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Air Canada accused of forcing man with cerebral palsy to drag himself off plane (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[-] Arrakis@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago

As a wheelchair user who has the misfortune of needing to fly quite often: my go-to method when this happens (which is about 30% of the time) is to refuse to leave. That way, a nice bunch of burly security officers come and lift me off, saving me the days of pain that dragging myself on the floor causes.

It's awesome living in a society that doesn't give a shit.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Doesn't this get you banned?

[-] Arrakis@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

For what, flying while legless?

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Not that, refusing to leave and security being called.

[-] Arrakis@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So far, once security arrive and see that the person refusing to leave the plane is physically unable to leave the plane, the bat starts to get swung towards the airline. I've been lucky I guess in that the human factor always kicks in to my favour.

Once I had law enforcement called (I can't remember where I was exactly - as frequent fliers can empathise with - but it was somewhere in east Asia, maybe China) to remove me and I was freaking out about being stuck into a prison, and when the officers arrived they took one look at me and started SCREAMING at the flight crew. If I hadn't been stressed to the hilt and freaking about about the deadline I was missing I probably would have found it hilarious.

(Also sorry if I sounded facetious before, where I'm from being legless is slang for being drunk so I was making a joke that I now realise no one else will have got)