Mother Deals with Crying Baby on Plane, Inexplicably Not Rewarded

Based on the article "Witnesses: Woman slapped baby on plane" found here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/17/new.mexico.flight.incident/index.html?hpt=T2

My comments in italics and contained in "( )"

(LoL) -- According to the article, Police "questioned a Georgia woman after witnesses said they saw her slap her 13-month-old child during a flight.  


A flight attendant on a Southwest Airlines flight told police she saw the woman 'strike the child with an open hand on the face in an attempt to get the child to stop crying.'  (Awesome.  I hate crying babies.  Especially when I am forced to be in close proximity to them.  Any actions taken in an attempt to stop the eardrum-piercing, banshee-like screams of an annoying, ungrateful infant on an airplane is fine by me.  If I could slap the shit out of other people's babies, I would.  I'm sure it would be more effective than the hideously evil look I give the kid when its parents aren't paying attention.)   


Several passengers were upset by the behavior, the flight attendant told police.  (Meanwhile, other passengers were lining up to take turns lightly-slapping and/or shaking the baby.)


According to the police report, the woman told officers she only slapped her child after she was kicked.  (Sounds like self-defense to me.  Case closed.)  


Asked if she thought it was okay to hit a 13-month-old baby, the woman nodded to police and said, 'She's my daughter.'"  (So, in your face, police!  I brought this ungrateful brat into the world, I can take her out of it.  That's just simple Bill Cosby-style parenting, right there.  It will be a travesty if this woman does not receive either a "World's Greatest Mom" coffee mug or a "Best Example of Parenting on a Crowded Airplane" award.  Just sayin').