came to politics and how to play dirty. As soon as the 24th was passed, LBJ saw an opportunity and took it. He completely turned it around on the Liberal Republicans who pushed for it because they thought it would garner them an extra 10 million votes.
Now I was going to put Abraham Lincoln at the top of the list for "worst president", but I decided I didn't want to start that discussion in this thread, so I went with Obama and Biden being worse than Carter.
“People will be jerks. Relying on the kindness of strangers is no way to protect your child. “
When riding one of my sport bikes, I drive super defense when around other vehicles. CONFIRM people are stopping at a red light or stop sign on a cross street. Other drivers will be drunk, stoned, surfing their phones and may run the stop. I dont want to be in the hospital or getting prepped by an undertaker just because another driver was a “jerk”. I assume they are always out and about.
I’m condemning the parents.
Imagine if they went to a chinese restaurant. I guess you’d be ok with the staff snatching away someone’s chicken w/peanut sauce they were eating because someone with an allergy walked in.
LOL. Thanks! :-)
I have often noticed that babies do this, and for a long time I have been thinking "that can't be good for them", but your comment gives me a new perspective on this.
Perhaps you are right.
:)
“Nothing to do with rights. Just common sense.”
Being dead right is a thing. While driving, I don’t want to be right (I had the right of way, they had the red light) but dead.
None of those is life-threatening like a severe peanut allergy.
He defined a lawful order from the pilot and endangered the girl’s life.
At a minimum, I hope the girl’s parents sue him for the medical bills. He should have been arrested.
Are you really arguing that he shouldn’t have put away the peanuts? Is his desire for a snack more important than the girls life? Really?
Plastics also became more ubiquitous for food and beverage containers, and plastics leach chemicals into whatever they are storing.
Why are you spending so much time trying to discredit a young girls medical condition and close call with death?
Amazing how much his asthma cleared up once we’d graduated high school.
I think this sort of thing happens a lot. I know i've personally seen it happen quite a lot. It would be reasonable to think that people I don't know are doing it too.
At the very least it would have been common courtesy. A lost art, I’m aware.
I think one of the reasons babies put things in their mouths is to help understand what they are. Tongue and lips are very sensitive to texture, shape, etc.
I think pretending to have an ailment is a long running trick people play on others.
Or maybe there's another angle to it. If your health is so compromised that you can face serious adverse effects just from haphazard contact with other human beings who are doing ordinary, everyday things ... then perhaps the burden is really on YOU to protect yourself by limiting your contact with other people.
I face this kind of question all the time in my engineering work. Here is a very frequent comment I receive in public meetings about my projects: "Your design is flawed because you haven't accounted for people who have X disability or Y illness or Z impairment."
My answer is always the same:
1. Nobody can ever design a project that can meet the needs of each and every human being who is alive today or may be alive in the future.
2. Please give me a fractional number less than 100% that will be acceptable to you for designing this thing. Should it meet the needs of 90% of the general public? 95%? 99.9%? You give me the number and I will design it to meet those needs.
That last item is important because it simply reflects the realities of the human condition. There will always be some fraction of the population that is too big for an airline seat, or too slow to cross a street during the green phase of a traffic signal, or too damned stupid to get behind the wheel of a car even if it is 99% automated. People should just grow up and deal with it.
Dead and right was an early lesson provided to me by my mother.
A lesson that many in the entitled nanny state don’t get anymore and you can see it in play here.
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