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Blind Traveler Asks Too Many Questions On Delayed U.S. Airways Flight, Is Dragged Off,

Submitted by doctor011 on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 06:56
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Blind Traveler Asks Too Many Questions On Delayed U.S. Airways Flight, Is Dragged Off, Jailed, Told He's Faking His Blindness
By Lucy Bayly, 8:48 PM on Fri May 15 2009, 17,293 views As 61-year-old Belgian interpreter Nicola Cantisani, who is blind, sat for two hours waiting in the Brussels-bound U.S. Airways jet on the tarmac at Philadephia airport in early April, he wondered why no one was telling passengers about the reasons for the take-off delay. When he requested a glass of water he was shooed away by the crew. When he tried to ask the captain exactly why there was a delay, Cantisani was asked to disembark.

When he refused to do so, he was dragged off the plane by three police officers, pinned into a wheelchair, held by the throat, lost the cane he uses to navigate, held at the airport for five hours without food, water, or access to any phone, moved to a 6' x 7' police cell at 3 a.m., questioned by a psychiatrist, and detained for 16 hours. And it was only at the end of this ordeal that the police finally believed he wasn't faking his blindness.

http://consumerist.com/5255700/blind-traveler-asks-too-many-...

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Submitted by Butmunch on Sun, 05/17/2009 - 08:10.

Im getting really F*****g sick of this. The next thing you know theyll be sending a blind, deaf, tetraphlegic man to gitmo.

I mean seriously WTF, hes blind so what if he didnt want to cooperate, he was probably scared, oh no watch out he might use his special blind powers on you and blow up the plane.

I hope he sues for millions, Those cops and the crew deserve punishment, the way they acted was highly inappropriate.