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Okay, I'll learn how to use tinypic.
I just have such a hard time with all these different hosting sites.
But I'll try.
 
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...disneyland-lice-allegations-article-1.3731308

The Newman family was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Santa Ana, Calif,. on Friday over allegations from other passengers that their little girl had lice.

The Newman family was ready to board the aircraft when J. Newman’s wife noticed white flakes in their 6-year-old daughter’s hair, NBC 5 reported.

“There was some dry skin in my daughter’s hair,” he told NBC 5. “So, she was just kind of taking it out of my daughter’s hair.”

About 30 minutes later, an airline gate agent approached the family over concerns that the little girl could have lice.

Newman said “they saw my wife going through my daughter’s hair” which caused other passengers to suspect that she might have lice.

“And we looked at each other like, 'Are you serious right now or is this a joke?' ”
“We never want to inconvenience customers but when we receive concerns from multiple people, we’re obligated to look into them,” the statement read.

Southwest insisted that the Newmans not travel on their scheduled flight, even though Newman insists that his daughter didn’t even have lice, NBC 5 reported.

“We don’t even have lice. That’s the crazy thing. our daughter doesn’t have lice,” he told NBC 5. “So, why they would do this to us I have no idea,” Newman said.

He added that his daughter is upset because she believes it was her fault she didn’t get to do to Disneyland.
[doublepost=1514870396,1514870107][/doublepost]https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kiro...for-her-fall-down-airport-escalator/670727651
Bernice Kekona’s family requested a gate-to-gate escort service during her trip from Maui to Spokane in June 2017, according to the lawsuit. The suit alleges Kakona’s family called Alaska Airlines three times to make sure she would not be left alone during her trip. Federal law requires airlines to assist disabled passengers on and off their flights, and between gates to make connections.
Kakona, who had impaired vision and hearing, also had a prosthetic left leg and used a power wheelchair for mobility.

The lawsuit claims Kakona was helped off her Alaska flight from Maui to Portland, but workers from Huntleigh USA left her in the terminal to find her next gate alone. Kakona is seen on Portland airport surveillance wandering through the airport, and moving her wheelchair to the top of an escalator.

The lawsuit claims Kakona, who suffered extensive injuries, told first responders she was confused and thought she was boarding an elevator before she fell down 22 escalator steps, face first, with her heavy electric wheelchair on top of her.

Alaska airlines released this statement:

“We’re heartbroken by this tragic and disturbing incident.

We don’t have all the facts, but after conducting a preliminary investigation, it appears that Ms. Kekona declined ongoing assistance in the terminal and decided to proceed on her own to her connecting flight. It also appears that when her family members booked the reservation, they did not check any of the boxes for a passenger with “Blind/low vision,” “Deaf/hard of hearing,” or “Other special needs (i.e., developmental or intellectual disability, senior/elderly).” So, there was no indication in the reservation that Ms. Kekona had cognitive, visual, or auditory impairments.

After landing in Portland, Ms. Kekona was assisted into her own motorized scooter by an airport consortium wheelchair service provider who then escorted her from the aircraft into the concourse. Once in the concourse, she went off on her own. We learned from bystanders that Ms. Kekona sustained a fall while attempting to operate her own electronic chair down a moving escalator next to the A concourse elevator. We immediately called the Port of Portland Fire and Rescue, along with Port of Portland Police, who responded to the scene quickly to provide her medical treatment,” said Alaska Airlines spokesperson Bobbie Egan.

The lawsuit claims the airline had a responsibility to escort Kekona to her connecting flight in Portland, no matter what she may have told a worker, or what boxes they may not have checked. The case is scheduled for trial next December.
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/artic...told-me-i-dont-look-ill-enough-to-be-disabled
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Nathalie Allport-Grantham, claims a member of staff at Stansted Airport told her she was "wasting their time".

"She basically looked at me and said 'I'm here to help disabled people, I'm not here to help you'," she told Newsbeat.

Stansted Airport says it is "disappointed" and has apologised for causing her distress.
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The 23-year-old had booked special assistance on the flight to Nice on 31 December.

