Disabled man kicked off EasyJet flight because he couldnt walk to toilet: Im not a person anymore

A disabled UK passenger had his “self-respect” shattered after he was reportedly booted from an easyJet flight before takeoff because he couldn’t walk to the lavatory.“I’ve always been a happy-go-lucky chap but this has knocked me back a bit,” Barry Dobner, 79 told the Liverpool Echo.

The Brit, who has been wheelchair-bound since suffering from a stroke 18 years ago, hasn’t let his physical limitations stop him from traveling and has reportedly flown six times in his condition.For his latest trip, Barry had planned to fly from Manchester to Athens, Greece on April 3 so he could celebrate his 80th birthday in the Mediterranean paradise with his wife Alison Dobner, 67, and friend Sheila.To prevent any snafus, the group arranged wheelchair-friendly transportation in Greece while Barry claims he informed easyJet that he was a wheelchair user when they’d booked their flight.Despite their precautions, their trip was over before it began.

The problems began shortly after boarding when a crewmember reportedly overheard that the traveler kept a portable urinal in his carry-on luggage.“A stewardess walked by and she said ‘excuse me, do you have a urinal bottle?’” Barry recalled.

“My wife said yes, in case of emergencies.She said ‘hang on a minute’.

She came back and said ‘can your husband walk to the toilet’?”When Alison replied that he could not, the flight attendant “said ‘you have to get off this plane,'” he recalled.“My wife asked why and they said ‘because he can’t walk to the toilet.'”The whole group was subsequently ejected from the aircraft, after which they had to get picked up from an airport by a friend and driven home.

“The whole plane was standing up watching what was going on,” said Barry.“You can imagine how that made me feel.

They knew I couldn’t walk when they put me on the plane.”He added that the incident left him feeling like an “object,” explaining, “I’m not a person anymore.My se...