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

Wed Jul 21 19:35:06 UTC 2010

Well, (shrug!) what I said about the gloves was what I was told.   No 
worries!  Maybe they'll get "blind cooties" or something!  LOL!

When Landon gets patted down, he thinks it is playtime and he'll wag and 
wiggle and have a great time with the nice person who is giving him 
attention!  When I fly, I've lucked out with security TSA folk who LOVE 
dogs. I realize that it can be different when you are a frequent flyer - not 
once in a blue moon like me.

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cheryl echevarria" <cherylandmaxx at hotmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] EXTERNAL:Re: Guide dogs and airport security

> unless they have a needle and accidently stick the security people with 
> one then no.
>
> even the gloves will not protect against that, for someone who has worked 
> in a laboratory and studied blood because I had to become a medical 
> insurance specialist and biller, you need to study anatomy and all systems 
> of the body, and no that is not how you contact it, or the security people 
> would wear hazmat suits instead of just gloves.
>
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>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Linda Gwizdak" <linda.gwizdak at cox.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:01 PM
> 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.
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>> > is
>> > doing it."
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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
>> >
>> >
>> >> 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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