But when she approached a member of staff at the gate, she says she was told she wouldn't get help boarding the plane.

"The way she spoke to me and what she said was just awful.

"Because you pre-book, she has a list of people she's waiting for, so people can't just turn up and say 'I need help'.

"But she didn't ask my name. If she'd just looked at her list she would've seen I was the person she was waiting for."

Nathalie has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which limits her movement and causes her chronic pain.

She also has postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, which increases her heart rate, meaning she can't walk far and faints regularly.

Nathalie says because her illnesses are "invisible" people often doubt whether she really is disabled.

"It's something I and everyone with chronic illnesses is used to, being judged and being called a liar," she says.

"I've been told before 'You look too pretty to be disabled'. People have an idea that a disabled person has to look a certain way."

Although she was eventually helped on to the plane, she says she is upset and has complained to the airport on Twitter.
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That woman should’ve shut her mouth and check the list. I hate it when people think they are know it alls.
[doublepost=1518139381,1515198016][/doublepost]I’m just going to put this Gem here

http://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-news/florida-woman-says-airline-told-her-to-flush-pet-hamster_

A Florida woman says an airline told her to flush her hamster down a toilet at the airport because the emotional support rodent wasn't allowed to fly with her.

Spirit Airlines denies telling Belen Aldecosea to flush the hamster named Pebbles. She says she did flush Pebbles, after running out of other options.

The Miami Herald reports that before Aldecosea flew home from college to South Florida, she twice called Spirit Airlines to ensure she could bring Pebbles, her pet dwarf hamster. No problem, the airline told her.

But Spirit refused to allow the animal on the flight at the Baltimore airport.

The 21-year-old told the paper that she flushed Pebbles. She said she's considering suing Spirit over the conflicting instructions that pressured her into making an anguished decision.


Aldecosea skipped her flight and tried to rent a car instead, but said she was too young to rent one. So she did what she felt was the most humane choice.

“She was scared. I was scared. It was horrifying trying to put her in the toilet,” Aldecosea said. “I was emotional. I was crying. I sat there for a good 10 minutes crying in the stall.”

The student said she considered letting Pebbles run free outside but could not bear thinking of her hamster freezing to death or getting hit. “I didn’t have any other options,” she said.

Spirit Airlines spokesman Derek Dombrowski told the Miami Herald that an employee “mistakenly” told Aldecosea that Pebbles was allowed on the flight but denied that an employee suggested she flush the rodent down the toilet. “To be clear, at no point did any of our agents suggest this guest (or any other for that matter) should flush or otherwise injure an animal,” Dombrowski said.
 
So she did what she felt was the most humane choice.

Who told her flushing an animal is humane?

I sat there for a good 10 minutes crying in the stall.”

A whole ten minutes?

could not bear thinking of her hamster freezing to death or getting hit.

So that was worse than drowning? If she'd set him free he'd at least had a chance, flushing him, none at all.

She had choices, granted they were limited, but she had choices, she could have taken Pebbles back home and caught a later flight. Or she could have left him home to start with, he obviously wasn't that important or she couldn't have flushed him.
 
So that was worse than drowning? If she'd set him free he'd at least had a chance, flushing him, none at all.

She had choices, granted they were limited, but she had choices, she could have taken Pebbles back home and caught a later flight. Or she could have left him home to start with, he obviously wasn't that important or she couldn't have flushed him.
she could have called someone to get him, she could have canceled or rescheduled adn taken him back to her place she could have made sure in writing she could take him, letting him go would have been bad as he was a domestically bred raised creature with no survival instincts but what she did was loathsome, her not the airlines and she should be charged with animal abuse and denied any right to ever have another animal she is a self centered twat with no conscience. Hell, she could have even paid for a seat for him or animal storage. Whoever she dealt with at the airlines should be dismissed as they could have called animal control and given him a 50/50 chance of surviving long enough to get adopted to a kid that would have loved him but she is to blame not the airlines. whoever dealt with her should have seen she was too unstable to make any ethical decisions and imo not too good at critical thinking themselves if not as much of a cretin as her
 
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This is passenger douchebaggery.
The dimwit passenger should be charged with animal cruelty. She certainly has no right to blame the airline. She made the choice to flush it.
She was coming home from college too.... What does she study?
 
