Family Kicked off Plane for having too many children!

I wish there was some way to tell people this is what happens when couples get child greedy. What is wrong with 1 to 2 kids? Noooo, we just have to have more than we can handle!

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kidlesskim
There should be ZERO "free seats" for kids of any age and that would curtail a lot of this nonsense. ALL passengers, including toddlers and infants, need to be RESTRAINED in their own seats during take off and landing and if there's any in flight problems. Otherwise, the flying loaf and everyone on board is in danger if there's a problem. I fail to see why kids fly free at any age anyway.

ITA.

I wish that airlines would deal with the nuisance that is babies on planes by simply charging each for a ticket (and no discounts, either). That would significantly reduce the number of babies on planes.

What's horrible about this story is that not one, but two people tried to enable the breeders. Blech.

Two adult laps + three lap loaves = these pahrunts suck at basic math and are too stupid to be breeding.

Give the ticket agent a raise. This shit is hilarious. People this fucking stupid SHOULD be forced to deal with the consequences of their idiocy.

I feel this is appropriate to post.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_layout

I totally love the idea for a screaming baby kennel in the very back of the plane, and if there was such a thing, these two fucksticks wouldn't ever have had a problem.

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kidlesskim
There should be ZERO "free seats" for kids of any age and that would curtail a lot of this nonsense. ALL passengers, including toddlers and infants, need to be RESTRAINED in their own seats during take off and landing and if there's any in flight problems. Otherwise, the flying loaf and everyone on board is in danger if there's a problem. I fail to see why kids fly free at any age anyway.

Totally with you on this one, kidlesskim.

Airlines are so very careful to state that anyone in their own seat MUST be properly buckled in. They insist on this for young children that are in their own seat. If buckling in is a safety requirement, I don't understand why the infant/toddler that's on its parents lap is given a pass. Every passenger should be required to be in a seat and belted in. If kids are too small, parents should bring along their infant seat from the car.

And really, with airlines strapped for cash I'd think they'd be eager to sell tickets to ANYONE. Babies included.

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kidlesskim
There should be ZERO "free seats" for kids of any age and that would curtail a lot of this nonsense. ALL passengers, including toddlers and infants, need to be RESTRAINED in their own seats during take off and landing and if there's any in flight problems. Otherwise, the flying loaf and everyone on board is in danger if there's a problem. I fail to see why kids fly free at any age anyway.

Totally with you on this one, kidlesskim.

Airlines are so very careful to state that anyone in their own seat MUST be properly buckled in. They insist on this for young children that are in their own seat. If buckling in is a safety requirement, I don't understand why the infant/toddler that's on its parents lap is given a pass. Every passenger should be required to be in a seat and belted in. If kids are too small, parents should bring along their infant seat from the car.

And really, with airlines strapped for cash I'd think they'd be eager to sell tickets to ANYONE. Babies included.

The FAA has been fighting for this for eons. The NTSB says no one should be unrestrained in a plane. However, parent groups throw a fit at the potential of *GASP* having to PAY to ensure their spawn's safety. However they will happily sue the car seat manufacturer when they don't install it in the car correctly.

I wish airlines would finally realize that, with the exception of Southwest, their bread and butter is NOT these people and mandate that every ass has to be in a seat.

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navi8orgirl
...parent groups throw a fit at the potential of *GASP* having to PAY to ensure their spawn's safety.

Yes. If you read some of the travel boards, parents will argue, even citing figures, that the chance of a plane crashing or hitting turbulence isn't enough to persuade them to buy a ticket. And the parents who have campaigned for stricter regulations know whereof they speak, unfortunately. Mothers like Sylvia Tsao, who lost her son on the Flight 232 crash back in 1989. Joining her is Jan Brown-Lohr, the flight attendant who instructed Tsao on how to best protect her lap-held child just before the plane hit the runway, split into pieces and caught fire. Someone uploaded the "Seconds From Disaster" episode featuring that tragedy to youtube. It features recreations, interviews and an actual film of the plane as it hit the runway, broke apart and cartwheeled down the tarmac in a ball of flames.

If you ff to the 17-18 minute mark, Lohr speaks of the instructions she gave Tsao, telling her (as she had been trained) to put the kid on the floor, between her feet, and protect it with pillows and her own body. That didn't stop the infant from becoming a projectile upon impact, killing it. Another lap child suffered a similar fate, though it lived. Basically, it became a pool ball shot into a pocket. A passenger - unrelated to the child - went back into the burning wreckage upon hearing its cries and pulled it out of an overhead luggage bin. Around the 24 minute mark Lohr repeats words that seem burned into her heart. The mother of the lap child who died turned to her as they stood outside the wreckage and said "You told me to put my baby on the floor, and I did. And now he's gone." (I really hope the bitch later apologized to Lohr. It might be expected that she'd say something like that out of shock and grief, but Lohr was instructing Tsao in the only procedures considered viable, even if Lohr herself doubted their usefulness).

