Woman denied emotional support peacock on United flight

people are just ridiculous and then they ruin it for those in real need.

These selfish, assholish emotional weenies are ruining it for the people who actually do need service dogs.

I'm sorry but the airlines deserve this. The bitchy sky waitresses too.

That's a beautiful peacock.

This is a health and safety issue. Animals carry all kinds of diseases, not to mention attack people. There's a reason why animals are not allowed in most public spaces.

That's a lovely cock

[quote]assholish emotional weenies

Oddly enough r2 my drag name just happens to be Emotional Weenie.

All that screeching and flapping around might also be a bit disturbing?

Peacocks are big and their tails take up a ton of space.

I was wondering when someone would be denied access to a flight because their Mood Spider was scaring the fellow passengers. Peacocks screams sounds like a screaming woman;I cannot imagine this thing under distress on a flight.

I loved discovering on another DL thread that Marie Osmond's support animal is a tarantula she brings along with her in a wicker cage.

"I'm a nervous flyer, and I need Fang's cuddling emotional assurance while I fly."

Flight attendant here, had a passenger on a flight with their huge albino support boa constrictor. Of course they were happy as a clam, needless to say that most of those seated around the woman that was so very fragile and so very goth were either terrified or at least uncomfortable. We had no support animals to dole out to those poor passengers to help them on their Sacramento to Denver flight.

Is that true. R11? If anyone can find evidence of this anecdote, I will be grateful!

What do you mean I can't bring my emotional support Komodo dragon on the flight with me?

If you're too emotionally fragile to fly without an animal, you're too emotionally fragile to fly.

I can't believe this is a thing

I was just treated like shit over carry on by United . I know those ASSHOLES, did not let her have this.

When the solution is so......

I wouldn’t know how to fly without my emotional support cock.....

Emotional-support alpaca:

I always have my emotional support animal with me. Work, travel, Dumbo is always there for me.

What happens when the peacock gets some weird virus that gets ultimately transmitted to the owner and everybody in the cabin? Remember the movie Contagion ?

That is a beautiful peacock.

I wonder if Terry Miller always travels with his Emotional Support Slut Slave.

Peacocks are some of the most unfriendly, vicious animals out there. No way it would even be capable of providing emotional support.

What's the issue?

I hate it when I cant travel with my support cock. It makes him sad too.

good! this is obviously a ploy to transport this peacock free of charge to where ever the fuck this cunt was flying to.

[quote]Peacocks are some of the most unfriendly, vicious animals out there. No way it would even be capable of providing emotional support.

As with a snake, whose reptilian brain is incapable of any kind of emotion.

Get a brooch lady!

r21 This is about people's FEELINGS. You can't let rational thinking and public health and safety interfere with people's FEELINGS.

I think she has a case for cultural insensitivity. Though she'd have to identify as a Saudi Prince.

Gurl no I'ant flying with poultry , I don't care how fancy it is, Now if you fry that bitch up with hush puppies now ya talking !

Wouldn't a flight be much more stressful for the peacock than for the woman who 'needs' the peacock? Whatever happened to just taking Ativan before a flight?

Peacocks were bred as "watch dogs". They are vicious and their talons can do some major damage in a very short time. I am surprised the bird was allowed in the airport.

R25, THANK YOU !!!!

R23 Yes

Poultry in motion.

R37, perfect!

This lady is a dumb ass. Forget all the nonsense with trying to bring the bird on the plane, this is not fair to the peacock.

[quote]I met her once on a flight when I was bumped up to FIrst, she was totally friendly and delightful and very down-to-earth. She had an Emotional Support Animal in a wicker cage in the seat beside her -- a tarantula. Weird choice I guess but she was super nice

R13, Here you go. It was a personal anecdote (#44) on this thread.

R40 that is fucked up, she's a trainwreck

That bitch is too damaged to fly. Not every ridiculous neurosis needs to be accommodated.

These selfish fuckers. They don't need emotional support, they want people looking at them. Hence the increasingly outlandish "support animals".

If you need to feel secure, cuddle a teddy bear.

It's cruel and inhumane to subject these animals to the stresses of travel and being out in unfamiliar places. A peacock's native habitat is NOT the cabin of a plane.

