[nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: Guide dogs and airport security

[Linda Gwizdak]

Albert,
HIV/AIDS can be spread by contact with certain body fluids - and I know not 
casual contact. I knew about what was to become called AIDS before it had a 
name when it first hit the Gay community in SF back in the late 1970s.

Yeah, no dinner,eh? LOL!

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Albert J Rizzi" <albert at myblindspot.org>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: Guide dogs and airport security


> Ok, hiv and aids are not able to be transferred by contact. The gloves are
> worn out of proper hygiene any cavity searches would most certainly not be
> done by airport security and not without dinner and a proper 
> introduction.,.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Linda Gwizdak
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 3:34 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: Guide dogs and airport security
>
> I've noticed that all the airport personnel that pat us down and pat our
> dogs down wear those latex gloves. I never thought they would do any 
> cavity
> checks out on the line!  they wear the gloves to avoid coming in contact
> with someone's bodily secretions - a practice beginning with dealing with
> people with HIV/AIDS and other communicable diseases.
>
> Lyn and Landon
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (TASC)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at tasc.com>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: Guide dogs and airport security
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>
>> Some people are just bullies, and I think all industries have them. They
>> seek out whoever they feel they can beat up on like predators. Playing
>> nice isn't always a good idea. Know your rights and know theirs and all
>> will be well.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
>> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 7:25 PM
>> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
>> Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: [nagdu] Guide dogs and airport security
>>
>> Wow! And I thought the pair that ended up deciding to start snapping on
>> latex gloves to do a cavity search of my guide dog pushed the limits...
>> Well, in that instance, the snapping of the latex and the absolute shock
>> that they could even *think* that sort of thing would be necessary
>> snapped
>> me out of my cooperative stupor. I didn't even have to stand up to look
>> the
>> super tall guy of the snapping gloves in the eye and give him The Look.
>> While brushing off the female guard who didn't want said suspcious
>> cavity
>> dog anywhere near her while she was still fussing over me looking for
>> whatever it was we must be trying to sneak past them.  /lol/
>>
>> I had always been of the belief that simply cooperating with airport
>> security was the course of reason ...  So that changed on the spot!
>>
>> Complete destruction of guide dog harness tops the cavity search
>> proposal,
>> though.  Good grief!
>>
>> Glad you took them on and won!
>>
>> Tami Smith-Kinney
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Passle Helminski
>> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:52 AM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Guide dogs and airport security
>>
>> Just after 9/11 in the Philadelphia airport they took my guides
>> harness apart.  Stitching and all so I could not harness her up.  I
>> talked to my local chapter and they called are state president who
>> sued the airport and won.  Please contact our PA president James
>> Antonacci.
>>
>> Passle
>>
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