a flight attendents bad attitude and lies gets mother / child kicked off of a plane...
Recently, a mother and child were kicked off of a flight for no other reason than a flight attendent's bad attitude and appararent lust for complete control. Not only that, the flight attendent actually seriously reccomended forcing drugs on a child that wasn't being violent, loud or out of control in any way.
Apparantly, according to eyewitness reports, this mother and child were on the flight, as it was doing it's taxi to the runway. The child, doing as children do, was innocently repeating a phrase over and over. the phrase was "bye-bye plane." Apparantly that "offended" the flight attendent. At the end of her standard spiel, the stewardess told the mother she would have to "shut that kid up" and went as far as to reccomend benodryl to sedate the child for the flight.
When the mother objected to the stewardess's demands, the stewardess played the "she threatened me" card and had the flight turn back, and used that lie to have the mother and child kicked off the flight. The post 9/11 equivalent of screaming rape because you decided that your date wasn't quite as cute as you thought a few hours ago or the night before. Or to put it in a potentially less offensive way, the analogy of someone calling social services on their neighbor just to "get em" will work too. As would other analogies where the motives are far less than pure.
According to the passengers, no threat was made. Also, the child was bothering no one, including the unrelated gentleman sitting next to the mother and child. The only person who was offended was the employee. And the only threat that was made was to her vision of absolute power on her flight.
People were made hours late, plans ruined, meetings missed and all the other problems that go along with a late flight. In this case, one that had no business being late.
I'm not one that suggests people go out and sue someone as a knee jerk reaction. But in this case, i'll allow my knee to jerk. And not only should the mother sue, but every passenger that had their plans ruined by this stewardess on a power trip should sue. No question, the attendent should be immediately suspended, if not fired. As should anyone who trained her, or should I say mis-trained her into thinking that her power is not to be questioned and children should act as she demands, even if they are bothering no one.