Si.mply use ear plugs. It's amazing what noises/sounds these will muffle. You'll sleep a great deal better too

Having been a baby my self...huh, really,.... and flew home the first time in...over 50 years ago...and many times since, I sympathize with all sides..but why can't airlines put anyone under 10 or unreasonable in the back or front of the plane and let the "adults" hang loose in the middle????!!!

What a great idea this attendant had! Better than shooting them. Perhaps Xanax be developed in a clear, liquid form?

Although it does sound suspicious that the mother held onto the juice for 10 days before having it tested, that same flight attendant was also caught with hundreds of xanax and valium. From CNN.com:<BR><BR>&quot;Cunningham has denied drugging the child in statements to the FBI. His attorney, Neil Fink, declined comment. <BR><BR>Cunningham also has been charged with importing more than 100 tablets of a non-narcotic controlled substance into the United States on a different flight in October. The tablets included Xanax and Valium.&quot; <BR><BR>Personally, I cannot tolerate a crying child on an airplane. Flying is difficult enough as it is without having a child cry throughout the flight. Can't they just store them with the baggage???!!! <BR>

I was telling my daughter (a Flight attendant) about this last night and her comment was &quot;What a dummy&quot;. Crying babies may be in distress--it is the kids who are just plain being rude or disruptive without parents seeming to care that need to be curtailed.

I read on the news that the flight attendant and other nearby passengers offered help repeteadly and the Mom didn't accepted (that must have been SOME crying baby....). About the juice, I believed Mom &amp; Child were away from home on travel, so they waited to get back home to have the juice tested.

If I was a waiter in the sky I would probably be carry bags of tranquilizers with me also - not for crying babies but for me (considering the horror passenger stories we've all read) The possibility of evidence being tampered with is pretty great. Yes, yes commen sense would say the flight attendant did spike the juice but who knows with the &quot;law&quot;<BR><BR>Personally I think they should have sound proofed over head luggage comparents that can be used to stow away loud babies / children.

What ever happened to the good old days when parents would give their children cough syrup to keep them quiet????? Have we lost our old-fashioned values???

Hey, I like that idea! Overhead bins to hold noisy passengers. <BR>Then those big jerks who sit and loudly laugh and talk on overnight flights can be stowed. <BR>

Gocats2 and thingorjus, you are soooo funny. Gocats2 that was hilarious. Thin: Phenargen with codeine, was my friend's favorite method of calming hysterical children...the grown child is now in Betty Ford.....(just kidding)....Judy

One of the characters on a UK soap (Coronation Street) talked last week about the &quot;stuff we gave Bethany (a 2 year old) on the flight to Florida last year to make her sleep.&quot;<BR><BR>My first inclination was &quot;What was that? Does it work?&quot; Then I remembered that this character had already killed four others....!