Life Imitates "Home Alone"

[CalMeacham]

Israeli parents forget daughter at airport
JERUSALEM - An Israeli couple going on a European vacation remembered to take their duty-free shopping and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport, police said Monday.
The couple and their five children were late for a charter flight to Paris Sunday and made a mad dash to the gate. In the confusion, their daughter got lost.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a policeman found her wandering in the duty-free area at Ben-Gurion airport, Israel’s bustling main international air portal. He said the officer alerted airline staff, but the flight had already taken off.

Israeli media said the parents were an ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple but did not give their names.

Rosenfeld said the parents were unaware they had boarded the aircraft with only four children instead of five until they were informed by cabin staff after 40 minutes in the air.

The child, accompanied by an airline staffer, took the next flight to Paris where she was safely reunited with her parents.

Rosenfeld said police would question the couple when they return from vacation, on suspicion of parental negligence.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080804/ap_on_re_mi_ea/odd_israel_home_alone

[Zsofia]

18 suitcases?

[CalMeacham]

18 suitcases?

I’m more amazed at the Five kids, myself. That makes the 18 suitcases a bit more plausible – 18 suitcases among 7 people (assuming no others came with them) is about 2.5 per person. If you’ve tra veled with kids, you can believe that.

[Santo_Rugger]

“Suspicion” of parental negligence? :smack:

[teela_brown]

I had hoped, from the thread title, to discover that some young lad who had been left alone at home had bashed up a couple of would-be burglars.

[Freudian_Slit]

@teela brown

I had hoped, from the thread title, to discover that some young lad who had been left alone at home had bashed up a couple of would-be burglars.

Or at the very least, a diluted version of the first scenario in which the kid would end up in a foreign city with her parents’ credit cards.

[Kythereia]

You mean there isn’t an adorable blond little urchin out there winning the heart of a homeless bag lady and her thousand-umpteen pigeons?

I’m shattered.

[Yumblie]

But this is the perfect premise for the next Home Alone movie. Israeli family leaves their daughter behind and only remember too late. Meanwhile, Syria launches another surprise invasion. They’re in for quite a surprise when they discover the traps the little girl has left!

“Keep the change, ya filthy animal.”

[panache45]

They’re ultra-orthodox and only have 5 kids? They must be very young. Or maybe they have 18 kids and 5 suitcases.