Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Mom Booted From Plane Over Baby's Babbling
The Indy Channel ^ | 07/12/07

Posted on 07/12/2007 9:10:39 AM PDT by Abathar

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. -- A Georgia mother said she wants answers and action after she and her baby were kicked off a plane.

Kate Penland said she was glad to board the plane in Houston to visit her father in Oklahoma after an 11-hour delay. But she said a rude and aggressive flight attendant caused her to get to Oklahoma a day late.

Penland thinks her 19-month-old son, Garren, has a bubbly personality. But Penland said when they were aboard a Continental Express plane, a flight attendant became annoyed by Garren's personality when he kept saying three words.

"As we started taxiing, he started saying, 'Bye, bye plane,'" said Penland. "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.'"

In disbelief, Penland asked the woman if she was kidding. It was then, Penland said, the flight attendant went too far.

"She then said, '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 said.

Penland said when the other passengers began speaking up on her behalf, the flight attendant got angrier and soon announced they were turning around and that Penland and Garren were going to be taken off the plane.

"I was crying, I was upset and I was thinking, 'What am I going to do? I don't have anything with me. I don't have any more diapers for the baby, no juice, no milk," said Penland.

The mother said she later learned the flight attendant told the pilot that she had threatened her. Penland said that never happened.

Express Jet Airlines released a statement that said, "We received Ms. Penland's letter expressing her concerns and intend to investigate its contents."

A fellow passenger told Atlanta TV station WSB that none of the other passengers had problems with Garren and that Penland never threatened the flight attendant. Penland said she is considering legal action.


TOPICS:
KEYWORDS: airplane; annoyances; byebye; chat; flight; plane
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 201-220221-240241-260 ... 341-342 next last
To: absolootezer0

hellzyah!


221 posted on 07/12/2007 2:06:44 PM PDT by Nland_waturbayB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 145 | View Replies]

To: perseid 67

I CAN’T have children but I am wondering if we have the whole story here. It’s interesting that there’s nothing from the attendant and its’ all spun for the mother.


222 posted on 07/12/2007 2:06:46 PM PDT by Nland_waturbayB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 216 | View Replies]

To: Vor Lady

LOL, so true. And your comment is so funny coming right after someone has posted that no doubt that stewardess has had an abortion.


223 posted on 07/12/2007 2:07:36 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Fred Thompson for President)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 217 | View Replies]

To: AxelPaulsenJr
Gee, I thought I just had high cholesterol, I didn't realize that it was all because I couldn't handle reality.

LOL!!!

I drink because I can't handle reality. I just take the drugs for fun. ;o)

224 posted on 07/12/2007 2:07:57 PM PDT by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 215 | View Replies]

To: Nland_waturbayB

Hey, welcome to Free Republic.


225 posted on 07/12/2007 2:11:19 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Fred Thompson for President)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 222 | View Replies]

To: netmilsmom

kudos to all three of you! Well-handled.


226 posted on 07/12/2007 2:20:45 PM PDT by Nland_waturbayB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: Nland_waturbayB

Good points.


227 posted on 07/12/2007 2:27:38 PM PDT by SIDENET (RUH-ROH)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 218 | View Replies]

To: Nland_waturbayB

Toddlers are by nature rowdy people ,but they are not dangerous. The stewardess was out of line. I hope she enjoyed her power trip.

Even before I had kids, a kicking screaming toddler never raised my eyebrows.


228 posted on 07/12/2007 2:29:48 PM PDT by perseid 67
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 222 | View Replies]

To: AxelPaulsenJr

I don’t know what to say here. I posted my response to an earlier post and didn’t see the one that came before mine. There is more to this story than what we have seen. As a mother and grandmother of a BUNCH of kids, I get a kick out of the non-parents or the new parents posting woulda, shoulda, coulda....


