Posted on 10/09/2009 6:46:08 AM PDT by Huck
Yesterday, Emily Gillette filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont, setting the stage for a legal battle, according to the Burlington Free Press.
Three years ago, Gillette, her husband, Brad, and their then 22-month-old daughter, River, were ordered to leave a plane at Vermont's Burlington International Airport. It was a New York-bound Delta Connections flight operated by Freedom Airlines.
Gillette was nursing River when a flight attendant asked her to cover up. Gillette refused. The flight attendant asked again, offering a blanket. The then 27-year-old mother continued to refuse. The flight attendant "pointed to the exit and demanded: 'Just get off the plane,'" the court documents read.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Defecation is just as natural. Mind if I drop a pile in your front yard?
No, grownups don’t think they should be allowed to do whatever they want to in public....grownups know that some activities are private, and that the rest of the world doesn’t have to be exposed to it. Grownups show restraint and concern for their fellow man.
Not gonna do your google work for you ;-p
go to faa.gov; delta.com, united.com, etc.
Pull out an old paper ticket.
Actualy listen to an announcement next time yo fly (not that you don’t personally).
It’s like the captain of a ship — he/she HAS the power to bounce you at will.
It IS hilarious. Maybe touch yourself, let out some moans and grunts. It's natural!
Well it seems to me that the airplane is private property, and can demand more than the government. Regardless of what the law says, don’t you think you have the right to ask someone in your home to cover up or get out? Of course you do. And the same goes for this private business.
The law cites “places of public accomodation.” Private businesses can’t do whatever they want under the law. It goes back to the whole segregation issue. White lunch counters, black lunch counters. Later on it was expanded to include special accomodations for people with disabilities. More recently smoking laws.
Oh..I forgot to mention I’m also an NRA certified Pistol instructor and the days I dont carry are rare...
I’m also 6’2” and 190 lbs, wear a biker leather most days, and a ballcap with three big letters on it that say NRA...
For some wierd reason no one ever screws with me...go figure...
yep.
And, add that to the fact that there's a real militant faction of women who think women who don't breastfeed are somehow lesser for it.
Mrs WBill used a pump...that way *I* could get up in the middle of the night, too (good planning on her part) ... For our first kid, the "lactation consultant" caught my wife in the hospital room and trashed her out so much that she cried. I wish I had been there - I was at home getting some more clothes for Mrs WBill. I'd have thrown this boob nazi out on her butt.
We complained - hospital did nothing.
Second time around, my wife was ready for it. Lactation Specialist came around, and my wife gave her the old heave-ho. I didn't even need to say a word. Very satisfying experience for both of us.
Where is the breast feeding kook alert.
I saw a lady doing this in the thrift store one day with a big kid—probably about 2 years old. She was holding him propped up on the cart and parading around with her breast out. There’s no need for that.
Yet in some of those same states, a woman just wiping out a boob in public for fun would be in legal trouble. I have no problem with women breastfeeding an infant, but there are ways to do it without making a public spectacle of it.
The double-standard is stunning. Whats wrong with discrete?
Bingo!!!!
LOL
” Maybe touch yourself, let out some moans and grunts. It’s natural!”
LMAO....now that would just be silly...
And that just might got the attention of an officer...or someone like me carrying a pistol...
That’s a good one...but even I dont go that far...
Humor is the best weapon against idiots....nothing works as good as ole fashioned public humiliation...
“Breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world. It shouldn’t have to be covered up.”
but people have a *super*natural soul and covered themselves up out of a sense of modesty ever since Adam and Eve sinned.
So if you ever fly, and are seated next to a strange man who feels the need to unzip his fly to scratch his crotch (it itches, after all - and what is more natural than scratching an itch), I fully expect you to not make a big deal out of it. He shouldn't be forced into a restroom, or to try to scratch through his clothing. Or maybe the same fellow has to go potty, and since the restroom is "occupied", he just uses the now empty water bottle to relieve himself. Just avert your eyes. Maybe it is disturbing, but why make him hold it and maybe do damage to his urinary tract.
I strongly suspect that this situation was escalated by the breastfeeding mother who wanted to play the exhibitionist. Arguing with a flight attendant can be grounds for being put off a flight.
How do you spell burlaper??
Power trip...maybe they’re bionic?
Can’t help but wonder how many of those women are still breast feeding the same children (now that they are 3 years older)...
OK, I am on a boring conference call —
FAR PART 121.571 is a good start. I’ll keep looking.
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