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

Wed Jul 21 19:12:48 UTC 2010

Thanks Albert. I can sometimes be "clear as mud" at times. LOL!

Hope you had a Happy Pride - actually belated for you in NY!  Landon and I 
had a blast at ours here that happened this past Saturday and Sunday. 
Everyone LOVED Landon in his "baby blue" booties - same color as the 
Chargers' (our NFL team) "baby blue" uniforms.  I worked two booths at the 
Festival and Landon was a "booth magnet" for both of them. (grin!)  And we 
got to see the 1980s era band, DEVO!  they were AWESOME!

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 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: Guide dogs and airport security

>i know that you are aware, but the way it was shared left it in a way that 
>I
> felt needed to be clarified. It is not all that casual of a transference 
> and
> I just wanted to share.
>
> Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
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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 5:02 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: Guide dogs and airport security
>
> 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.,.
>>
>> Albert J. Rizzi, M.Ed.
>> CEO/Founder
>> My Blind Spot, Inc.
>> 90 Broad Street - 18th Fl.
>> New York, New York  10004
>> www.myblindspot.org
>> PH: 917-553-0347
>> Fax: 212-858-5759
>> "The person who says it cannot be done, shouldn't interrupt the one who 
>> is
>> doing it."
>>
>>
>> Visit us on Facebook LinkedIn
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>
>>
>>> 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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