Congress calling for airlines to create kid-friendly zones on planes

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Prompted by parents' complaints about sex and violence in inflight movies, two congressmen introduced legislation Tuesday calling for airlines to create kid-friendly zones on planes.

"The airlines have chosen to put our children in a situation that I don't feel comfortable with," said Rep. Heath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat.

He and Republican Rep. Walter Jones, also from North Carolina, call their proposal the Family-Friendly Flights Act.

http://biz.yahoo.com/cnnm/070925/092507_airline_movies.html?.v=1

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How is it that 2 or 3 parents have more influence on Congressional tasks than MILLIONS of people demanding change?!

[Double T]

1. Why the HELL is congress spending their time on legislative fodder.........

like this asinine bill when there is REALLY IMPORTANT things that need to be done and are NOT getting ANY attention.

[Warpy]

6. They're allowed to because they think it plays well

to suburbanites back home.

I sincerely hope social conservatives on BOTH sides of the aisle pay a price for this horse shit, but I am not betting the rent that they will.

I was pushed pulled over this stuff a couple of nights ago. I was not polite in telling the earnest harpy on the other end that most of us did not need a nanny and that any parent who couldn't figure out how to find an off switch or distract a kid was a fool who should have the kid taken away from him/her. Her shriek as I hung up was enlightening.

[Beausoir]

2. As a mom who flies with kids....

this is the one of the most ridiculous ideas I have yet heard.

If you don't want your kid exposed to a movie...don't buy the headphones and keep them diverted and entertained.

[Katherine Brengle]

5. I think it makes sense to choose family friendly, non-violent films in this kind

of environment.

[Beausoir]

12. I've never seen a violent movie on an airplane.

[TheMightyFavog]

15. We had the little interactive entertainment system on our Swiss International flight to ORD

And one of the movies listed was 300, uncut, with all the nudity and violenty goodness.

They also had Holes, which, despite being kid-friendly, is actually a decent flick.

[Warpy]

8. yeah, most kids would rather play a hand held game any day

than watch a movie that has grownups kissing and stuff. Icky doodle!

[Double T]

9. THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

YOU are the voice of reason and sanity that makes our 110th congress look like a bunch of TOTAL IDIOTS!! WHAT THE HELL HAS HAPPENED TO OUR CRAZY INSANE GOVERNMENT??????? Can we impeach the two clowns that are sponsoring this really silly legislation???

[Purveyor]

3. I propose that they designate 'kid-free' planes while their at it... eom

[WritersBlock]

14. I'm with you. n/t

[Tesha]

17. Perhaps we need a "kid-making" area on the planes as well?

Improving the in-flight "service" sure would make the
flights pass faster!

Tesha

[Katherine Brengle]

4. Because this is any easy change - the gov't lurves easy changes, it doesn't much like the ones that

take actual effort.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Yup, that's the DLC for you

Work hard on trivia that pleases over-protective yuppie parents and ignore the real issues facing this country.

[AllegroRondo]

10. Its called the "cargo hold"

[peekaloo]

11. That made me larf! I was thinking about the overhead compartments myself.

Check 'em as carry ons.

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[WolverineDG]

18. I´m a meanie

I would put them on the wings myself.

dg

[Bitwit1234]

13. The ways some parents let their kids act today

maybe they should create a way for passengers to be protected from kids space.

Have you ever been bowled down in a supermarket by some of the kids, they way they act today.

[rucky]

16. Please. It should be a marketing choice, not a mandate.

I have a 2-year-old I have to pay full price to fly with. If an airline did what they suggest by choice, I'd fly with them.