Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:39     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
Anonymous wrote:And everyone on the flight survived! What a time to be alive!

Be thankful you don’t have a child like that. Have compassion for the parents, who have as much right as you do to be there. Put your headphones on and take a nap. You probably annoyed the hell out of someone at one point as a child.


Earplugs couldn’t have blocked that out. That child had no right to be on that plane.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:38     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s fair to conclude the mother did nothing.


The kid was running wild while she stayed in her seat. That counts as nothing.


Seriously - there's freaking VIDEO of him climbs onto the backs of seats, running around like a wild animal, howling, and muttering like a banshee. She is nowhere to be seen.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:37     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
What about other people's needs? My own daughter has special needs and being in that environment for 8 hours would be traumatic for her to say the least.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:34     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s fair to conclude the mother did nothing.


The kid was running wild while she stayed in her seat. That counts as nothing.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:31     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
Sorry I have a special needs child. I fly prepared.

Melotonan to snooze. Benadryl if needed.

Your job as a parent is also to reduce the impact to those around you.

Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:27     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
Why?! Because that family still needed to fly. Gtfoi
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:26     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
I feel badly for everyone on the flight. Kid and parents included. What a shitty experience for everyone.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:26     Subject: Re:8 hours of screaming on a flight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's the PPs said. The emergency stop would have cost the airline $$$ in terms of delays, gas, re-booked passengers, pushed back flights. The only time they turn the plane around usually is with a threat to the security of the aircraft.

Still I wish rowdy, disruptive passengers were assessed fines. If they put cameras in the planes they could easily say 'the flight attendant had to deal with your drunken belligerent behavior or your child's crappy screaming for x amount of time' and instill fees of $100 or $200 or 10% of the cost of the ticket.
would the money then be distributed to all the people who had to bear the brunt of the behavior or would the airline just keep it?


The airline could keep it. As an affected passenger I only career about free tickets if I'm bumped or compensation.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:24     Subject: Re:8 hours of screaming on a flight
8 hours and that kid didn't pass out from exhaustion from acting like that? Unbelievable. Sorry but I still feel worse for the other passengers. We can all cry "oh he may have special needs or blah blah blah". Great. If that's the case, don't take him on a 8 hour plane? Stupidity on the moms part.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:22     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
I feel sorry for the parents, but benedryl for the kid for a flight that long would have been helpful for everyone.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:22     Subject: Re:8 hours of screaming on a flight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Watch the video. He starts screaming even before they leave the gate. It's awful--I think I would have lost my mind. Even if the kid did have a developmental delay or SN (and it's not clear that he did), nobody was doing anything to redirect, distract, etc.



Yes, it is clear. The mom was desperately trying to get the wifi on their iPad to work b/c she had planned to distract him. You can hear the stewardess tell her that the wifi wasn't functioning yet.


Desperately? lol no. And clearly the wifi and iPad did nothing once it was working cause the brat acted that way the whole flight. Poor shitty parenting.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:21     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Imagine how the parents feel.


They should have prepared for this trip with some sort of sedation, games, food, etc. or not taken the trip.


+1 ! You can't seriously waltz on and expect the airline to provide the entertainment for a WELL BEHAVED child, let alone that one. Demanding that the flight attendant turn on wifi before the plane even takes off so the kid has something to watch??? Unbelievable. "Let's get the wifi going so he can watch something." "Let's sit down honey." What about "let's YOU do something to actually raise the kid you brought into the world"???
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:18     Subject: Re:8 hours of screaming on a flight
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Watch the video. He starts screaming even before they leave the gate. It's awful--I think I would have lost my mind. Even if the kid did have a developmental delay or SN (and it's not clear that he did), nobody was doing anything to redirect, distract, etc.



Yes, it is clear. The mom was desperately trying to get the wifi on their iPad to work b/c she had planned to distract him. You can hear the stewardess tell her that the wifi wasn't functioning yet.


With a child whose needs are so involved, more than a wifi is needed.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:18     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
I don’t think it’s fair to conclude the mother did nothing.
Anonymous
Post 02/15/2018 19:17     Subject: 8 hours of screaming on a flight
Anonymous wrote:He should have been tranquilized.


+100.