Toddler Left Behind in Airport, Macaulay Culkin Laughs

Somewhere, executives at 20th Century Fox are commissioning a writer to start immediately on Home Alone: The Prequel.

Jun Parreno and his family were stopped at a Vancouver airport to pick up a connecting flight to Winnipeg. Having only a short time to dash from one flight to the other, Parreno's 23-month-old was inexplicably abandoned in the airport as each of the adults assumed the young boy was with someone else.

It wasn't until the staff from Air Canada in Vancouver contacted the family did they realize the young tyke was not in tow. Air Canada covered the cost of two additional flights for the father to retrieve the boy.

While it is good the young child was reunited with his family, it is unfortunate that this happened at all. For all the bad rap that they get, this is one scenario that kid leashes could have prevented. Certainly being tethered is not as psychologically scarring as being abandoned.