Optimus Prime's Gun on a t-shirt gets man prevented from flying from Heathrow

[DS1]

:eyes:

Dumbass nanny-state.

AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.

Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.

He thought the boss would "see sense" — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: "My mate set off the alarms and was searched.

"But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1234193.ece

[Pierre.Suave]

1. Absolutely fucking ridiculous

WTF?

this is totally insane.

[MrCoffee]

2. They should have tasered him

I mean, really, he's got the NEW Optimus Prime on his shirt. What a tool.

[DS1]

3. Nah. I'll give him counter-retro points

because you know 90% of the people wearing the cartoon Optimus Prime never watched more than 2 episodes, or owned the truck for that matter, as well as Megatron.


So I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in a "FU, hipsters" sort of way

[MrCoffee]

9. He's an IT consultant...no way does he get the benefit of the doubt

He's completely down with everything Michael Bay does. He's got Armageddon on continuous loop on his ipod, you just know he does.

That's a tasering.

[DS1]

11. I'm an IT (non-consultant)

This is my thread, he gets the props.

Now Fuck off!

[MrCoffee]

12. I'll leave you to your Blu-Ray copy of Bad Boys II

Wait a damn minute...according to IMDB, Michael Bay directed the Playboy Video Centerfold for Kerri Kendall.


That's a thing to make you go hmmmmm.

[mainegreen]

4. I bet you he would have been fine if he had Unicron on his shirt.

Planet killers aren't on the no-fly list.
Same goes for Galacticus.

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Screen printed gun violence is a leading cause of death just behind hand drawn fighter jets.

This is serious business.

[Dogtown]

6. A picture of a gun

and, c'mon, that isn't even a real gun.


The brother is a bit dusky, though, so maybe it was a complexion problem.

:eyes:

[kay1864]

7. Woo-hoo, it gets better!

Last year Gatwick guards made a woman hand over a beef sandwich before boarding and last week a PhD student was stopped for wearing a gun-shaped charm necklace at an airport in Canada.

:eyes:

[mainegreen]

10. Beef sandwich?

'Ha ha! This sandwich has mad cow! Pilot, fly to this hidden volcano airstrip or I'll poke you in the eye with this roast beef! Mwhahahahahaha!'

[DS1]

13. Maybe they were concerned over the extra flaps

:yoiks:

[madinmaryland]

8. Guns don't kill. Shirts with guns do.

:crazy: