Friday, May 19, 2006
What? You Didn't Know that One of Your Rights Was To Have Your Dogs Next to You in a Restaurant?
When you ask people what their rights are under the US Constitution, they come up with the usual doofus answers, showing their disdain, and equal lack of knowledge of that document which in effect runs our country. Ask someone if they can shut their phone off in a movie theater, you might get someone claim that "having a phone on is part of my rights," despite the fact that this is written no where in law, much less the Constitution.
Toward this end, we found this (read:stupid) story in the Constipated New York Times, which decided to ask people about their dogs and how having them makes them feel better about life. Nice - of course, Joobo loves animals, too.
But, check out one of the people in the story - she just found a new right in the Constitution:
Wagging the Dog, and a Finger
Uh, sorry, lady - no such right to have your dog sit with you in a restaurant exists.
If the restaurant tells you no dogs, you have to follow that rule. And if they haul your ass off, be prepared to have a lawyer tell you that you do not have a leg to stand on.
When you ask people what their rights are under the US Constitution, they come up with the usual doofus answers, showing their disdain, and equal lack of knowledge of that document which in effect runs our country. Ask someone if they can shut their phone off in a movie theater, you might get someone claim that "having a phone on is part of my rights," despite the fact that this is written no where in law, much less the Constitution.
Toward this end, we found this (read:stupid) story in the Constipated New York Times, which decided to ask people about their dogs and how having them makes them feel better about life. Nice - of course, Joobo loves animals, too.
But, check out one of the people in the story - she just found a new right in the Constitution:
Wagging the Dog, and a Finger
One 30-year-old woman, a resident of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., said she does not see a psychotherapist but suffers from anxiety and abandonment issues and learned about emotional-needs dogs from a television show. She ordered a dog vest over the Internet with the words "service dog in training" for one of the several dogs she lives with, even though none are trained as service animals. "Having my dogs with me makes me feel less hostile," said the woman, who refused to give her name.
"I can fine people or have them put in jail if they don't let me in a restaurant with my dogs, because they are violating my rights," she insisted.
Uh, sorry, lady - no such right to have your dog sit with you in a restaurant exists.
If the restaurant tells you no dogs, you have to follow that rule. And if they haul your ass off, be prepared to have a lawyer tell you that you do not have a leg to stand on.
