Bout goddamn time.

The mom should be glad Hawkeye wasn't there ;)

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Bout goddamn time.

THIS. Your annoying kid as the same rights to make other people miserable on a flight - not more rights - than the annoying drunk on the same flight.

Someone will, inevitably, post that kids will be kids and it didn't sound like a big deal; that the kid sounded like he was excited about being on a plane.

Let me just say that if the pilot decided to taxi back to the gate just to remove the mother and child, then this little "bundle of joy" must have been out of control. And the mother must have been doing next to nothing to shut the kid up.

Maybe what airlines should do is take the last two or three rows in back, the super-economy seats, and seal those off from the rest of the plane with a metal, soundproof door. It could be called the Squall Box or something. And all the little children on the plane would have to sit in the Squall Box for the whole flight. Other people who get too unruly could also be sent to The Box. In fact, being threatened with The Box would probably be a far more effective way of controlling unruly passengers than anything else. You couldn't leave the children unsupervised, of course, so the parents who brought them on would just have to take turns sitting back in The Box and monitoring them for the duration of the flight. It could work.

*Checks Orbitz.com to schedule flight on Ninja Airways*

Little Jeffrey. I remember his name, not because he said, "I'm four years old," but because Jeffrey's mother said his name all 2500 miles of the trip .

Dancin_In_Anson: Little Jeffrey. I remember his name, not because he said, "I'm four years old," but because Jeffrey's mother said his name all 2500 miles of the trip .

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Pocket Ninja: In fact, being threatened with The Box would probably be a far more effective way of controlling unruly passengers than anything else.

That would likely be the most effective part of that entire setup. The squall box would probably remain vacant (mostly) and the airlines would therefore have to increase your ticket prices to justify the extra few rows of vacant seating.

I'd rather pay for that though than $100 for each suitcase.

In other news, unlikely implements a "Fly Southwest When Possible" policy.

unlikely: In other news, unlikely implements a "Fly Southwest When Possible" policy.

A lot of people like to biatch about Southwest, but I can honestly say that I have never had a bad experience with them. The flight crews are always upbeat helpful and out to have fun time on the job. There is a great corporate environment from the ground up.

The 38-year-old stay-at-home mom wants an apology

My ass.

I'll also be flying Southwest whenever possible.

Exactly where does this Pamela Root stay-at-home mom stay-at-home?

The kid would have been asleep within 15min. If it is stressful for adults to fly, think how stressful it is for kids.

You kid haters to GTH!

Sounds reasonable

They must have asked her to quiet the kid down before they took the step to taxi back to the gate. There are all kinds of ways to distract a two-year old into playing semi-quietly...

Cue the "I hate kids!" crowd (with, ironically enough,their terminal atavism.)

The mom should be glad Hawkeye wasn't there ;)
Hawkeye isn't the one who killed the baby though.

I'm sure Boortz will be appy to announce ths one on monday

I prefer Southwest over most airlines in the US. I especially prefer them over United (which has a major HUB here at O'hare, whose flights are almost always delayed).

Now that Southwest flies to LGA and Logan (usually the two places I find myself flying to), I think I'm set.

However, I find it amusing that a lot of their female flight attendants have a similar look about them. Blonde with a slightly southern accent.

A little cup full of benadryl should be handed to each child while a tiny bottle of booze is handed to each parent. It'll make the flight smoother for everyone. Either that, or parents can farking stay home and be parents or drive to grammas house.

A little cup full of benadryl should be handed to each child while a tiny bottle of booze is handed to each parent.

Booze works on kids too.

I'm guessing there may be a bit more to this story than the mother is letting on.

My last flight began with a child of about five experiencing a total meltdown in between the two parents who both wore Bose sound-canceling headphones - not that those headphones could have kept such inhuman shrieks out. I'm relatively sure instruments on the International Space Station were going wild.

THAT flight wasn't returned to the gate, so I'm sure "Greyhound of the Sky" had some extenuating circumstances here.

I say let the damn kid fly...

There are plenty of wing seats available!

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: I'd rather pay for that though than $100 for each suitcase.

Hey, on Southwest you don't have to pay for that either.

