Posted on 11/14/2012 7:22:40 AM PST by KeyLargo
Lawsuit: Airline, airport workers mistreated paralyzed vet at O'Hare
By Jennifer Delgado Tribune reporter
5:37 p.m. CST, November 13, 2012
A former Marine Corps Sergeant who was paralyzed while serving in Afghanistan claims he was mistreated at O'Hare International Airport almost two years ago when airline and airport-related employees injured him and left him to sit in his own urine for nearly two hours.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court, Sgt. Joseph Smith, of North Carolina, says United Airlines and Air Serv Corporation employees refused to help him to his seat during a layover in Chicago on Nov. 19, 2010. Smith, who requires a wheelchair to travel after being paralyzed in Operation Enduring Freedom, was headed to Colorado Springs, Colo. for training as part of a Paralympic shooting team, said his lawyer, Alexander Loftus.
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I can beleive they treated him badly but when he says he dragged his limp body down the shoot to the plane.......well?
Are we to beleive that no one offered to help him - no passengers - no staff - no security, it was at that point I said really not believable.
Not a way to treat a vet.
Thank-you vet for your service to the USA!
Are we to beleive that no one offered to help him - no passengers - no staff - no security, it was at that point I said really not believable.
As far as staff, weren’t they the ones that left him in that situation anyway.
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