Couple Abandons 10-Year-Old At Airport Because Of Expired Passport

A couple from Barcelona abandoned their 10-year-old son at El Prat Airport when they discovered his passport had expired just before their vacation to Morocco

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You were listening to Morning Drive with Christy Live on demand.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Today, the crazy train is headed out to Barcelona where
a family was off for a nice summer vacation to Morocco.
These parents took their ten year old son to the
airport and they were all checking in and when they realized, uh, oh,
our son's ten year old passport has expired. What do

(00:27):
you think these parents did. Did they cancel their trip
and go back home so they could do something with
the family for the summer, or did they go to Morocco? Anyways,
it's a crazy train. If you guess they went to
Morocco anyways, you're correct.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Wait wait, wait, so they let their son at the airport.
Oh no, they said, well, his passport's expired, but ours isn't.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
So they called.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Oh why they called somebody to pick their son up
and they caught their flight anyway.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Oh janky, what's jankie is?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Airport police saw the sun ten year old wandering around
the airport around eight thirty in the morning, like, where's
your parents? Oh, they went to Morocco and the parents
were brought back. They stopped the airplane, turned it around
and brought the parents back and they were arrested for
child abandonment and causing flight delay.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Vacation Right now, that's a ten year old. No, well,
they called someone to pick him up.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Christie Christine, no crazy new story.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
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