Baby Born In Veilstation Gifted Free Travel For Life

Veilcorp has just given a newborn child a birthday gift that is going to be hard for his parents to beat. The company says it will award the boy free tickets for life after being born in the Lahaina veilstation. Harrison Veil Lehmann was born Saturday evening on a bench near the arrival gate after his mother went into premature labor. Thanks to the quick actions of the late night cleaning crew and a tattoo artist traveling to Maui, the baby was born healthy. Mother and child are now both safe and sound at home.

It was not the birth experience Sally Lehmann had planned. Returning from a visit to relatives on the mainland, she was looking forward to a quiet night at home with her husband who is an engineer working on the Hoku telescope. She began to feel strange about an hour before veiling to Lahaina. “I thought I was just having really bad cramps and couldn’t wait to get home and take a long warm bath. Everything was fine until I stepped out of the gateway. My water broke and I could tell that I didn’t have much time. I guess Harrison couldn’t wait either. I’m usually pretty level headed, but I lost it. The cleaning crew was great. They were calm and seemed to know what to do. Of course Rowan was the real hero, I can’t begin to thank him enough.”

Veilcorp says that the biometric scanning every traveler goes through before veiling catches many health and medical issues, including some of the signs of early labor, but they do occasionally happen. Officials say there have been around a dozen births inside various stations world-wide but this was a first for the Lahaina facility.

Company CEO and Veilcorp founder Eric Oeming says he couldn’t be more proud of the way his employees performed in an emergency and thought he’d give Harrison some help exploring the world since he, “seemed so eager to get out and take a look around.” In addition, the company plans on providing the altruistic artist 10 free trips to any destination of his choosing. Of course the date held special meaning for Oeming as well. “It was my daughter Alohi’s 8th birthday. My wife and I were in the kitchen eating some leftover cake when I was notified about what had happened. After I made sure everyone was alright, I started thinking about an appropriate gift. Since he was still a little too young for some cake, I figured a lifetime ticket to the veil would be a good alternative. I hope Harrison has fun exploring the world and starts taking it a little bit easier on his mom.”

Lehmann says she was touched and amazed at the company’s birthday gift, as well as the actions of its employees, but she says that fellow traveler Rowan Hardy was the real hero. A well-known tattoo and body artist, Rowan was visiting Maui for a short vacation when he noticed the commotion.

“I thought someone was having a brawl at first, but could see it was a woman in labor when I got closer. I started to call for help when I saw the head pop out and I knew we didn’t have time for all that. I grabbed my kit and tried to keep Sally reassured. Harrison was out in no time. I clamped off the umbilical with a couple of hemostats and let her cut the cord with my electrosurgical brand. By that time, paramedics had arrived and took her away. I appreciate the company’s gift to Harrison and I. I’d love to use some of my trips to have the whole family out to my studio at home. It was really something when he looked at me. I never felt a connection like that before. When I work with my clients I try connect closely with them in order to give them the body art that they need. This was something on a whole different level. It was my privilege to meet Harrison and his mother. I would be honored to give him his first full sleeve when he’s ready.”

Not everyone saw the event as joyous however. Local resident Kevin Morrow filed an official complaint with the Lahaina police calling the incident, “obscene”. According to his complaint,

“I had just picked up my nephew and was looking forward to our week together. We planned on watching one of nature’s most beautiful and thought provoking dramas, the hatching of the green sea turtles. Watching them digging through the sand with their little flippers before running a gauntlet of hungry seabirds and struggling in the surf is something to see. But when you watch the ease in which they swim out to sea after their initial fight, you understand what a beautifully delicate dance this thing we call life is. Instead of that magnificent show, we had a front row seat to the screaming horrors of childbirth. I wanted to expose my nephew to one of the wonders of nature not the disgusting act that unfolded on a bench in front of us. How am I supposed to explain this to my sister-in-law?”