by Bob Walsh
The
federal Dept. of Transportation, in an unusual display of good sense,
has just acted to limit animals on commercial passenger aircraft as
assistance or support animals to DOGS ONLY. NO EXCEPTIONS. I guess
they figure if you are so fucked up you need to travel with your
emotional support peacock you are too fucked up to fly safely.
You can still take the damn things, but they have to travel as cargo.
The
reasoning was that the current regs were having the effect of eroding
the support of the general public in the whole "service animal" thing.
Personally
I don't care what the reasoning was, if that was even the real reason.
I don't like to fly and seldom do, but I am uninterested in traveling
with some asshole's emotional support miniature horse.
Now if they can require that children under ten be carried as freight, that would be truly wonderful.
1 comment:
I just returned from a 55 minute flight from New Orleans where I rented a car and drove to Biloxi. The flight was a nightmare as a toddler sat behind us and screamed while kicking the back of our seat most of the way. The mother acted oblivious and as we walked past her in the airport she told the little thumb sucker that as soon as his daddy showed up she was flying back to Houston.
On a side note I had changed my car reservation to leave a day earlier than planned. As I rented the car the agent did not have the change made over the phone to a person in India. I replied, It must have been an error and I would like to be compensated with an upgrade. I went from a mid-sized sedan to a Cadillac SUV. Nice ride for the same price. We never even tuned on the radio. It was a quiet ride on new leather without having to listen to that little bastard scream.
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