Weird and wonderful — nay, disturbing — stories of the week get the full treatment from Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. Right Angle flight 909 is now boarding emotional-support horses. Our in-flight meal is plant-based burgers. Entertainment options include President Trump trolling now-former presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand on Twitter, or a horror film about being locked out of a Tesla by a malfunctioning app.
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Now Boarding Emotional-Support Horses, Plant-Based Burgers: Lightning Round XXIV
Weird and wonderful — nay, disturbing — stories of the week get the full treatment from Stephen Green, Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. Right Angle flight 909 is now boarding emotional-support horses.
17 replies on “Now Boarding Emotional-Support Horses, Plant-Based Burgers: Lightning Round XXIV”
Point #1 of two great points on this great R/A. I read this story a few months ago on a guy who was fighting to get his miniature horse on a plane as his support animal. These people are just trying to get attention for themselves and cause waves. You knew this was true when it was disclosed that the gentleman’s ocupation was “Training support “DOGS”. That’s how you know it is bogus.
The second is about getting your keys locked in. I have this pick-up and it started to lock and unlock the doors as you drove. This was caused by a failure of the main brain of the vehicle. So I go to a customers place to drop of parts and I forget to take the keys out of the ignition. I shut the door and delivered the parts and come back out to find the doors locked. I called a lock-smith and they come out. I told them that if they get it unlocked to open the door quickly. They did not listen. So they use the little air bag thing like Scott was describing and finally get it one door unlocked but did not grab the handle right away. They had to do it three more times before they understood and got it opened up. It would just re-lock the doors. It was funny to watch, but I had to pay for it!
I heard that support horses are mainly allowed by the disabilities act because of a religious objection to dogs by Muslims. I don’t know if that’s true or not. I know mini horses are smaller than a Great Dane, if that helps anyone’s perspective.
My girlfriend raises mini horses and trust me, shoed mini horses hurt like all get-out when they stomp on you. And they do stomp on you. But I have to wonder… a mini horse is OK, but a girl had to flush her guinea pig?
Am I allowed to bring my emotional support Gimp with me on a plane?
“Gimp is sleeping.”
Epic trolling by PDT. That is funny stuff.
Try not to alienate all vegetarians, okay guys. Vegetarians like me do it for health reasons. I belong to a group that has been studied extensively. We are lacto-ovo vegetarians and vegans by and large and eat a lot of meat alternatives which makes vegetarianism tolerable. These were derived from Chinese meat substitutes like seitan and various soy alternatives by a missionary doctor. We do eat gluten and a lot of it since it’s a primary ingredient in most meat alternatives, so we don’t even go there for the most part, unless we have a bonafide disease.
A famous longitudinal study a couple of decades ago studied Seventh day Adventists who are largely vegetarians. They found we live about 9 years longer on average than the general public AND retain function longer. A lot of us are also conservatives and all of us are fundamental Christians. A lot of us are also your subscribers. Be gentle with the vegetarian smack downs please. Not everyone who is careful of what we eat are whiny leftist scolds. Militant vegans piss me off too, so I understand your frustration with vegan arrogance. But you’ll find most Adventists don’t harangue people about their diet. I will admit some of us do get the whole Sister-Bertha-Better-Than-You thing going, but I find they are mostly Democrats and I think that’s where that comes from.
Meanwhile a whole bunch of us are climate skeptics, politically serious conservatives and we tend to be outdoorsy conservationists, not environmentalists (there’s a huge difference). And while some of the newer vegeburger brands may not be any better for you, we’ve got the stuff down to a science. When I was a kid growing up in an Adventist town, I spent 20% of my paper route money to buy one of Mrs. George’s vegeburgers at Blair’s Stores. What she did with vegeburger, sage and onions was amazing.
So please go after militant vegans. My sympathies are with you there, but just know that it’s okay to be a vegetarian. It doesn’t make you an arrogant twit. We eat. We don’t preach and I have a whole blog on what SDAs bring to potluck lunches after church. You’d be surprised how good Adventist cooks are.
I believe you hit it on the head noting “militant vegans” and “whiny leftist scold”. Everyone should eat what they want and not force their beliefs down others’ throats.
I’m not Bill so I don’t know what he was thinking, but I didn’t take what he said as an attack on vegetarians. I’m pretty much an omnivore and I like my fruits and fruit juices but the common issue seems to be the meat-like replacement foods.
We keep getting told by the scolds (not normal vegetarians) that we should eat these other things that taste like meat instead of the evil meat itself. Then, as the article they referenced points out, the vegetables get preserved and additived and have a bunch of other junk put in them to make them taste like meat instead of good for you plants and nuts. Food, meat or not, is best fresh and the scolds would be promoting real food instead of fake-meat if they were on your side.
Anyone who chooses to not eat much meat doesn’t bother me because they don’t bother me. I don’t know what the celebs really eat, but if they behaved with food as they do with anything else, they’re probably eating all of the steaks they tell us not to eat. THAT is what bothers me.
One thing at a time… 1) support animal on plane… ANY. What about people’s allergies? I would be in misery if someone brought in a support cat unless they had just bathed it. Also, animal do not normally use bathrooms. Just saying. 2)Make a spare key Scott! (Probably have by now, I hope) I always make a couple of spares with every new car. I wonder if you could have multiple apps on multiple phones and if that would work. 3) I agree with Bill; if indistinguishable from meat, go for a veggie burger. That includes cost. In also include not making from non soybean beans, as in an allergic. But maybe the process will solve that. One saying I’ve heard about eating meat: There is a place for God’s creatures. Right next to the taters and gravy.
Miniature horses are still horses by nature with all the good a bad that implies. They cannot be house broken like a dog or cat. When they gotta go, they go in large proportion to their size. Much as a full sized horse will do. They will not be stopped.
This is one more reason that I refuse to fly anywhere unless my life depends upon it. This in context of having to fly most of the way across the country every other week in the 1970. Today, I do my work over the internet and happy to do it that way.
PS: I bred, raised, trained, showed, and sold riding horses for most of 30 years. I even encountered a number of miniature horses. I know whereof I speak.
Lionell – you sound like my alter ego … I used to fly around the world for my job in the days when people actually dressed up to fly … And I too quit it all to breed quarter horses in 1990 … I hate to fly these days – it is just like riding in a cattle car …
Quarter Horses are nice working horses and do the job they were designed to do well. Mine were Peruvian Pasos. Many were floating smooth in gait so they made good traveling horses.
My favorite gelding was also fast. Once a pair of Arab endurance riders challenged me on speed. We started at a walk. My gelding was still gating when their Arabs broke into a rocking Canter with me a half length ahead. I remained deeply seated and quiet in the saddle.
Different horses for different purposes. A good horse tends to be better than most people in my opinion. I miss them very much. They were like my children to me.
Years ago I worked on a ranch where I rode and worked with horses pretty much daily. All the horses I was around had certain bodily functions that seemed to just happen and when they did, you did not want to get in the way. These “service horses” must be potty trained or riding in a airplane with one could really get interesting. I visualize a guy in a business suit showing up at his meeting smelling like he got ready for the meeting in a horse barn.
Diapers? Here in FL on the panhandle you can’t even ride your horse on the beach without one … I fully approve of horses doing their thing in the wide open spaces … but at my seat on the plane … yeah … not so much …
I’m going to try bringing Little Bob for free on my next flight, claiming he’s my emotional support human
A horse on a flight as a support animal? Where is this going? Easy answer – the horse will need a support animal! Problem solved.