August Abolins wrote in a message to Anne Page:
 AA> Hi Anne!
 AA> On 03-30-1998 at 00:43:00AM, Anne Page (1:278/15) wrote to
 AA> All: 
 AP> From UPI NEWS--I can understand store owners not being aware
 AP> of the rules; I can understand--and agree with--the desire of
 AP> owners, etc., to see some identification of a dog as a service
 AP> dog, but this is ridiculous (and sad).
 UN>>        ...State Medical Board investigators say Rose refused to let
 UN>> the blind man into his office with a guide dog on two occasions in
 UN>> November 1996, even when the man was accompanied by the training
 UN>> director of the Guide Dogs of America.    The man was trying to get
 UN>> an eye examination required by the Social Security Administration.
 UN>> Investigators with the State Medical Board launched a probe into
 UN>> Rose's conduct after getting a complaint last year from the guide
 UN>> dogs' group.    Rose is the second Los Angeles businessman convicted
 UN>> in the past three months of refusing access to service dogs. The
 UN>> owner of a fast- food restaurant was ordered to pay $2,700 in fines
 UN>> in January for refusing to let a wheelchair-bound woman into his
 UN>> business with her service dog.
 AA> The doctor and restaurant owner should have said that they
 AA> or their employees have allergies or sensitivity to dogs.  
 AA> If the judge or city wouldn't accept that, then that would
 AA> be unreasonable.  People with guide dogs probably have a
 AA> variety of other business establishments they could choose
 AA> from.  To single out one business like that and then make a
 AA> big deal about "guide dog insensitivities" is ridiculous.
Spoken like a person who doesn't need a guide dog.
You are seriously lacking in empathy.
Alan
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