'I Had to Crawl': Amputee Seeks Damages After United Airlines and Airport Security Seize Scooter Batteries

Stearn Hodge says he will never forget the humiliation of having to drag his body across a hotel room floor during what was supposed to be a vacation celebrating his 43rd wedding anniversary — because a security agent at the Calgary International Airport
April 29, 2019

Stearn Hodge says he will never forget the humiliation of having to drag his body across a hotel room floor during what was supposed to be a vacation celebrating his 43rd wedding anniversary — because a security agent at the Calgary International Airport and United Airlines confiscated the batteries he needed to operate a portable scooter.

"Having to crawl across the floor in front of my wife is the most humiliating thing that I can think of," said Hodge. "It unmasks how real my disability is … I haven't been the same since."

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/amputee-claims-discrimination-after-airport-security-takes-batteries-1.5109369 

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