Man banned from from flying for Transformers T-shirt

RolandTD20Kdrummer
RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
edited June 2008 in A Moving Train
When are passengers going to be required to wear mandatory "airline flight suits" with velcro crotch flaps so cavity searches can be performed at any given moment? ....

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

"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 Heathrows 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."
Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    oh well.

    sometimes we all have to sacrifice a litle liberty, for some security, right?

    surely.
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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    fuck off. that is one of the most ridiculous thing ive heard.
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  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Welcome to the future.
  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    catefrances wrote:
    fuck off. that is one of the most ridiculous thing ive heard.

    so now you've got worried, eh?

    I've forever wondered what it would take for the revolution to start.

    Apparently its authoriarian opression of man's "right" to petty consumeristic "needs".
    Take anything. Anything. But not my Transformers t-shirt.

    lol.

    i love you cate; it just made me chuckle.
    :D
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    I had to double check that the article wasn't linked to the Onion.

    Seriously...that's more or less an Onion caliber article.

    :eek:
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    Fucking IT guy wearing a transformers shirt. Classic.
  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    I was silently thinking about my .357 and how I had to clean it. And I was arrested for Carrying A Weapon In My Mind.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    so now you've got worried, eh?

    I've forever wondered what it would take for the revolution to start.

    Apparently its authoriarian opression of man's "right" to petty consumeristic "needs".
    Take anything. Anything. But not my Transformers t-shirt.

    lol.

    i love you cate; it just made me chuckle.
    :D

    im not worried. im amused at the stupidity of people. and as usual the rising moron level never ceases to amaze me.

    its a god damn tshirt for fucks sake. id be more concerned about the drunken fools that they allow on the plane.
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  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    catefrances wrote:
    id be more concerned about the drunken fools that they allow on the plane.
    yeah, and sometimes the ones they let FLY the thing...
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Eliot Rosewater wrote:
    Fucking IT guy wearing a transformers shirt. Classic.

    They could of just said..."uhhhm...fuck dude you're 30 and you're wearing a transformers t-shirt in public...isn't that reason enough?"

    lolol
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • NMyTree
    NMyTree Posts: 2,374
    According to the Patriot Act, any male found to be in possesion on an erect penis on their person; will be perceived as a hostile threat. You could poke someone's eye out with that thing.

    Therefore, when ever I fly I think hard and visualize sweetpotato and Joan Rivers in an attempt to avoid any complications.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    catefrances wrote:
    im not worried. im amused at the stupidity of people. and as usual the rising moron level never ceases to amaze me.

    its a god damn tshirt for fucks sake. id be more concerned about the drunken fools that they allow on the plane.

    They're not worried about drunken foools on their planes cause they know they're making money selling $5 drinks.

    Next it'll be what books or magazine you might read on or before boarding. Welcome to terrordome a taste of our future.

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  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    g under p wrote:
    They're not worried about drunken foools on their planes cause they know they're making money selling $5 drinks.

    Next it'll be what books or magazine you might read on or before boarding. Welcome to terrordome a taste of our future.

    Peace

    i wonder if an antiflag tshirt will be allowed. afterall the firearms that make up the star on that are broken.
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  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    Nice t-shirt.

    There must be more to this or the world has gone loopy.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    elmer wrote:
    Nice t-shirt.

    There must be more to this or the world has gone loopy.

    It is a nice t-shirt. I was wondering what if someone had a tatoo on his arm, would they want to remove his or her arm? I wonder if his complextion had something to do with this, If he was white and blond/blue eyed would this be an issue?

    Just wondering.

    ecaeP
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    basically one of his buddies walked through the metal detector arches (the alarm went off..which happens all the time) and they started going postal about his tshirt. Mindless drones at the airport.. I've met a few.

    I found this also more than a bit ridiculous at the end of the article:

    "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.

    Hand over that sandwich or else!!!

    and no suspicious looking trinket necklaces you jihad terrorist!!!

    unbelievable....ya gonna hijack an airplane with a frickin sandwich anytime in this universe?

    marshmallow for brains security goons soaring on their power/ego trips...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    I'll tell ya how stupid these TSA agents are in every one of my trips whether to London, Belgium or within the US I use a gold money clip. I always put a few $100 bills on the outside with a bunch of $1 bills on the inside. On the inside is a 2 inch knife and to this day no one has spotted this knife.

    I'm looking at it now and they want to give this guy hell. What's needed is more attentive agents rather this kind of harassment.

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Didn't this happen already?

    I'm sure there was a guy refused entry to Australia a few years back because the t-shirt he was wearing was deemed offensive and a terrorist threat?

    It was around the time of the WEF I think?

    Anyway, I find it laughable that a t-shirt will get you thrown off the plane but I wander on with my walking stick and hyperdermics in my hand luggage.
    I even had a customs guy at Auckland airport tell me I didn't look like a terrorist and to have a nice day! :confused:
    NOPE!!!

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  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    g under p wrote:
    Next it'll be what books or magazine you might read on or before boarding. Welcome to terrordome a taste of our future.

    Peace

    Anyone care to test this by carrying a copy of 'Guns & Ammo' on board their next flight. I certainly won't try it on my way to see Pearl Jam in New York, but I think I may be inclined to see what would happen on the way back home.

    I'll keep y'all updated. ;)
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    that's just plain silly.
    i wonder what they would think about my 'han shoots first' t shirt.

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