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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (5026)	11/20/2006 10:30:41 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 10087

Take a bath hippie... er uh, I mean corporate attorney!!! ================================================= Air Traveler Ejected for Odor Loses Suit Reuters BERLIN (Nov. 17) - A court in Germany rejected a man's compensation claim against an airline after a cabin crew ordered him off a plane because other passengers were offended by his smell, authorities said Thursday. An appeals court in the western city of Duesseldorf upheld an earlier ruling that British Airways had acted within its rights by removing the man from the aircraft after a female passenger sitting next to him complained about his smell. "The stewardess took him to one side and asked him if he could put on a fresh shirt, but they were all in the hold," a court spokesman said. "So then he was asked to leave the plane -- about two minutes before take off." BA said other passengers were upset by the smell, he added. The corporate lawyer and his wife were scheduled to return home from Hawaii via Los Angeles on a BA flight sub-contracted to American Airlines last year, and missed their connection to Germany when the incident forced them to take the next plane. Including the cost of staying an extra night in Los Angeles, the earnings he had forfeited and his wife's lost holiday time, the man calculated BA owed him nearly 2,200 euros ($2,819), and took his case to a lower court in Duesseldorf earlier this year. "The man said he couldn't help sweating after carrying three suitcases in 29 degrees (Celsius) of heat and sitting in the airport for two hours with no air conditioning," the court spokesman said. "But the court said the airline's terms and conditions made clear they could bar passengers because of their smell." The appeals court delivered a judgement Wednesday by default against the man when he failed to attend the hearing. The man, who told the court he was stuck in traffic, has the right to appeal. According to its website, American Airlines' conditions of carriage say that transport may be refused if passengers "have an offensive odor not caused by a disability or illness." British Airways stipulates that the airline may refuse to transport passengers "if carrying you or your baggage may affect the comfort of any person in the aircraft."

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (5026)	11/20/2006 11:25:15 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 10087

gettin' kinda cold out there aint it .... Warden: 'I've got a job to do' ==================================================== Traffic warden tickets man as wife is dying Warden: 'I've got a job to do' A driver who pulled over to park the car when his wife had a fatal heart attack has been booked by traffic wardens. The woman, in her seventies, had a cardiac arrest on her way to St John's Wood Medical Practice in north London. Her husband, who was taking her to a doctor's appointment, was forced to stop on a yellow line outside the surgery as he called 999. He went with his dying wife in the ambulance as she was rushed to St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. But the woman, who has not been named, was dead on arrival. Her devastated husband returned to the surgery in tears to find he had been given a £50 parking ticket. Wardens acted despite doctors displaying a notice in his windscreen explaining the emergency. One local businessman said he pleaded with the warden. Gary Mulreay, who owns St John's Barbers a few doors away, said: "I was there to help get this poor woman out of the car and to administer CPR. When the wardens came along we told them what had happened. "But one issued a ticket anyway. I was absolutely stunned. He actually said, 'It's not my problem, I've got a job to do'." A spokesman for Westminster council, which employs the NCP firm of wardens, said the ticket had now been cancelled. thisislondon.co.uk