Stupidity: The whole movie necessarily has to be filled with stupidity (we're talking about a 9 months kid besting 3 adults), but there's one part perhaps not so obvious and that may be related to a mistake about the ransom note. When the bad guys watch the news, it's obvious that their original plan failed, since they cannot retrieve the money at the designed drop zone, the police have been called and they'd need to rethink the whole operation. Yet they make no comment about it and don't seem bothered by that at all.
Baby's Day Out (1994)
1 stupidity
Directed by: Patrick Read Johnson
Starring: Joe Pantoliano, Joe Mantegna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Haley
Continuity mistake: Veeko is supposed to grab the baby from the girder as it passes. Norby is covering his face with his right hand kept vertically when Veeko says "I'll get him", but the hand is horizontal when Eddie is shouting "Don't miss it!" (01:12:10)
FBI Agent Dale Grissom: Radio Rogers and McCluskey. Tell them to turn around. We're going back to the tick-tock to get the boo-boo. And send for backup.
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Answer: It might have taken a while for them to find the keys to the crane as well as figuring out how to operate it. Once they did, they could get him down.