FTGDA:The 38-year-old stay-at-home mom wants an apology and compensation for the portable crib and diapers she had to buy for the extra night away from home.

Obviously you didn't shut your kid up enough after Thursdays $25 ticket sale on Southwest. It's like the Wal-Mart of plane flights.

"The 38-year-old stay-at-home mom wants an apology and compensation for the portable crib and diapers she had to buy for the extra night away from home."

How about, *NO*

And you didn't have to by a portable crib lady. Sounds like little jeffy is spoiled rotten.

Good for them.

The mother is only angling for a free ticket so she can flee the little basterd.

Marla Singer's Laundry: Cue the "I hate kids!" crowd (with, ironically enough,their terminal atavism.)

What's wrong wit ATV's?

last time I checked, when you buy a plane ticket you're paying for a seat. I didn't realize you were entitled to a quiet, peaceful ride the whole time.

If you don't like it, put on some headphones. Who the frick travels without an Ipod or something else nowadays?

Seriously...kids are kids. they cry sometimes. It farkin' happens. Maybe the attendants shouldn't have been such wusses and should have just broke out a coloring book or something for the kid (if mom was too stupid to bring one herself)

Hopefully the airline are dicks about this, she sues 'em and wins 10x what she originally wanted.

Ikam: I prefer Southwest over most airlines in the US. I especially prefer them over United (which has a major HUB here at O'hare, whose flights are almost always delayed).

Now that Southwest flies to LGA and Logan (usually the two places I find myself flying to), I think I'm set.

However, I find it amusing that a lot of their female flight attendants have a similar look about them. Blonde with a slightly southern accent.

One of two possibilities.

1) Southwest Air requires a "look" like Abercrombie does, and/or has a cloning program.

2) Their flight attendants all come from the same region of the country, like Dallas for instance.

Personally, I like option 1.

My kids are like me. We just want to look out the windows in wide-eyed wonder. We might not even acknowledge anyone else's presence until we land...

ihatedumbpeople: last time I checked, when you buy a plane ticket you're paying for a seat. I didn't realize you were entitled to a quiet, peaceful ride the whole time.

If you don't like it, put on some headphones. Who the frick travels without an Ipod or something else nowadays?

Seriously...kids are kids. they cry sometimes. It farkin' happens. Maybe the attendants shouldn't have been such wusses and should have just broke out a coloring book or something for the kid (if mom was too stupid to bring one herself)

Hopefully the airline are dicks about this, she sues 'em and wins 10x what she originally wanted.

9/10.

best troll today.

Technically, could the kid have been noisy enough to interfere with the safety briefing, and therefore interfering with the flight attendants' duties? That would be reason enough for the crew to return to the gate and boot the kid/family off.

The kid must have been really out of control. Props to Southwest for not subjecting the rest of their passengers to the screaming hell of a unruly 2 year old.

Solution is easy. plastic bag over kids head. quiets them down in no time.

Normal fussiness is expected, but it sounds like this one went above and beyond the call of duty. And as for the compensation Mom wants, hey, kids cost $$.

Seems like a good call by the crew, but where do they draw the line?

/wants to fly Southwest now

Pamela Root says she was confident her son Adam's screams of "Go! Plane! Go!" and "I want Daddy!" would subside once the plane took off Monday in Amarillo, Texas.

No, you farking stupid, selfish, navel-gazing, slope-headed retard mother: we don't want confident. WE WANT YOU AND YOUR STUPID farkING SHOUTING CHILD OFF THE GODDAMN PLANE.

It doesn't take a village. It takes one parent who has some modicum of respect for the people around her to farking control her child. And if she can't? Bad parent, not my problem, get the fark off the plane.

Stupid biatch.

babies and kids can cry if they want, but I contend that the parent MUST at least try to make them stop crying.

My last flight had this kid - must be about 4 or 5 - and the little bastard was crying and bawling for what must have been almost two hours into the flight. Yeah, a little old to be crying that much, but the thing that totally pissed me off was that the parent - the mother - didn't attempt to ask him what was wrong or seriously do something about it. I remember her trying to hand colouring books or some toy to him every now and then, but each time she did so, the kid just swatted them away and cried even louder. I just imagined that any day now, she's going to take a walk down the metro with him in a pram and jump onto the tracks. She just had this 'What's the farking point anymore?' aura about her.


