Toddler's Wild Luggage Belt Ride Goes Viral

A video of a toddler who climbed onto a luggage belt at Atlanta airport has gone viral, with the little boy shown scrambling over bags and suitcases.

Every parent knows how difficult travelling with a toddler can be, but one little boy has taken things up a level by climbing onto the luggage belt at Atlanta airport.

Video footage shows the toddler being taken around the belt before descending underneath the world’s busiest airport where staff were able to retrieve him.

A Wild Ride

Two-year-old Lorenzo sat down on the luggage belt while his mother was printing their boarding passes at a check-in machine. Just moments later, the little boy had disappeared through the rubber curtain and was desperately scrambling to avoid being taken into the screening machine.

The machine detected an abnormality and sent what was assumed to be a bag into a special room for further checks. After descending through the luggage chute into the security area, Lorenzo was retrieved by surprised staff who comforted the little boy and check him for injuries.

“The officers who work down there, almost all of them are parents,” spokesman Mark Howell told the ABC.

After a closer inspection of the little boy, it was found that he had suffered a fractured hand but was, thankfully, otherwise unharmed.

“I’m thankful he is alive,” his mother told a local television station. “That’s all that goes through my mind. I’m just grateful he is here.”

This story is yet another reminder of how a split second can change everything. Lorenzo is definitely one lucky little boy to be unharmed and has seen parts of the airport most people never even knew existed.

Has your child caused drama at the airport? Share your story in the comments.

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33 Comments

- - Petal53 said
  - 24 Apr 2020
    8:22 pm
How horrific! It just goes to show how it only takes a split second for something nasty to happen.

- - mom112217 said
  - 27 Jan 2020
    3:56 pm
Lucky no serious harm was done to the little one!

- - mom111059 said
  - 07 Nov 2019
    1:19 pm
The poor mum, she must have been so anxious. Good story to tell when he is grown up.

- - mom81879 said
  - 30 Oct 2019
    3:13 pm
Oh no, what a terrible experience. So lucky the little boy didn’t get a part of him caught in the cracks of the conveyer. And he went down the Shute, omg! Nope, no dramas for me at the airport. On one flight, my daughter power chucked and hit the people in front. We got moved to other seats, but they had to stay there with the stench of vomit. A bit embarrassing

- - cherz said
  - 11 Sep 2019
    7:33 pm
Oh Children the things they can get up too.
- cherz replied
  
  13 Sep 2019 , 2:39 pm
  Would love to be at this child’s 18th or 21st. And here is the video of young Lorenzo aged two on the go and go and gone. lol.
- - mom152736 said
  - 03 Sep 2019
    1:07 pm
thank God no such dramas. just little ones …crying and laying on the floor…hahhaa

- - celebrity said
  - 23 Aug 2019
    1:33 pm
I know I shouldn’t laugh but that’s the type of things toddlers do. Albeit the child was hurt however it was a good lesson and outcome for both the child and the parent. Scary-yes but no harm done.

- - CaraW said
  - 16 Aug 2019
    9:22 am
Glad he’s ok. That would freak me out. Toddlers – can’t take your eyes off them for a second.

- - mom376182 said
  - 13 Aug 2019
    11:24 am
This is so scary. This is why I always use child “leashes” when travelling. I know they look awful but they keep the child safe and by you when travelling.

- - becstalou said
  - 11 Aug 2019
    9:27 am
Would have been scary but luckily he wasn’t injured worse.

- - mom152736 said
  - 29 Jul 2019
    11:58 am
Nope, my kid’s been good – till now. lol….

- - DaffyD said
  - 29 Jul 2019
    8:15 am
No as I have never taken them one!

- - mom129591 said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    9:38 pm
No both of my children have never caused a drama in an airport they’ve been quite well behaved, but I saw that and it was scary as, he was very lucky the child was lucky they didn’t get hurt at all.

- - Jessica said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    9:24 pm
Hope his hand heals well poor mite

- - BellaB said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    7:16 pm
I was always terrified one of my kids would manage to do something like this.

- - mom173467 said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    4:39 pm
Gee what a ride I bet he’ll think twice before doing that again. Mum must have been frantic seeing him disappear like that. No idea how I managed to wrangle 4 boys 6 and under must have had good luck on my side.

- - rachelvk said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    4:32 pm
Wow – what an adventure. Must have been so terrifying for the parents when they realised he was missing. So glad he wasn’t hurt.

- - ashna9 said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    2:29 pm
Kids are just so quick. Sounds like he needs a harness on in very busy places.

- - mom160421 said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    12:47 pm
A fractured hand is pretty bad but it could have been worse. Amazing how quickly someone can get into trouble.

- - Ellen said
  - 28 Jul 2019
    8:38 am
Thank God he’s ok, something worse then a fractures hand could have happened.
- mom93821 replied
  
  29 Jul 2019 , 5:39 am
  Sure could have been much worse – a fracture will heal and no doubt it will be a family story spoken about at gatherings in years to come!