“She can remind me to take my medicine, if I’m having nightmares she can wake me up in the middle of the night to notify me I’m having nightmares,” Partch said.
http://www.kens5.com/news/Army-V-144056906.html
To begin with it obviously isn't the middle of the night since the bar was still open serving alcohol. Second, it does not seem likely that Partch or her friends were sleeping in the bar since she was lucid enough to use her cell phone to record the altercation. Does she have some type of disorder that causes her to spontaneously fall asleep? Was it going to be time for her to take her medication while in the bar?
I certainly respect the need to have service animals and people should make reasonable accommodations, but it does not seem apparent that she actually needed the dog to perform any tasks for her in those circumstances. It does seem possible that she is frequenting various venues so that she can file an ADA lawsuit and get a settlement. If that is true, then she is doing a disservice to others with disabilities by not complying with the manager's request and she is also endangering her service animal that was most likely provided to her at taxpayer expense. The temperature has been mild lately, so it doesn't seem unreasonable for her and her friends to leave the dogs in their vehicle in this situation.
I hope that I'm completely wrong, but I sense an attitude of entitlement in this situation on the part of these veterans.
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