• Amputee left crawling after airport confiscated scooter batteries.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/01/health/amputee-airline-batteries-confiscated-trnd/index.html Hodge was prepared and presented documents he'd printed from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), that said that while there is a risk of fire hazard with Lithium-ion batteries, the association's global standards make exceptions for the medical devices of travelers with disabilities if the airlines gives prior approval, the outlet reported. He had that approval, he told CBC. But Hodge told the network that no one would listen to him or read the documents. "I still remember the CATSA agent saying, 'Well, you could get a wheelchair.' How's a one-armed guy going to run a wheelchair?" Hodge told the outlet. "How am I going to go down a ramp and brake with one hand? But that shouldn't even have to come up." The Canadian Air Transit Security Authority declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
Jesus fucking christ.
Sue them for as much as you can, and then some. Fuck, it's disappointing how callous and ignorant some people can get.
Why do airports always seem like they're run like fucking zoos?
Don't know, but it's bizarre how much power to just be complete assholes that airports have. Here's a good article with new York as an example. Lawful Handguns Departing for New York, but Unlawful Upon Arriva..
It is all policy and bureaucracy. Add a mix of inexperience and you get people who try to navigate their job with complications.
Sue then get everyone involved with it fired. This is disgusting.
there's a lot of people in this world that are great at doing their one thing over and over again and presented with out of bounds situations they breakdown completely.
Highly unlikely, airport staff can act like cunts and just cite safety concerns as justification. They might get a talking to about toning down the cuntness if it could lead to bad PR like this but no one will lose their job over this.
Didn't something similar happen not too long ago where they lost dude's wheelchair and instead offered him something that looks like it came straight out of insane asylum?
Man Drags Himself Through Terminal After Flight Forgets His Whee.. Yeah. I wonder how often stuff like this happens with airports. Maybe more and we just don't hear about it.
Whoever made this call deserves to be out in a wheelchsir. At the least, they should have arranged for someone to push him through in a wheelchsir. How the fuck doesn't this violate the ADA?
Oh so you're supposed to be able to bring explosives on to a plane because you're missing a leg? This man should have pulled himself up by the bootstraps... err... bootstrap. He still has 2 functioning lungs, does he not? Just blow on the other wheel while spinning the other one with your arm. Perfectly reasonable and doable.
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