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Spirit allows you to attempt to fly stand by on the next flight(s) or apply the cost of your ticket to another one.

This chick had absolutely no one who could come get her “support” animal? Never thought to contact the airline ahead of time and ask about her precious hamster?

Ugh. The entitled ‘your policy doesn’t apply to me because I’m special’ generation. Gross.

Since she replaced it so fast, methinks the hamster was an attempt to become a financial support animal.....:greedy::greedy::greedy::greedy::greedy:

Now give her millions because she’s a money grubbing, spoiled brat.

Or maybe just give her the $4.99 it cost her to buy her new BFF from PetCo.
 
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Damn Pebbles was flushed and replaced rather quickly...

That only proves to me that, in this case, at least, emotional support animal is bullshit. As I am sure it is for a lot of people. I'm sure there are some that need that little bit of extra support, but they are usually sitting at home on the couch cuddling their cat.
 
She made it through security with it. All she had to do from that point on was keep the fucking thing in her pocket. She just want's some attention.
 
https://nypost.com/2018/03/13/dog-dies-after-united-flight-attendant-forces-it-into-overhead-bin/
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The Points Guy reports that during their flight, an attendant insisted that the woman put her dog, which was held in a TSA-approved pet carrier, in an overhead bin for the rest of the flight.

Passengers heard barking during the flight, but didn’t learn that the dog had died until the flight was over.

“There was no sound as we landed and opened his kennel,” passenger June Lara writes in a Facebook post. “There was no movement as his family called his name. I held her baby as the mother attempted to resuscitate their 10 month old puppy.”
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“Another reason I will never ever fly or support doing business with United Airlines!” one Twitter user writes.

A United spokesperson addressed the incident in a statement to The Points Guy: “This was a tragic accident that should never have occurred, as pets should never be placed in the overhead bin. We assume full responsibility for this tragedy and express our deepest condolences to the family and are committed to supporting them. We are thoroughly investigating what occurred to prevent this from ever happening again.”

According to United’s website, its policy for onboard pets is: “A pet traveling in cabin must be carried in an approved hard-sided or soft-sided kennel. The kennel must fit completely under the seat in front of the customer and remain there at all times.”
[doublepost=1521052423,1521038305][/doublepost]https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-airlines-mistakenly-flies-family-170211211.html
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Kara and Joseph Swindle told KCTV-5 that they and their two children had landed in Kansas City, Missouri, on Tuesday expecting to be reunited with their German shepherd, Irgo. The dog had traveled in a kennel in the cargo hold of a different United flight.

Instead, the family was met with a Great Dane they had never seen before. Apparently, a United mix-up had sent Irgo all the way to Japan, which is where the Great Dane was meant to go.
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“An error occurred during connections in Denver for two pets sent to the wrong destinations,” he said. “We have notified our customers that their pets have arrived safely and will arrange to return the pets to them as soon as possible. We apologize for this mistake and are following up with the vendor kennel where they were kept overnight to understand what happened.”

Kara Swindle, whose family is in the process of moving from Oregon to Wichita, Kansas, told KCTV-5 that she just wants her beloved pet to be safe.

“I don’t know what else to do at this point,” she said. “I can’t cry anymore. I’ve cried too much.”
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[doublepost=1521132478][/doublepost]http://www.kansascity.com/news/article204849254.html
A lawsuit against Southwest Airlines has been filed by the family of a Prairie Village man who was thrown against the cabin wall on a flight last year after his seat belt came undone.

Eugene Dreyer suffered injuries that would lead to his death months later, his family alleges in the wrongful death suit, which points to the carelessness and negligence of airline employees.

