I can't even say how stupid this is.......
Man threatened with arrest at Heathrow for wearing Transformers T-shirt
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.
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.'
I remember a veteran of World War 2 telling me once about his dating of a British woman while he was stationed there for a time. They went to a movie theatre, were watching the movie, when suddenly there was an explosion outside the theatre. He dove for the ground between the seat rows, then noticed he was the only one who had done so. She told him, "It's just the Jerrys and their missiles, happens all the time. You get used to it." And she (and everyone else) went back to watching the movie. This was the stuff of the British then. Today thanks to the mincing nanny Tony Blair and his ilk, they have a nationwide smoker ban, making about 30% of their citizens criminals with the swipe of a pen. They're working on alcohol next. And taking your kids away if they're too fat. And then you see something like this. And I cannot believe it's the same people as that woman.
posted by Darkseid on Jun 02, 2008 at 01:25:52 pm #