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In reply to the discussion: 'I don't want to go to Disney World anymore': Parents' fury as TSA agents detain their crying [View all]HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)and haven't been for a long time. My daughter was going to hockey camp in Portland, Me., about 10 years ago. Besides the normal shit we had to go through with her hockey equipment, there was a old woman there in a walker. She was too feeble to take off her shoes, or even her sweater. Although her daughter was with her, they separated them. The old woman was crying because she could not take off her own shoes, sweater, plus the fact they wouldn't let her daughter be with or help her with this. They did not take her to a special room but she was right there with everyone else.
This all went on for about half an hour. Eventually, other people began to complain about how this woman was being treated, and they let her daughter take off her shoes, sweater, and put her in a wheelchair to be taken onto the plane.
It took STRANGER PASSENGERS to complain before anything was done. Plus this was a good 10 years ago.