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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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Similar to the woman with the sippy cup. Totally different story once the tape came out.
Bye bye, stewardess.
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.
One way or the other, there’s more to this story than what’s in this article.
Agreed.
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Maybe you could take the Benedryl instead of doping up the baby with it.
If the other passengers back the lady’s story the stewardess is toast and Continental Airlines will be writing a check to the Mom.
Whatever happened to those fun-loving flight attendants?
Right there, that's evidence that the mom doesn't care if her kid causes an unpleasant flight.
They found husbands and allowed the next crop of pretty young things to become stewardesses.
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.
It all started when Stewardesses became Flight Attendants.
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.
Benedryl is safe and it's more socially acceptable than duct tape.
That doping up a child is an answer to you makes me think you don’t have children.
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