Please don't just spare us the pain.

Yea, that was was a bit off the wall MeLu.

Kenny, the flight was from Fiji to Sydney. . . was that you guy's or us? I hadn't heard of it, just noticed it now (I've been away) and will have to check around; sounds like an interesting story.

...hehehe, just trying to get some clarification

The negligence had taken place. A mother not at all is not making a big deal out of it she just had mentioned what her child goes through. A child was locked in a c, for whatever duration of time. If you take a closer look at this, during these seconds one can receive a heart attack even. It is a truth to say that there is a high recession going on within the airlines and people act in unusual way, one is closing a child in a c, other is stealing. In such a case the airlines have the highest right to fire a person. Imagine your child being closed in a comp, by some flight attendant, I believe you would call a police for sure. The mother said she feels devastated only this, this is a plane still. The mother was absolutely not making any " revenge" on this particular flight attendant. If you would fly in a cockpit of this plane and it would have been your child and your wife, for sure one would had said to a flight attendant Sorry that was your last flight. The reports of the mother I am sure had not had made her happy at all. When you face such a situation really and one is talking with a police then a voice is shivering, and is full of the remorses at the same time is trying to understand this other person there are cases at which police must get involved because people act this way. Because parents feel that the flight attendant had made fool of their child, you know this is again a plane. Again, even in Africa we had a good time, having farms, and flying, even in Africa people would tell to this flight attendant to the compartment you can put the dolls, instead of a baby child. People are sensitive really, I am not saying over sensitive but still are. My capt brother would say to a flight attendant to live the plane at the earliest stop over really, just live will be better for the both parties. My capt brother told me how its all work, people are out of jobs for no reason are waiting for a job within a cockpit and suddenly others are having funs just for funs.

No, because I'm not a loon.

Actually, my kids would think playing in the overhead bin would be a hoot. Certainly no one would want to be locked in it for an extended period of time, but we're talking about a few seconds here, not minutes.

One of my best pals stuck HIS toddler in the overhead bin. Funniest snapshot ever.

The point I'm confused about is where the mother and father were when the FA picked up the toddler and put him in the overhead. And how they could allow the FA to close the overhead. And how they could not open the overhead for those 10 long seconds.

At some point a toddler will start thinking being put in a closed space is not funny. And it may well be in under 10 seconds. But being traumatized by getting stuck in an overhead for a few seconds is not a plausible outcome. Firing the FA seems to be unwarranted. Obviously the company scapegoated him in the vain hope that it would appease the whack job mother.

The company, and the FA owe her nothing more than an apology for playing with her kid and trying to make his flight a little more pleasant. And assurances that next time you fly the crew will be sure to be surly and tell you to stay in your seat with your belt fastened from the time you board until the door is opened at the destination.

Think the way you wish in this case it will never change a fact that that was a negligence. And for such a negligence one is responsible on his own. Why not to think about the parents? defending a waiter? Such are rules. An apology? For what? What can one benefit from a waiter? Really what? I would really focus the attention on the parents really I would. In Australia its similar as in Africa, people will never forget such a negligence at all. My capt brother said that unfortunately, as pointed the negligence will occur more often. It is great to hear that somebody has a child and a child bla bla bla had fallen down from sofa or closed himself in a closet this is at a private property but not at a public place. And such a incident must be notified. Do not say that that you are not a loon, it has nothing to do with it. As mentioned any contact with a police or a report is frustrating for both parties yes it is. The parents were enough frustrated so they were unable to open the c, like shaking hands and etc,,, Later they are returning back to their place, and people talk like you know I had such a tough day , the baby was shut in a comp, then if not reported the people around would start to wonder, like what kind of mother is it and etc.... Like why a mother is not trusting a police and etc???? Yes, it is a terrible thing to report a negligence or any contact with a police since the parents feel as victim one more time in this case first they reported its a must, then hearing these comments make a situation really worst. One must trust someone like authority and etc... When I had a tough case, I thought about Kenny about this green grass. Like something is wrong is definitely wrong, a person from my relative company only other place is not feeling as oriented in a good way only is a professional in negligence that was a biggest shock I had ever faced.But I was covering myself after a mourn ah I thought only about Africa, what a great pilots we were even helicopters me so young on a farm with long blond hair what a amazing history and my farm, ah this life, these farms, this freedom and kindness and these lions. I love lions. Most of the time they are suspending a person and a person is under a watchdog of an authority, not because the parents or me we were bad or loon, no, is because we were robbed or because the family member was hurted. Look at Kenny her posts are clear and nice, so again I told that sometimes grass is green. Just sometimes..Why would a person being so much interested in flying to US? To rob others there? Really? Seiously? So perhaphs would be better to calm down a little bit with this situation. Negligence is a negligence. Sometimes a police is protectvie they know more then we think they really do. It is never a happy thing or a day, sometimes a frustration can last for even a year and indolence.But, then I thought about lions.

Yeah. Me, too.

Well, to each his own - personally I would have thought about the Steelers or the Packers. I mean really, when was the last time Detroit had decent team? But then I thought about Tolstoy. Then I thought about Big Bird. Then I thought about toenail fungus. Then I thought about lunch...

Hey Kenny, Empty your message inbox. I want to send you a PM.

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