Although the heroic and presumably, hailed decision to kick a brat kid and her parents off a plane will surely end in some public apologies and lame protest, I have to say, I think this decisive move warrants a thumbs up in my book.

The toddlers parents speak to the Associated Press as published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

“We weren’t given an opportunity to hold her, console her or anything,” Julie Kulesza said in a telephone interview Tuesday.

The Kuleszas said they told a flight attendant they had paid for their daughter’s seat, but asked whether she could sit in her mother’s lap. The request was denied

She was removed because “she was climbing under the seat and hitting the parents and wouldn’t get in her seat” during boarding, Graham-Weaver said.

The Orlando-based carrier reimbursed the family $595.80, the cost of the three tickets, and the Kuleszas flew home the next day.

They also were offered three roundtrip tickets anywhere the airline flies, Graham-Weaver said.

No doubt, kids will have mental melt-downs here and there, but if this kid was hitting her parents, then she was just being an asshole and it’s not fair to the rest of the passengers to put their lives on hold for someone else’s kid, although I’m sure the parents felt entitled to it.

Personally, I’m sick and tired of the little 3-foot Princes and Princesses who are taught that their lives are more important than anybody else’s.

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Oh, and don’t think they haven’t. Those of you that already have a fear of flying might want to stop reading at this point…

The Associated Press is reporting that a United Airlines passenger David Sullivan, while flying from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport to Vermont, awoke from a nap and felt something strange:

“My right leg felt like it was asleep, but that was isolated to one spot, and it felt like it was being jabbed with a sharp piece of plastic or something.”

The second sting came after the plane had landed and the Sullivans were waiting for their bags at the luggage carousel. Sullivan rolled up his cuff to investigate, and the scorpion fell out.

That’s right, a MOTHERFUCKING SCORPION. The airline believes the stowaway probably climbed aboard on the plane’s previous flight from Houston to Chicago. The money quote comes from Sullivan’s wife:

“The airlines tell you can’t bring water or shampoo on a plane,” Helena Sullivan said. But the scorpion did make it aboard, she said.

Note the lack of quotation marks on the second part of that — I’m guessing it’s because she used a bit spicier language than what was reported. Well, at least I can fly in ease because I’m sure it’s an isolated incident…HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! Scorpions are the new snakes are the new sharks! Does Al Gore’s global warming scare include a mass animal revolt? Or is this merely a brilliant viral marketing campaign for “SoaP 2″?

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