Posted on 08/13/2004 9:22:10 PM PDT by Unknown Freeper
She should have glued a handle on her head and gone as someone else's carry-on. That would have been free!
Doubt it, that was a long time ago.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
Makes sense to me. . .
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.
How did she get to the airport. . .out of the car. . .to the gate. . .how did she get back home?
What do you call a limbless man in your garden?
Leif
What do you call a limbless man in a windy garden?
Russell
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.
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.
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.
See post # 34.
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?)
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.
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."
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.
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