Gay Dog refused admission to restaurant
ROFLing.
'Gay dog' and his blind owner refused service in Australian restaurant
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:48 PM on 27th April 2010
An Australian restaurant has been fined after turning a blind customer away because they thought his guide dog was gay.
Ian Jolly, 57, was trying to enter the Thai Spice restaurant in Adelaide in May, 2009 when he was refused entry.
Staff had misheard the woman with Mr Jolly, and believed that his 'guide dog' Nudge was in fact a 'gay dog'.
guide dog
The restaurant's owners said a waiter had understood the woman 'to be saying she wanted to bring a gay dog into the restaurant'.
'The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been desexed to become a gay dog,' the owners said in a statement to South Australia's Equal Opportunity Tribunal.
The restaurant, which displays a 'guide dogs welcome' sign and whose ambience is described in reviews as 'relaxed', has refused to comment on the ruling to the Australian press.
Mr Jolly is set to receive a written apology and US$1,400 compensation - but the situation left a lasting mark.
'I always have that fear now, when I go out,' he said.
'I just want to be like everyone else and be able to go out for dinner,' he told Australian press.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1269193/Australian-res...
Now what I want to know is what they thought the gay dog was going to do? Where there other dogs in the restaurant that were afraid the dog would hit on them? Was he wearing tight leather pants that might offend the customers? I'm confused.
lol, Good to know stupidity is so widespread :)