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Businessman sues BA 'for treating men like perverts'
Daily Mail ^ | 1/16/10 | Sophie Borland

Posted on 01/17/2010 4:19:45 AM PST by LibWhacker

A businessman is suing British Airways over a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don't know - even if the child's parents are on the same flight.

Mirko Fischer has accused the airline of branding all men as potential sex offenders and says innocent travellers are being publicly humiliated.

In line with the policy, BA cabin crew patrol the aisles before take-off checking that youngsters travelling on their own or in a different row from their parents are not next to a male stranger.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: airways; british; britishairways; men; perverts
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To: LibWhacker

Why does this guy want to sit next to kids?


21 posted on 01/17/2010 6:08:01 AM PST by Tribune7 (Toll booths are devices funded by taxpayers to snarl traffic, waste gas and produce smog)
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To: LibWhacker

This is the result of that mental pathology called liberalism.


22 posted on 01/17/2010 6:21:43 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: thinking
“at one time, I would have a morning jog, it is up a hill and down past a school ground, just as mothers were escorting the children to school....after a time, I decided that wasn’t a good route....that after raising two girls...”

Exactly, when I go to malls and I walk in to a bathroom I hate to see unescorted kids in there. Kids are so scared to talk to male strangers you hope you never have to assist one when they are lost or hurt etc. If you say anything nice to a kid in a store they ignore you or they take off I’m sure it is a scary time to raise kids but this isn’t the world I grew up in.

23 posted on 01/17/2010 6:36:13 AM PST by almost done by half
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To: saganite
I wonder how they would handle it if a person of color were asked to move because he might be a pedophile? It’s always interesting when two protected classes clash.

An example of
A "When Sacred Cows Collide"...
You get Hamburger...

24 posted on 01/17/2010 6:39:44 AM PST by Haiku Guy ("I don't give them Hell / I tell the truth about them / And they think it's Hell" -- Harry Truman)
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To: LibWhacker

An equally rousing thread a few days ago om the same topic, reported the case of an Americsn soldier who is or was serving in Afghanistan who is up on military charges for “child pornography”, because he had pictures - pictures his mother sent him - which included pictures of his pre-kindergarten sister during a family swim outing, and in some she’s without a bottom part to her bathing suit.

My nephew’s youngest boy ran around naked from the waist down, all the time, no matter who was there, until way past five or six, and the neighbors never once called and said the family next door was entertaining child pornographers, during their bar-b-que.

The problem with the over-zealous phobic fears that every male is a pedophile, not only unfairly stigmatizes the innocent man, but, I imagine the events have the potential for prematurely sexualizing the child’s senses.


25 posted on 01/17/2010 6:39:52 AM PST by Wuli
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To: LibWhacker
...a policy that bans male passengers from sitting next to children they don't know - even if the child's parents are on the same flight.

Airplane manufacturers are going to be demanded to build humongous airplanes in order to keep men and children at least 1,000 feet apart.

BTW, when a pedophile gets on a plane, how far from him/her are the children on that plane kept? Will there be designated areas for pedophile seating?
26 posted on 01/17/2010 8:23:48 AM PST by adorno
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To: LibWhacker

I avoid British Airways if at all possible. An unpleasant airline.


27 posted on 01/17/2010 8:54:51 AM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: sionnsar

An expensive one, certainly.


28 posted on 01/18/2010 6:05:05 AM PST by Vanders9
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To: LibWhacker

I can’t begin to tell how many times I have been seated next to an unaccompanied minor on a flight. The cabin attendant introduced the child to me and asked if the child needed anything to just ring the bell. Guess I don’t look like a Pedobear, huh?


29 posted on 01/18/2010 6:09:18 AM PST by CholeraJoe ("You gotta be cool on Wall Street when your index is down. Dow Jones got no time for bums.")
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To: LibWhacker

I have sometimes wondered if airlines that control seat assignments try to separate male and female travelers to avoid sexual harassment complaints/problems/lawsuits.


30 posted on 01/18/2010 6:17:37 AM PST by wideminded
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