A fucking peacock? They constantly shit! Was the peacock in diapers? How would you like to be the next passenger sitting in peacock shit?

Years ago, a guy in my neighborhood had pet peacocks in his yard and they're nasty motherfuckers. You never want to be around them.

Henry Cavill flies with his emotional support dog Kal. “Superman” needs an emotional support dog.

I just want to shake the shit out of these people and yell at them "you just need to get on with it and be functional in society!"

We did that stunt on Candid Camera in 1969.

She actually bought a seat for it. Lord.

Almost 20 years ago, long before the "emotional support" animal zeitgeist, there was a news report of a woman bringing a pig aboard a flight on U.S. Air claiming it was her support animal. It sounded like the gate agent and crew didn't have a protocol to follow and let her aboard. Common sense would say no, but you never know how difficult and insistent someone who's brought a pig to the airport might be. Of course, the pig became distressed mid-flight and started squealing, running up and down the aisle, "discharging" (wording in report) feces as it went. I was so in awe and horrified and in hysterics at the same time. Who knew this sort of thing would become commonplace enough that the industry has to address it?

R50, that was in 2014.

It must be another case, R31. The one I'm referring to definitely happened in the late '90s. It was emailed around and discussed in the office

I love peacocks. I think they are magnificent and the most naturally beautiful creatures on this earth. Just look at their magnificence in this video. Spell bounding

R35 I spent a lovely summer there, studying Miss O'Connor with a bunch of Flanatics. Pretty little town. When did you graduate? I know some of the faculty there.

Spell bounding, huh?

Peacocks also make a loud shrieking noise that doesn’t seem like it would be very comforting.

R56, some say it sounds like a screaming woman.

Cannot believe this is what we've come to.

When does this nonsense come to an end?

Oh my god, that’s the hardest I laughed in a long time. Thank you OP. 😂😂😂

Next time I go anywhere if I can't bring my emotional support Black Rhino there will be hell to pay.

I'll get a new haircut just so I can storm up and down the airport demanding to see managers, NOW!

Excuse me, miss, you've seated me and my emotional support ants next to a passenger with an emotional support anteater!

Big Kiss, R40!

I'm also going to need an extra seat for Randy, the wrangled for my emotional support Clydesdale.

I love them

Traveller Jodie Smalley, from Seattle, made headlines after taking her turkey on a pre-Christmas flight home in 2015. Cynics were surprised to hear that the bird made the return trip back in one piece - and wearing a special bird nappy.

I'd rather sit next to a peacock than someone really obese.

We love precious little citizens like this bird. They are infinitely preferable on a flight rather than the disgusting loud children that curse so many flights.

We don't have the hatred and fear of nature/sexuality as demonstrated by the nellies above.

R37, that was fowl 😜, and I love you for it.

R50, oh my! Picturing being on that flight made me laugh hard!

Dirty bird

Only in America.

Birds creep me out. If I got on a flight and there was a peacock/chicken/crow on there’d I’d freak the fuck out.

If you are too delicate to travel without an exotic bird or a some kind of reptile just stay at home. Society doesn’t need this shit.

Next time, I'm traveling with my emotional support suitcase. Just let them try to check it.

I haven’t been back to the states in a while. I’ll be back later this year. What are the chances I’ll be on an internal flight with some kind of “support” animal? I’m not getting on there with snake or rat in the seat next to me. How common is this? Are there airlines to avoid? I just can’t deal with the level of insane bullshit.

Mainly on domestic flights r74 but trust me, you will see at least one person with a small dog on their lap if you are flying on a US carrier.

My emotional support llama sometimes needs my support too. He was obviously very nervous this day.

How can you be obese and a flight attendant?

Small dogs and cats don't bother me, at least less than young children. But other animals must be banned.

Fly a US carrier r77 and you see that many of us are obese. trust me, it's the american way.

I understand Comcast is backing her to the hilt.

Thanks r75. I can deal with a dog.

[quote] I’m not getting on there with snake or rat in the seat next to me.

That's pretty racist. How'd you feel if I said, "I don't want a homosexual or lesbian in the seat next to me"?

R78 I fly regularly in Europe and I can't imagine a flight attendant on Air France or Swiss Air being obese, but maybe I don't flight enough.

