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Student, 21, sues Spirit airline after she flushed her 'emotional support HAMSTER' down the toilet
Daily Mail ^ | 02/08/2018 | Daily Mail

Posted on 02/08/2018 9:08:57 AM PST by MD Expat in PA

A student who flushed her hamster down the toilet when Spirit told her she couldn't fly home with it, is now attempting to sue the airline for causing emotional distress.

Aldecosea, a Miami Beach High graduate, insists her doctor approved her hamster as a certified emotional support animal, and had the medical certificate to prove it when she went to the airport.

She's bought the adorable rodent after developing a large but benign growth in her neck last year.

'She was so loving. It was like she knew I needed somebody,' said Aldecosea, a six-feet tall volleyball star who helped lead her school, Miami Beach to back-to-back National District Championships and was named Most Valuable Player, before joining Barry University in Florida where she joined the volleyball team.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: airlines; floriduh; mentalillness
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To: Moonman62

Reclining airline seats are the worst invention. Ever.


Yep. I’ve found that when I recline an airline seat it just makes me uncomfortable in a “different way”. :)


101 posted on 02/08/2018 10:23:36 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: MD Expat in PA
Student, 21, sues Spirit airline after she flushed her 'emotional support HAMSTER' down the toilet

Send her a bill for the standard Hamster funeral cost of $500

102 posted on 02/08/2018 10:24:25 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: robroys woman
She wouldn’t want me on the jury

And Spirit Airlines doesn't want me on the jury.

"Therapy" rodents (hamsters, rats, etc.) have been used quite effectively in senior homes, due to their size and relative docility.

103 posted on 02/08/2018 10:24:44 AM PST by ssaftler (Just another sunny day in the land of the fruits, nuts, flakes and illegals.)
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To: RedMonqey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYoQ_-5sUI


104 posted on 02/08/2018 10:25:35 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: MD Expat in PA

Spirit Airlines sues student for being too unstable to even be on their airline with all her potential issues and ‘baggage’. :-)


105 posted on 02/08/2018 10:26:34 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: MD Expat in PA
"Woman denied emotional support peacock on United flight"

These self-indulgent scheming jerks are good reason to bring back a very appropriate form of social correction. It should be administered at the very airports they afflict others with their sociopathic (or minimally sociopathetic) stunts - with their "emotional support" animal to be tied or caged along side them.


106 posted on 02/08/2018 10:26:36 AM PST by drpix
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To: MD Expat in PA
Seeing eye dogs or specially trained dogs to help paraplegics, fine, but if you can’t travel or go to a restaurant, store, etc., without your “emotional support” hamster, peacock, pony, snake or yappy Chihuahua, then perhaps you should just stay home.

HEY!!
Our Chihuahua isn't yappy, and he hates airline travel!

...jess sayin'...

107 posted on 02/08/2018 10:28:04 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: ssaftler

But Spirit didn’t flush it down the toilet.

If someone tells me to shoot my dog, and I shoot my dog. It would be unreasonable for me to hold them accountable.


108 posted on 02/08/2018 10:28:09 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: publius911

No, you shouldn’t stay home. You should check your self into a mental asylum for treatment.


109 posted on 02/08/2018 10:29:36 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Huskrrrr
I’m sorry for the poor girl’s medical trauma, hopefully someone that really IS loving reaches out to her.

Someone already suggested an emotional Support python...

110 posted on 02/08/2018 10:30:55 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: MD Expat in PA

The maximum possible award would be the value of her ticket, because she could have simply walked away. Nobody forced her to do anything to the hamster.


111 posted on 02/08/2018 10:33:03 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: MD Expat in PA

And she’s 21, but the article headlines her as a ‘student’.

She’s an adult and whether or not she is a student is irrelevant—just used to make it sound like some child was needlessly traumatized.


112 posted on 02/08/2018 10:33:29 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

If she is an american college student she has obviously been brain washed.


113 posted on 02/08/2018 10:35:11 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Axenolith
Oh, I bet that sucker made it down to the sewers alive. It will now marshal an army of rats and seek bloody vengeance on humankind...

Only if it survived the 30,000 foot drop after the sewage is dumped on some farmer's field...

114 posted on 02/08/2018 10:35:15 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: MD Expat in PA

So what a shame. All the years of training for the hamster literally down the drain.


115 posted on 02/08/2018 10:35:51 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: publius911

Wasn’t she in the terminal, being refused boarding???


116 posted on 02/08/2018 10:38:02 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: MD Expat in PA

She’d be emotionally happier with a medium sized gerbil, maybe?


117 posted on 02/08/2018 10:40:01 AM PST by GOYAKLA (" Winning not Whining"!)
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To: norcal joe
Ya know, a couple of months ago, "What's Up Doc?" ran on TCM. Barbra Streisand played a perpetual student that got kicked out of a number of schools.

Perhaps Miss Aldecoasea is auditioning for the remake via "living the part"?

118 posted on 02/08/2018 10:41:46 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: GoldenState_Rose

I flew Spirit recently, and I thought they were great!

I liked the hard plastic non-reclining seats because they give me extra legroom and I never recline.

I liked the “they don’t pay us to be nice” attitude of the flight attendants, because it was honest. They were perfectly helpful and competent, but not particularly nice. Works for me!

And it was CHEAP!


119 posted on 02/08/2018 10:41:51 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: moovova

Did JF’nK (John Kerry) rush in his second wife’s first husband’s trust fund funded private jet to give it mouth-to-mouth like he did his daughters’ hamster?


120 posted on 02/08/2018 10:42:16 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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