Dreyer, 81, a stockbroker and financial adviser, had lost the use of his legs due to polio and was in a wheelchair when he and his wife boarded a Southwest plane in Kansas City on Feb. 21, 2017, according to the lawsuit.
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Dreyer was wheeled onto the plane by a Southwest employee and seated in the first row. Before take-off, Dreyer asked for a seat belt extension, and a flight attendant buckled him in using the seat belt and extension, according to the suit.

Neither Dreyer, his wife or an assistant traveling with them touched or adjusted the belt during the flight, the suit says.

As the plane landed and began to decelerate, the belt "failed to restrain him" and he "flew forward into the bulkhead wall," according to the lawsuit allegations.

"Eugene Dreyer hit his head, leg, foot, shoulder and other parts of his body onto the front bulkhead wall," according to the suit.

The lawsuit says he suffered severe injuries to his head, shoulder, foot and leg, including a broken femur.

"He suffered loss of cognitive functions and severe depression," according to the suit.

The suit alleges that his death on April 23, 2017, was a direct result of those injuries.

The suit was filed on behalf of Dreyer's wife and two children and seeks an unspecified amount in damages.
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This is not about airline douchery, but passenger douchery. I had a 15 hour flight, boarded late afternoon. I had a requested window seat in a three seat configuration. A youngish man came and sat in the aisle seat with a spare seat between us. He then told me that he was traveling with a friend and would I swap seats with the friend, who was sitting in the middle of the center row. I declined and told him that his friend could take the spare seat and he answered "no, I like the extra space". I was visited three times by the flight attendant after he complained about me. Once, because my turning the pages of my book, kept him awake, another, I was awakened, because I was snoring and the third time he accused me of stealing his blanket, when it was on the floor by his feet.
 
http://abcnews.go.com/US/dog-dies-united-flight-overhead-bin-airline-confirms/story?id=53718599

In a Facebook post, a fellow passenger said a mother and her two daughters were boarding the flight with their dog in tow when a flight attendant “insisted” that the dog be placed in the overhead bin.

"They assured the safety of the family's pet so wearily, the mother agreed," passenger June Lara wrote.
According to Department of Transportation statistics on animal incidents on U.S. carriers, United has the highest rate of incidents involving loss, injury or death of animals during air transportation, with 2.24 incidents every 10,000 animals transported.

Legally you have to obey all instructions from the crew.
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This is not about airline douchery, but passenger douchery. I had a 15 hour flight, boarded late afternoon. I had a requested window seat in a three seat configuration. A youngish man came and sat in the aisle seat with a spare seat between us. He then told me that he was traveling with a friend and would I swap seats with the friend, who was sitting in the middle of the center row. I declined and told him that his friend could take the spare seat and he answered "no, I like the extra space". I was visited three times by the flight attendant after he complained about me. Once, because my turning the pages of my book, kept him awake, another, I was awakened, because I was snoring and the third time he accused me of stealing his blanket, when it was on the floor by his feet.
I would have told the f!ight attended if I was disgusted again because of his pettiness I would be filing a formal complaint. She had no right to wake you up.
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Kara Swindle said they went to pick their 10-year-old German Shepherd “Irgo” up from United Airlines, only to learn that he wasn’t there. She says instead she found a Great Dane that was supposed to be in Japan.

Swindle says her family is moving from Salem to Wichita, and had to put "Irgo" on a separate flight after being told the dog was too heavy.

After his flight to the far east, "Irgo" is headed back stateside with a first-class ticket.

It's not unheard of for a pet to have to take a different plane than its human family members.
http://katu.com/news/local/kansas-b...erd-dog-mistakenly-flown-from-oregon-to-japan
http://katu.com/news/local/kansas-b...erd-dog-mistakenly-flown-from-oregon-to-japan
 
This is not about airline douchery, but passenger douchery. I had a 15 hour flight, boarded late afternoon. I had a requested window seat in a three seat configuration. A youngish man came and sat in the aisle seat with a spare seat between us. He then told me that he was traveling with a friend and would I swap seats with the friend, who was sitting in the middle of the center row. I declined and told him that his friend could take the spare seat and he answered "no, I like the extra space". I was visited three times by the flight attendant after he complained about me. Once, because my turning the pages of my book, kept him awake, another, I was awakened, because I was snoring and the third time he accused me of stealing his blanket, when it was on the floor by his feet.
In my mind, you were speed reading and the pages turning were creating a wind current.
And then the blanket thing
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Southwest booted a family because it took to long to console a 2 yr
[doublepost=1521305878,1521305482][/doublepost]Southwest are asshole s kicked a family of the airline because it took too long to console a 2yr who was scared.
 