I had to move away after that couple of hours. I had images in my head of grabbing the kid and using him as a bat, belt him across her face. Luckily there were seats to the back, and with the headphones on full blast, I couldn't hear crying anymore. Bliss.


/And I love kids
//And single depressed mothers who have that given hope on life look

"I spy with my little eye, something begining with s"

"The sky?"

"Yes"

ihatedumbpeople: last time I checked, when you buy a plane ticket you're paying for a seat. I didn't realize you were entitled to a quiet, peaceful ride the whole time.

If you don't like it, put on some headphones. Who the frick travels without an Ipod or something else nowadays?

Seriously...kids are kids. they cry sometimes. It farkin' happens. Maybe the attendants shouldn't have been such wusses and should have just broke out a coloring book or something for the kid (if mom was too stupid to bring one herself)

Hopefully the airline are dicks about this, she sues 'em and wins 10x what she originally wanted.

YEAH! Ten disposable diapers!

-1 troll, troll.

Madame Ovary: The kid would have been asleep within 15min. If it is stressful for adults to fly, think how stressful it is for kids.

You kid haters to GTH!

Wouldn't the haters be the ones unnecessarily putting the kids in said stressful situations?

Southweat just became my favorite airline.

No, I don't have to bring an Ipod or whatever the fark when I fly.

You need to shut your little brat up. They'd kick you out of a frikin movie for being a loud little shiit, why the fark not an airplane?

Just 'cuz you spawned does not entitle you to fuk everyone elses day up.

Selfish prick parents. Shut your crotchfruit the fark up or don't farking fly.

Did they at least implement that one policy to eject vigilante TSA goons from the front of their terminals?

musashi1600: Technically, could the kid have been noisy enough to interfere with the safety briefing, and therefore interfering with the flight attendants' duties? That would be reason enough for the crew to return to the gate and boot the kid/family off.

I don't fly often, so I forget, and forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't they give the safety briefing before they push back from the gate?

Props to SW for this, shame they weren't in the air when they decided to kick them off.

The who airline industry is a joke and they should be ashamed of themselves. I mean this generally and not in regards to this article.

Bout goddamn time.

They can call me to testify as a "friendly" witness: I sat on a Southwest flight from Denver to Seattle with the little farker in the seat behind me kicking the seat the whole way.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Pocket Ninja: In fact, being threatened with The Box would probably be a far more effective way of controlling unruly passengers than anything else.

That would likely be the most effective part of that entire setup. The squall box would probably remain vacant (mostly) and the airlines would therefore have to increase your ticket prices to justify the extra few rows of vacant seating.

I'd rather pay for that though than $100 for each suitcase.

Seats in The Box could be 10% or 20% off regular ticket price and they would always be filled. Then, if you have to use it for a bratty kid, drunk, or general asshat during the flight, upgrade those paying customers to the seats vacated by the bratty kid, drunk, or general asshat.

I know that the general obviousness and rationality of this concept is probably too muh for some here on Fark, but I thought I'd just throw it out anyway...

Ikam: However, I find it amusing that a lot of their female flight attendants have a similar look about them. Blonde with a slightly southern accent.

You could almost say it was a southwestern accent.

The 38-year-old stay-at-home mom wants an apology and compensation for the portable crib and diapers she had to buy for the extra night away from home.

Yeah? And people in hell want icewater.

Sorry, m'am. You and your receipt for a functioning uterus aren't more important than dozens, if not hundreds of other passengers.

I hope the other passengers applauded.

GungFu: babies and kids can cry if they want, but I contend that the parent MUST at least try to make them stop crying.

It's actually a very important matter of perception. If this stupid coont had given the crew any indication that she saw her son's behavior as a problem, she probably wouldn't have been kicked off the flight. Since she was rude and committed to letting her vaginal BM behave however he wanted - they booted her.

Unruly children are not a bigger problem these days because the kids' behavior has changed. The parents' behavior has changed.