The airline was very correct in denying this creature boarding. Those things can be vicious. As a kid one of our neighbors had 2 of those big birds on their property. They have nasty claws and when mad they can easily kill a small dog or cat by slicing them open with them.

Trump is going to be president forever.

i will fight for the right to fly with my sweet poochie...

Jessy Karson is my naked poz skank whore for emotional support companionship on airplanes. We travel light, by coach, no extra leg-room required.

Can my cats be my emotional support pets?

R87, are they rescue cats?

Yes, R87. They even make a stroller for your type:

[quote]Obese Flight Attendant

Yeah. You're gonna want to leave all of that off of your resume.

what a fucking self-indulgent pain in the ass. Several years ago, on the bus from Boston to NYC a woman tried to board with two great danes - said they were her support dogs. She was obviously insane, argued with the driver who wouldn't allow them on because, well, they were great fucking danes. I love dogs, but there has to be some limits. I understand the need for support dogs, especially the wounded warriors PTSD dogs, but people like this batshit crazy bitch and her peacock make people question the validity

Why would anyone hate dogs? Emotional support animals are not covered by the ADA but they are covered by the Fair Housing Act.

Not to mention the peacock might misunderstand the direction to put his “tray in the upright and locked position” as “tail..”. DISASTAH!

Princess Kaiulani loved peacocks and when she died, all the peacocks on her property screamed.

Amateurs

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Peacocks are the new snowflakes.

The airline told her 3 times, days before her flight the peacock wouldn’t be allowed yet she shows up anyway with it.

United deserves this. Yes, they do.

Whoever said peacocks can't fly hasn't met me!

Oh, is this United? In that case, bring on the emotional support carnivorous feral hogs.

And when the carnivorous feral hogs are done with United, they can start on those cunts at Delta.

She just really needs some good dick.

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

R89, Once tried to make my cat into an "emo support animal" so he'd have legal status in an apt complex that restricted animals. Mickey Katt Jr woke me up right before the big Los Angels earthquake. I'd hear an unusual noise outside and he'd assure me it was normal.

Most important he'd let me know when anyone was in my apt without my permission.. The landlord used to walk in on me without knocking or giving advance notice. When I'd come home and the landlord had been in my place his eyes were popping out of his head in anger. The landlord was shocked I knew whenever he'd entered my place.

Unfortunately a test has not been devised for a feline so that he can prove his ability and valued services to an independent authority. Therefore he couldn't be labeled as an emotional support animal companion. Too bad as he had many skills including opening my bedroom door and the refrigerator door for midnight food raids.

Airlines report 75% increase in requests to bring emo support animal companions on flights. Passengers aren't required to pay for their transportation if they're labeled this way.

Your emotional support peacock was delicious. @ReelQuinn via Twitter

Dont peacocks poop every 30 minutes?

If it was a 10" cock instead of a tiny pea, the male stewardesses would've let it on.

Peacocks make awful, loud shrieking noises. Plus if it's economy class, there's not even enough room for it to fan out its tail feathers. I'd rather have an emotional support bunny.

[Quote] I'd rather have an emotional support bunny.

Same

So how many of the listed companion animals would be allowed to fly?

Funny stories of emo support animals flying.

Hedgehogs and turtles don't sound so bad, R112. I was kidding about the ES Clydesdale, but apparently (mini) horses are acceptable.

I recently went to an assisted living home to visit a friend's dad and they actually have some in-house animals who live there and provide companionship and support to the residents. They're mostly medium sized dogs like retrievers, but there are a few cats. The staff say they provide real benefits, so maybe the airlines ought to follow suit--"sorry you got bumped from your aisle seat and got wedged between 2 fat people, Sir--but here's a cute puppy for you to hold."

Hedgehogs and turtles don't sound so bad, R112. I was kidding about the ES Clydesdale, but apparently (mini) horses are acceptable.

I recently went to an assisted living home to visit a friend's dad and they actually have some in-house animals who live there and provide companionship and support to the residents. They're mostly medium sized dogs like retrievers, but there are a few cats. The staff say they provide real benefits, so maybe the airlines ought to follow suit--"sorry you got bumped from your aisle seat and got wedged between 2 fat people, Sir--but here's a cute puppy for you to hold."

