'You've a gun on your T-shirt'

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 13 july 08 | Vin Suprynowicz

[rellimpank]

A "man wearing a T-shirt depicting a cartoon character holding a gun was stopped from boarding a flight by the security at Heathrow's Terminal 5," The BBC reported on June 1.

Brad Jayakody, from Bayswater, central London, said he was "stumped" at the objection to his Transformers T-shirt.

Mr. Jayakody, a clean-shaven young man with eyeglasses and short hair, said the incident happened in mid May, when he was challenged by an official during a pre-flight security check.

"He says, 'We won't be able to let you through because your T-shirt has got a gun on it'," Mr. Jayakody told reporters.

"I was like, 'What are you talking about?'

"(The goon's) supervisor comes over and goes, 'Sorry, we can't let you through and you've a gun on your T-shirt.' "

[rellimpank]

--the weekly Vin--

[Allegra]

Good grief.

[stevem]

Sorry, we can't let you through and you've a gun on your T-shirt.

But was it loaded?

[SECURE AMERICA]

Sorry, we can’t let you through and you’ve a gun on your T-shirt.

But was it loaded?

NO. But it seems the Terminal Officials may have been....

[umgud]

That will never happen here. We have freedom of speach and the RKBA. /s

[Arrowhead1952]

You can’t make this stuff up ping

[Tijeras_Slim]

So I guess my Dirty Harry boxers are out of the question.

[Da Coyote]

How about not letting folks with Korans on the plane? Better chance of catching a perp.

[Tabi Katz]

No matter; pictures of guns are the most dangerous weapons of all. The guy should have added a turban to his attire - they wouldn't have dared hassle him then.

[newheart]

Rene Magritte.

Trans: This is not a pipe. (It's a painting of a pipe, stupid!)

Guns don't kill people, T-shirts do.

[musicman]

[riverrunner]

Old news was posted back when it happened.

[BOBWADE]

"I'm gonna' bust a cap into his a$$. No-ones gonna threaten to lop off my nads"

[Conspiracy Guy]

Is that a gun on your t-shirt? Or are you just happy to see us?

[indcons]

Ummm....Jayakody is probably of South Asian/Indian origin. The turban wouldn’t have been enough....he should have also grown a foot-long beard and shouldhave had a few bombs strapped to his chest.

This true muslim get up would have gotten him through.

[BOBWADE]

I wonder if Jesse and Barak had the open mike thing planned or if there is really hard feelings there?

[TYVets]

So I guess my Dirty Harry boxers are out of the question.

I was thinking the same about my NRA boxers as well.

[musicman]

IMHO,...REAL HARD FEELINGS!!! If Barak wins, then it’s JESSE who gets PERMANENTLY “politically neutered”.

[DrC]

Call the FBI. That guy in the tie looks WAY too dangerous to be let within even 100 yards of the White House.

[ASA Vet]

If the almost passenger had worn a shirt over his T-shirt it have been a concealed handgun picture. He’d have probably been shot on the spot.

[Iron Munro]

How sad.

I just watched a couple of old British WWII movies yesterday centered around their determination and fighting spirit during the Battle of Britain.

It got me thinking how far this once proud people have fallen in just a half a century.

They have gone from a nation that held back the tide of Hitler’s Luftwaffe and fought Rommel to his defeat to a nation of politically correct idiots that jails grandmothers for standing up to gangs of miscreants and cowers at the sight of an artists rendering of a weapon.

Do they even allow the airing of old war movies on British TV anymore?

[mountn man]

Do they even allow the airing of old war movies on British TV anymore?

Yes. But anything deemed offensive is edited out. A once 1-1/2 hr movie is now 10 minutes. With half of that being commercials.

[Don Corleone]

"(The goon's) supervisor comes over and goes, 'Sorry, we can't let you through and you've a gun on your T-shirt.' "

A transplant from Rio Linda no doubt.

[Don Corleone]

So I guess my Dirty Harry boxers are out of the question.

Just having fun with the punctuation and spelling possibilities here.

[Popman]

Jared Diamond wrote a book a few years back called "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed." The premise was for the most part trendy Green: Cultures fail because they try to support too many people on the land, causing them to ruin the soil and cut down all the forests, etc.

