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Put bike in bike box.
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Affix handicap sticker to bike box (and remove all triathlon stickers).
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“It’s a wheel chair.”
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Profit!
I’m not an expert on this but I think lying about your contents could be grounds for being kicked off your flight at a minimum
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at what altitude?
Go ahead - try it. Trying to pass yourself off as disabled to abuse the ADA Laws is a Federal Crime and don’t think the airlines will not turn you in! When you get caught, and you will get caught, it is a Federal Offense, jail time and a $30,000 fine. WE DON"T EVEN DO THAT and I am wheelchair enabled.
…or you could just tell them that they’re welcome to inspect it to verify its contents, but “be carfeful, if you open it wrong it could blow up”
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I’m not an expert on this but I think lying about your contents could be grounds for being kicked off your flight at a minimum
These days, this is never a good thing. The humour has been taken completely out of airline travel. There was a time when a little humour could actually accomplish something like this - free passage for the bike, getting on an earlier flight, an upgrade to business or first class etc . . Not anymore.
Once in a while I will see a sign posted on the handicapped spaces here in France- "take my space-take my handicap’’
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Or you could grow some balls and pay for it. You are the one who did decide to sign up for the race and knew it would cost money to fly your bike there.
I’m not an expert on this but I think lying about your contents could be grounds for being kicked off your flight at a minimum
These days, this is never a good thing. The humour has been taken completely out of airline travel. There was a time when a little humour could actually accomplish something like this - free passage for the bike, getting on an earlier flight, an upgrade to business or first class etc . . Not anymore.
Looks like the humor has been completely taken out of slowtwitch too.
But oh how I yearn for those days of yore when the flightstaff would greet you with handshakes while wearing handbuzzers, and the stewardesses would have fresh whoopee cushions on every seat… where you would spend your time seeing how many people you could fit into the airplane lavatory, and where the captain would alert you that the plane had reached cruising altitude by yelling “WE’VE CAUGHT FIRE! I’M TAKING THE PARACHUTE AND I’LL SEE YOU ON THE GROUND”. Those were the hilarious and halcyon days of flight that I want to return to.
Damn yall, learn how to take a joke. Did you happen to see who posted this??? I’m pretty sure it was meant to be funny, not to spark the moral outrage of ST. Support Crew kinda has a right to take that any way she likes, but the rest of ya’ll need to chill.
It was a joke, right?
Once in a while I will see a sign posted on the handicapped spaces here in France- "take my space-take my handicap’’
I love it. I have people come up to me in the chair all the time and say things like “I wish I had one of those right now”, “you have got the right idea” or even “can I use that for awhile”. I usually answer “only if you trade me for your legs”. I would love to able to make my legs tired. Or, if I am in a good mood, I say “oh, I can walk, I am just really, really lazy”.
IMO, I view Support Crew getting self-righteous about jokes like I view Michael Phelps becoming conceited about his swimming prowess. They might be justified, but they would be cooler people if they didn’t adopt these personality defects.
Which joke? The one that uses society’s support and understanding of a handicapped person or the egotist?
Pick whichever one you like best.
The joke would be that labeling something with a sticker would change it’s fundemental treatment. This is amusing in the same way that a company attributing changes in the sales of their product to a change in their label is amusing, or, to bring it closer to home, the way that it is amusing that people think the color pattern on the P4 is important. It is ignoring the deterministic physical characteristics of an object (giant fucking box/aerodynamic properties) in favor of socially desireable aspects (pretty sticker/pretty color) that don’t change the objects functionality. I usually find things like this entertaining and amusing, particularly when it is abused. It’s like pouring cheapo wine into expensive wine bottles and seeing who has the balls to tell you it tastes like crap.
Overanalyzing clever and amusing things is neither entertaining or amusing.
IMO, I view Support Crew getting self-righteous about jokes like I view Michael Phelps becoming conceited about his swimming prowess. They might be justified, but they would be cooler people if they didn’t adopt these personality defects.
Right, I am conceited about my not being able to walk. Its something to brag about. That’s a new one. Standing against abuse of the ADA by non-disabled people is a “personality defect”? I really thought my “defect” was neurological.
Joke or not - somebody probably would think they could try it. Humor is in the eye of the beholder. Believe it or not, people try this shit all the time. I get to deal with it on a daily basis, so perhaps it is not so funny to me. You did read the part of my post where I DO use humor in many situations myself.
Calling someone out as “self righteous” on ST is actually kinda funny if you think about it. Half of the Threads are self righteous rants. 
That’s weird. Is it common for signs in France to be written in English?
Could work.
But if they break it they will replace your bike with a wheelchair.
Do you put your wheelchair in a bike box and check it in? Not sure what it is that you are saying that you don’t do at the airport.
Just asking.
Did I ever tell you about my time in the Atlanta Airport in a wheel chair? Now THAT is a funny story.