229 posted on 07/12/2007 2:31:09 PM PDT by Vor Lady (He's not stupid......he's ADVAAAAANCED!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 223 | View Replies]

To: Suzy Quzy
The flight was delayed over 11 hours before this incident occurred. When my kids were that age they could go through a heckuva lot of diapers in 11 hours.
230 posted on 07/12/2007 2:49:08 PM PDT by Eepsy (The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 210 | View Replies]

To: Hoodlum91
Benedryl is contraindicated for children with asthma. I wouldn’t want to get on a plane and find out my child is having breathing problems after taking it. I would NEVER suggest to a parent they drug their kids.
231 posted on 07/12/2007 3:15:10 PM PDT by tioga (I'll take Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson for President. Pick one.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Eepsy

She had been able to BUY the diapers and MILK in the airport!


232 posted on 07/12/2007 3:21:03 PM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary in '08.....Her PHONINESS is GENUINE !!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 230 | View Replies]

To: Suzy Quzy

I would suppose food and drink are tricky to get on planes post 9/11.


233 posted on 07/12/2007 3:43:06 PM PDT by tioga (I'll take Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson for President. Pick one.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 213 | View Replies]

To: VRWCmember

I was referring to posts that you have made to me.


234 posted on 07/12/2007 3:44:29 PM PDT by Eva (I)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 190 | View Replies]

To: Vor Lady; AxelPaulsenJr

If you’re the kind of parent that doses up your kid with Benadryl, that’s fine. Your offspring, your call.
But as someone who tries to avoid pumping my children full of chemicals, being told to give my kid Benadryl to shut him up would elicit a much worse response than what the flight attendant recieved.

They definitely would have had a reason to throw me off the plane. I’d react much better if someone told me the kid needed a whuppin’.


235 posted on 07/12/2007 4:07:06 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (<--- "Crazy Aunt" Conservative)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 229 | View Replies]

To: Abathar
"You need to shut your baby up."

hahahahaha! That stewardess ISN'T a parent.

236 posted on 07/12/2007 4:11:27 PM PDT by bannie (The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kat20
Her saying she will not drug her son just so you have a pleasant flight could easily be replaced with “I will not discipline/quiet/wait for next flight

So, to you, drugging children is just another form of discipline. When a small child is saying, "Bye, bye, plane" repeatedly, you think it's the parent's RESPONSIBILITY to drug the kid quiet. Wow.

She is not very attractive, either. I knew there had to be a connection between looks and bad parenting.

Really? I'm always receiving compliments on how well-behaved my children are. I must be a supermodel.

237 posted on 07/12/2007 4:16:36 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 164 | View Replies]

To: Abathar

Reminds me of the Bill Cosby routine about 4-year-old “Jeffrey.” from “Bill Cosby: Himself.”


238 posted on 07/12/2007 4:19:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tired of Taxes
Really? I'm always receiving compliments on how well-behaved my children are. I must be a supermodel.

**************

LOL! Good one. :)

239 posted on 07/12/2007 4:22:54 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 237 | View Replies]

To: VeritatisSplendor

“Hate flying; and still p-—— at that steward.”

That’s an unfortunate experience for you and your family.

I’m, too, still pi_____ with the flaming one who threatened me. I never reported him because I pay only 5% for a coach ticket on US Airways. No sense in “making waves.” Besides, I figure that he can’t be too happy a person with an attitude like that!

Here’s another story...

I was chief purser on a flight once... in other words, flight attendant in charge, and people were boarding. A male flight attendant was walking through the cabin when a frustrated male passenger (around 30 years old) swore to himself when he couldn’t find an available overhead bin. (I heard him, too, and assisted him.)

All of a sudden the F/A leaves the plane, and the customer service rep (gate agent) arrives and says to me, “I hear you have an unruly passenger that is being removed.”

I asked the F/A what the problem was. He said, “He used the “F” word, and I don’t want him on this flight.”

I told him I’d take care of it. I don’t like that language, either, but it certainly isn’t a reason to kick someone off a flight! Sheesh!

I was embarrassed for the passenger, and took him aside and apologized. I also told him to watch what he says on a plane from now on....that you never know how someone will take it.

He apologized to me, too.


240 posted on 07/12/2007 4:38:00 PM PDT by toldyou
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 142 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 201-220221-240241-260 ... 341-342 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson