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From the BBC» - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-45333182A comedian has said she had to wait two hours at an airport for her mobility scooter, only to find it was missing a vital attachment.
Tanyalee Davis claimed her "independence" has been affected by the loss of a custom-made rack, after her plane landed at Stansted Airport.
Ms Davis said her Ryanair flight was delayed by two hours, and the added delay meant she had to cancel a gig.
The airline is leading an investigation and referred the BBC to partner firms.
Canadian-born Ms Davis, who has a form of dwarfism, was travelling with her partner Kevin Bolden from Treviso, Italy after performing in Slovenia on Friday.
She discovered the custom-made rack, which holds bags and suitcases, had disappeared, after Mr Bolden searched the airport for the scooter for two hours. |
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2018, 21:39:24 » |
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This follows hot on the heels of another shameful incident at Stansted affecting Paralympian Anne Wafula-Strike. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-45328650She was the disabled lady forced to wet herself on a CrossCountry Train due to a lack of disabled toilet facilities. CrossCountry paid her compensation. These incidents make the news because the people affected have a public profile. You can bet your life that this discrimination happens week in, week out across public transport. The majority of disabled people affected don't get their experiences reported by the media though. |
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2018, 14:46:11 » |
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From the BBC» - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-45333182A comedian has said she had to wait two hours at an airport for her mobility scooter, only to find it was missing a vital attachment.
Tanyalee Davis claimed her "independence" has been affected by the loss of a custom-made rack, after her plane landed at Stansted Airport.
Ms Davis said her Ryanair flight was delayed by two hours, and the added delay meant she had to cancel a gig.
The airline is leading an investigation and referred the BBC to partner firms.
Canadian-born Ms Davis, who has a form of dwarfism, was travelling with her partner Kevin Bolden from Treviso, Italy after performing in Slovenia on Friday.
She discovered the custom-made rack, which holds bags and suitcases, had disappeared, after Mr Bolden searched the airport for the scooter for two hours. Blimey this woman gets some real bad luck using public transport - I am surprised she even bothers |
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ChrisB
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2018, 14:57:25 » |
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Isn't she the one who had a barney with a pushchair owner on a GWR▸ service a while back?
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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2018, 15:40:39 » |
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Blimey this woman gets some real bad luck using public transport - I am surprised she even bothers
Bad luck? Or a true reflection of how poor the provision is for such things when travelling? Whilst no where near the same, I travel by rail a fair bit (I commute by train for work, I travel to football games most weekends partly or fully by train, I travel to see my girlfriend sometimes by train), and I seem to always be caught in delays / disruption. My friends and family have said how much bad luck I seem to get, but in reality it is simply what the rail network in this country (at least in GWR▸ land) is actually like. No luck (good or bad) in it at all. |
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« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2018, 10:36:43 » |
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Isn't she the one who had a barney with a pushchair owner on a GWR▸ service a while back?
Amongst MANY other incidents |
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« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2018, 13:55:18 » |
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« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2018, 14:18:58 » |
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hmmm. Over the top reaction from the mother, but, yes, you shouldn't fuilm children without parental consent unless committing serious crime.
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« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2018, 15:18:05 » |
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Yet ANOTHER story with this lady in, she certainly finds problems when travelling
Or again, maybe ANOTHER reflection on how some parts of our "society" treat the disabled. hmmm. Over the top reaction from the mother, but, yes, you shouldn't fuilm children without parental consent unless committing serious crime.
Errr why not? Nothing in law, and if the kids are being little toerags then that is on them and the (lack of) parenting. If some little toerag is abusing someone like that, then they have every right to record evidence of it. And the mothers reaction just proves where her kids learned to act like that from. |
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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2018, 15:54:33 » |
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As a semi-pro photographer, one of the rules we adhere to (I think on police advice) is not to film children without parental consent.
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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2018, 18:39:58 » |
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As a semi-pro photographer, one of the rules we adhere to (I think on police advice) is not to film children without parental consent.
My good lady wife works in Childcare and Rule #1 of Safeguarding is 'You cannot take/publish images of children without parental consent'. I recently attended a Safeguarding 'course' where one example given involved the image of a 'protected' child taken on an outing by another parent being published on social media. As a result, a parent of said child, who did not have visiting rights, tracked said child down through the published image. |
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« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2018, 22:10:16 » |
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What law backs up these guidelines and rules?
I was under the impression that there is no right (implied or otherwise) to privacy when in public.
A request to stop filming should be complied with in most cases. But not when gathering evidence of anti-social behaviour.
In public there is no legal requirement to get consent for filming or photographing anyone, regardless of age. Otherwise every CCTV▸ operator in the land would have to too.
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"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
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« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2018, 09:24:05 » |
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What you say definitely applies to *adults*, not sure about children.
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« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2018, 09:55:06 » |
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Yet ANOTHER story with this lady in, she certainly finds problems when travelling
Or again, maybe ANOTHER reflection on how some parts of our "society" treat the disabled. hmmm. Over the top reaction from the mother, but, yes, you shouldn't fuilm children without parental consent unless committing serious crime.
Sometimes it is too easy to use the "disability card" - starting to believe there is no smoke without fire ! Errr why not? Nothing in law, and if the kids are being little toerags then that is on them and the (lack of) parenting. If some little toerag is abusing someone like that, then they have every right to record evidence of it. And the mothers reaction just proves where her kids learned to act like that from. |
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