Air Canada Ordered To Provide Nut-Free Zone 643
JamJam writes "Air Canada has been told to create a special 'buffer zone' on flights for people who are allergic to nuts. The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled that passengers who have nut allergies should be considered disabled and accommodated by the airline. Air Canada has a month to come up with an appropriate section of seats where passengers with nut allergies would be seated. The ruling involved a complaint from Sophia Huyer, who has a severe nut allergy and travels frequently. Ms. Huyer once spent 40 minutes in the washroom during a flight while snacks were being served."
I'm allergic to... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm allergic to idiots. Is there anywhere in Canada I will be able to travel?
travelling to Canada (Score:3, Funny)
If you can get past Customs, the rest of the country will be just fine for you...
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stop serving nuts (Score:1, Funny)
Is that you, Dubya?
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:5, Funny)
I also propose that anyone who receives more than a certain number of down mods be killed. That ought to fix Slashdot conversations on the double.
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:4, Funny)
>> Really, not a joke, modest proposal
Fixed that for you.
Re:Stop serving nuts (Score:5, Funny)
Just switch to pretzels and be done with it.
Twisted logic.
Re:Pets on Air Canada (Score:5, Funny)
You get your nuts pet when you go through security before the flight.
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Baby Free Zone? (Score:2, Funny)
...but if the case gets severe enough, have you thought about the lives of the noisy babies and unruly children?!?
A man sits down on an airplane, next to a woman. (Score:5, Funny)
He opens up his briefcase, pulls out a Playboy, drops his pants, and proceeds to have a wank.
The woman is horrified.
When the man is finished, he pulls up his pants, closes the briefcase, and then turns to the woman and asks:
"Do you mind if I eat nuts?"
Baba-boom-ching!
Thank you, tip the veal, try the waitress . . . etc.
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh.
Now I understand all those dirty looks I've been getting.
Re:where did nut alergies come from? (Score:4, Funny)
when i was growing up, no one had this problem, but now it seems that it is almost commonplace. is this a symptom of something we've done lately (to our food source perhaps), or a symptom of me just not getting exposed to news sources as a kid?
In some way, this is all Jimmy Carter's fault.
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:5, Funny)
I'd say that it works especially well on iocane powder, but that would be a joke so bad it would be inconceivable...
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:5, Funny)
Stop it! I'm allergic to logic, and YOU'RE MAKING ME ITCH!
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah but, you might drop them on a peanut farm. Not good. We'll have to require all peanut farms to have a giant glass bubble over them in case of in-flight ejection.
Re:Already happens (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Baby Free Zone? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm allergic to noisy babies and children who kick my seat-back. Where's my zone?
According to my kid, the "zone" is just above your right kidney ...
Re:Where's my perfume-free zone? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure lots of us have lists of things that we'd like air transportation to be "free" of. For example: fat people not in first class, drunk college kids on their way to spring break, young yuppie males on their way to (or from) Vegas, babies, children, people who want to start conversations with me that are not cute females, etc. I am particularly allergic to the baby thing, having changed many many diapers some years ago, and now feel I am entitled to not be confronted with the aroma of baby poop when I'm in an enclosed space in which I am not allowed to light a cigar. I mean, outside of some sniffy matron with a stick up her bum, and maybe some of the more "sensitive" Mac users, who could possibly object to a gentleman like myself enjoying a fine cigar whilst flying? Fascists, that's who! But we're all supposed to go "awww.." when a wrinkled little brat squirts a toxic load into his pampers just as you're about to bite into that meatball and melrose pepper sandwich you lovingly wrapped in wax paper and have been waiting to eat since you were back on the tarmac. But that's a fight for another day.
I say, if you are so allergic to peanuts that someone sitting next to you eating an ersatz oreo "cracker" that may or may not have been made on equipment that also processes nuts is going to cause you to have to lock yourself in the bathroom for a 4 hour flight, then I suggest you are certainly a candidate for the no-fly list and possibly a pay-no-mind list, while we're at it, because you are clearly a royal noodge and pain in the ass to be around. In fact, it's things like this that are the reasons you are still single. And everyone knows allergies are psychosomatic, anyway, and besides, who cares about your little anaphylactic shock tantrum because your mother was scared by Mr Peanut when you were in utero? Maybe try for five minutes not to be such a fucking lightweight. And have you ever noticed that people with these so-called "food allergies" also tend to be non-smokers and irritating as hell? No, seriously. Think about the people you know with food allergies. They're really irritating in other ways too, right? Right?
But I'm still trying to figure out what this story has to do with technology, unless Air Canada is about to employ sensitive equipment that will sense as little as 5 molecules of nut meat within a radius of 50 yards and runs Linux.
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:4, Funny)
Anybody want a peanut???
(Strangely, on-topic)
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:4, Funny)
Couldn't the allergic individual just wear a face mask while they were serving?
In addition to the allergy you want them to put on a stewardess costume and hand out the snacks?
You have no heart sir, no heart.
Re:A man sits down on an airplane, next to a woman (Score:5, Funny)
The way I remember it:
The man sneezes. He takes out a tissue, wipes his nose, then unzipps his pants, reaches in and wipes there too. After repeating this a few times, the woman asks, "What exactly is your problem with the Kleenex in the pants?".
Rather embarrased, he replies, "I suffer from a condition where I orgasm every time I sneeze."
After a bit, she asks, "Isn't there something you could take for that condition?"
"Yes. Pepper."
Re:Shrimp free zone? (Score:3, Funny)
If they stopped serving peanuts on planes they wouldn't have problems with elephants.
Re:But where do you put the limit? (Score:1, Funny)
Already babies are euthanized because they are considered unfit to survive. Or in less advanced countries (such as the US), left to starve on their own because that is what god wants..
Obama isn't God, despite what he wants you to think.