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man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:27 amby DARKAGEIS
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.ecewhat 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!
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:45 amby primeoptimus
wow! they really take the "megatron has to be orange to be legal" thing seriously
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:52 amby Lord T
Wear a jumper. Lesson learned.
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:57 amby maximus primus
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.
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:02 amby Tekka
Jobsworth knobends.
Britain has a special breed of them, and they all work in airports.
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:06 amby DARKAGEIS
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!
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:29 amby City Commander
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.
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:21 amby Sunstar
holy fragging unbeliveable.
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:33 pmby ***Galvatron***
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 ?
It must be a Seacon conspiracy then!
Yeah this is taking things WAY too far!
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:15 pmby maximus primus
sorry, i type fast and sometimes i don't catch the mistakes, i meant calms down.
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:24 pmby Siren Prime
Holy cow!! My mom told me about this today!!
I counldn't believe it!!
Optimus had gun and it was "offensive"!!
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:35 pmby ***Galvatron***
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!
Re: man threatend with arrest over transformers t shirt
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Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:49 amby Mykltron
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.