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Limbless Woman Says Air France Wouldn't Allow Her On Board
WNBC - News 4 NYC ^ | 08/13/2004 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/13/2004 9:22:10 PM PDT by Unknown Freeper

NEW YORK -- A limbless woman sued Air France Friday, saying she was prevented from boarding a flight four years ago by an airline employee who insulted her, saying "a head, one bottom and a torso cannot possibly fly on its own."

Adele Price, 42, of Mansfield, England, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, seeking unspecified damages and including the quote in her claim.

Price said she suffered emotionally, psychologically and endured large expenses as she tried to complete a trip from Manchester, England to New York on Aug. 8, 2000. She said she paid someone else to fly with her and eventually completed the trip.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airfrance; lawsuit; thalidomide
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To: Unknown Freeper

She should have glued a handle on her head and gone as someone else's carry-on. That would have been free!


21 posted on 08/13/2004 9:39:41 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (we use the ¡°ml maximize¡± command in Stata to obtain estimates of each aj , bj, and cm.)
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To: jojodamofo

Doubt it, that was a long time ago.


22 posted on 08/13/2004 9:41:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: dead
What do you call an armless, etc, guy who can water ski?

Skip.

What do you call an armless, etc, guy who can play the piano?

Tricky Dick.

Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week....wait, today's Friday!

23 posted on 08/13/2004 9:45:38 PM PDT by Othniel (Democrats are like roaches: Shine the Light on them, and they scatter for the darkness.)
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To: Unknown Freeper

Does Air France even serve Manchester, England? I know that they wouldn't fly to the US from there. She would either have to go through Paris or take a Delta code share from somewhere else.


24 posted on 08/13/2004 9:47:21 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Unknown Freeper

If the matter was that consequential, why didn't she sue four years ago? It doesn't make sense. She is either a con or an idiot.

Who holds a grudge for four years?


25 posted on 08/13/2004 9:48:53 PM PDT by explodingspleen (When life gets complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.)
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To: jojodamofo
this woman has probably made a comfortable living off lawsuits. She needs to suck it up and get over it.

Hey jojo:

Tell you what, why don't you tell all of us just how much money you would accept to have both arms & both legs cut off?

You have no idea whether this poor woman even got a dime from settlements, but you sure can insult her.

Now for a comment on Air France:

There very well may be a regulation that a person who is too disabled to evacuate the aircraft in an emergency can not fly without a helper. In a real emergency, the crew would have to make a choice between helping this one individual or helping the rest of the passengers get out.

26 posted on 08/13/2004 9:52:52 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Unknown Freeper
How did this end up in US court? She is English, flying from England on Air France. The only thing American about her case was the intended destination. That is enough for jurisdiction? Sounds to me like a case that belonged in Her Majesty's less generous courts.

Even her disability isn't American. The FDA's chief bragging point for decades was that it never approved thalidomide when most of the world was tragically using it as the sedative of choice for pregnant women. The article refers to it as "the leprosy-treating drug thalidomide," but actually its use in leprosy wasn't discovered until after the drug had been banned from general usage. The serendipitous discovery of its benefit against an otherwise untreatable leprosy complication eventually led to its use in several other diseases. It is now FDA approved, albeit under stringent regulations.

27 posted on 08/13/2004 9:53:36 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (I)
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To: Unknown Freeper
"She said she paid someone else to fly with her and eventually completed the trip."

Makes sense to me. . .

28 posted on 08/13/2004 9:54:06 PM PDT by cricket (Don't Lose Your Head. . .Vote Republican)
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To: Unknown Freeper
The woman says her disability is the regult of her mother having taken Thalidomide when her mother was pregnant.

I doubt it. She is British. There was a gag order on all press accounts about Thalidomide until 1976. I remember reading the about it when it was lifted in June 1976.

29 posted on 08/13/2004 9:57:45 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: pubmom
"To which she should have replied: "No, kidding that's why I need to get on the plane."