Seeing-eye dogs are understandable but if a person needs an emotional support animal on a plane in order to fly they are nothing more than an attention-seeking nut case and should just stay home near their psychiatrist. People traveled for decades without emotional support animals. This is bullshit.

What about the people, especially children, on the plane who are allergic to these animals. Some people are allergic to animals. Who gets to stay and who goes; the crazy loon with the support animal or the humans flying with other humans.

I wonder if they are doing this to get their pet to travel free or if they are moving from one location to another and have no other way to relocate the animal from their previous residence to their new residence. Certainly can't put an animal on a moving truck and most pets don't do well in a car on long trips. I think they're full of shit. I don't believe they need an emotional support animal. I think they are using the airlines to transport their pet and they don't want the pet to go in the cargo unit of the plane.

Without a doubt r118 Flight attendant here. Just had a family of 5 get on and each one-Mom, Dad, both Sons and daughter was carrying a yorkie and the dogs all had those stupid support dog jackets on that you can buy on the interwebs.

Amazon has dozens

Can I bring my emotional support jar of Planter's Peanuts and sit next to your allergic child?

Should Henry Cavill be denied his emotional support dog?

Other than seeing eyes dogs (with proof/documentation) this insanity with "emotional support" animals should not be allowed. Period. The airlines should put a stop to this. I understand some people have a deep fear of flying but anyone who needs to bring an emotional support animal to get through the flight shouldn't be flying in the first place. Take a fucking chill pill or stay home. I'd be damned if I paid for a ticket only to have to sit near or next to a screeching peacock that belongs free to roam in nature or on a farm, not cooped up on a plane at 30,000 feet altitude.

I wish George Carlin was still around. He'd have a field day with this latest craze.

The ridiculous shit people can come up with is unbelievable. If they have to have an emotional support bird, snake, rodent, or spider, they need to place their asses in cars and drive where they're going.

I just want to sneak up behind her and yell "BOO". She is in desperate need of some really good alpha cock. She needs to get that pussy beat up.

I think some people just need a good solid punch in the face. That’ll sort out their attention seeking and emotional problems all in one go.

I NEED AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT COCK!!!

After this peacock story appeared, I talked to a relative who is allergic to cats.

On a recent airline flight, someone sitting fairly close to her had their cat (in a cage) with them. The relative could gradually feel her allergies start to act up, causing breathing difficulties.

She went to the flight attendant and explained the problem.

They moved the woman with the cat to a different seat, father away.

I think this happened before takeoff, but what would happen to someone with more severe allergies if they were unable to land due to weather or location?

She’d die.

I've always wondered how emo pets cope with air pressure changes during landings. Sometimes, my ears don't "pop" until the day after my flight and it can be very painful.

So the entire cabin is in danger at take-off and landing if you fail to place a briefcase or a laptop "under the seat in front of you",or refuse to "return your seats to an upright position,"? In case of emergency it is acceptable to kick our way past a menagerie of emotional support animals and their hysterical unhinged owners? Wring the peacocks neck and discard as you make your way through the flames to the emergency slide...

What would an unsexured bird with big talons do in the event of a crash or ditching in water like with that hudson river incident? It wouldn't be pretty.

Sexured

Put on his seat belt and lean forward.

Will they let me bring my honey badger?

I have arachnophobia (no, seriously I do) and all I would need is someone with a giant pet spider to sit down next to me with their "emotional support pet." My shrieks and screams would make everyone flee the plane.

Now come on. Didn't you see that adorable pic of the roo wearing human clothes and booties securing buckled in to his seat belt? The roo looked so calm and happy sitting among the other passengers on the plane. By the way most of the emo support animals who fly ARE wearing human-style booties on their paws/feet. I assume they're specially made for them too.

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Here's a better link to chickens, ducks, and turkeys traversing the entrance area preparing to fly.

So small children get in rickety boats and traverse oceans in an attempt to escape war and famine, but Barry from Pasadena can’t get on a plane and fly to Idaho without a support tortoise. This is how spoilt we’ve become. Good to know.

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They weren’t kidding about Emotional Support Horses

No booties?

Birds eye view.

Surely we are reaching peak novelty?

Whatever happened to just taking some Xanax or Valium, or rubbing one out before a flight?

