Court rules flight crews not negligent in refusing to look at a man's crotch

[Toner]

Although you'd think the male attendants would have been on this like a fat kid on a donut, a judge ruled the flight crew had no obligation to conduct a medical examination of a man's scrotum in-flight.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/cana...32506-qmi.html

[rb.]

Interesting. I started out thinking the guy was a total flake, but that turned around pretty quickly. I wonder if his wife looked at it? She doesn't have any authority on the plane, though, to get him medical attention. Must have been pretty disturbing for the guy. At least the court costs that he has to pay are low.

[Feather]

My question is, why didn't he ask to have his wife come to the bathroom he was in and look at it for him? I know my DH, there's no way he going to look at another mans crotch.

[Mama Alanna]

In an airplane bathroom, Feather? Unless they're both skinny and he stood on the toilet, not enough room!

[Feather]

True MA but a male from the flight crew wouldn't fit either. The bathrooms are so small on planes that a lot of people can't fit one at a time in them. I just thought that if anyone should be looking at his crotch then it should be his wife once they got off the plane or if he didn't want to wait then he could stay in the bathroom and they could ask the flight crew to block anyone from walking back there for just a minute or two. Personally I would have waited until I was in a bathroom on the ground that is meant for families, that way it is legal for males and females to be in the same public bathroom.

[Ought Six]

In a medical emergency, you do what you need to do. Somebody should have looked at the guy's crotch to make sure he did not have some sharp fragment of something embedded in there, cutting into him every time he moved. Good thing it was a just minor blood vessel, instead of a nicked femoral artery or something.