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Belen Aldecosea, a student in Texas, called Spirit Airlines twice and was told both times that she could bring her certified emotional support animal, Pebbles the hamster, on board a flight to Florida.

When she arrived, she was confronted by staff who told her rodents were not allowed. Spirit has admitted that representatives did give false information to Aldecosea.

"... She says an airline representative suggested flushing Pebbles down an airport toilet, a step that Spirit denies... Panicked and needing to return home promptly to deal with a medical issue, For hours, Aldecosea said, she struggled with what to do.

She contacted at least six rental car agencies, but no cars were available during the busy holiday season and she wasn’t old enough to rent a car anyway. A Greyhound bus would have taken days to get to South Florida.

With her flight boarding soon, she pondered whether to just let Pebbles free outside. She said she considered it more humane to end her life right away, and not let her run around scared in the cold, only to die getting hit by a car.

“I didn’t have any other options,” she said.

"Aldecosea... agonized for hours before doing the unthinkable... She was scared. I was scared. It was horrifying trying to put her in the toilet,” Aldecosea said. “I was emotional. I was crying. I sat there for a good 10 minutes crying in the stall

She flushed Pebbles."

"Aldecosea, 21, of Miami Beach, is now considering filing a lawsuit against Spirit over the conflicting instructions that wound up pressuring her into making an anguished decision with a pet certified by her doctor as an emotional support animal."
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article198971069.html

What are your thoughts?

The problem with this celebrity culture is that people fail to separate celebrities from the PR image of celebrities in the media, the charcters they may play on tv/movies, their persona on the music stage and who they are in real life. From what I see actors/actresses may play a brave courageous person on the big screen but in real life they are managed lile puppets from behind the scenes told what brands they like and what their politics are.

I advise anyone responding to this who supports the celebrity #METOO and ##TIMESUP campaigns to investigate a petition signed by a lot of high profile film actors guild members to get Roman Polanski a peadophille who fled justice allowed back into the United States without prosecution. Those that signed this petition many you will have seen at the women's march, golden globes and Oscars preaching about holding powerful men to account, sexual harrassment and rape.

With all the North Korea stuff going on?

I feel that way. I was all supportive of the right to marry and what not, but now this transgender/transsexual agenda is getting on my nerve. Like how some of them believe that if straight people won't date them then that means we are discriminating and being closed minded or that we have to tell them we don't date trans people because it's not safe for them to tell anyone. Or how some think that they don't have to tell you they're trans until they're comfortable, which for some could be weeks or months and by then, a straight person could have been sexually active with them in some way. And now this gender fluidity mess...

I've slowly started withdrawing my support from the LGBT community, not because I don't think they deserve rights, but the movement's demanding and immature, misguided behavior is just a turn off. And the annoying part is that... the movement definitely did NOT start that way. Even a few years ago when Congress made gay marriage legal there was a clear difference in the movement back then than it is today.

As far as I'm concerned, they can fight this battle on their own until the attitude of their community changes.

Al Gore, our famous inventor of the internet, says that extreme cold is what we should be expecting from global warming. (well, now they call it climate change, because obviously, it's not getting any warmer!)
here's the problem though- i think they are banking on people's attention spans being only 5 minutes long. when i was a child i can remember having enormous neighborhood snowball fights, with mountains of snow 10 or 12 feet high piled up to make snow forts. but over the years, i've sat back and wondered "where has the snow gone?" and some years, haven't even had a white Christmas. last year, for example, at this time we had RAIN... tons of RAIN.

the warm weather last year was blamed on el-ninio. the pacific ocean cools, giving off much heat into the atmosphere, which lasts for several weeks as it drifts over north america and holds back the cold air from the arctic.

but now the el-nino effect is over, since the cooling cycle has to start over again and build up heat. we get a little snow and suddenly, everybody is huddled around makeshift campfires in their living rooms, burning socks and books to keep warm.

is it just me? am i the only one thinking 'wow... we're having a normal winter here.' ?

besides that, add to the fact that all the other planets in the solar system are also going through the same warming/cooling changes that we are. the process is heavily dependent on the sun, and we even went through a very cold time awhile back that scientists called "the little ice age" where there were no sun-spots for a number of years.

to me... it just is obvious. in January it's cold. in July it's hot. but scientists will say that the sun has absolutely NO affect on the earth's climate, but we need to tax people for breathing in order to cut back on global warming. what? how does taking money out of my purse decrease the amount of air i breath? oh yeah... when you tax me to DEATH the amount of air i breath will be greatly affected!

So Logan Paul, the brother of Jake Paul, went to Japan's infamous suicide forest and discovered a dead hanging body. Yes, it was real and the young man appeared passed that morning. He filmed the body, included it in his thumbnail for his video, and posted the video on his YouTube channel. It stayed up for a day or two before he willingly took it down himself, despite it being flagged and reported to YouTube numerous times.


Logan has since apologized, more than once, and the backlash against him is getting worse, but now people are petitioning for his channel to be taken down. People are claiming his written apology (above) was self righteous and insincere, but he did post a video apology about an hour ago.

Several YouTubers like Jaclynn Glenn, Boogie2988, pewdiepie, and especially those from the horror community like Rob Dyke, are worried what backlash this will have on other creators. The horror community, like those who narrate horror stories, along with other creators have faced demonetization of their videos, deletions of their channels, and loss of views for much smaller things.

He has over 15 million subscribers and his fan based tends to be under the age of 18, especially the ages 12-15 years old. Should he lose his channel?