Flight attendant her(not the obese one) and someone up thread hit on the pure truth.

IF there were to be an emergency landing followed by an evacuation with slide use, any larger animals would be a real problem. They could clog the aisles, and I cannot imagine that mini horse going down the slide. I have seen normal F/As slide off the slide and break a bone during recurrent training. Can you imagine trying to get that peacock to slide?

R148, Some of these emo support animals appear to be really humanized in that they must be used to travelling in cars and trucks. Ever wonder who transports them to the airport? There are pics of a few strapped into something similar to a baby carriage. Others sit calmly in their airline seats or in their human's lap. So I don't know about a miniature horse but if a large Guide Dog can go down a slide surely some of the others can as well. Perhaps on their human's lap as some of them provide a lot of cushioning as they're not petite nor small-sized.

This needs to stop NOW! Or else. Before you know it people will be bringing lions, n' tigers and bears on board as their emotional support animals.

Would those blow up canvas slide ramps stand up to peacock talons?

That fucking peacock can fly out of the plane just as nature intended because I’m sure as shit not pushing it down the slide ahead of me.

I was at an AA meeting tonight, and someone had a big white bird with them...some kind of parrot. I thought of this thread. At first I was annoyed...then I got over it and paid attention to the people.

I kind of hate people who always have big birds with them on their shoulder, or whatever. It just seems a tad desperate. I don't know anyone who would ever do that. Frankly, it's weird.

Was the person a pirate r153?

Probably a cockatoo

R154 No they were just a slightly hippie dippy person...I don't think I've ever seen them before.

R155 Yes, that is the vile beast! At least it was quiet.

One of my friends has a cat who eats parrots and cockatoos

Can they bring it to next week's meeting??

Cockatoos are actually quite friendly and affectionate... Peacocks are used to guard prisons in some countries..( see that one movie)

Yes, the bird cuddled its head into the owner's chest a few times. It was affectionate. I just don't like animals in meetings created for people. It's distracting. And what if someone has a phobia about birds? It creates a potentially offputting environment.

It's the first time I've ever encountered this...so it's not really a big deal. Just annoying.

Wild animals should be excluded. Dogs and cats. That's it. Who the fuck wants to sit next to these circus freaks with their snakes and spiders?

I’ve seen a cock or two.

I was at a party and this guy was there with some kind of bird sitting on his shoulder. As we were talking, it shat on his shirt. He wasn't fazed. So disgusting.

Another friend has some kind of pet bird that just randomly shits all over the place as well. So gross. As a kid I had pet chickens who were smart enough not to shit on me when I carried them around so I don't know why these birds aren't toilet trained. Must make it easier for cats and other predators to catch them, though.

R162, should we try the veal?

r164 Sit next to an airline flier who has an emotional support calf in tow. Easy-peasy.

Good answer, BAG.

[Quote] Before you know it people will be bringing lions, n' tigers and bears on board as their emotional support animals.

I'm pretty sure bears fly all the time.

On my last flight, there was some woman with an 'emotional support animal'. I know because she was sitting directly behind me and couldn't stop talking about it to her seat mate (who was, I guess, kind enough to pretend to be interested, but I felt for that poor person). She went on and on about how it calmed her and kept her from having panic attacks or feeling anxious, because she felt anxious around lots of people.

It was a long flight, I got up to go to the bathroom at one point, and took a look at this emotional support animal. That was CALMING, mind you. Helped with ANXIETY, remember... IT WAS A CHIHUAHUA!!! The most nervous dog on the planet!

WTF?

That woman didn't need an emotional support animal, she needed a rubber room. Or just needed the attention. Because that was bullshit.

Your peacock, cock, cock

R167, Don't know about taking them flying without a tranquilizer 1st but plenty of people have tried to make bears into household pets. Like monkeys there's a major problem when the unfixed animal hits puberty.

A police officer was called to pick up one such abandoned bear someone had tried to domesticate. Mistakenly he'd left the door to his police car wide open. So the bear crawled right inside.

There's a rescue zoo in Santa Barbara for these types of pets who can't adapt to living in the wild.

(Eyeroll) Upthread. The bear comment, "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" was meant as a joke based on a famous line from a 1939 American musical, fantasy film called The Wizard of Oz.

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