My mate and I have spent 10s of thousands of dollars over the years on medical insurance, car insurance and life insurance. All that against the relatively small chance that we'll need it. Betting that a plane will crash has even smaller odds, but the cost of a plane ticket so your child is assured a better chance at survival is a pittance in comparison to what the average person pays on standard insurance policies. I'm sure that Sylvia Tsao wishes she had been willing to un-Scrooge her funds, or somehow find them if she was short. She'd have a 20-something son with her, today.

Parents don't give a single fuck about their kids' safety in most circumstances. That's why you'll see kids sticking their fingers into random outlets, licking trash cans, darting without handlers through busy parking lots, and websites telling Moos how they can stuff their kids' shoes to make them the proper height to go on amusement park rides.

They don't care until their kid is hurt or killed. Then it's MOO MOO MOO BLARGHETY MOO LAWSUIT BITCH MOAN SUE SUE (mama bear claws) NOT MY FAULT! And they always win the inevitable lawsuit because they have Suffered Enough^TM, even if the child's death was due to their own negligence.

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Cambion
Parents don't give a single fuck about their kids' safety in most circumstances. That's why you'll see kids sticking their fingers into random outlets, licking trash cans, darting without handlers through busy parking lots, and websites telling Moos how they can stuff their kids' shoes to make them the proper height to go on amusement park rides.

They don't care until their kid is hurt or killed. Then it's MOO MOO MOO BLARGHETY MOO LAWSUIT BITCH MOAN SUE SUE (mama bear claws) NOT MY FAULT! And they always win the inevitable lawsuit because they have Suffered Enough^TM, even if the child's death was due to their own negligence.

So true. I think some even look for opportunities to croak their rotten loinfruit. Then it's all about the moo getting attention again, from the funeral to the "Dead Angel Baby" badge she gets to add to her sig line at DiaperSwappers.com's forum.

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"[GFG's pregnancy is] kind of like at the stables where that one dumb, ugly-ass mare broke out of her corral one day and got herself screwed by the equally fugly colt that was due to be gelded the same afternoon."- Shiny

You would think the seatbelt rule would not hold up since it does not apply to all passengers. It should be made mandatory for all passengers to have seat restraints regardless of what parunts groups say. It is an important safety issue.

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...parent groups throw a fit at the potential of *GASP* having to PAY to ensure their spawn's safety.

Yes. If you read some of the travel boards, parents will argue, even citing figures, that the chance of a plane crashing or hitting turbulence isn't enough to persuade them to buy a ticket. And the parents who have campaigned for stricter regulations know whereof they speak, unfortunately. Mothers like Sylvia Tsao, who lost her son on the Flight 232 crash back in 1989. Joining her is Jan Brown-Lohr, the flight attendant who instructed Tsao on how to best protect her lap-held child just before the plane hit the runway, split into pieces and caught fire. Someone uploaded the "Seconds From Disaster" episode featuring that tragedy to youtube. It features recreations, interviews and an actual film of the plane as it hit the runway, broke apart and cartwheeled down the tarmac in a ball of flames.

If you ff to the 17-18 minute mark, Lohr speaks of the instructions she gave Tsao, telling her (as she had been trained) to put the kid on the floor, between her feet, and protect it with pillows and her own body. That didn't stop the infant from becoming a projectile upon impact, killing it. Another lap child suffered a similar fate, though it lived. Basically, it became a pool ball shot into a pocket. A passenger - unrelated to the child - went back into the burning wreckage upon hearing its cries and pulled it out of an overhead luggage bin. Around the 24 minute mark Lohr repeats words that seem burned into her heart. The mother of the lap child who died turned to her as they stood outside the wreckage and said "You told me to put my baby on the floor, and I did. And now he's gone." (I really hope the bitch later apologized to Lohr. It might be expected that she'd say something like that out of shock and grief, but Lohr was instructing Tsao in the only procedures considered viable, even if Lohr herself doubted their usefulness)..

Had time today to watch that and it was gripping; thanks for the link, Dorisan. Tsao was a horrid bitch to say that to the flight attendant, who didn't even know if SHE would survive the landing.

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Cambion
I feel this is appropriate to post.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_layout

I totally love the idea for a screaming baby kennel in the very back of the plane, and if there was such a thing, these two fucksticks wouldn't ever have had a problem.

God, that's hilarious. LMAO

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Perhaps they could make an airline that caters to breeders and name it The Flying Loaf larious

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Cambion
I feel this is appropriate to post.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_layout

I totally love the idea for a screaming baby kennel in the very back of the plane, and if there was such a thing, these two fucksticks wouldn't ever have had a problem.

WANT!

And imagine how much better the adult brats would behave with the threat of the baby pit looming over their heads.

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Lap children shouldn't be allowed anyway. What happens if the plane encounters severe turbulence or otherwise has an emergency involving strong accelerations and decelerations? That's right, the fucking lap child becomes a heavy projectile that can injure or kill other passengers. ALL passengerns on an aircraft, infant or otherwise, should be required to have tickets or else they do not fly.

