Blind Couple Feels No Love for Fung Wah

All of Fung Wah's accidents were kind of cute, in a twisted sort of way. Fung Wah is the cheap transportation of choice for all the cool kids wanting to get out of town. But Fung Wah's latest scrape with the law isn't cute at all.

Fung Wah must pay a blind couple $50,000 because the company wouldn't let the couple take its seeing-eye dog on the bus. Fung Wah must also cough up a $10,000 fine to the state.

Whoever runs Fung Wah must have a real problem with enforcing regulations - or at least reading them in the first place. Letting a blind couple and their dog on a bus ain't rocket science. Anyone could have seen a lawsuit coming from a mile away. Even Fung Wah might have noticed.

The incident happened in 2004, and the dog, Adam, has since gone to puppy heaven. But the couple, Albert and Mary Sten-Clanton, are still pissed off and pleased that AG Martha Coakley and company went after Fung Wah.

According to the Herald, Fung Wah employee also tripped over his tongue when he told Mary Sten-Clanton, who asked if she could board without the dog, "If you don’t have a dog, who is guiding you?”

All Fung Wah needed to do after that moment was get down on its knees and beg to be sued.

Our favorite image of Fung Wah from the Bostonist archive.