Lost luggage...that toddles?
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
August 3, 2008 10:47pm CST
Clueless international travelers accidentally left a three year old child behind in Ben Gurion Airport in Israel when they flew off to Paris France. Needless to say, the officials in the Israeli airport were more than a touch nonplussed by the careless parents aka globe trotters.
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Admittedly, they were traveling with five children. Still they could have counted heads, put little leashes on them to keep tots and parents together, dress them alike, any number of things!
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It's one thing to forget luggage, but your toddler? It is a fortunate thing the tiny tot wound up in safe hands.
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Child safety leash~
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http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/07/15/34/53/0007153453845_AV_500X500.jpg
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BBC Story
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7540112.stm
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5 responses
@irishidid (8687)
• United States
4 Aug 08
I had a leash for my kids. When I didn't I still didn't forget or lose a kid.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
4 Aug 08
Even responsible parents can find those leashes useful.
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Toddlers themselves actually find themselves feeling safer with them attached. Tots feel unsafe in big crowded airports or other crowded places staring at vast numbers of knees.
@bmorehouse1 (1028)
• United States
4 Aug 08
Are you kidding me?! How could any responsible parent lose a child in an airport? That would be one place that I would definitely keep tabs on my children. Be it five children or one, as a parent you are still responsible for keeping them all safe. There is no excuse for such careless actions! I would hope that the authorities would charge them with child neglect or something of the sort. This world is full of idiots! Best wishes!
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
4 Aug 08
Toddlers are the one thing I can see leashed or equipped with buzzers anymore. The buzzers can be for a number of reasons. The addled parent/traveler reason, the child snatcher befuddle reason, and heck, the baggage is tagged for good grief!
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
4 Aug 08
Each parent was was walking around separate part of the airport and so they didn't realize that their 4 year old daughter was missing. When they got on the aircraft it is strange that the airline didn't question why they had one less passenger than stubs taken at the gate. It must have been very upsetting for the little girl left behind crying. The airport staff her on the next flight to Paris. Like the news suggests it was like the Home Alone movie. I have heard about lost luggage but this is the first time that I have heard about a lost child. Most 4 year olds would be too old for a child leash, one of those is suitable for a 2 or 3 year old.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
4 Aug 08
Oh Man, this is more common than I thought. Don't these parents realize there are child traffickers out there? Good grief on a basket!
@aseretdd (13729)
• Philippines
4 Aug 08
My goodness... seems like forgetting toddles is happening in different parts of the world... a few months ago i started a discussion about a 2 year old left by his parents at an airport in Canada... well it was because they were running late and they were trying to catch the flight... and it was a case of "I thought he was with you"... since they were seated in different sections of the plane... how can these people be so irresponsible?... the last thing i will ever forget in the world is my daughter...
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
4 Aug 08
In that case, should not one parent be 'assigned' toddler duty? The other parent can be assigned luggage duty, and fewer things and people plus things can be left behind or sent to Nigeria thataway...
@shrashira (438)
• United States
4 Aug 08
WOW, hard to believe!
What is this Home Alone 4 "Lost in Europe"?
You always make a head count during such a trip.
Some parents are hard to figure out.
@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
4 Aug 08
Nope!
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This is "Home Alone 4 "Lost in Europe"" in the Middle East! (I think anyway.) Or maybe your right, France is Europe, Israel
is Middle East...
The kid was dumped in the Middle East.
(I think anyway.) Or maybe your right, France is Europe, Israel is Middle East...
The kid was dumped in the Middle East.