“I had to crawl”: Amputee seeks damages after United Airlines and airport security seize scooter batteries

Erica Johnson, British Columbia CBC News, April 29, 2019
Stearn Hodge says he’s had enough of airport security agents and airlines trying to take away the batteries for his portable scooter; a disability violation. He’s fighting to take United Airlines, WestJet and the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. 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.