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Jun. 18th, 2012 11:11Sunday June 17, 2012. Sarah-Jayne Gratton @grattongirl [Twitter]
Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help. ~Thomas Fuller
***Sunday June 17, 2012 Also outraged this week: a Florida man who repeatedly called 911 to report that a strip club had refused to admit his kitten. According to a press release from the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office, which apparently posts its press releases on Facebook along with your mugshot, a 47-year-old man was denied entry to a strip club in Port Charlotte because they would not let him in with a cat. (Yes, I thought of that joke. Not going there.) Instead of leaving, he sat down on the curb and called 911.
When deputies arrived, the man refused to leave and continued to call 911, despite the fact that deputies were standing next to him and telling him to stop calling 911. He insisted that the club owner had committed a crime, which may have been a confused reference to the idea that in some circumstances, an establishment cannot exclude service animals. That is true, generally speaking, and a kitten could conceivably qualify as a service animal (oh yes it could) depending on the disability involved and the other facts of the case. But a violation wouldn't be a crime, and based on the facts here, which, again, involved trying to take a kitten into a strip club, it wouldn't be a violation.
Trust me -- I once refused to take an almost identical case for this very reason. It is a true fact.
http://tinyurl.com/c7aptxr
Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help. ~Thomas Fuller
***Sunday June 17, 2012 Also outraged this week: a Florida man who repeatedly called 911 to report that a strip club had refused to admit his kitten. According to a press release from the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office, which apparently posts its press releases on Facebook along with your mugshot, a 47-year-old man was denied entry to a strip club in Port Charlotte because they would not let him in with a cat. (Yes, I thought of that joke. Not going there.) Instead of leaving, he sat down on the curb and called 911.
When deputies arrived, the man refused to leave and continued to call 911, despite the fact that deputies were standing next to him and telling him to stop calling 911. He insisted that the club owner had committed a crime, which may have been a confused reference to the idea that in some circumstances, an establishment cannot exclude service animals. That is true, generally speaking, and a kitten could conceivably qualify as a service animal (oh yes it could) depending on the disability involved and the other facts of the case. But a violation wouldn't be a crime, and based on the facts here, which, again, involved trying to take a kitten into a strip club, it wouldn't be a violation.
Trust me -- I once refused to take an almost identical case for this very reason. It is a true fact.
http://tinyurl.com/c7aptxr