A Frontier Flight Was Delayed 2 Hours Because A Woman Refused To Give Up Her Emotional Support Squirrel

USA TODAY- Police had to remove a woman who brought an “emotional support squirrel” on a Frontier Airlines flight headed from Orlando, Florida, to Cleveland. Frontier says the passenger had noted in her reservation that she was bringing an emotional support animal with her on Flight 1612 Tuesday night. But she did not indicate it was a squirrel.

The airline says rodents, including squirrels, are not allowed. The airline says police were called when the passenger refused to leave the plane. Police requested the other passengers disembark while officers dealt with the woman, who was eventually escorted into the main terminals. The flight left for Cleveland about two hours later.

You know the whole goddamn world has gone crazy when you see a story about a woman refusing to leave an airplane because she refuses to give up her emotional support squirrel and it doesn’t even make you blink twice. Good luck finding a more 2018 story than this today.

Now instead of talking about how ludicrous an emotional squirrel is because squirrels are just tree rats that we have normalized because they have bushy tails and there are a shit ton of them outside, I am actually going to take this woman’s side. I believe you should be allowed to get away with pretty much whatever you want on Frontier Airlines as long as nobody’s safety is at risk. Everyone knows that Frontier is pretty much the shitty dive bar that doesn’t check IDs of airlines. They should embrace that reputation and allow anything to fly on their planes (nice pun, Clem). If you want to bring an emotional support hissing cockroach on board or film an orgy from a mile high, you should be allowed to. Because everybody that is on a Frontier flight knows exactly what they are getting into when they pay bargain basement rates for their ticket.

HOWEVAH, the one problem I have with all this is that this all took place in Orlando. That is the one airport that should not allow any type of tomfoolery. The majority of people on that flight are likely going home after spending wayyyyy too much time dealing with their shitty kids at amusement parks. Having to wait 2 seconds longer because someone brought an emotional squirrel on board is an acceptable excuse for murder, let alone 2 hours. Then again, when you are in Florida, you know you will be traveling with the craziest collections of lunatics in the Union and someone smuggling on a squirrel is about as tame as it gets for a Barstool blog from the Sunshine State.