[nagdu] Service dog ID required at Statue of Liberty

[Marsha Drenth]

I wonder if there is a new security alert our about dogs that came out recently. are terrists using guide dogs now? I am not trying to be flippin about this. Its interesting where we get issues and wehre do not. 


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On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:31 AM, "Mark J. Cadigan" <kramc11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was at the statue of liberty a couple months ago, and had no problem with service dog id. However, yesterday, I was at the museum of fine arts in Boston, and this security guard pulled that ID stunt. I told her that no ID was required under the law, realizing she did not understand a word I said, I just continued walking.  Nothing came of it.
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 10:24 AM
> Subject: [nagdu] Service dog ID required at Statue of Liberty
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>> My sister was in town, so yesterday we decided to play tourist and visit
>> the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
>> The security before boarding the ferry demanded to see Ben's service dog
>> ID.  Luckily, I happened to have it.  I could have argued that it's
>> totally illegal, but they were in airport police mode, and I was already
>> having trouble dealing with them, so I just showed the ID.  Not only are
>> old blind white women known to be terrorists, but we have fake service
>> dogs as well.  Oh ya.
>> It is a national park, and it doesn't seem at all right that they are
>> asking for service dog ID. And there wasn't anything on their website
>> about ID of any sort.
>> Tracy
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