...snip...

I submit Western culture is entering a similarly strange and suicidal reverie. Eventually, loud and angry foreigners who have grown up hungry will arrive to kill us and take our stuff, as we sit chanting in self-satisfaction at how wise we were to revert to the imagined peaceful lifestyles of our pre-coal, pre-firearm, pre-industrial, short-lived toothless ancestors.

I read this book (I read lefty books to try and understand their twisted minds). Vin is 100 % correct, the left is setting us up for the barbarians at the gate.

Britain is the front man right now, we can't be far behind

[Egon]

Whew.

I can just imagine him peeling it off his shirt in mid-flight, indiscriminately firing iron-on bullets around the cabin.

[stevie_d_64]

Seeings how those are the most pawerful boxers in the world and could blow your head clean off...

You have to ask yourself the question...

Did I fire 5, or 6 shots...

You know in all the excitement, I kinda lost count...

Do you feel lucky??? Well do ya??? Punk???

[stevie_d_64]

Britain is the front man right now, we can't be far behind ---------------- Well, like they said back in WWII...We have a wonderful little "tank trap" between us and them... But that only stops tanks...Ideas transend obstacles like that fairly easy these days...

[stevie_d_64]

You may fire when ready at #27...;-)

[BooksForTheRight.com]

The left has a hard time distinguishing reality from descriptions of reality such as fiction, stories, pictures.

[Travis McGee]

How about this t-shirt?

[TheMightyQuinn]

I think the UK is ready to be taken over. Anyone got a boy scout troop to spare? I think the Brits would cower in fear merely at the sight of the rifle and shotgun shooting merit badges.

[tcostell]

A link for those of you who would like to make trouble in London.

[oldfart]

"So I guess my Dirty Harry boxers are out of the question."

Don't you mean "hairy" and don't they itch?

[DelphiUser]

So if his T-shirt had money on it would they arrest him for attempted bribery?

Inquiring minds...

[DocH]

Nothing new for the virtual Police/Nanny-State called Mediocre Britain (formerly, GREAT Britain).

Left-wing euroweenie freedom-robbing socialists should be shot (perhaps a gun bearing cartoon character can get the job done).

[Disambiguator]

I’ve heard of people being hassled at British airports for earrings, lapel pins, etc. that look like, or are images of guns.

It’s so stupid. Do they really think that some lady is going to hijack the plane with a pair of earrings? Is this guy’s t-shirt going to “go off” and punch out a window in the aircraft?

Political Correctness is mass insanity.

[leilani]

So I guess my Dirty Harry boxers are out of the question.

Dang. So's my brand new Bullet Bra from Frederick's of Hollywood too, I guess and it wasn't cheap, lemme tell ya! ;-)

[BenLurkin]

Insanity

[Kevmo]

Is that a gun on your shirt or are you just happy to see me?

[BenLurkin]

[Conspiracy Guy]

If it had a picture of a marijuana leaf, would he be arrested for possession?

[Tabi Katz]

Ummm....Jayakody is probably of South Asian/Indian origin. The turban wouldn’t have been enough....he should have also grown a foot-long beard and shouldhave had a few bombs strapped to his chest.

This true muslim get up would have gotten him through.

So true it's scary :-(

[Conspiracy Guy]

Please see post 14 and send me my royalty check. Or a t-shirt with a picture of a royalty check will do.

[leilani]

[leilani]

Or a t-shirt with a picture of a royalty check will do.

lol.

[popdonnelly]

The liberal, PC approach to combatting terrorism is utterly irrational.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I’m trying to stay on point here : )

[Constitution Day]

Maybe 6 months after 9/11, I flew from Raleigh-Durham to San Diego with an NRA t-shirt on.
It says “The Second Amendment: America’s Original Homeland Security”.

I got some icy stares, but the TSA goons didn’t really bother me one bit! I was quite surprised.

[Tammy8]

This sounds far-fetched to us, but it is happening here already in schools. Many schools when they say “gun free zone” mean no guns of any sort- even on a T shirt. I could see this happening here; all it would take is for a school official to become TSA. It is insanity!!