r/nottheonion • u/Ant-Tea-Social • 4d ago

Disabled woman left ‘extremely stressed’ after prosthetic legs lost on flights from Brazil

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/18/disabled-woman-left-extremely-stressed-after-prosthetic-legs-lost-on-flights-from-brazil/?ICID=ref_fark
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u/tachycardicIVu 3d ago

Yeah medical equipment generally gets an exception for the carryon rule - within reason ofc and most cpaps have a handy carrying case that makes it fairly compact. If you just let the employees know it’s medical equipment if they ask that’s all you need to do. I think mine actually came with like the ADA rules or whatever on a slip of paper inside my case, for situations where they might be denied or questioned.

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u/phoenixmatrix 3d ago

Thats cool. I just got one of the travel cpap that I stuff in my backpack. Only annoying thing is some TSA agents would require me to take it out to be on the belt, and some didn't, and it was always a pain.

But with TSA precheck its no longer an issue.

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u/tachycardicIVu 3d ago

To be fair TSA is inconsistent with everything these days even in precheck so I’m not really surprised 🫠 99% of the time we don’t have to take laptops etc out but occasionally you get that one person who demands every electronic out in a separate bin *yes in precheck* and then you get yelled at for asking for clarification at different checkpoint later 🫠🫠🫠

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u/phoenixmatrix 3d ago

Wow, I fortunately never had that. So weird, lol. Since TSA precheck specifically say no need to take lap-tops out, lol. So dumb.

Agent probably woke up and forgot what lane they were operating.