[nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing ofUS Airways flight to PHL

Marsha Drenth via nagdu nagdu at nfbnet.org
Mon Jun 2 13:20:37 UTC 2014 

Rebecca and all, please keep this topic on guide  dogs. Discussing about Philadelphian people, and or sports teams in Philadelphia. Does not meet the guidelines of this list. Further  perhaps people on this list that  live in Philadelphia, that don't meet your criteria of rude. it is important that we be respectful of all members, no matter where they live, no matter who you think they are, or perhaps at new story that might have come out about them. just because people from Philadelphia were mentioned in this list, do not also means that they lived there.
Thank you,

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> On Jun 2, 2014, at 8:13 AM, Star Gazer via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> He's absolutely right. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Darla J. Rogers
> via nagdu
> Sent: Sunday, June 1, 2014 2:23 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing
> ofUS Airways flight to PHL
> 
> Hi Rebecca,
> 
>    No; I don't remember that, but my husband says their baseball fans
> are the rudest in the country.
> Darla & Hardworking Huck
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Star Gazer via
> nagdu
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 11:41 AM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing
> ofUS Airways flight to PHL
> 
> Does this story really surprise anybody? The plane was going to
> Philadelphia, the city of brotherly shove. 
> You all remember what W.C. Fields said, "First prize is a week in
> Philadelphia,, second prize is *two weeks in Philadelphia, or something like
> that". 
> I suspect nobody on that flight really wanted to go to Philadelphia, so they
> were glad for the excuse to land in Kansas City. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cindy Ray via
> nagdu
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 3:32 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency landing
> ofUS Airways flight to PHL
> 
> In most of the stories I have heard about people being subdued on flights,
> it doesn't seem there has been nearly as much interviewing of passengers. Of
> course, I will admit that part of the problem here is empathy for the dog
> handler because I have been in similar situations. In an airport my dog, who
> was nervous and thus stimulated, pooped as we were rushing through the
> airport to try to get her out. On the radio they said, "You'd better send a
> clean up crew; the dog is leaving a trail." But of course from the
> reporter's perspective, if this plane, which was going to Philadelphia, had
> to make an unscheduled landing in Kansas City, that is a story, especially
> with the situations that have come up on flights lately. As for the
> comments, I'm not sure they were terribly in compassionate. But as a dog
> handler, I can just imagine going to fly and well meaning flight service
> representatives being condescending about does your dog need to use the
> bathroom. Will he be OK on the flight. Perhaps my own first reaction was
> overreacting, and I probably wouldn't have even heard about the story if
> Ginger hadn't posted it. Still . 
> 
> Cindy Ray
> cindyray at gmail.com
> 
> On May 31, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Elizabeth Campbell via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Craig,
>> 
>> Thank you for your post to the list.
>> I was about to write something along the same lines, but you beat me 
>> to
> it.
>> (smile)
>> As reporters, we often face what I call no-win situations. We will get 
>> criticized for not reporting the reason for an emergency landing, and 
>> we will face criticism for reporting the reason why a plane had to 
>> make an emergency landing.
>> I feel for everyone involved, and I'm sure the dog's owner wouldn't 
>> have taken the dog onboard if he/she knew that the animal was sick.
>> The airlines are under a great deal of scrutiny these days, but people 
>> want to know what is going on whether the story is about a near miss 
>> or an emergency landing.
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Liz
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Craig Heaps 
>> via nagdu
>> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 1:09 PM
>> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Service Dog's 'evacuation' forces emergency 
>> landing ofUS Airways flight to PHL
>> 
>> As a professional journalist for nearly forty years and a guide dog 
>> user myself, I could not disagree more with those who criticize this 
>> as a
> story.
>> 
>> It is a legitimate news story.  It's an extraordinary event on a form 
>> of transportation used by millions of people every year in the United
> States.
>> It is the fact that it happens so seldom that makes it news.  It has 
>> the element of "Can you imagine being in that situation?" that also 
>> makes it worthy of coverage.  I thought the reporter did an excellent 
>> job of putting the incident in perspective by including the guy from 
>> The Seeing Eye and the comments from the airline spokesperson saying 
>> it's
> extremely rare.
>> 
>> I am sympathetic with those passengers who found the smell overwhelming. 
>> It's not the atmosphere they expected when they paid good money for 
>> their tickets.
>> 
>> I can understand the defensiveness of some guide dog users who want to 
>> lash out at the journalistic decision to cover this incident.  But 
>> they sound like the people I had to deal with every day who didn't 
>> want some event or another "publicized" (reporters hate that word) and 
>> tried to argue it was stupid to think it was a legitimate story.
>> Think about the last time you heard the story of some belligerent 
>> drunk on a plane who had to be restrained with the help of other 
>> passengers.  Another disturbing, but rare, event.  Was covering that 
>> also
> stupid?
>> 
>> Sorry for the semi rant.
>> 
>> Craig and Chase, who I hope never poops in an airliner
>> 
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