Posted on 07/07/2012 11:19:33 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Feds: Airlines Must Let Passengers Fly With Pigs for 'Emotional Support' By Elizabeth Harrington
(CNSNews.com) – Pot-bellied pigs must be granted passage on airplanes if they are used for “emotional support” by their owners, states the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) draft manual on equity for the disabled in air travel.
The DOT published its “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Draft Technical Assistance Manual” in the Federal Register on July 5, providing guidance that allows swine on airplanes if they are determined to be service animals.
The manual is designed to "help carriers and indirect carriers and their employees/contractors that provide services or facilities to passengers with disabilities, assist those passengers in accordance with" the Air Carrier Access Act. The manual open for public comments until Oct. 3.
Under the “Service Animal” section, the department lays out a scenario for airline carriers entitled “Example 1.”
The manual states: “A passenger arrives at the gate accompanied by a pot-bellied pig. She claims that the pot-bellied pig is her service animal. What should you do?”
“Generally, you must permit a passenger with a disability to be accompanied by a service animal,” reads the manual. “However, if you have a reasonable basis for questioning whether the animal is a service animal, you may ask for some verification.”
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I guessed we’ll have to update our old Hillary joke:
Hillary Clinton walks up to the jetway gate with a pot-bellied pig.
The TSA agent asks, “where did you get the pig?”
“I won her in a raffle,” says the pig.
LOL!!!
I say a service pig shoild be on every flight!
any would-be jihadi martyr bomber then has to live with the chances his charred mortal remains will be mixed with lard
In the spring of 1968 (age 19) I carried my cased Remington 870 onto a flight to Washington National (now Reagan International) Airport. The stew put it in the coat closet next to the forward boarding door. She handed it back as I deplaned & said thank you for flying Delta.
In the summer of 1972 (age 23) I carried two souvenir rifles from Vietnam in a miniature golf bag through the San Fran International concourse, with the bayonets sticking out. The customs guy said welcome home.
In the summer of 1982 (age 33) I carried six handguns from Germany in my suitcase through Atlanta customs. They checked my Form 6/Part II & said have a nice day.
As to the subject of this thread, I say let passengers bring on board their well behaved potbellied pigs! At least one airline should announce a pig-friendly pet policy. Let the muzzies stay away in droves & threaten reprisals! In fact I wish they would all just go away.
(Please to note my tagline)
As long as the pig doesn’t hog the armrest.
Clive Staples Lewis was a genius!
The support animal laws were created to help those with genuine issues cope and they have been a Godsend for lots of suffering people but like everything else, idiots always have to come along and ruin it for everybody.
I can understand a seeing-eye miniature horse becase they *do* have much longer life spans, greater vision and less ‘reactive’ temperaments than dogs but a ‘support pig’ is just stupid.
People like this will eventually cause a revision of the existing laws and huge problems for the people who have ‘normal’ support animals.
Having my 7’ Boa wrapped around my shoulders, giving me a ‘massage’ makes me feel ‘calm’.
So, should I have ~him~ ‘prescribed’ as a support animal and force everybody to stare into his snakey face everywhere I go?
Sheesh.
This is coming at a time when the organizations who provide support dogs for returning troops is really taking off and making a huge difference in their lives.
Just watch selfish jerks send that down in flames.
This country is being run by the insane.
If yer old enough to remember that “pig,” well, I guess we’re brothers.
Pigs instead of Air Marshals would be cheaper and a more effective suicide mission deterrent. Islamaniacs can’t have pig blood on them when they die. And I’d rather have a pot-bellied pig next to me on a plane than some of the other types of smelly pigs I’ve had spilling over into my seat.
That goes for dogs as well.
I have posted many times - put a vial of pig’s blood in the center aisle of every flight - both national and international. Have that vial labeled in (large, bold letters, in Arabic - “Pig’s Blood”. No muzzie would dare blow up a plane with pig blood on board, as he knows some of it would get on him upon the explosion - and there goes his chance with 72 virgins!
Does that mean that I can get Nancy Pelosi or Sheila Jackson Lee on board with me?
Is that like Monica Lewinsky?
Animal Farm, Live.....
As long as they don’t go, “Weeeeee Weeeee Weeeeee” all the way home.
Ever knew anyone that used it?
ALL ABOARD THE MECCA EXPRESS...!!
Souuuuuuuuey...!!!! Piggy-pig-pig...!!!!
^_^
An M-60 or the shoulder rest?
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