Agreed.

And on the OP - it seems the family found a loophole in the "family-friendly" policy that the airline wasn't happy with. I think they should do away with those baybeeee discounts altogether: If a kid takes up a seat, I don't care how old or young he is, the price needs to be paid.

The gate agents should have caught this nonsense and nipped in the bud right there. If that failed, then the herd should have been escorted from the plane immediately, not 50 minutes later. There was no reason for a plane load of people, who likely were on their way to see their own families for the holidays, to have to suffer a delay and possibly missing a connecting flight because the McBreedersons can't follow the rules. I think an airline policy of immediately removing the people who can't follow the rules from the plane would do away with a lot of flight delays. Kids who won't sit in their seats, people who won't turn off the damn phone, people trying to shove full size luggage in an overhead bin--remove them at once. They won't pull this shit again and other people will figure it out as well.
I agree that the "lap baby" rule needs to be removed as well, though. All passengers must be ticketed and secured in their own seat. Period. This rule should be clear enough for the poor "confused" parents who can't grasp the more complicated lap baby rules.

Get all the cunting kyds off the plane! Got back to AZ for a visit less than a week ago, and I'm already sick! Must have been ALL THE SCREAMING, SQUALLING, SNOTTY LOAVES! There was a set in front of me, a set behind, and a set adjacent. One group had toddlers narrating every goddamn bump and turn. Their mother was spreading their filth with a wet wipe, cleaning everything they touched. There were two screamers who made the most noise during no-electronic periods. So a massive to the whole deal! Avoid Southwest Airlines, no matter how dirt cheap it is. (That's why I used SW, big mistake) It is breeder central.

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"A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter." -Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

Every time I read about loaves not having to be restrained in flight I am reminded of a, MILD by comparison, type of thing that happened when I was a kid and seat belts weren't required. My 2 sisters and I, ages 10,7, and 3, were traveling with my mother who was following my dad in a U-Haul with us in "old blue"(a famblee truckster) that was loaded down with furniture and other household shit because we were moving. While passing through a rural area a giant PIG waddled out into our path and mother slammed on the brakes and skidded to the shoulder of the road. My 3 y/o sister was catapulted over the back seat where she had been leaning over and a part of her body, have no idea which, but it was BONE, knocked me in the head on her way over. I had a HUGE bruise on my face for weeks and it hurt like hell. My little sister was covered in bruises too. It happened so fast I don't even know what all she hit on her trip over the seat, except for my face.

That wasn't even a serious accident or full blown stop at a high rate of speed. I can only begin to imagine what damage a flying loaf or torpedo toddler could do to someone if he was thrown at a high rate of speed in a crashing aircraft. ALL passengers need to be REQUIRED to be restrained and their parents not wanting to pay for their ticket SHOULD be a moot point. I don't know of anyone who "wants" to pay for a ticket, so I fail to see why that should have anything to do with it. As far as I am concerned, whether they want to pay for a ticket is completely irrelevant when you are talking about their safety and the safety of hundreds of other passengers. I don't always "want" to wear my seat belt, but it's the law so I do. Passenger restraint laws in an aircraft, if anything, should be stricter than passenger vehicles.:sbx

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Cambion
I feel this is appropriate to post.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_layout

I totally love the idea for a screaming baby kennel in the very back of the plane, and if there was such a thing, these two fucksticks wouldn't ever have had a problem.

LMFAO that is the funniest thing that I have seen in a long time.

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Cambion
I feel this is appropriate to post.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_layout

I totally love the idea for a screaming baby kennel in the very back of the plane, and if there was such a thing, these two fucksticks wouldn't ever have had a problem.

LMFAO that is the funniest thing that I have seen in a long time.

The humor on that page makes up for this one
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/christmas

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Dorisan


The humor on that page makes up for this one
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/christmas

It certainly does!

The 40-somethings should be with kids. The rest of us don't look or act like that.

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From a bottle cap message on a Magic Hat #9 beer: Condoms Prevent Minivans
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I want to pick up a bus full of unruly kids and feed them gummi bears and crack, then turn them loose in Hobby Lobby to ransack the place. They will all be wearing T shirts that say "You Could Have Prevented This."

Most of his comics are really stupid, with the exception of the grammar/spelling ones.

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"[GFG's pregnancy is] kind of like at the stables where that one dumb, ugly-ass mare broke out of her corral one day and got herself screwed by the equally fugly colt that was due to be gelded the same afternoon."- Shiny

Do these over-productive folks have car seats for all their kids? Or do they just let them roll around on the seats, maybe drop onto the floor? Or do they hold 'em all on their laps while they drive?

"Lap babies" provisions should be eliminated. I don't want a kid flying around the cabin during turbulent weather. If you need a car seat on solid ground, you should need one in the air.