Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Lifestyle choices

Get a load of the intolerance shown by this prudish bus driver toward a...well...
A British bus company has apologized to a girl who is led around on a leash by her boyfriend and describes herself as a human pet after one of its drivers threw her off a bus.

Tasha Maltby, 19, told British newspapers she was the "pet" of her 25-year-old fiance Dani Graves.

Pictures showed her dressed in black Gothic-style clothing with silver buckles on a silver chain -- which the driver of a bus from the firm Arriva took exception to.

She told the Daily Mail newspaper Wednesday she was thrown off and told: "We don't let freaks and dogs like you on."

Arriva would not comment on specifics but said it apologized if the couple felt they had been discriminated against. It added, however, that the driver was worried about safety and the company told Maltby to take the leash off in the future.

"We have spoken to the driver who has talked about health and safety," a spokesman said. "Should she be attached to a chain and something happens on the bus, that could be dangerous. All we are saying is that she is very welcome to use the buses but not when she is on her lead."
That's an OUTRAGE! Who are they to tell her she can't, uh, do whatever it is that she's doing there? The fascists. Yeah. Fascists.

Oh, and this little detail kind of jumped out at me:
Maltby -- who lives on state benefits and got engaged in November -- said her choice of lifestyle might seem unusual but was harmless.
It goes on to quote her as saying that she leads "a really easy life," never does much of anything useful, and that she doesn't go anywhere without her fiance. I can see how that might make it a little difficult to find gainful employment.

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