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CentralCali
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 Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:37 am Post subject: More stupidity on the subway |
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Maltreatement of guide dog on subway causes uproar
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By Kim Rahn
Another row took place on the subway, with a young female demanding a visually-challenged woman with a guide dog get off the train.
A blogger posted writing on the Internet Wednesday in which she said a woman screamed at the owner of the guide dog.
According to the blogger, a visually-impaired woman entered a subway car on Line 4 with her guide dog at around 2 p.m. As she took a seat in a section reserved for the elderly and the disabled, the young woman, sitting in the same area suddenly screamed and shrieked, �Why have you brought this big dog on a subway train? Are you crazy?�
People around them told the woman that it was a guide dog, but she kept screaming and saying the dog should not board the train.
She said the dog was �dirty� and the dog owner didn�t have �common sense,� and demanded the blind woman apologize.
As the dog owner didn�t apologize, the young woman told a subway crewmember to stop the subway via the train�s emergency phone. Assuming an emergency situation, subway workers rushed into the train at the next stop. But on learning the situation, they told the complaining passenger that guide dogs are allowed.
The train started again, but the woman kept making a fuss in another compartment. |
More at the link.
Maybe if she'd been carted off to the local cop shop, the young woman would've grasped the seriousness of falsely reporting an emergency. Given her continued conniption fit, I doubt that it's sunk into her head that service animals are performing a valuable service. I'm pleased that people nearby attempted to get that message across to this latest example of courtesy in public. |
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Zackback
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Location: Kyungbuk
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Arrest her and make her clean up dog crap for the next ten years. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:44 pm Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| CentralCali wrote: |
�Why have you brought this big dog on a subway train? Are you crazy?�.
She said the dog was �dirty� |
Ah yes...scary and "dirty"...typical Korean attitudes to animals.
Thats why you have koreans in tears when a bee enters the room. Its a psychological illness that comes from growing up without any contact with nature. |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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"why did you bring food here? don't you know there's 'no eating' policy in the subway trains?" she said as she drooled all over the dog.  |
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young_clinton
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| Somewhat sensationalizing the issue and trying to bring discredit to Koreans and Korea. In the city that I grew up in a woman was mauled to death by dogs. Do people get mauled to death by Rotweilers and Pit Bulls in Korea? |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| young_clinton wrote: |
| Somewhat sensationalizing the issue and trying to bring discredit to Koreans and Korea. In the city that I grew up in a woman was mauled to death by dogs. Do people get mauled to death by Rotweilers and Pit Bulls in Korea? |
A trained labrador guard dog is an entirely different matter to a pit bull or rottweiler. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| young_clinton: Perhaps you should bring up the issue of discrediting Korea with the Korean journalist who wrote that article, the Korean editor who approved it, or the Korean publisher who printed it in the Korean newspaper. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:22 am Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| Julius wrote: |
| CentralCali wrote: |
�Why have you brought this big dog on a subway train? Are you crazy?�.
She said the dog was �dirty� |
Ah yes...scary and "dirty"...typical Korean attitudes to animals.
Thats why you have koreans in tears when a bee enters the room. Its a psychological illness that comes from growing up without any contact with nature. |
Many North Americans are obsessed with their pets to a level that is unhealthy. Dogs usually are dirty.
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| Somewhat sensationalizing the issue and trying to bring discredit to Koreans and Korea. |
Yup. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:13 am Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Many North Americans are obsessed with their pets to a level that is unhealthy. |
You're going off track. And taking nationalistic offence at well-founded criticism.
The issue at hand is someone objecting to a guide dog for the blind.
And the way koreans often have a ridiculous hysterical shrieking fear and aversion to all natural living things, from flies to frogs to dogs to birds to foreigners.
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| Dogs usually are dirty. |
What a pathetic viewpoint.
You sound like one of those deprived people who thinks milk comes from bottles. Who cries at the sight of a pigeon strolling towards them on the pavement. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:01 pm Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| Julius wrote: |
| CentralCali wrote: |
�Why have you brought this big dog on a subway train? Are you crazy?�.
She said the dog was �dirty� |
Ah yes...scary and "dirty"...typical Korean attitudes to animals.
Thats why you have koreans in tears when a bee enters the room. Its a psychological illness that comes from growing up without any contact with nature. |
So typical that the entire carload of people explained to her what a guard dog is.
Pffft...You want to see scary and dirty and weird reactions, take westerners to a seafood restaurant. Same thing.
How's this- There's nothing typically Korean about this. This is an idiot chick, probably has a mental issue or three. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 6:23 pm Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| Julius wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
| Many North Americans are obsessed with their pets to a level that is unhealthy. |
You're going off track. And taking nationalistic offence at well-founded criticism. |
There's nothing well-founded about blaming a society as a whole for one woman's conduct. You have a group of Koreans in the subway who understood the function of the dog, and one who didn't. You focus on the odd one out and then blame the society as a whole for sharing her views? |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
So typical that the entire carload of people explained to her what a guard dog is.
Pffft...You want to see scary and dirty and weird reactions, take westerners to a seafood restaurant. Same thing.
How's this- There's nothing typically Korean about this. This is an idiot chick, probably has a mental issue or three. |
In this case, point taken, but I've found there to be a really disproportionate number of Koreans who are absolutely terrified of dogs in particular, and wildlife in general.
Westerners tend to be cowards when it comes to food in general, and seafood in particular. The degree to which it is both brazen and extreme can be a bit offensive at times. |
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Friend Lee Ghost
Joined: 06 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:54 pm Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| northway wrote: |
| In this case, point taken, but I've found there to be a really disproportionate number of Koreans who are absolutely terrified of dogs in particular, and wildlife in general. |
Wait, let me see if I got this straight: Koreans believe dogs are dirty, they are terrified of them, and then they eat them???  |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:57 pm Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| You have a group of Koreans in the subway who understood the function of the dog, and one who didn't. You focus on the odd one out? |
OK, point taken. But, as Northway said:
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| I've found there to be a really disproportionate number of Koreans who are absolutely terrified of dogs in particular, and wildlife in general. |
In Korea it is the norm to have phobias about animals..and its hard to find a person who doesn't.
Fear and hatred of animals is not rational nor is it attractive. Too often in Korea it results in cruelty or abuse.
Those of us who grew up with dogs, cats, ducks, chickens and horses struggle to understand this mentality. I see it as a mass mental disorder of sorts, a result of growing up within sterile 4 walls of concrete. maybe its just a seoul thing. Dunno.
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| take westerners to a seafood restaurant. |
Most times its a reaction against cruelty. You're not supposed to eat things while they are still alive.
In the west, killing of fish and other animals is usually done humanely, behind the scenes.
Basically it comes down to respect for living things. Some cultures have it, others don't. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: More stupidity on the subway |
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| Julius wrote: |
In the west, killing of fish and other animals is usually done humanely, behind the scenes.
Basically it comes down to respect for living things. Some cultures have it, others don't. |
It's more humane if you don't see it? |
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