Can't Take Infant to Hockey Game for Free A Human Rights Violation?

[radoran]

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nhl/winnipeg-parents-plan-human-rights-complaint-over-nhl-policy-requiring-ticket-for-baby/ar-BBwdxpi

 

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A Winnipeg couple say they will file a human rights complaint against the NHL for a policy requiring their breastfeeding baby to have a full-price ticket to the upcoming Heritage Classic, even after the league apologized and offered them free tickets.

Clifford Anderson and Shalyn Meady went public with their concerns earlier this week, after learning they would have to spend an extra $400 for their six-month-old son, William, to attend the 2016 Tim Hortons NHL Heritage Classic at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg next month.

The couple said they were told by the league that William, who is not old enough to sit upright without help, has to have his own seat for safety reasons.

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Meady said she is exclusively breastfeeding William and if he cannot attend, she can't go either.

 

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Anderson said their biggest concern is that the NHL's policy is not fair to young families who want to bring their breastfeeding children to the game.

"It may go so far as to be a human rights concern for breastfeeding mothers that would have to pay double, essentially, to be able to go to a game," he said.

"Whether or not they can pump [breast milk] or not is beside the issue — that's a right to do that. It's not a convenience, it's not something that somebody else is entitled to tell them how to do that. So I think that we'd really like to see the policy changed, and we felt that if we accepted the tickets that it wouldn't change anything."

 

IMO, children under two do NOT need to go to a hockey game.

 

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Anderson added that he feels strongly that young children and those who don't have a lot of money should be able to attend a hockey game

 

You have no "right" to go to a hockey game. None. Zero. Zilch. To call this a "human rights violation" is a slap in the face to people who are actually suffering human rights violations.

 

YMMV.

[WordsOfWisdom]

On 9/22/2016 at 10:26 AM, radoran said:

IMO, children under two do NOT need to go to a hockey game.

 

This. ^

 

I'd go a step farther and say that a hockey game (or any large public event) is a dangerous place for a baby to be. The noise is too much for a baby's ears, and being in a crowd of rowdy people is dangerous in terms of the baby being injured. 

 

 

[flyercanuck]

22 hours ago, WordsOfWisdom said:

 

This. ^

 

I'd go a step farther and say that a hockey game (or any large public event) is a dangerous place for a baby to be. The noise is too much for a baby's ears, and being in a crowd of rowdy people is dangerous in terms of the baby being injured. 

 

 

 

It wouldn't be so dangerous if everyone was packing heat. 

[Haliax]

On 9/22/2016 at 10:26 AM, radoran said:

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/sports/nhl/winnipeg-parents-plan-human-rights-complaint-over-nhl-policy-requiring-ticket-for-baby/ar-BBwdxpi

 

 

IMO, children under two do NOT need to go to a hockey game.

 

 

You have no "right" to go to a hockey game. None. Zero. Zilch. To call this a "human rights violation" is a slap in the face to people who are actually suffering human rights violations.

 

YMMV.

Yeah. They could have made a solid enough argument that the child didn't require a seat so why should they pay for a ticket, but saying that it is a human rights violation is ridiculous. I don't even understand how anyone could logically argue that?

[WordsOfWisdom]

37 minutes ago, flyercanuck said:

 

It wouldn't be so dangerous if everyone was packing heat. 

 

lol