[nagdu] . Restaurant Turns Away Diners For Having Too Many ServiceDogs.

[Tami Kinney]

Hm... Isn't that part of the reasoning behind the tactic I've heard of
others using of standing your ground and refusing to allow your rights
to be violated until the other party calls the cops on the guide dog
user(s)? That's the Plan B i tend to keep in mind less Plan A --
bareface your way through it -- fails to succeed. /smile/ I have also
heard that how that one actually turns out has a lot to do with the
police department in question and their feelings about whether they
should enforce tsome stupid law that only applies to blind people and
their kind. Sigh. I bear that flaw in that tactic in mind now that we do
so much travel back into the hinterlands on family business 'cuz I knows
how them there country cops think.  So I dutifully review Plan C and
feel very unhappy about how much of my time and energy that's going to
take up, along with money, no doubt, unless I decide to just cave and
let them keep violating my rights and everybody's rights who comes along
because I'm just trying to live my life here and stopped in for a bottle
of water because I was tirsty. Since I can't make myself that unaware of
how much of the same many others have sacrificed so that I can actually
just expect to pop into a corner store with my guide fo a bottle of
water or two, I'm not sure I could live with myself for being a woos.
Hope I never find out what I'm made of, honestly. 

I can always hope the police department and the officers who respond
care to know the law and enforce it instead of making it up in a way
that suits them. /smile/

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 08:59 -0400, cheryl echevarria wrote:
> Question to all, aren't the police suppose to get involved, they are the ones who should have corrected the situation. Seems like our law enforcement officers don't' want to do there jobs, but if the dogs acted up and were asked to leave and the people refused you know darn well that the restaurant would have called the police.
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>   Restaurant Turns Away Diners For Having Too Many Service Dogs
>   By Chris Morran on June 28, 2011 12:17 PM 0 views 
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>   Police were summoned to a Boston-area restaurant over the weekend after a group of 13 diners, including six with service dogs, were turned away by the manager for fear that so many canines could cause chaos.
>   "Ignorance of the law: it's an explanation, but it's not an excuse," one of the turned-away diners, who is legally blind, told WBZ-TV.
>   The restaurant had previously allowed diners to bring in service dogs but the manager was concerned that the half-dozen service animals could cause problems at the restaurant's buffet and bother other diners with allergies. WBZ-TV says he suggested the diners let the dogs wait outside.
>   Police were called to the scene of the dispute, but the diners say they didn't really help settle the matter: "It just seemed alternately that they weren't interested, didn't know, didn't care."
>   WBZ reports that, while the police could not have forced the restaurant to seat the diners, they should have informed the manager that a criminal complaint could be filed. 
>   An assistant manager tells the TV station that mistakes were made in handling the situation and that flared tempers made things worse. He said the diners and their dogs would be welcome if they choose to come back.
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