I've been on too many flights with crying toddlers. There is no assurance that the toddler wouldn't have another meltdown in the air. The flight crew have a lot of experience with screaming children on planes and I'll take their judgement over sympathetic passengers.

I'm on the airline's side. The father and daughter got the next flight. Child rearing can be very inconvenient at times.
 
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/19/us/delta-misroutes-puppy/index.html
An Idaho man says his new 8-week-old puppy appears happy and healthy despite being flown across the country to the wrong airport -- landing in Las Vegas and Salt Lake City before finally arriving in his arms Sunday.

Owner Josh Schlaich had vented his frustration with Delta Air Lines on Facebook when the white and brindle puppy failed to arrive Saturday as scheduled and he was unable to get any answers by phone.

According to Delta, the dog left Richmond, Virginia, and was due to fly into Boise on Saturday evening, connecting in Detroit and Minneapolis. But Delta says there was a mixup somewhere between Richmond and Boise -- and Schlaich actually received the wrong puppy when he arrived at the airport. Delta is investigating to determine where and how the mixup happened.
When Schlaich realized that his dog was missing, he started working with Delta officials to track down his puppy.

Schlaich's dog ended up spending Saturday night in a kennel in Detroit. Sunday morning, the puppy was flown to Minneapolis -- but then Delta said it "misrouted" the puppy and it ended up in Las Vegas. The puppy was then put on a plane to Salt Lake City, finally making it to Boise on Sunday night.

Delta said the puppy was given food and water and let out of its crate periodically throughout the journey.
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Schlaich said he received a call from someone at the Delta terminal in Detroit about his dog's whereabouts, but then he got the runaround.

"Was then given the number of the boarding facility -- a disconnected line. Was not given a call back number by Detroit person, and the customer service would not give me their direct line. Tried calling Delta Cargo customer service, only to be yelled at by the rep and hung up on. No idea where my dog is, or what conditions he'll be placed under for the next 24 or more hours. Don't know when he will come into Boise tomorrow. No idea who to call. Absolutely ridiculous customer service."

After Delta responded, Schlaich posted two updates to say the dog was delivered and safe.
"Local Delta reps (in Boise) did their best and were very helpful, but corporate and I will be having a thorough conversation tomorrow," he wrote.

Schlaich later said Delta was "working hard to make this right."
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Delta said it apologized for the mix-up and has fully refunded the dog's shipping costs and started a review of its procedures.

"We know pets are important members of the family," the airline said.
It's at least the fourth airline error involving an animal in a week.
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[doublepost=1521737278,1521557153][/doublepost]https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/t...ght-over-business-logo-on-his-shirt/719893629
He makes a living with his skateboard and his brand, but this month Justin Mallory said that’s exactly what got him in trouble.

Mallory claims he was kicked off a flight out of Atlanta because of his business logo on his shirt which features guns.
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He said the airline said the shirt made another passenger uncomfortable.

Mallory’s lawyer, Mawuli Davis, calls it discrimination.

“The shirt, some would say he’s dressed in a hip-hop fashion, and he’s African-American. Those three things may have all contributed to the discrimination and profiling against him,” Davis said.
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Frontier said Mallory “became argumentative prior to boarding when asked to check a skateboard. The passenger boarded the aircraft and continued to exhibit disruptive behavior.”

“That’s totally false,” Mallory told Wilfon.

Because he was kicked off the flight, Mallory said he missed a skateboarding trade show where he planned to promote his brand.

Instead, he said it got him in trouble.

