Posted on 06/02/2008 10:31:25 AM PDT by arbooz
An airline passenger claimed that a security guard threatened to arrest him because he was wearing a T-shirt showing a cartoon robot with a gun.
Brad Jayakody, 30, from London, said he was stopped from passing through security at Heathrow's Terminal 5 after his Transformers T-shirt was deemed 'offensive.'
The IT consultant was set to fly off on a business trip to Dusseldorf in Germany when he was pulled to one side. Brad Jayakody w
Brad Jayakody wearing the Transformers T-shift which caused offence at Heathrow
Mr Jayakody said the first guard started joking with him about the Transformers character depicted on his French Connection T-shirt.
'"Then he explains that since Megatron is holding a gun, I'm not allowed to fly,' he said.
'It's a 40ft tall cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. There is no way this shirt is offensive in any way, and what I'm going to use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?
He was cooperative with the supervisor and took off the the 'offensive' T-shirt, replacing it with another shirt in his carry on luggage.
A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA said: 'If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it, for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it.
'We are investigating what happened to see if it came under this category.
'If it's offensive, we don't want other passengers upset.'
He said there was no record of the incident and the passenger 'certainly didn't make a formal complaint at the time.'
We need to make political correctness a crime.
Never saw anybody shoot somebody with a t-shirt, but then, what do I know.
Ah, but what about the t-shorts with PGP binary code on them? They are technically classified as “munitions.”
That should be “t-shirts,” not “t-shorts.”
Dang, how did he ever manage to get the shirt on in the first place? /sarc
YOU*HAVE*GOT*TO*BE*KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s the end of the world, as we know it........
“If it’s offensive, we don’t want other passengers upset.”
Well I find all t-shirts having anything to do with the cult of environmentalism or the faux “peace” movement to be offensive.
I’m “upset” and near hysterics. Where do I complain?
Sounds made-up.
What an Alice-in-Wonderland world we live in! All of this would be virtually unthinkable, even as late as 1986.
The Lunaticks are surely in charge of the Asylum.
Which incidentally happened to be a Go-Bots t-shirt. Hey, it's all he had!
Autobots, transform and roll out!!
You know....what is this world coming to....PING!
What happened in '87?!
Are you sure you responded to the correct post or do you really believe political correctness should not be a crime?
But do we all feel fine?
;^)
It's the end of good music as we know it...
What about my G.I. Joe t-shirt in full assault gear? They send me to Git-mo?
Just crazy...
I am an educated man, but it is becoming harder and harder to tell the difference between reality and satire in these articles. I read something, and think, “that’s ridiculous!”, only to re-read it, and it’s Scrappleface or something. Then I read something like this, and look for the Scrappleface header, but it’s not there....
It’s becoming Bizarro world out there.
“Sir, we don’t care what it says. No smoking materials allowed on board.”
My $$ is that he responded to the wrong post.
Hey, this is the U.K. What do you expect?
You'll get your a$$ waterboarded for that. :)
That’s pretty ironic.
How about we ridicule it as it deserves and not allow it to be “enforced”.
Side with freedom.
“He said there was no record of the incident and the passenger ‘certainly didn’t make a formal complaint at the time.’”
Sounds like there is more to this story than meets the eye.........
Where do they find these security screeners? That’s just retarded.
A 30 year old 'consultant' wearing a kid's cartoon tee shirt. I'd stop him from boarding just because he's a putz. ;~))
Indeed.
and still England continues to score higher on Free speech/Free expressions lists than the US....
Former Hasbro assembly-line workers.
Well let’s not unduly find a conspiracy theory behind every accusation of governmental stupidity. :p
That’s not a gun, it’s an ion cannon.
While I obviously don’t know this guy’s political leanings, in general, I can’t feel too sorry for people in the UK (or anywhere in Europe) when stories like this come out. Honestly, what the hell do they expect? They vote year after year for the biggest flaming liberal, communist d-bags that they can dig out from under a rock somewhere, and then act surprised and shocked at the idiotic laws and regulations that are enacted.
Nerd profiling.
The source should be thisisinsane.co.uk instead of thisislondon.co.uk.
When ion cannons are outlawed...
Some of us computer guys live an extended adolescence :(
*turns t-shirt inside out in shame* :P
All the stories we've been told of kings and days of old
But there's no England now (there's no England now)
All the wars that were won and lost
Somehow don't seem to matter very much anymore
[snip]
Now another century nearly gone (gone, gone)
What are we gonna leave for the young?
What we couldn't do, or what we wouldn't do, disappoint but does it matter?
Does it matter much, does it matter much to you?
Does it ever really matter? Yes, it really really matters!...
LIVING ON A THIN LINE- The Kinks
I had planned to go to England next year for vacation, but I have changed my mind.
“Never saw anybody shoot somebody with a t-shirt, but then, what do I know.”
Then you never met my ex girlfriend. She carried a couple of “fully loaded” pistols under her T shirt.
Then there was Ursula Andress in “The 10th Victim” with her pistol packed bra that she shot poor male victims with.
/johnny
I used to have a t-shirt when I was a kid that had a very realistic looking revolver printed right above where you’d tuck it in, so that if you tucked it in just right it looked like you a had a big-ass revolver jammed into your waistband. Big laffs.
bump for later
Plus he looks like he just got out of a concentration camp. A GAY concentration camp.
“Happy, Shiny People” indeed.
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