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' Bye Bye Plane' Comment Kicked Off - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 17th Jul, 2007 - 6:31pm
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The mother of a 19-month-old boy says she and her son were kicked off a plane after she refused a stewardess' request to medicate her son to keep him from talking
'bye Bye, Plane' Comment Got Them Kicked Off
It seems like this mother is right because the fellow passengers defended her. What was wrong with the stewardess? 
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| Kate Penland, who lives in Gwinnett County in suburban Atlanta, said she and her son, Garren, had boarded the Continental Express plane last month after an 11-hour delay in Houston on an Atlanta-Oklahoma flight. Garren kept saying, "Bye bye, plane," Penland recalled. And she said the stewardess objected. "At the end of her speech, she leaned over the gentleman beside me and said, 'It's not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up,"' Penland told WSB-TV in Atlanta. When Penland asked the woman if she was kidding, she said the stewardess replied, "You know, it's called baby Benadryl." "And I said, 'Well, I'm not going to drug my child so you have a pleasant flight,"' Penland told the TV station. Penland said other passengers began speaking up on her behalf, and the flight attendant announced they were turning around and that Penland and Garren were going to be taken off the plane.... |
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That's really weird, and a bit bizarre, babies will be babies, and you can't seriously be expected to have any control over what they're going to say!
The air stewardess sounds like she really over reacted, especially as other passengers haven't complained. I'm more than surprised at her suggestion of 'pumping medication' down the infant, I'm sure she acted on her own behalf and not of the airline that she represented. (I at least hope that she did!)
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Diane, not only that but she lied as well. She told the Captain that the mother of the child threatened her but it wasn't true! This mom did not have anything with her: extra milk or extra diapers or anything! She was in tears.
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That's just so unfair, it's way out of order!
I'm surprised that the air stewardess was allowed to make such monumental decisions, it's almost like a bully waiting to be stopped.
It does make you wonder how she gets away with it, it really means that if someone takes an instant dislike of you, through no fault of your own, they hold the power to victimize you without you having any rights...totally worrying!
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If this is true, then that stewardess is going to have some future employment issues. However, something just doesn't feel right about the report. Why does the stewardess object to "bye bye plane"? There feels like there is something missing. I mean I see all the fuel for the fire, but I really don't see what caused the spark.
https://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5472927
https://www.timesrecordnews.com/trn/lo_colu...5628502,00.html
(interestingly, this one says the passenger next to her said you need to shut your baby up?)
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3371901&page=1
Did some further looking into it. Haven't really come to any conclusion other than it feels like the stewardess really had a bad day and made a serious mistake in judgement! I am still sensing that the 11hr delay had something to do with it. Perhaps everyones tone of voice was a bit edgy from the get go...who knows. These planes that do the express routes can be pretty small (about 18 people is the smalles I have been in), but it still doesn't explain this reaction. Honestly, with a 11hr delay, I am suprised the child was not screaming as soon as they entered the plane, so just talking would be a much welcomed event.
I sense this lady will be flying free on several future Continnental flights...
'bye Bye, Plane' Comment Got Them Kicked Off
This is the strangest incident that I have ever heard in my entire life. Personally, I think it is extremely difficult to determine fact from fiction. If the flight attendant did request Mrs Penland to stop her child from talking, I cannot fathom where she has the right to suggest to the mother, to "drug" her son, in order to keep him quiet. It appears that not one passenger on the plane complained about the kid, so why would the flight attendant insist that the child should be quiet? Obviously, someone needs a time out here. I am also puzzled by the mother's very polite reaction to the flight attendant. I am very surprised that she would demonstrate so much patience after a eleven hour delay. If it were me, I would be furious if a complete stranger suggests that I should "drug" my own child.
I don't know. Something about this whole case sounds very fishy to me.
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