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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.


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To: Abathar

21 posted on 07/12/2007 9:22:08 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: mgc1122

Similar to the woman with the sippy cup. Totally different story once the tape came out.


22 posted on 07/12/2007 9:22:55 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

Bye bye, stewardess.


23 posted on 07/12/2007 9:22:59 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: TeddyIke

I’m only hostile to families who won’t control their seat-kicking, screaming, thing-throwing ankle-biters.

If children are well-behaved, I have no problem with them and their family. I smile on that.

If children are sh!theads, though . . . well, odds are so are the parents.


24 posted on 07/12/2007 9:23:06 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: Abathar

One way or the other, there’s more to this story than what’s in this article.


25 posted on 07/12/2007 9:23:17 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Hoodlum91

Agreed.


26 posted on 07/12/2007 9:23:50 AM PDT by SIDENET (RUH-ROH)
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To: Abathar

Garren

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27 posted on 07/12/2007 9:24:31 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (A man who will not defend himself does not deserve to be defended by others.)
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To: Abathar
"I don’t know, but if the other passengers stick up for her even when she made the flight late I would certainly be tempted to believe them over the stewardess."

OJ killed Nicole. The jury said he didn't. People lie. Especially to protect their own kind and to punish those who are different.


28 posted on 07/12/2007 9:25:22 AM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Hoodlum91

Maybe you could take the Benedryl instead of doping up the baby with it.


29 posted on 07/12/2007 9:25:25 AM PDT by linn37 (Phlebotomists need love too.)
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To: rljv
I wonder what the true story is here.

If the other passengers are supporting the mother, she's telling the truth and the stewardess needs to find another line of work. No passenger on a plane is going to defend the mother of a screaming child who decides to start a fight with a flight attendant.

Sounds like the stewardess needs a serious attitude check. Someone might also want to check her kids for sedatives.
30 posted on 07/12/2007 9:25:36 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Abathar

If the other passengers back the lady’s story the stewardess is toast and Continental Airlines will be writing a check to the Mom.


31 posted on 07/12/2007 9:25:49 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Abathar
Whatever happened to those fun-loving flight attendants?
32 posted on 07/12/2007 9:26:19 AM PDT by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: Abathar
"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.

Right there, that's evidence that the mom doesn't care if her kid causes an unpleasant flight.

33 posted on 07/12/2007 9:26:23 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Xenalyte
I agree with you, but when the kid is only 19 months old there has to be some leeway with what the parents are able to do with them at that age. Anything over 3 and it’s 100 percent the parents fault, under that it’s case by case.
34 posted on 07/12/2007 9:26:46 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: rightinthemiddle
Whatever happened to those fun-loving flight attendants?

They found husbands and allowed the next crop of pretty young things to become stewardesses.

35 posted on 07/12/2007 9:28:25 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: linn37

We could dope up the rest of the plane so the brat can run free.

Or, parents could be considerate of the other passengers on the plane and control their children or dope them up if necessary. You chose to take the kid on a flight, you be responsible for him.


36 posted on 07/12/2007 9:29:22 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: Moonman62

It all started when Stewardesses became Flight Attendants.


37 posted on 07/12/2007 9:30:30 AM PDT by Dedbone
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To: rljv
I wonder what the true story is here.

Probably exactly what the mom and other passengers are saying. I used to work for an airline and overheard flight attendants say rude things to passengers. Obviously, this one wasn't very child-friendly.

38 posted on 07/12/2007 9:30:59 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: linn37
Maybe you could take the Benedryl instead of doping up the baby with it.

Benedryl is safe and it's more socially acceptable than duct tape.

39 posted on 07/12/2007 9:31:45 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Hoodlum91

That doping up a child is an answer to you makes me think you don’t have children.


40 posted on 07/12/2007 9:31:58 AM PDT by TeddyIke
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