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News Credits: 5 · by **DARKAGEIS** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:27 am

the sun wrote: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’."

The top has the Transformers film character Optimus Prime on the front.

Brad, of Bayswater, West London, added: "It’s a cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. What was I going to do, use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?

"I was flabbergasted. I thought the supervisor would come over and see sense, but he didn’t. After I changed he said if I changed back I would be arrested."

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."

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.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 234193.ece

what the hell! will they kick me off if i say the word gun as well, or maybe if i make my hands into a gun shape?

the worlds gone mad!

by **primeoptimus** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:45 am

wow! they really take the "megatron has to be orange to be legal" thing seriously

by **Lord T** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:52 am

Wear a jumper. Lesson learned.

News Credits: 1 · by **maximus primus** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:57 am

a drawing of a gun, are you freaking kidding me. makes me glad they're not quite as strict and stupid over here, althou i've never flown before, i'm not sure i'de want to fly to the state for the next little while until this insanity clams down, however that seems unlikely now.

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:02 am

Jobsworth knobends.

Britain has a special breed of them, and they all work in airports.

News Credits: 5 · by **DARKAGEIS** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:06 am

Tekka wrote:Jobsworth knobends.

Britain has a special breed of them, and they all work in airports.

and mostly at the "new but already ill staffed" terminal 5!

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:29 am

Actually, making your hands into a gun shape will have you blown down by a SWAT team

The world's mad. Madder than a website full of adults that love giant transforming cartoon robots.

In fact, I deem this place the most sane place on that planet.

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:21 am

holy fragging unbeliveable.

News Credits: 1 · by ***Galvatron*** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:33 pm

maximus primus wrote:a drawing of a gun, are you freaking kidding me. makes me glad they're not quite as strict and stupid over here, althou i've never flown before, i'm not sure i'de want to fly to the state for the next little while until this insanity clams down, however that seems unlikely now.

Clams down ? :-P

It must be a Seacon conspiracy then!

Yeah this is taking things WAY too far!
:roll:

News Credits: 1 · by **maximus primus** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:15 pm

sorry, i type fast and sometimes i don't catch the mistakes, i meant calms down.

by **Siren Prime** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:24 pm

Holy cow!! My mom told me about this today!!
I counldn't believe it!!

Optimus had gun and it was "offensive"!! :roll:

News Credits: 1 · by ***Galvatron*** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:35 pm

maximus primus wrote:sorry, i type fast and sometimes i don't catch the mistakes, i meant calms down.

No worries! I just found it humorous, I make plenty of spelling errors too and my new computers keyboard has not helped deter that but it's still nice and very quiet, my old keyboard sounded like popcorn popping.

I still cannot believe they wanted to arrest him over a bloody robot shirt...insane! 8-}

News Credits: 9 · by **Mykltron** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:49 am

I think this law is for the public's protection - if security officers saw the gun from a distance they may have gunned him down no questions asked, possibly cutting innocent people down in the fray. So really, this law is a good idea.
8-}