TikTok outraged after woman kicked off flight for petting her new puppy TikTok: _sara_price_A woman was kicked off her Southwest flight for petting her new puppy, leaving other passengers outraged. Now, netizens are demanding answers from the airline. On October 21, a TikTok user named Sara Price uploaded a series of videos to the platform showing her experience on a Southwest Airlines flight from Colorado Springs to San Francisco, California. In the video\u2019s caption, Price explained that a stranger she\u2019d met on the flight was preparing to fly back to her home in the Golden State after picking up a German Shepherd Puppy named Sitka that she\u2019d adopted in Colorado Springs. However, Sitka began whining while they were waiting to board. According to Price, \u201cthe flight attendant boarding everyone walked up to her and said, \u2018If your dog doesn\u2019t be quiet, you may not be able to fly.’\u201d Southwest kicks woman off flight for petting her puppy Things got even more tense when they boarded the flight. Price claims that another attendant walked up to the woman while she was petting her puppy with the carrier in her lap, saying the carrier needed to be placed underneath the seat and \u201czipped completely.\u201d After doing what she was told, the dog began whining again as the plane started to taxi on the runway. To help calm the pup, its owner reached down and stroked it from the outside of its carrier \u2014 causing the staff to gather in a group up at the front of the craft. It was at this point that the plane circled back to the gate, with staff saying that the woman needed to get off the flight due to her dog. Price recorded a video of the woman being escorted off the plane, who was clearly unhappy with the treatment she\u2019d received from the airline. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna have you touch a thing of mine,\u201d she said. \u201cYou are rude. You are a mean person, and I will never fly Southwest again.\u201d Both Price and her husband vocalized their support for the woman \u2014 something they say also got them booted off the flight. However, Price says several other passengers also walked off in support of them, and the group ended up getting on a comparatively less hostile United flight. Price later shared screenshots of her conversation with a Southwest representative after the incident. In the photos, Southwest claimed that they \u201cexpect all animals onboard to be well-behaved when flying with us,\u201d and were \u201csaddened\u201d if their employees didn\u2019t communicate these guidelines in a \u201ckind and pleasant manner.\u201d Southwest also gave a statement about the issue to PEOPLE. \u201cWe\u2019re aware of the videos and our initial reports indicate that the customer would not comply with keeping her dog\u2019s kennel closed, which is our policy,\u201d a spokesperson told the outlet. \u201cOur employees are trained to ensure customers are following protocol, and in this situation and after the customer repeatedly refused to comply with our crew\u2019s instructions, the decision was made to deplane the disruptive passenger.\u201d Thus far, her original video of the ordeal has racked up over 2 million views, boasting hundreds of angry comments demanding answers from the airline and claiming they\u2019re reconsidering flying with the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikTok outraged after woman kicked off flight for petting her new puppy TikTok: _sara_price_A woman was kicked off her Southwest flight for petting her new puppy, leaving other passengers outraged. Now, netizens are demanding answers from the airline. On October 21, a TikTok user named Sara Price uploaded a series of videos to the platform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}