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May 2008
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NEWsBITEs
Family aboard, tot left behind
IT’S SETTLED
Better late than never. An
unidentified Michigan woman
has paid off a parking ticket
Filipino flies back nearly 2,300 km for
she got on September 1, 1976.
Police in the Upper Michigan
two-year-old left in Vancouver airport
town had long ago written
off the US$1 ticket and were
surprised when it showed up in
the mail, along with a U$20 bill
A Filipino family travelling hurriedly
Air Canada and a note.
to Canada thought they had everything
under control – passports, boarding [staff] took good
The message: “I always had
good intentions of paying it. I
passes, luggage and all.
It all checked out and off they flew.
care of him. I’m
put it aside and every once in
a while I would come across it
What they didn’t realize is that they
had missed a small detail: They left
grateful
and said ‘someday I’m going to
pay it.’ Now I think it’s time.”
their 23-month-old baby behind.
JUN PARRENO
The woman hopes the matter
The family had boarded a flight in
Tot’s father
is closed. There’s no return
westernmost Canada, and forgot their
address on the envelope.
tot at the Vancouver international air-
wandering near the departure gate, and
“Please don’t try and track me
port.
Air Canada officials tracked down his
down. I am a respectable lady,”
The family had just arrived in Cana-
the note said.
shocked parents on the flight.
da from the Philippines, but they were
Because the boy was so young, he
forced to repack their overweight bags
CAT AND MOUSE
was not issued a boarding pass and
before catching a connecting flight to
A cat chasing a mouse in
would have sat on a parent’s lap dur-
Tirana’s main power station
Winnipeg, causing them to run late.
ing the flight, so airline personnel did
caused a 72-hour blackout
In their sprint to the gate, the family
not notice a passenger was missing.
across parts of the Albanian
became separated.
According to the Vancouver Sun, capital, the electricity company
The boy’s father Jun Parreno, told
airport security found a Tagalog- said.
local media he had thought his son
speaking Air Canada agent who “A cat and a mouse ran
was with his wife and the boy’s grand-
looked after the child while his father
into the high-voltage cables,”
parents, who ran ahead. They thought
flew nearly 2,300 kilometres back to
a company spokeswoman
the boy was with his dad.
Vancouver to pick him up and then
said, showing pictures of the
On the plane, the family members
return to Winnipeg.
electrocuted animals. “We took
were seated separately and so did not
The baby was kept in Air Canada’s
pictures because we’ve never
immediately realise they had left the
offices and staff found him some toys.
had anything like this.”
child behind.
“Air Canada took good care of him,”
Albanians complain bitterly
Sometime later, a security guard
Parreno told the daily
about the power cuts that have
Winnipeg Free
found the boy, who speaks no English,
plagued them for decades.
Press upon arrival. “I’m grateful.” Jun Parreno’s family did not know the boy was missing until much later.
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