Blind teen with guide dog told to leave Leeds Subway shop – BBC News

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1. Manager must be brain dead. It’s not a surprise that guide dogs exist, they’re not a new thing.
   I feel for the young lad, but in many ways he dodged a 6 inch bullet. Fuck that subway and get a nicer lunch instead

2. The issue is a bunch of people claim their dog is a ‘service’ dog when there is no regulation around it (Karen with her emotional support chiwawa). Companies fear falling foul of equality regulations but also understandably don’t want dogs in food areas for hygiene reasons and because some customers are allergic. It means guide dogs which are highly trained unlike many ‘service’ dogs get barred from places they legally should be allowed.

3. >a spokesperson told him that staff at the branch were being retrained.

   Breaching equality laws should be gross misconduct.

4. They need to introduce a type of blue badge scheme otherwise people are just buying harnesses and self-declaring a need, which undermines respect for any scheme.

5. If you don’t know what a guide dog is, you probably shouldn’t be trusted to make people’s food either.

6. A free footlong as a gesture of good will, fuck that take them to court for discrimination for no less than £100,000

7. They were offered a free sandwich and the staff are being re trained?

   Nah. That’s a joke. Sue them.

   Who the fuck doesn’t know about guide dogs? Manager isn’t just stupid, they’re fucking moronic.

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