“It was a terrible situation. It was embarrassing. I don’t want to see it happen to anyone else. I wouldn’t wish it on someone,” Mallory said.
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There's also a video at the link.
[doublepost=1522246010][/doublepost]http://www.ksdk.com/article/news/st...rmany-after-international-flight/63-531286877
ST. LOUIS – A man moving back to St. Louis following his mother’s death is dealing with trying to get his family’s dog back after it was left in Germany.

John MacEnulty IV reached out to 5 On Your Side Friday morning and said a company working with Lufthansa Airlines took his dog off a flight.

MacEnulty paid 1500 euros for his family’s dog and cat to fly back from Germany to St. Louis for his mother’s memorial service. The cat made it, but their beloved dog Joey did not.

The family says a veterinarian cleared the dog to fly, and about 45 minutes later he was unable to fly.

MacEnulty says Joey had a scratch on his nose and the vet believed that was enough of a ‘danger’ for the dog to not travel.

“No one really wanted to take responsibility, until today when Lufthansa finally stepped up and said, ‘we’ll take care of this,’ MacEnulty said.

MacEnulty says he’s grateful for Lufthansa stepping up, but he doesn’t think it was their fault. He says he booked the whole flight through United Airlines.

“I think it was United’s responsibility, I booked [the flight] with United.” I booked the PetSafe with United, I used the company with United told me that handles all its pet bookings.

5 On Your Side spoke to United Airlines which said customers work with an animal shipment brokerage company, which helps coordinate pet travel. Thy also said Germany has strict import export laws and the family did not have a valid PetSafe reservation.

The airline said it recommended a company called Gradlyn Petshipping to handle the transport of their pets.
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it was unable to book the pets on the same flight because United Airlines had suspended its PetSafe reservations program beginning March 20.

The animals were instead scheduled to be on a Lufthansa flight departing 30 minutes after the family's flight, and they were cleared to fly.

United also said it offered to fly the family back to Germany to be reunited with their pet.

Joey is currently at a veterinarian in Germany and will be put on a flight later this month.
 
https://au.news.yahoo.com/revealed-killed-dog-left-planes-overhead-compartment-230851870.html
The French bulldog who was stored in an overhead locker on a United Airlines plane died of suffocation, an autopsy has revealed.

The 10-month-old puppy was found dead after a three-and-a-half-hour flight from Houston to Chicago in March. The family claimed they were told by the cabin crew to place the carrier in the overhead compartment, despite their protests that the dog, named Kokito, was inside.
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Kokito’s necropsy, which was conducted at Cornell University, found the pup was subjected to decreased levels of oxygen.

Stress combined with the French bulldog’s narrow airway were also factors, according to TMZ.

United Airlines resumed the shipment of pets in its airplane cargo holds after having paused the program for improvements following Kokito’s death.

United said it is partnering with the American Humane animal rights organization to improve the well-being of the pets it flies
Short- or snub-nosed cat and dog breeds, like French bulldogs, and strong-jawed dog breeds, like Mastiffs, will no longer be permitted to fly as cargo
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Thank Keep for this one.

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/if-your-seatbelt-isn-t-tight-you-f-cked-up-possibly-1825797185/amp
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On Thursday, a passenger tweeted to United saying that she was so unnerved by a flight attendant’s behavior that she was compelled to snitch tell the pilot, saying that the flight attendant said, “If your seatbelt isn’t tight, you fucked up.”
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Inquiring minds want to know: Did the stewardess mean you “messed up,” as in, you made a mistake, or did she use the inherently more black English intonation, “you fucked up” as in you are messed up in the whole entire game?
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Anywho, this passenger Erika Gorman, thought that the disheveled flight attendant was drunk or high, and tweeted the parent airline to say so. Gorman tweeted that she was “terrified” and took pictures of the stewardess and another passenger.
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Gorman also tweeted that police and an ambulance met the plane when it landed in Williston, N.D.
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“We have compensated all customers aboard the flight and we apologize for any inconvenience or distress this may have caused,” read the statement. “The safety of our customers and crew aboard all United and Trans States flights is a top priority.”

The News also reports that the attendant “was taken out of service.”
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