How did she get to the airport. . .out of the car. . .to the gate. . .how did she get back home?

30 posted on 08/13/2004 9:59:39 PM PDT by cricket (Don't Lose Your Head. . .Vote Republican)
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To: dead

What do you call a limbless man in your garden?
Leif

What do you call a limbless man in a windy garden?
Russell


31 posted on 08/13/2004 9:59:52 PM PDT by Gman
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To: drq
"It's not the insult ........it's the fact they refused to let her fly.......I'd be really pissed too......and want to make the bastards pay......I see no problem with it.."

No problem? How so?

I cannot think of anything but, this being a problem.

As I just asked in another post; how did this woman even get to the airport. . .inside. . .to the gate; how does she eat; et al (???) - without assistance, that is.

32 posted on 08/13/2004 10:03:26 PM PDT by cricket (Don't Lose Your Head. . .Vote Republican)
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To: HawkeyeLonewolf
This country is going to self destruct with political correctness, everyone getting offended to the point of SUING someone, and the general socialist/liberal nonsense of the day.

Oh come on. The woman didn't sue because she was insulted. She wasn't allowed to fly because of her handicap. That was wrong. The insult was wrong. The airline employee was wrong. She at least deserves to be compensated for the trip and for the extra airfare of the second person. I'm against silly lawsuits, but the insult to this woman was over the top and it didn't just hit her in the ego. It hit her in the pocketbook as well.

33 posted on 08/13/2004 10:03:33 PM PDT by Marie (Please don't feed the trolls.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
It was settled four years after the incident. We don't know when she filed. She could have had the airlines dragging her around by the nose for a years, making her believe that they were going to deal with the matter before she got fed up and sued. It can take years to settle a lawsuit.
34 posted on 08/13/2004 10:05:26 PM PDT by Marie (Please don't feed the trolls.)
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To: Unknown Freeper

Her lawyer must have asked her to name the top 10 possible lawsuits that she could sue for in the last 4 years and this was the most plausible one.


35 posted on 08/13/2004 10:05:47 PM PDT by taxesareforever
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To: explodingspleen

See post # 34.


36 posted on 08/13/2004 10:07:10 PM PDT by Marie (Please don't feed the trolls.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Please forgive me. I can't seem to find in the article where it says that she's a Brit. (And don't people move from time to time?)


37 posted on 08/13/2004 10:09:13 PM PDT by Marie (Please don't feed the trolls.)
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To: Marie
"I'm against silly lawsuits, but the insult to this woman was over the top and it didn't just hit her in the ego. It hit her in the pocketbook as well."

Insult aside; this woman clearly could not have imagined or anticipated anything else; but a refusal to board that plane.

'Equal treatment' allows that this silly lawsuit was brought about by a more than 'silly', woman. Silly and wily. . .makes more sense.

38 posted on 08/13/2004 10:16:51 PM PDT by cricket (Don't Lose Your Head. . .Vote Republican)
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To: jojodamofo
And I thought that you were terrible!

My son is getting ready for bed and I muttered, "These FReepers are awful!"

He says, "Why?"

I begin, "OK. This woman has no arms or legs..."

He looks at me very seriously and slowly (pronouncing every syllable) says, "Do-they-have-an-y-pic-tures? Because if they don't I-don't-care. I'm tired and I-am-go-ing-to-bed."

39 posted on 08/13/2004 10:18:25 PM PDT by Marie (Please don't feed the trolls.)
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To: Marie
Please forgive me. I can't seem to find in the article where it says that she's a Brit. (And don't people move from time to time?)

Adele Price, 42, of Mansfield, England, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, seeking unspecified damages and including the quote in her claim.

The drug was never sold in the US, for which I am very grateful, because I was born at the time the Thalidomide babies were born in Europe. Britain doesn't have such a loose civil legal system as the US. Under British law the loser pays.

40 posted on 08/13/2004 10:20:03 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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