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Take your eyes off a small child for only just a few seconds and he or she is bound to get into a lot of trouble, the kind you probably never even imagined. That is a fact.
Take Lorenzo, for example. The 2-year-old boy was with his mother Edith Vega at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. Vega was at a kiosk printing out her boarding pass and Lorenzo slipped away and got behind the line in front of an empty ticket booth, and then onto the luggage conveyor belt.
After he was able to climb on the belt, he got knocked off by a large suitcase, lost his balance and was carried away. You can see surveillance video of part of his ride in the first video available at the bottom of the page.
Vega tells WSB-TV 2 Atlanta that the ride through the airport lasted about 5 minutes and, while it looked like fun on camera, it was painful. At one point, after several twists and turns, Lorenzo fell down a luggage chute and broke his right arm. By the time he reached the TSA baggage room, he was in pain, which explains why all the employees present jumped from their seats to get him when he came on the conveyor belt.
It took another while for Vega to be reunited with her son. Atlanta Police also got involved, as one of the TSA workers called 911 after they recovered the child from the luggage conveyor belt.
In a statement to the media, Spirit Airlines wishes Lorenzo a speedy recovery (he is expected to be fine, after all) and promises that a full investigation will determine how this oversight was possible.
“I’m thankful he’s alive,” Vega says. “That’s all that goes through my mind. I’m just grateful he’s here. I just hope he gets better.”
After he was able to climb on the belt, he got knocked off by a large suitcase, lost his balance and was carried away. You can see surveillance video of part of his ride in the first video available at the bottom of the page.
Vega tells WSB-TV 2 Atlanta that the ride through the airport lasted about 5 minutes and, while it looked like fun on camera, it was painful. At one point, after several twists and turns, Lorenzo fell down a luggage chute and broke his right arm. By the time he reached the TSA baggage room, he was in pain, which explains why all the employees present jumped from their seats to get him when he came on the conveyor belt.
It took another while for Vega to be reunited with her son. Atlanta Police also got involved, as one of the TSA workers called 911 after they recovered the child from the luggage conveyor belt.
In a statement to the media, Spirit Airlines wishes Lorenzo a speedy recovery (he is expected to be fine, after all) and promises that a full investigation will determine how this oversight was possible.
“I’m thankful he’s alive,” Vega says. “That’s all that goes through my mind. I’m just grateful he’s here. I just hope he gets better.”
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