[gps-talkusers] Re: denied access in a Copenhagen restaurant

Mike,
Next September I will be in Romania for just over a month for the third time
and on the way back from Romania we will be in Munich Germany for a couple
of day, the last time I was on my trip I have done my home work regarding my
guide dog right in the country I will be in, there was no problem but
Romania have no law for any one with a disabilities   , I had my USDA health
paper for my dog and hope that we have gotten in the Taxi or eaten
establishment I have left my guide dog at our family home and use my cane it
was better to have a cane than a guide dog, but my wife was with me but I
knew  what I would be against with this type of problem.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Leary
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 7:44 AM
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Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: denied access in a Copenhagen restaurant

Hello Mike,

I am very glad to see that you made yourself  heard.  Even in a foreign 
country I appreciate that you were verbal about it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael May" <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 11:25 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] denied access in a Copenhagen restaurant


> The GPS helped get us to Visuvio's restaurant in Copenhagen but the front 
> door is where the access ended. It is rare for me to run into a situation 
> where I am absolutely denied access to a restaurant because of my Seeing 
> Eye dog. It is so frustrating and humiliating when it happens.
>
> The two previous restaurants we went to in the last day objected to the 
> dog but they didn't protest long. I know every angle in the book and 
> Visuvio's wasn't budging. We argued in the doorway for 20 minutes or so. I

> called a blind Danish guy in the local blindness organization and he 
> explained that there isn't any specific legislation about dogs. It is hard

> to know how general descrimination law applies in Denmark. We did pass one

> other dog guide user on the street so it isn't the fact that there are no 
> dogs here. Anyone know the actual law about dog guides in Denmark?
>
> I really hate backing down. I was prepared to stand in his doorway the 
> whole evening but then there was the matter of our business dinner to 
> consider so eventually we relented and used the GPS to see what other 
> restaurants were nearby. Wouldn't you know we ended up at an Australian 
> restaurant. I will definitely make good on filing a complaint about 
> Visuvio's. I sure hope I don't run into too much more discrimination on 
> this trip through 5 European countries. It isn't any fun.
>
> Mike
>
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