Man banned from from flying for Transformers T-shirt

RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer 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."
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  • oh well.

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

    surely.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    fuck off. that is one of the most ridiculous thing ive heard.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Welcome to the future.
  • 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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  • 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:
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    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • Eliot RosewaterEliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    Fucking IT guy wearing a transformers shirt. Classic.
  • NMyTreeNMyTree 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.
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    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 RosewaterEliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    id be more concerned about the drunken fools that they allow on the plane.
    yeah, and sometimes the ones they let FLY the thing...
  • 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.

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  • NMyTreeNMyTree 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 pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    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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  • catefrancescatefrances 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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  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    Nice t-shirt.

    There must be more to this or the world has gone loopy.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    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.

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  • 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.

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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    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.

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  • JeanieJeanie 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 HikerUrban 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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  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    that's just plain silly.
    i wonder what they would think about my 'han shoots first' t shirt.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Jeanie wrote:
    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:

    Here ya go....

    Airline Bars Man From Flight Over Bush T-Shirt
    An Australian man is threatening to sue the airline company Qantas after he was barred from flying. At the time Allen Jasson was wearing a t-shirt depicting President Bush that read “World’s number one terrorist.” A spokesperson for the airline said: “Whether made verbally or on a T-shirt, comments with the potential to offend other customers or threaten the security of a Qantas group aircraft will not be tolerated.”

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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Does Tee Stand For Terrorist? NYC Student Stopped on Staten Island Ferry For Wearing T-Shirt Saying “We Will Not Be Silent” in Arabic

    I heard this guy speak in DC and talked with him after. He said he felt humiliated my the whole episode.

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
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    *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)


  • I have one of those desktop replacement laptops with a 17 inch wide screen.

    Anyhow long story short, I'm about mid flight and I decide to open it up and play some Call of Duty 4. There's a level at the end where you run around inside a jet airliner shooting up people with an fully automatic machine gun. I had my headphones on, and I only played for about 5 -10 mins.

    I wonder what they would have done to me if a stewardess saw this.
    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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  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    oh well.
    sometimes we all have to sacrifice a litle liberty, for some security, right?
    surely.

    Without thinking about this particularly ridiculous example, you would say you'd be ready to get rid of security controls (some of which are severe breaches of your liberty to travel) in airports?
  • spiral outspiral out Posts: 1,052
    Fucking IT guy wearing a transformers shirt. Classic.

    Yep total nerd.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Eejits :rolleyes: feckin eejits the lot of em!

    I mean what's he gonna do... hold em up with his tshirt? Well the airline staff are probably so dumb they might fall for it if he puts his finger behind the tshirt and tells them to 'stick em up' :rolleyes:

    Funny how I can carry an umbrella on board in my bag (with SEVERAL metal pointy things sticking out of it) which I'm sure could CERTAINLY be used as a weapon somehow... but I'm gonna hold up the whole plane with my moisturiser? :confused:
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    They probably tried to charge the dude a fee for changing his shirt. :rolleyes:
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  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    Funny how I can carry an umbrella on board in my bag (with SEVERAL metal pointy things sticking out of it) which I'm sure could CERTAINLY be used as a weapon somehow... but I'm gonna hold up the whole plane with my moisturiser? :confused:

    The liquid restrictions make absolutly no sense. I mean I can't bring my little bottle of water, but at the same time if I am travelling internationally I can walk into the airport duty free store and buy a giant glass bottle of flamable liquid.
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    The liquid restrictions make absolutly no sense. I mean I can't bring my little bottle of water, but at the same time if I am travelling internationally I can walk into the airport duty free store and buy a giant glass bottle of flamable liquid.
    :D that's the funniest... you have to (sometimes) hand in your lighter... and then just buy one about a minute later in duty free :D
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  • Pacomc79Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    The liquid restrictions make absolutly no sense. I mean I can't bring my little bottle of water, but at the same time if I am travelling internationally I can walk into the airport duty free store and buy a giant glass bottle of flamable liquid.


    why can't you? I bring water and soda on planes all the time. Nevermind, I was thinking about it incorrectly, you can't bring it through security but you can bring it on the plane.

    yeah, a lot of it is ridiculous.
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