Carnival lifts lifetime ban on family (claimed family scratched a desk)

[The Straight Story]

Carnival lifts lifetime ban on family


MIAMI, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Carnival Cruise Lines said it has lifted a lifetime ban it had imposed on a family because of scrapes on a dresser in their cabin.

Chris Harvey said he and his family were kept aboard the Carnival Freedom when it docked Aug. 23 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., by ship employees who claimed small scrapes on a dresser in their cabin had been caused by the family on the final day of the cruise, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Thursday.

"They kept talking about damage we'd not done," Harvey said. He said photographs taken during the cruise clearly show the scratches were on the dresser for longer than the workers claimed.

Harvey said he argued with the employees for about two hours before agreeing to accept a lifetime ban from Carnival Cruise Lines vessels.

Harvey, chief executive of online travel insurance company Squaremouth.com, detailed the incident on the Web site Wednesday, and officials at Miami-based Carnival apologized and agreed to lift the ban after being contacted by the St. Petersburg Times.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/09/03/Carnival-lifts-lifetime-ban-on-family/UPI-45581252013123/

[drm604]

1. When I saw your subject line

I thought that there had been an altercation in the head clowns office or something.

[MercutioATC]

2. "Harvey, chief executive of online travel insurance company"????

Oops :)

[TwilightGardener]

3. I wish Super8 would put a lifetime ban on whomever decided

to grace our most recent motel-room's mattress and box spring with disgusting brown stains. A few scratches on the furniture? Pshaw!

[Dappleganger]

4. The floating Norwalk virus ocean liner

They're not the sharpest tool in the shed. They don't even carry Lysol on their boats to pass out to sick passengers for their staterooms from what I've read.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. "Mr. Harvey and his family were killed as the ban was lifted."

Harsh.

[mamaleah]

6. Yeah, scratches are a big concern. Not the nonstop noro that spreads on their ships

Now when I saw this headline I thought some family had been banned from a carnival. And I wondered just what you had to do to offend carnies.