JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Three youngsters with money wondered what to do. How 'bout a trip to Nashville?
None of the three has a driver's license, so they flew.
"I just wanted to fly," said 15-year-old Bridget Brown. "I had the money."
Brown saved $700 from babysitting and asked a friend if he wanted to fly anywhere.
The friend, 13-year-old Bobby Nolan III, said Nashville. The two of them, along with Brown's 11-year-old brother, took a cab to the airport.
Once at the Southwest counter, it was three tickets to Nashville, please.
"He said ok and told us how much it would be and then we paid him," Brown said. "Then he put the flight things on our bags and then he said you better run because you might miss your flight."
"We just took our stuff out of our pockets, took our shoes off and walked through it and they didn't say nothing," Nolan said.
Did they ask for IDs?
"No."
Did anybody ask for IDs?
"[No]. Everybody else had IDs. But we didn't," Nolan said.
So they flew to Nashville.
There were no adults with them, and none of their parents even knew they were going. It all happened in one day.
At dinner time, the boy's parents called his cell, thinking he was at a friend's house.
The call went straight to voicemail.
Later that evening, Bobby called his parents.
"He said, we're in Nashville. I'm ready to come home," said his dad, Bobby Nolan, Jr.
About $700 later, they flew back home the same way.
Everyone is safe, but how did they manage to get on the flight?
According to Southwest Airlines, they didn't sneak by anything.
An 11-year-old is allowed to fly with anyone 12 or older, according to their policy, and doesn't have to pay a fee for being an unaccompanied minor.
They didn't get to sit together, though, since they bought the tickets so near departure time.
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