IT AIN'T FUNNY, NBC.

This week a small boy slipped away from his mother at the Atlanta airport and climbed onto the luggage carousel where he was immediately carried into the baggage room. Many were soon aware of his plight and the system was shut down, but not before a large suitcase pushed him into an even more dangerous section of the system. Fortunately he was rescued by an employee and returned to his  panicked mother. What annoyed me about this NBC News story was the attitude of gratitude and merriment about the "adventure" and the alls well that ends well tone. The kid was a brat. The mother was careless and the situation was potentially serious considering that last September a 5-monh-old boy was crushed to death on the carousel of the airport in Aliente, Spain. Society is too forgiving of distracted parents whose children wander into places they don't belong. I will never get over the mother whose brat wandered into he gorilla enclosure at a zoo. Though the child was rescued, they, for no good reason, killed the gorilla. I would have killed the child.