'Gay' dog barred from restaurant

[ccharles000]

A blind man and his guide dog were barred from an Australian restaurant after a waiter thought the dog was gay.

A tribunal last week heard that Ian Jolly, 57, was told to leave the Adelaide restaurant Thai Spice in May last year after a staff member mistook his guide dog Nudge for a "gay dog".

Restaurant owners Hong Hoa Thi To and Anh Hoang Le told the hearing that the waiter had misheard Mr Jolly's partner Chris Lawrence when she asked to bring a guide dog on to the premises.

The waiter reportedly heard Ms Lawrence to say she "wanted to bring a gay dog into the restaurant".

A statement from the owners said: "The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been desexed to become a gay dog."

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/04/26/gay-dog-barred-from-restaurant/

[barbtries]

1. so what if he was?

i seriously doubt it was trying to screw the "staff"

[uppityperson]

4. You know those gay dogs, trying to spread their agenda wherever they sniff

I mean, next thing you know, the street pigeons will be turned!

[elias49]

2. A gay dog??? I can't stand it! Bwaahahaha! n/t

[Incitatus]

3. Only service dogs would be allowed.

The waiter is an idiot, but it seems the dog was barred because the waiter though it was not a service dog.

[IndianaGreen]

5. This is such a bizarre story! Everyone knows that being gay is a choice!

A dog can't choose to be gay, anymore than a whale!

:sarcasm:

I wonder if the Vietnamese owners have a problem with gay customers, not dogs.

[lunatica]

6. Some idiot misunderstood the words 'guide dog' to be 'gay dog'

How far down on the ratio quotient do some people get when stupid starts getting measured? Is there a bell curve for stupid?