Viewer's Voice

By: Annette Newell/Eyewitness News 9 | WNCT
Published: June 20, 2008

This week we told you about a man who lost a leg in Iraq. He sometimes needs help from a service dog to stand up and move around. Though laws protect disabled people using service dogs in businesses, he was asked to leave a restaurant. One viewer wanted us to hold more people accountable. Here's this week's viewers voice.

"I’m blind and I have friends who have guide dogs and the same thing could've happened to one of us as happened the serviceman who'd been injured I think his name was Ed Salau anyway I can understand why the business maybe didn't understand why he could stay in the restaurant, but once the police got there, the police should've backed Mr. Salau and they had no business throwing him out of the restaurant. And your story didn't say why he was not backed up by the policemen”.

Our report explained the police filed a report, which Mr. Salau asked them to do, and why the business should have allowed him and his dog to stay.

On our coverage of vandals damaging JH Rose High, Stephanie asks,

"Why wasn't a description given of the school vandals? That seems like the most important information”.

We didn't give a description because we had video to show you of the suspects. And Sharon shares the pain of a man who discovered he'd been billed for services he never ordered:

“I just saw your program about the ESBI and I have been constantly calling phone company in reference to being billed for that and calling ESBI because I never ordered any services from them”.

That's why we felt it was important to do the story: because it's likely that many others face the same predicament. So always look at your bills closely. It's up to you to dispute the charges. Thanks to those who wrote and called for Viewer’s Voice.