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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=7897237

On the other hand, the uncaring bastids at the TSA really stink.

BDK, that part about the Southwest pilot is good news, the rest is so sad.
I don't believe in capital punishment in many cases, but one exception where I think it should apply is in child abuse and murder like this. I raised two boys and they certainly got on my nerves at times, but I could never consider hurting an infant. Once, while changing my Son, I dropped him. He rolled over and fell off the counter a couple of feet to the carpeted floor. No injury, but I felt awful about it, still do, I can see his eyes get wide as he went over the edge just as I turned back to him. I never changed him again on the counter, only on the floor.

By the way, alcohol is so often involved in something like this, it seems to make so many people violent.
It makes me silly or sleepy, not often violent.
One good thing about pot is that it calms people , not making them prone to violence.

I think pilot's of other airlines might have done the same thing. But SW is one that would likely stand behind a pilot trying to do the right thing, even though on time departure is important to them.
I just flew on Hawaiian Airlines, one that is rated up there with SW, and it was a good flight also.
The TSA people in Hawaii, especially for the interisland flights were very low key and nice, not at all rude like they can be at Denver Int or others.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

So Bill, is the lesson to be learned here to smoke pot before you change your baby's diapers?

The lesson to be learned is that when with infants, never take anything for granted. Just because they never before sat up or rolled over on a counter, doesn't mean that they won't find the one moment when you turn your head for 5 seconds to drop the old diaper in the pail, and that moment is enough for them to roll off. I would say just change them on the carpeted floor, they can't fall off of that.

As for smoking pot, I don't do it. But there would be far less anger and violence if more people used it instead of alcohol especially when angry or stressed to start with.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

You know, I actually agree with you. Although I've never done pot and never will, from what I know of it and talking to people who have done it, it seems to generate a far less "violent" reaction than alcohol does for people with belligerent personalities. The problem with alcohol is that everybody reacts differently to it. Some people are "happy" drunks, and some are "violent" drunks who just want to fight and cause conflict. It's these latter ones that you have to worry about. Pot will never get legalized because of the social stigmas attached to it. Alcohol had been around for such a long time, that it will never get outlawed either (the one time it was, it failed).