Friday, July 13, 2007

Misbehaving Baby Deserved to be Kicked off Plane

The media has turned the whole story about a woman kicked off a plane because of her baby into a huge deal. The short story is that a woman's baby kept saying "bye bye plane" and the woman refused to make the baby stop saying those words. The stewardess then told the woman that she had to take the baby and get off the flight.

I completely agree with what happened. How many times have you had to endure a long flight with some disruptive kid or baby kicking and screaming during the whole flight? It is really annoying and you want the flight to be over as soon as possible so that you can escape from a kid who is making a huge scene. When the mother refuses to try to make her kid behave, then the mother is at fault. Flying on a plane is a privilege, not a right. Just as when you go into a store, the store has the right to refuse service to certain patrons. The airlines, in my opinion, were refusing the woman the right to service.

While "bye bye plane" seems innocuous enough, it could have serious ramifications in today's world. Now that 9/11 has happened everyone is a bit more paranoid and anything which is said which can be construed as related to terrorism will be heavily scrutinized.

I don't feel bad for the woman and I am actually sickened by how she doesn't understand that her lack of consideration for others caused her to be booted from a flight.

Airlines won't let you have liquids on the flights; do you really think that you will be allowed on the flight if you or members of your party are causing a scene?

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