Delta sends Cleveland kid to Boston and Boston kid to Cleveland

One thing is for certain, I wouldn’t want to be the customer service rep having to call the parents about this mistake.

Here’s a mix-up that’s bound to send shivers down parents’ spines and maybe induce a touch of mischievous excitement in their kids.

WOIO TV reports that Delta Airlines accidentally put a girl bound for Cleveland on a Boston flight last night, and stuck a boy bound for Boston on a Cleveland plane.

Nine-year-old Kieren Krenshaw looked absolutely delighted to be talking into the TV cameras this morning, intoning, “It was just weird. I was like I’m supposed to be at Boston, not Cleveland!”

Kieren and the unnamed Cleveland girl were both traveling as unaccompanied minors on a flight from Spokane, Washington, through Minneapolis-St. Paul, airline spokesman Paul Skrbec told Yahoo!. At Minneapolis they were “inadvertently boarded on incorrect connecting flights as a result of a paperwork swap,” Skrbec said.

“We apologized to the families, re-accommodated the children to their final destination cities at no cost, arranged full refunds for the children’s tickets, provided credits to the families for future travel, and refunded their unaccompanied minor fees,” Skrbec added.

Skrbec emphasized that the airline notified the families as soon as Delta realized its error, and that the children were under supervision at all times.

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Interesting Tornado Damage Pic

A childrens bicycle is shown Sunday, June 6, 2010 impaled into the side of a home after a tornado hit in Millbury, Ohio. Authorities say tornados and thunderstorms that swept through the Midwest overnight killed a number of people in Ohio, destroyed homes and damaged a high school gymnasium where graduation was to be held Sunday.

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Paying it foward with umbrellas

If you happen to get caught in the rain around town this weekend without an umbrella, don’t be surprised if a perfect stranger hands you a bright yellow one to keep — just because it’s a nice thing to do.

It’s part of a pay-it-forward project that started two years and 1,000 umbrellas ago and already is generating interest from around the world.

At the time Julie Kresen was driving around Squirrel Hill in a downpour when she spotted a very wet girl waiting for a bus.

Her eyes darted back and forth from the poor drenched soul at the bus stop to an umbrella on the floor of her car, and she quickly decided that giving up her umbrella was the right thing to do.

“She was so thankful, and I felt great about it for hours,” said Ms. Kresen of Emsworth. “I just started thinking, ‘Man, I want to give everybody an umbrella.’ “

And with that rainy day, an idea started to bloom.

Full PittsburghPostGazette.com Article

It’s a pretty cool concept I think.  Someone give you an umbrella when you most need it, and one day you do the same.

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Feds knew of Gulf spill risks in 2000, document shows

WASHINGTON — A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater.

The disaster scenario – contained in a May 2000 offshore drilling plan for the Shell oil company that McClatchy Newspapers has obtained – is now a grim reality in the Gulf of Mexico. Less predictably, perhaps, the author of the document was the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service, the regulatory agency that’s come under withering criticism in the wake of the BP spill for being too cozy with industries it was supposed to be regulating.

The 2000 warning, however, indicates that some federal regulators were well aware of the potential hazards of deepwater oil production in its early years, experts and former MMS officials told McClatchy.

Yet over the past decade, the risks faded into the background as America thirsted for new oil sources, the energy industry mastered new drilling technologies, and the number of deepwater wells in the Gulf swelled into the thousands.

Full Miami Herald Article

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