[Unknown Freeper]

The woman says her disability is the regult of her mother having taken Thalidomide when her mother was pregnant.

[jojodamofo]

Thalidomide ... this woman has probably made a comfortable living off lawsuits. She needs to suck it up and get over it.

[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.

[al baby]

I hate when you get a regult

that always stunes my beeber

[pubmom]

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."

To which she should have replied: "No, kidding that's why I need to get on the plane."

Ahhh, the sensitive, polite French.

[steplock]

You may thank a LAWYER for all this crap!

[Slings and Arrows]

If the employee actually said that, he should fired with bootmarks on his butt. The timing, though, is puzzling - filing four years after the incident? And for a simple (if vile) insult? This story as described doesn't pass the smell test.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Air France
no more explanation needed

[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..

[Lurker]

Lemme guess. Her name is "Bob".

L

[martin_fierro]

Limbless Woman Says Air France Wouldn't Allow Her On Board

Clearly, she was unarmed.

[smonk]

it was all a mistake; they thought she was luggage since she looked like a trunk.

rimshot

[dead]

What do you call a limbless man who gets thrown in a pool?
Bob.

What do you call a limbless man on your porch?
Matt.

What do you call a limbless man who hangs on a wall?
Art.

What do you call a limbless woman who isn't allowed on an airplane?
Sue.

[Dont Mention the War]

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

[PAR35]

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.

[explodingspleen]

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?

[JohnBovenmyer]

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.

[cricket]

"She said she paid someone else to fly with her and eventually completed the trip."

Makes sense to me. . .

[Paleo Conservative]

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.

[taxesareforever]

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.

[Porterville]

What do you call a french woman with no arms or legs?

A tadpole....